By the way, there IS no "missing link." The process of evolution was (is) sufficiently gradual that it would be impossible to point out one individual or group of individuals and say, "There it is!" That's why one will never find "the missing link" and why the "missing link" is actually a red herring in the evolution vs Creation argument.

And when did proponents if evolution ever sat that "a cat can turn into a dog" under ANY circunstances? The only people I've ever heard make statements like that are those who are rabidly ANTI-evolution on the grounds of their own limited religious concepts.

In logic, this is called the "straw man" fallacy.

A "straw man" is a fallacy based on misrepresentation of an opponent's position. To "attack a straw man" is to create the illusion of having refuted a proposition by replacing it with a superficially similar yet unequivalent proposition (the "straw man"), and refuting IT, without ever having actually refuted the original position.

Unacceptable.

By the way, when I say "their own limited religious concepts," I am not referring to the concepts of a particular religion itself, but to the limited concepts of many of the individuals who practice that religion, and who all too often, get all bound up in unimportant detail. I can give you dozens of examples of this if you wish.

They get wrapped up in minutia and miss the whole point of what their religion is all about.

Don Firth

P. S.   By the way, Iona, don't make the mistaken assumption that I am an atheist or anti-religious on the basis of my position on this matter. I am a member of Central Lutheran Church of the Holy Trinity in Seattle, and I know a great deal about the Bible. Not just about its contents, but about how it came to be.