Evolution? How?

The fun gets better. That project pterosaur site has a project proposal for what will be done in the field. If you look at it closely, I think its missing one thing
ie--Find a pterosaur.
Instead hes gonna make stuffed pterodactyl toys and put out Creationist CDs and crap.

I looked at that"unfossilized pterosaur skull" and Im not an expert in t5hios field, nor do I have any credentials beyond coursework. However all pterosaurs Ive seen have HUUUGE eye orbits so that the eyes were facing front like a hawk or any other predator
"eyes in front, born to hunt'
eyes on the side, run and hide"

Most predators have strong binoc vision or evidence of same (except fish).
I think the skull segment is maybe a ruminant like a gazelle. I love it when these clowns rush to put stuff up on web sites without anybody with experience looking at the evidence.

real life. Whats devestating? Theyre looking in the introns and at areas of stop codons . We know that this is where all the 'action" takes place. Also the FOX2 gene is at the end of a chromosome in humans like it just was flipped over from an STR sequence. Its responsible for speech so the new hypothesis seems to state.
AS they unravel the "bar code" of evolution , weve seen that the additions to the human DNA sequence has been an accumulation of genetic changes that are reflected in the time thats passed since post common ancestral bifurcation.
I, for one, find it fascinating. You, I think , are just ignorant of its significance. MAybe you should ask Dr PAley what he thinks.

You know, you can read all about this stuff in EVOLUTION, Its usually in any University library magazine section.

I do believe these are the same people that brought us Landover Baptist. [Laughing]

This means that about 200 genetic mutations/changes PER GENERATION must have occurred to account for the difference.

real life-You forget that most all of these differences are in the regulator genes (Cf STR or short tandem repeat alleles) . Also are you implying that all the genic differences are only incorporated in the human Genome? Remember, we record the evolution by looking at the differences within each species genome, not just one. Chimps continued to evolve also.

There are many complexes of genes and segments that they dont fully understand functions yet. As Svannte Pabo said (hes the one that decoded the human v Neanderthal genome and found it also quite cumulatively variable)
"Im still amazed at how close the genomes are" When you look at the differences in chromosomes we can see that the "fusing" of the chimps no 2 and 3 became our number 2 chromosome and even so, there are many differences in the "bar code" that dont make exact comparisons. We always knew there would be a countable difference but now theyve quantified it.
Remember the differences are only about 0.004% of the entire two genomes . The chimps count is about 3B and humans about 3.5 B, most of this is in the introns , which is where evolution weeds out the junk.


The interesting thing is the overall "bauplan" that is recorded in the genomes of man and chimp. Everything from the Hox to the PIBf genes, show the amazing economy of how evolution works, in that , once a specific "workable" solution is preserved and recorded on the genome, it is passed on as a "stock toolbox answer" for a specific trait. That takes the "Magic" out of the Creationists wishes in that we understand that everything is , even if only slightly, related in the internal blueprints and all we are doing now is counting "backwards" using the living genomes as a starting point. We also have the genome of Mus musculus (house mouse) and can see the growing bauplan for mammalian configuration.

Not any problem at all.

The same is true for other species. If evolution can produce this many changes in a rapid fashion there should be a much larger number of transitional species available to observe , BOTH FOSSILIZED and LIVING EXAMPLES, than we see today. But there is not.

real life-You forget that most all of these differences are in the regulator genes (Cf STR or short tandem repeat alleles) . Also are you implying that all the genic differences are only incorporated in the human Genome? Remember, we record the evolution by looking at the differences within each species genome, not just one. Chimps continued to evolve also.

There are many complexes of genes and segments that they dont fully understand functions yet. As Svannte Pabo said (hes the one that decoded the human v Neanderthal genome and found it also quite cumulatively variable)
"Im still amazed at how close the genomes are" When you look at the differences in chromosomes we can see that the "fusing" of the chimps no 2 and 3 became our number 2 chromosome and even so, there are many differences in the "bar code" that dont make exact comparisons. We always knew there would be a countable difference but now theyve quantified it.
Remember the differences are only about 0.004% of the entire two genomes . The chimps count is about 3B and humans about 3.5 B, most of this is in the introns , which is where evolution weeds out the junk.


The interesting thing is the overall "bauplan" that is recorded in the genomes of man and chimp. Everything from the Hox to the PIBf genes, show the amazing economy of how evolution works, in that , once a specific "workable" solution is preserved and recorded on the genome, it is passed on as a "stock toolbox answer" for a specific trait. That takes the "Magic" out of the Creationists wishes in that we understand that everything is , even if only slightly, related in the internal blueprints and all we are doing now is counting "backwards" using the living genomes as a starting point. We also have the genome of Mus musculus (house mouse) and can see the growing bauplan for mammalian configuration.

Not any problem at all.

Give up guys. No amount of logic, facts and common sense can compete with a lifetime of brainwashing and indoctrination. You'd have as much chance as preventing a coyote from howling at the moon. I think it's rather sad and pathetic that so many people are imprisoned in a lifetime of superstitious fear.