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To: js1138

If you had read the article I linked to, you would know that it demonstrated the accumulation of adaptive mutations -- by direct, detailed observation.

 
 
 
You are right; I have not read the article you linked to.  (I've just skimmed over stuff that has acculated over the last week I've been off-line.)
 
Post it again, as I've gotten tangled in that math stuff a few replies back.
 
But I HAVE read the article that starts this thread, and found this...
 
He found that T. rex might have had visual acuity as much as 13 times that of people. By comparison, an eagle's acuity is 3.6 times that of a person.
 
T. rex might also have had a limiting far point of 6 kilometers, compared with the human far point of 1.6 km. These are best-case estimates, Stevens says, but even toward the cautious end of the scale, T. rex still displays better vision than what's needed for scavenging.
 
Now, why isn't the CAUTIOUS end of the scales DATA presented?
What are the WORST 'estimates'?
He don't say....
 

I just wonder:  Which EYES are best - the ones that can FIND food; or the ones than can avoid BEING food??
 
 

685 posted on 07/12/2006 11:31:04 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Elsie
"I just wonder: Which EYES are best - the ones that can FIND food; or the ones than can avoid BEING food??"

Heh-heh. Once again mixing up two different things that have to be independently evaluated, eh? Apples and oranges?

Kinds like evolution vs. ID?

'Best' is totally relative in your comparison.

Predators have eyes facing forward (TRex, birds of prey). The binocular aspect thus gained helps them identify movement and judge distances. Generally their vision is pretty good, for the same reasons.

Herbivores like Triceratops, for example, often have eyes on the sides. What they lose in depth perception they gain in having a much wider field of vision, reducing the chance that a predator can ambush them from behind (obviously identifying movement is also important for the same reason).

So, in terms of which vision is 'best', it all depends on what you are looking for - distance and depth, or breadth. both have their advantages, depending on whether you are the 'chomper' or the 'chompee'...

686 posted on 07/20/2006 10:24:10 AM PDT by Al Simmons (Hillary Clinton is Stalin in a Dress)
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