A Tiktaalik is one thing. What other thing did it become?
It didn’t become something else in a single leap, like a Pokémon evolution.
Okay. When did it become something else, excluding Pokemon?
That’s not how evolution works. No individual turns into another species overnight.
Okay. It doesn't matter to me how long it takes.
Populations change slowly over generations. Traits accumulate. Forms diverge. What starts as a fish ends, step by step, as a land-walking tetrapod. Tiktaalik is one of those steps — a transitional species — not theory, not abstraction, but an actual fossil with features of both aquatic and terrestrial life.
It had fins and scales like its ancestors, but also lungs, a neck, and wrist bones like its descendants. It didn’t “become” a land animal — but land animals descended from creatures like it. That’s the entire point. That’s how evolution works.
Frankly, it was good advice from Jarhyn to tell you to study up on how evolution actually functions — because if you had, you wouldn’t be sitting here making me explain the absolute basics. You’d already understand why this question is loaded, and why the answer dismantles the distinction your argument depends on.
You’re not revealing a flaw in the evidence. You’re revealing that you don’t know what the evidence is for.
No, you're assuming that the evidence means one thing when it doesn't.
Tiktaalik doesn’t need to “become” anything else to expose the contradiction. It already is the contradiction: a fossil that bridges two biblical “kinds” your theology says must be separate.
And no amount of repeating “But what did it become?” changes that.
It already became a problem —
for your worldview.
Let me explain something to you again. And I would like for you to listen to me.
It doesn't matter to me what science says. Ever. About anything. I have no problem when science, or anything else presents an alleged problem with my worldview.
So again, show me when it became something else without assuming that the evidence that you have doesn't imply it did, but rather, where it did. Can you do that? You see the difference? The difference is faith. Speculation.
You’re saying “show me when it became something else,” but you’ve already said that no amount of evidence will ever matter to you. You just admitted, word for word:
“It doesn’t matter to me what science says. Ever. About anything.”
That’s not a challenge. That’s a surrender — wrapped in defiance to save face. You’re not looking for truth. You’re telling us up front that nothing will ever count. And when someone brags that no amount of observation, data, or reasoning could ever touch their belief, they’re not making a point — they’re making an excuse to stop thinking.
Now let’s get to your demand:
“Show me where it became something else — not implied, but demonstrated.”
That’s exactly what transitional fossils like Tiktaalik do. They don’t “imply” transition — they show it. That’s what transitional anatomy is: part fish, part land animal. That’s not a guess. It’s bones. Structures. Predictive power. It’s what evolution expected to find — and did.
When we look at fossil layers and see fish, then Tiktaalik, then early tetrapods, then amphibians, reptiles, mammals, us — that’s not speculation. That’s a record. It’s the “where.” It’s the “when.” It’s the map your worldview says can’t exist. And it’s written in stone.
The only “faith” here is yours — the kind that proudly ignores evidence, rejects reality, and calls that certainty. That’s not strength. That’s fear wearing dogma like armor.
So no — this isn’t about whether I can show you where change happened.
This is about the fact that I already did —
and you told us it wouldn’t matter if I showed you ten thousand more.
And with that, you disqualified yourself.
NHC
