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To: PistolPaknMama
"Tell that to all the birds we know."

I don't know any understand English. The fact remains that egg laying in trees a very dangerous activity. Birds do it not because it is a great adaptation to living in trees but because their ancestors laid eggs and there was either not enough selective pressure to change or the needed variation never happened.

" If we evolved from fish that laid eggs into primates that swung from trees, then why not primates that laid eggs in trees."

Because you're missing a number of important steps in between. Placental reproductive systems just can't change to any other one at a whim. There has to be strong selective pressure to change AND the correct variation available. Evolution works on what is available, not some infinite set of variation that might be nice. There are contingencies.

" Certainly I said no such thing."

Certainly you DID say exactly that. You said,

" According to the evolutionist anything is possible. Not only did we lay eggs once, we laid them while swinging from trees. There's nothing to validate this as anything but someone's over-active imagination."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1609687/posts?page=399#399

" You can either re-read the posts, shut your ownself up or apologize."

Except I have nothing to apologize for. You do.

"YOU can't provide a post where i said that "evolutionary biologists DID say that our ancestors laid eggs in trees while swinging from trees " because I never said it."

Already provided it.

"I posed a question."

It was not in any way a question. You made a declarative statement.

"Laying eggs in trees to me seems to be the "missing link" which scientists have yet to provide. It would be the most efficient and expedient birth process if one is doomed to swinging from trees."

This is nuts. There are no egg laying primates, we don't lay eggs, yet you claim that there has to be an egg-laying primate in our ancestry for evolution to be true. Not only would this egg-laying capability have to have evolved from a placental reproductive system, but it would then have to have changed back to a placental system with no signs of ever having been briefly egg-laying.

You are either woefully ignorant or are trying your hardest to make creationists look dumb.
486 posted on 04/05/2006 6:34:27 PM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life....")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
" According to the evolutionist anything is possible. Not only did we lay eggs once, we laid them while swinging from trees. There's nothing to validate this as anything but someone's over-active imagination." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1609687/posts?page=399#399

My preface was that according to the evolutionist tadpole-to-human theorists, like yourself, anything is possible. I said that right up front. I also said in several posts that I don't know why there is no link between egg laying mammals and those who lay eggs in trees, such as birds. Scientists can't provide that link. I'm not having a discussion with you yahoos who don't want to engage in discussion. I believe you all think you have hidden gills somewhere that evolved into testicles. The best YOU and your kind can provide is that I am dumb and contradict myself. None of you have provided anyting that explained how we got from fish to man EXCEPT some theory. Yet when some other theory or question is interjected into your frail little scenario, you start bullying instead of discussing. So go talk amongst your own holier than thou selves. Post all your charts, pictures and scientific evidence (with links) as definitive proof for all us dummies. Thanks much!

496 posted on 04/05/2006 7:00:13 PM PDT by PistolPaknMama (Al-Queda can recruit on college campuses but the US military can't! --FReeper airborne)
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
The fact remains that egg laying in trees a very dangerous activity. Birds do it not because it is a great adaptation to living in trees but because their ancestors laid eggs and there was either not enough selective pressure to change or the needed variation never happened.

My browser crashed in the middle of my reply, remind me to freepmail you sometime during the next week over this...

Cheers!

573 posted on 04/05/2006 9:06:27 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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