""whereas punctuated equilibrium acknowledged the extreme rarity of transistional forms and that became the evidence for that theory.""

You seem to have almost as much of a problem with joined up thinking as you do with punctuated text.

Every form found is a transitional link between its past and its future,.....INCLUDING US!

And I can't help thinking that Young Earth Creationists may be a dead end branch.

The possibility of abiogenesis is less unlikely than the possibility of Intelligent Design, unless of course the Designer used abiogenesis as a means to an end.

One thing however is abundantly clear and backed by irrefutable scientific evidence. Whatever happened certainly didn't take place six thousand (or ten thousand for some YECs) years ago.

And the cherry picking of various ancient writings, to exclude inconvenient contradictions, throws the whole of the bible account of genesis into doubt and confusion, while still leaving irreconcilable contradictions throughout the Old Testament.

And just bear in mind that not one of the OT chroniclers was a Christian, all of them worshipped Jehovah, and none of them believed that Jesus was the long awaited Messiah, in fact none of their descendents believe it today.

It is illogical to cite the OT at all, since the New Testament is the first Chronicle of Christianity, and YECs are without exception Christians, not Jews.

Don T.