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To: donh
It is clear as a bell, looking at the accumulations of evidence, that the trend in fossils, viewed from high above, is a rather orderly, continuous march from small to large, simple to complex, monolithic to segmented, isolated to conglomerated.
Yes and this is proven by the fact that a grain of rice has 50K genes and humans only 25K genes, or a gorillas 48 chromosoms to our 46. And from small to large most fossil data shows our current flora and fauna was once MUCH lager than todays.
169 posted on 12/07/2003 1:50:50 PM PST by snowballinhell (Me thinks something is afoot)
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To: snowballinhell
Yes and this is proven by the fact that a grain of rice has 50K genes and humans only 25K genes, or a gorillas 48 chromosoms to our 46.

No. It is proven by the fact that the world was occupied entirely by prokariotes long before slime mold ever showed up, and occupied by slime mold long before segmented worms, and occupied by segmented worms long before armored species and by armored species long before vertibrates, and by vertibrates long before mammals. Grains of rice and humans are comtemporaries--their differences in chromosome count are a pretty minor question when considered beside the issue of, for example, whether to have multiple distinct chromosomes in physically separated packages with vast regions of untranscribed material between, or not.

And from small to large most fossil data shows our current flora and fauna was once MUCH lager than todays.

That's as between the Cretatious and the current eras, when there was a major change in CO2 levels, and a consequent major reduction in overall productivity.

Again, you are using the microscope, and declaring the apature noise to be data. Humans and dinos are ALL bigger then earthworms, which are ALL bigger than prokariotes, which were the owners of the earth for far, far longer than all the vertebrates put together.

177 posted on 12/07/2003 2:23:15 PM PST by donh
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To: snowballinhell
Yes and this is proven by the fact that a grain of rice has 50K genes and humans only 25K genes, or a gorillas 48 chromosoms to our 46.

No. It is proven by the fact that the world was occupied entirely by prokariotes long before slime mold ever showed up, and occupied by slime mold long before segmented worms, and occupied by segmented worms long before armored species and by armored species long before vertibrates, and by vertibrates long before mammals. Grains of rice and humans are comtemporaries--their differences in chromosome count are a pretty minor question when considered beside the issue of, for example, whether to have multiple distinct chromosomes in physically separated packages with vast regions of untranscribed material between, or not.

And from small to large most fossil data shows our current flora and fauna was once MUCH lager than todays.

That's as between the Cretatious and the current eras, when there was a major change in CO2 levels, and a consequent major reduction in overall productivity.

Again, you are using the microscope, and declaring the aperture noise to be data. Humans and dinos are ALL bigger then earthworms, which are ALL bigger than prokariotes, which were the owners of the earth for far, far longer than all the vertebrates put together.

178 posted on 12/07/2003 2:23:18 PM PST by donh
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