Evolution? How?

real life wrote:

So since this source doesn't understand how it could be done, does it follow that it cannot be done?

That's funny coming from you, on this particular thread.

real life wrote:

So since this source doesn't understand how it could be done, does it follow that it cannot be done?

That's funny coming from you, on this particular thread.

Of course, those of your persuasion have an answer ready-made to refute mere logic, reason, and factual evidence: "It was a miracle".

I think the reason that the Flood is continually brought up in the Evolution thread, is that some of the evolutionary proponents on the thread find it a helpful distraction from the topic when they cannot come up with something pertinent on topic.

One of the most astounding discoveries was the winged, feathered small dinosaur, the ancestor of birds:
http://www.evolutionpages.com/microraptor%20gui.htm

I suppose this is one of the one's that didn't make it to the ark.

Two brontosaurs on an ark -- must have been a really large ark. Noah would have to keep them on either side or we'd have had an ancient Poseidon Adventure.

Why do you assume that they had to be full grown?

For many practical reasons (space, food, managability, cleanup, breeding ), it would have been possible and reasonable to have younger, immature representatives of the larger species on board.

Exactly. I don't know why this Arc debate continues. It's like debating the physics of a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Pure fantasy.

It seems pretty clear from this exchange that Xingu was making a sarcastic joke.

I suggest they continue reading the mythological and magical fantasy of the Old Testament and return to blissfulness in their continued ignorance.

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I suggest they continue reading the mythological and magical fantasy of the Old Testament and return to blissfulness in their continued ignorance.

No doubt they will seeing as "blissfulness" is a state much to be preferred to the state of not being ignorant. Not being ignorant is all very well for those of us who can arrive at total enlightenment but it hardly constitutes bliss although I'm not really qualified to judge as I am profoundly ignorant myself.

Another Transitional Fossil.

A crucial fossil that shows how animals crawled out from the water, evolving from fish into land-loving animals, has been found in Canada.

The creature, described today in Nature, lived some 375 million years ago. Palaeontologists are calling the specimen from the Devonian a true 'missing link', as it helps to fill in a gap in our understanding of how fish developed legs for land mobility, before eventually evolving into modern animals including mankind.

Another Transitional Fossil.

"Tiktaalik was probably an unwieldy swimmer," says John Maisey, a palaeontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. It probably lived in shallow waters, says Maisey, only hauling itself on to land temporarily to escape predators. "Tetrapods did not so much conquer the land, as escape from the water," he says.

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"Tiktaalik was probably an unwieldy swimmer," says John Maisey, a palaeontologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. It probably lived in shallow waters, says Maisey, only hauling itself on to land temporarily to escape predators. "Tetrapods did not so much conquer the land, as escape from the water," he says.

The implication of this is that the 'evolving' critter rendered itself unfit to live successfully in the water, so it had to find other habitat.

If the 'evolving' limbs from fins made Tiktaalik less able to survive and thrive in it's (then) present watery habitat, then it would seem that right off the bat, the supposed evolutionary advance conferred, not an advantage but a DISadvantage upon Tiktaalik.

Before we used the middle ear to amplify and transmit sound, fish used its components to breathe. Over time, a tube called a spiracle, which connects the gills to the water outside, evolved into a chamber behind the eardrum. And a bony strut that connects a fish's jaw hinge to the brain case became one of three tiny bones in this chamber. {emphasis added}

The early stages of this transition have now been studied by Martin Brazeau, a graduate student in evolutionary biology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and his advisor, paleontologist Per Ahlberg. The researchers analyzed a skull of Panderichthys--an ancient fish that evolved at about the same time as tetrapods (early four-legged land-dwellers) from a common ancestor. The team compared the fish's bones and head structure to fossils of a more primitive fish and an early tetrapod.

Another interesting question is this: Tiktaalik was found in Canada. It was supposedly a dweller in shallow water, so how are we to suppose that it crossed oceans to inhabit other continents?

Some have contended that structures such as the eye, for example, may have evolved independently in as many as 40 separate instances or MORE, but this simply stretches credulity.