Primordial Fish Had Rudimentary Fingers

Science Daily ^ | Sep. 23, 2008

[Soliton]

Tetrapods, the first four-legged land animals, are regarded as the first organisms that had fingers and toes. Now researchers at Uppsala University can show that this is wrong. Using medical x-rays, they found rudiments of fingers in the fins in fossil Panderichthys, the “transitional animal,” which indicates that rudimentary fingers developed considerably earlier than was previously thought.

[Soliton]

Transiyional forms ping.

[subterfuge]

Oh goody...another crevo thread. Pass.

[alloysteel]

Maybe a little off topic, but it looks like FreeRepublic.com got dynamited. Message like “no such thread” appear, and it is impossible to get back to more than about three postings.

[count-your-change]

Data base problem. little men with hammers and tongs on the way.

[Justice Department]

[Justice Department]

[SeaHawkFan]

Science Daily = Weekly World News

[11th_VA]

So does this mean the fingers were part of the design ???

[gnarledmaw]

Recently I ran across a thread along the lines of "This is why all FRs scientists have left".

What I cant figure out is why all these otherwise well educated individuals havent come to the same solution as I have...

...just ignore the whole group of nephilim seeking, lost tribe hunting, young earth cretards.

[xp38]

Yeah but what about clams having legs?

[MaineConservative]

Panderichthys, the “transitional animal,”

Did Helen Thomas hunt it when she was a youngster??

[Lurker]

Ping

[allmendream]

Good way to avoid getting banned!

But I think it is important for anyone reading FR to know that Young Earth Creationism (YEC) isn't the default option of conservatism, and that there are conservatives out there who know and appreciate Science.

[Fractal Trader]

GGG ping.

[grey_whiskers]

Yes, but did ancient fish have rudimentary gill-boogers?

...well, they couldn't exactly pick their nose, now, could they?

Speaking of that, it'd be interesting to track the development of the olfactory sense and how it got located in the nostrils -- and how snakes and the forked tongue suff branched off. Except for lawyers and Dems, no other animals have forked tongues.

Cheers!

[Sopater]

I think it is important for anyone reading FR to know that Young Earth Creationism (YEC) isn't the default option of conservatism, and that there are conservatives out there who know and appreciate Science.

Just as important for FR to know is that YECs also appreciate science. Those who practice true science recognize that we cannot scientifically prove that any one position is true until someone invents a time machine.

And I don't think that anyone will invent a time machine, because if were to happen some day, wouldn't they have visited us by now and told us so?

[allmendream]

Science doesn't deal in proof it deals in evidence.

There are multiple lines of evidence from multiple sources that show the Earth and the universe is far far older than six thousand years.

Creation “Scientists” don't actually do any Science, they take other peoples data and twist it to fit into their six thousand year old paradigm. Sometimes it takes a LOT of twisting.

[metmom]

Science isn’t about truth,it isn’t about proof, it’s about the best explanation to fit the evidence.

But they still go around telling people that they’re wrong when they don’t even know if they’re right.