A transitional animal is one which bridges the gaps between species. He links different worlds, different eras and is thus, concurrently, the bones upon which evolutionary theory rests. Evolution doesn't happen in big, blocky, segmented chunks; it is a gradual process which is dependent upon the slow and subtle transition from one kind of animal into another. It is Drosophilus flies mutating to new kinds of their species within hours. It is animals adapting. It is biological diversity. It is reptiles with feathers, mammals who lay eggs, chimps who look like humans, domestic dogs who have bigger and more hard-core counterparts out in the wild.

How did the platypus become a part of the evolution vs. creationism controversy? The evolutionist scientists seize upon the transitional nature of the platypus as a blessed piece to their endless archaeological puzzle, elated to see such an obvious example of evolution's reality, that transitional animals do exist, right here, in the flesh, in modern times.

The platypus is a walking, breathing missing link, a rare side-turn onto a rarely-visited alleyway off the Evolution Highway.


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