"At this stage, what evolutionary theories PREDICT no longer holds my interest. So you and your fellow travelers can call me and those like me intellectually dishonest and feel good about it all you want.”

>>At this stage? Be honest—you’ve never paid the least attention to what evolutionary theories actually state and predict, preferring to erect and attack straw-man misrepresentations of evolution rather than evolution itself.

“No, not in the least.”

>>Then explain exactly why it fails to represent a transitional fossil.

“Put it this way --- in my layman opinion, the odds of those fossils you cite being true honest-to-goodness transitional fossils between two distinct species are far, far, far, far less than the odds they are just another species.”

>>what do you mean by the ‘odds’ that it’s not a transitional fossil? The article details its features: forget about ‘odds’ and explain how they fail to be transitional.

“I base that on the fact that you have nothing to show for the billions of other animals and fossils, and also nothing happening today.”

>>Recall that fossilization is a rare event, and the frequency with which transitional fossils are found is completely commensurate with our understanding of how often conditions allowing remain to be preserved as fossils occur in nature. Take a walk in your nearest old-growth forest—do you see the ground covered to the depth of several feet with the skeletal remains of generations of deer, squirrels, songbirds, etc., all patiently awaiting fossilization?

As for ‘nothing happening today’, do you mean nothing other than evolutionary change in living populations? We observe this directly, you’ll recall. (How do you think antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria arise?)