Originally Posted by LindaLou
Recently, the oldest bat fossil to date has been found in Wyoming.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/feb/13/bat.evolution?gusrc=rss&feed=science

This bat did not fly by echolocation.
And this "ancestor of bats" was...
Originally Posted by LL's source
It's clearly a bat, but unlike any previously known. In many respects it is a missing link between bats and their non-flying ancestors."
Rather than honestly investigate this bat, we get evohype.
Originally Posted by LL's source
One unanswered question is how O. finneryi could have flown without being able to echolocate.
There's a suborder (Megachiroptera) of bats right now that fly just fine without echolocation. But acknowledging this would spoil the propaganda value, wouldn't it.

The other difference your article mentioned was that the newly discovered fossil appears to have had more claws on its wings. Losing claws over time is consistent with what we know about genetics and mutation. But hype it as best you can.

What we really have is a case of "extinctions prove evolution". Any kind of creature that went extinct will be portrayed as a "missing link" on the simple basis that it differs from those we find today. Those that don't differ, well, they get different names anyhow, and... on and on it goes.

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Why does the validity of the whole theory of evolution seem to hinge for you on the discovery of one transitional fossil?
I'm not the one who said these things must be found, in case you didn't notice. I'm just pointing out that they haven't been found.

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Does this mean you think you can now claim the ToE invalid because of the absence of another transitional -- until one is found -- ad infinitum?
This means those evolutionists who claim the ancestors must be found are out of luck. They'll talk their trash about "falsification", but they're fully prepared to settle for imaginary "transitionals". ...Just like your fully content with your imaginary Öort cloud.

Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth

"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm

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