| First off, speciation has been observed, as have those "in between" organisms. For example, some sparrow in the southern US. I don't remember details, but its happened.
Second, the reason that we don't see those "in between" organism in the fossil record is because when a fossil is found, it is put into a category. Theres enough natural variation WITHIN species, that the line that divides one species from another is kind of fuzzy. Its just the human way of doing things to want to categorize things, and say that some fossil is either this species or that species. It's a human construct, not a lack of fossils of in between species. If we didn't categorize things, we may be able to place fossils along a continuum, which is the truth, but we loose a lot of scientific efficiency if we don't categorize.
As for the physics side of things, I think that the concept of 14 billion years is far beyond what we can imagine. I think that a lot of the universe was created by random chance over vast amounts of time, based on the nature of the most fundamental particles. However, these particles, and the laws they opperate by blow my mind. This is why a lot of physicists have some sort of beleif in some devine organizing thing... |