Wowbagger_TIP wrote on Jan 31, 2010, 02:51:
you suggested that just because we haven't found them doesn't mean they aren't there. What other possible meaning could that phrase have? Talk about dishonest...

Dodged the question I see.

This is not an indictment of the methods used to determine lineage after that stage, as those methods work very accurately for normal vertical transfers.

The evidence is not absent. You just don't like it and decided to impose your own test, that ironically enough would invalidate evolutionary theory if it was ever shown to happen in the way you describe.

That's a cop-out. It's your invisible, talking, six-foot bunny in the room.

No, that's science.

You have yet to offer any evidence that would disprove any of them.

You cling to your claim that we should be able to provide evidence for something that would invalidate the theory (namely one species becoming another within a spectacularly short span of time with few or no intermediary steps).