To: CarolinaGuitarman; Coyoteman; caffe; Dimensio
[... Lack of transitional forms...]
You see... I haven't figured out how a bird can fly while
waiting millions of years for it's scales to become feathers...
The animal would be extremely vulnerable while waiting to
either slither or fly.
I believe these transitional forms are actual species, or
adaptations. MHO.
1,561 posted on
12/20/2005 7:21:06 PM PST by
Jo Nuvark
(Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
To: Jo Nuvark
No remark about why you only posted half the Darwin quote before, making it look like Darwin had no answer to the problems of the fossil record?
"You see... I haven't figured out how a bird can fly while
waiting millions of years for it's scales to become feathers.."
Feathers are a form of insulation. They would have evolved for that reason and only later would they have been used for flight.
Scientists have also found have feathered dinosaurs, so the problem is no problem.
"I believe these transitional forms are actual species, or
adaptations. MHO."
Of course they are species; nobody is saying they aren't.
1,571 posted on
12/20/2005 7:24:41 PM PST by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
To: Jo Nuvark
I haven't figured out how a bird can fly while waiting millions of years for it's scales to become feathers... The animal would be extremely vulnerable while waiting to either slither or fly. And flying squirrels have no feathers, nor do flying fish. But both seem to have figured out a "niche" which helps them survive just a little better than what came before. And they call that...evolution.
Not full flying, but maybe a...transition?
1,575 posted on
12/20/2005 7:28:00 PM PST by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: Jo Nuvark
In the evolutionary model, flying does not appear fully formed. Things appearing "Poof!" fully formed sounds more like creationism to me. You're right, such nonsense deserves to be regarded with extreme suspicion.
1,735 posted on
12/21/2005 7:18:10 AM PST by
VadeRetro
(Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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