New Fossil Links Four-legged Land Animals To Ancient Fish

National Science Foundation ^ | 01 April 2004 | Staff

[gg188]

New Fossil Links Four-legged Land Animals To Ancient Fish from the University of Chicago and ...the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.

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[Inyo-Mono]

Excellent! Thanks for the links.

[Ichneumon]

Still doesn't change my mind on one point; nobody was around in the beginning to record the facts

The fish were, and their fossils record the facts.

[gg188]

Oh, and...

Criminals: It's SOCIETY'S Fault

[PatrickHenry]

Ever notice how, when we have a thread about something significant, something that deals a death-blow to yet another creationist claim (no observed examples of evolution, no transitional species, etc.), they come out really screaming and squawking? Like putting a twig into an anthill.

[Oztrich Boy]

The making of such an argument requires logical and rational thinking (of sorts). I have never encountered a logical and rational Creationist.

It's pigs and sheep

The Sophists at the top of the Creationist food chain are quite good at formulating slogans simple enough for the minions to remember and bleat.

[happydogdesign]

[Ichneumon]

That's it???? One bone????

No that isn't all!, but nice try!!, and why are you shouting??????

The religion of the Evol-Doers can sure make a lot of theology from very little

Evolution is neither a religion nor theology. Are you sure you understand the topic you're attempting to discuss?

(And could someone explain to me why the nastiest insult anti-evolutionists can think of to throw at evolution is to call it religion? Hmm...)

- and nebulous - evidence.

The evidence for evolution is hardly nebulous, it's vast and overwhelming. Go do some homework sometime.

Talk about the miracle of loaves and fishes.

Wrong topic.

What a crock of cr@p

What a straw man fallacy.

[VadeRetro]

Like putting a twig into an anthill.

Some of them really believe there's never going to be another gap filled. The experience of the last 145 years means nothing to them.

[Ichneumon]

[New Fossil Links Four-legged Land Animals To Ancient Fish from the University of Chicago and ...the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia.]

Next from the Univ of Chicago and the Academy of Natural Sciences:
Global Warming To Turn Earth Into A Charcoal Briquete
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Is this your way of revealing that you can't refute the finding on its merits?

[Freesofar]

This article nearly caused me to abandon my faith in God as creator ! ! !
I almost put my faith in the fairy tale of junk science! Whats the latest imperical fairy tale ?
, Oh yeah, I heard it the other day " all of a sudden an explosion of life rapidly evolved as a result of increased oxygen in the atmosphere. Billions of DNA molecules with infinitely complex codes, appeared at random and aranged themselves into brains, eyes, ears, lungs and gills, etc all at once."
Yes I believe oh lord scientist
.... you win !

[Licensed-To-Carry]

[Lurking Libertarian]

This article nearly caused me to abandon my faith in God as creator ! ! !

None of the vast evidence for evolution has ever caused me to doubt God the Creator. God created us; evolution is how he did it.

I almost put my faith in the fairy tale of junk science! Whats the latest imperical fairy tale ?

...he said, typing away on a computer.

Oh yeah, I heard it the other day " all of a sudden an explosion of life rapidly evolved as a result of increased oxygen in the atmosphere. Billions of DNA molecules with infinitely complex codes, appeared at random and aranged themselves into brains, eyes, ears, lungs and gills, etc all at once."

Do you know that the theory of evolution teaches nothing like that?

[VadeRetro]

You heard it wrong. Life caused the increased oxygen and not vice-versa.

What is it about a new discovery that makes some people shriek and jabber as if they had wasps down the back?

[Ichneumon]

Couldn't think of an actual rebuttal, eh?

[PatrickHenry]

That's it???? One bone????

I heard about a guy who, as he was being strapped into the electric chair, cried out: "One fingerprint! That's it? That's all they had to link me to the crime scene! What a crock!"

Like, how many does it take?

[vpintheak]

Without getting into it too much. I have the strong feeling that this will be rebuffed once they let some scientists with a different viewpoint examine this fossil. So don't jump the gun claiming victory.

[aruanan]

A transitional form between fish and amphibians. The gaps keep getting smaller.

The power of myth.

[PatrickHenry]

So don't jump the gun claiming victory.

Victory? What victory? Fish and amphibians are genetically linked. It's nice to see the predicted pieces of the puzzle falling into place. But if this fossil isn't any good, another will turn up eventually.

[vpintheak]

This is nothing significant. A real scientist knows that we don't know anything about anything, and should readily discard the evolutionist claim when it doesn't fit. A bone doesn't fit, no matter how you slice it.