So a fossil that has characteristics of both salamanders and frogs is a transitional fossil? How do you know that it's not a specie unto itself? What we'd like to see is not an apparent one-shot fossil, but a sequence of transitional forms. Show me a pre-T. rex and some of the transistional forms between it and the final T. rex (or any other specie). The reality is that you don't see this, what you see is long periods of relative stability, interspersed with very short periods of sudden change. That's what the fossil record shows, not slow changes. Now, keep in mind that I'm an Old Earth Creationist, so I believe that this universe is billions of years old and that life did come about in an orderly fashion of development. I just believe that mathematical improbability of random evolution is so huge that there has to be a guiding intelligence behind this development.