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To: b_sharp

Show me a transitory fossil from one life form into another life form.


310 posted on 03/24/2006 8:02:55 PM PST by John 6.66=Mark of the Beast?
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To: John 6.66=Mark of the Beast?

pick a fossil, any fossil.

got one?
good.

guess what? you have chosen a deviation from its population's statistical norm. If it had descendants, then its fossilized remains fit your requirements.


311 posted on 03/24/2006 8:05:55 PM PST by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal. this would not be a problem if so many were not under-precise)
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To: John 6.66=Mark of the Beast?
Show me a transitory fossil from one life form into another life form.

Check out post 50 again, and tell us if any of the fossils B thru M look intermediate between A (modern chimp) & N (modern human) to you.

322 posted on 03/25/2006 12:01:40 AM PST by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: your mind)
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To: John 6.66=Mark of the Beast?
"Show me a transitory fossil from one life form into another life form."

If you are expecting a single generation transitional form between two separate species, we do not and will not have one. Evolution does not suggest that a cat can give birth to a dog or a hippo give birth to a whale in one generation. What evolution does say is that a noticeable difference between the two end species along a transitionary path will be filled with many transitions where the differences are minor.

If you are looking for what you should be looking for, a snapshot of a single organism from among the many between the two end points then we have quite a few examples. What a transitional fossil should look like is an organism that contains some morphological features similar to the starting organism and some similar to the end organism. It should also have some morphological features that are somewhere in between those of the beginning organism and those of the end organisms.

For example, if the beginning organism has long rear legs with hip connections able to support weight, a skull with the neck connection at a distinct angle from the horizontal, and nostrils at the tip of the nose but the end organism has short or nonexistent rear legs with a hip connect unable to withstand weight, a skull with the neck connection at the horizontal and nostrils on the top of the head, we would expect to find fossils showing a gradual change in these features from the beginning to the end organism.

This is exactly what we find in the Artiodacyl(even toed ungulate) to Cetecean(whale) lineage. Through a number of fossils the rear legs shorten and separate from the hip making the connection weaker. This shows a gradual change from land based to water based existence. Through the same fossils there is a change in the head-neck connection angle, going from an angle similar to that a dog's to what is now found in whales. There is also a movement of the nostrils from the end of the nose to near the top of the head within those fossils.

Those three morphological changes are but a few of the many changes evidenced in the fossils we have found that span the time between whale ancestors being land animals and whales being water animals.

We also have transitional fossils between amphibians and reptiles, reptiles to mammals, and dinosaurs to birds.

363 posted on 03/25/2006 12:38:48 PM PST by b_sharp (Unfortunately there is not enough room left here for a tag line.)
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