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Ben Levi,
1.) The point is that you find the species where they would be expected to be if Evolution happened. As was mentioned earlier all you would have to find to disprove evolution is a fossil rabbit in Precambrian rock. That’s all. The fossil record also clearly shows that the different species lived in different eras as is predicted by evolution. A simple understanding of the pre Darwin ideas on species would lead most to believe all animals that were ever created lived together on earth at one point.
2.) There are fossils of animals that are apparent as “transitional” between species. There are a number of “transitional” wing fossils.(I only mention this because you brought it as an example).
3.)The point with genetics is that special creation does not predict that apes would be more genetically similar to people then say horses or that all mammals will be more similar to eachother then they are to lizards. It doesn’t predict that you will never find a mammal with feathers etc. Common descent does predict this. There is a nested hierarchy in nature that is clearly predicted by evolution.
4.)You can never prove that Hashem didn’t just make the world look as if evolution happened even though it didn’t. The question is if this is the logical conclusion to come too.