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Fetus' Feet Show Fish, Reptile Vestiges
Discovery News ^
| May 18, 2006
| Jennifer Viegas
Posted on 05/20/2006 6:02:56 PM PDT by Al Simmons
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I thought this was a fascinating piece of news. Have at it, folks!
To: Al Simmons
Developmental Biology 101.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:04:38 PM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
(No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
To: Al Simmons
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:05:10 PM PDT
by
tallhappy
(Juntos Podemos!)
To: Al Simmons
you can call them reptiles, just don't dare call a fetus a baby.
To: Al Simmons
Holy crap, this thread has all the elements, doesn't it?
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:05:58 PM PDT
by
Caveman Lawyer
(Cluckin' defiance)
To: FormerACLUmember
Actually, superstitious pseudo mysticism incorporated in to Biology a century ago that still hangs on.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:06:12 PM PDT
by
tallhappy
(Juntos Podemos!)
To: Al Simmons
Study finds??? I've known this since I was a kid, and I'm older than I want to admit. We really are getting dumbed down, aren't we?
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:06:28 PM PDT
by
Williams
To: Al Simmons; PatrickHenry
To: Al Simmons
My wife claims I still have the feet and skin of a lizard.
And I DO tend to shed in the Spring.
prisoner6
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:09:31 PM PDT
by
prisoner6
(Right Wing Nuts hold the country together as the loose screws of the Left fall out.)
To: tallhappy
The fetus visibly passes through these stages, just as the brain develops from a reptilian base to mammalian. I've seen pictures of this 40 and more years ago.
The part of the article that is idiotic, and I guess the basis of the "new study," is the attempt to compare fetal development to specific prehistoric fossils. There is no need and no ability to make such a specific comparison.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:11:17 PM PDT
by
Williams
To: FormerACLUmember
Exactly, I remember leaning something similar to this back in high school biology in the early 90's. We compared images of developing embryos during different developmental stages and how similar a human embryo was in appearance to a pig or fish embryo at different times.
To: Al Simmons; Aetius; Alamo-Girl; AndrewC; Asphalt; Aussie Dasher; Baraonda; BereanBrain; ...
This nonsense was exposed for the lie it is a long time ago. Recycled dog feces.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:11:53 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Atheist and Fool are synonyms; Evolution is where fools hide from the sunrise)
To: Al Simmons
Okay, I'm not even a big evolution guy, but this seems like stupid science to me. And here's why: If at two weeks/months/trimesters gestation human foot bones seem a certain way, and somehow relate to some ancient bird or lizard, who cares?
What did the ancient bird or lizard feet look like at two weeks/months/trimesters? And how, in any way, does that prove anything? If a preborn human somehow resembles a fossil of an adult, fully formed bird or reptile then whoopdeedoo and isn't that neat. But it surely means nothing. Or am I not being scientific here?
To: Al Simmons
It's really not news.
In any case, if the bio-system was simply assembled in a factory (somewhere) using appropriate technology, you might well find the exact same process exhibited as a mammal's feet were grown.
It's the height of hubris to look at something like this and conclude that there are magical/mystical/butotherwise unmeasurable forces at work, lurking in the background, deciding that feet should/must develop in this manner.
The simplest solution is the design engineers at the "mammal feet" factory came up with this one because it was more economical, easier, superior to other methods, or they didn't wrap up the job as well as they thought they did.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:12:33 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:13:01 PM PDT
by
PatrickHenry
(Unresponsive to trolls, lunatics, fanatics, retards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
To: PatrickHenry
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:14:01 PM PDT
by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: Al Simmons
LOL! I was taught this crap in junior high--"it looks like a gill, therefore we were fish."
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:15:17 PM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: Al Simmons
There were famous illustrations in all the school biology textbooks for many years, showing this kind of fetal development. Most of us probably used one of those textbooks when we were children. They have long been proven to be complete lies.
I would imagine this is yet another example of wishful thinking by some hapless Darwinist.
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:15:55 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Al Simmons
....and after 63 days they look like a pair of fluffy bunny ears, and only 5 days later resemble band instruments, indicating that we have evolved from softness and niceness and had happy thoughts of music and sugarplums dancing in our heads
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:16:11 PM PDT
by
4woodenboats
(The GOP was created by those opposed to Southern Democrat Plantation Slavery...)
To: Al Simmons
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posted on
05/20/2006 6:16:22 PM PDT
by
Mikey_1962
(If you build it, they won't come...)
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