"No transitional links between one major kind of living thing...

"No transitional links between one major kind of living thing and another have ever been found."

sorry MrGordon that is simply not true.

here is a list of transitional fossils..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_transitional_fossils

and here are some snippets from Wikipedia..

"It is commonly claimed by critics of evolution that there are no transitional fossils. Such claims may be based on a misunderstanding of the nature of what represents a transitional feature, or according to Donald Prothero, may be a tactic actively employed by creationists seeking to distort or discredit evolutionary theory. Prothero has called that claim the "favourite lie" of creationists and further said that it was "manifestly untrue".

"In 1859, when Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species was first published, the fossil record was poorly known, and Darwin described the lack of transitional fossils as "the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory", but explained it by the extreme imperfection of the geological record. He noted the limited collections available at that time, but described the available information as showing patterns which followed from his theory of descent with modification through natural selection. Indeed, Archaeopteryx was discovered just two years later, in 1861, and represents a classic transitional form between dinosaurs and birds.

Many more transitional fossils have been discovered since then and it is now considered that there is abundant evidence of how all the major groups of animals are related, much of it in the form of transitional fossils."


A good book to read in "Telling lies for God" by Melbourne University Professor of Geology, Ian Plimmer.