Posted on 02/08/2011 9:57:23 AM PST by Natufian
A 95-million-year-old fossil is helping scientists understand how snakes lost their legs through evolutionary time.
Found in Lebanon, the specimen is one of only three examples of an ancient snake with preserved leg bones.
One rear leg is clearly visible but researchers had to use a novel X-ray technique to examine another leg hidden inside the fossil rock.
Writing in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, the team says the snake records an early stage in limb loss.
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I only comment on other people's comments, ideas, or claims about God. That's not being anti-God. I only debate religious arguments, never beliefs. If you say "I believer the Bible is the word of God" there is nothing to debate. But is you insist it is a fact, then I will ask questions.
I do not believe that conservatives should use ridicule amongst ourselves, especially in regards to Faith, because that IS the method used by libs
I agree, but the Conservatives are sometimes short tempered and attack fellow Conservatives who don't necessarily see things their way. Calling another Conservative a "liberal" is like spitting in his face. Telling them they don't belling here is just adding salt to the wound. One thing leads to another. It's not all one way.
It is not smart to alienate fellow Conservatives by ridiculing their Faith in their Creator, that grants us the Rights and Liberty we all love. You and the others are in my prayers
Agreed. Thank you. I am all for civil discussions. But please acknowledge that other people may have different opinions about your opinions and beliefs. That's what Liberty is all about.
NO ONE holds the Founding Fathers to be divine.However, the documents these brilliant men created leaves all poitical treatises, before and since, in the dust. If you did not vote for B.O. Punk for President, I read more hostility into your words than what existed. Bob
Liberals often hold mutually exclusive beliefs. Clarence Thomas MAY have told a joke about a pubic hair on a soda can, and he is a lecher, yet, Clinton has been serially charged with rape and assorted affairs and abuses of women, yet HE is a champion of women’s rights. Bob
Homeless snakes do not have a pit to hiss in.
Satan created the ‘idea’ of evolution to give foolish humans something to believe in other than God.
God created Satan too.
And youe silly little point is what exactly?
Seems that if evolution is driven by mutations and selection of the fittest for survival, we would all have devolved to single cell miroorganisms that can reproduce rapidly. What advantage does a human have over simple bacteria when it comes to survival?
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