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How The Spider Spun Its Web: ‘Missing Link’ In Spider Evolution Discovered
Science Daily ^ | Jan. 1, 2009

Posted on 01/01/2009 12:28:01 PM PST by CE2949BB

ScienceDaily (Jan. 1, 2009) — New interpretations of fossils have revealed an ancient missing link between today’s spiders and their long-extinct ancestors. The research by scientists at the University of Kansas and Virginia’s Hampden-Sydney College may help explain how spiders came to weave webs.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: evolution; missinglink; science; spiders

New interpretations of fossils have revealed an ancient missing link between today's spiders and their long-extinct ancestors. The research may help explain how spiders came to weave webs. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Kansas)

1 posted on 01/01/2009 12:28:02 PM PST by CE2949BB
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Related: Tangled web of spider evolution (science caucus)
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2 posted on 01/01/2009 12:29:31 PM PST by CE2949BB (Fight.)
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This is not evolution. It is simply identifying how an ancestor did what it did. If they could show how a worm became a spider, that would be different.


3 posted on 01/01/2009 12:44:18 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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Ancestors being different from modern-day species is part of evolution. It's one of many pieces of evidence that today's species evolved from some of the species captured in fossils.
4 posted on 01/01/2009 1:19:34 PM PST by AZLiberty (I hope Obama changes.)
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"Ancestors being different from modern-day species is part of evolution. It's one of many pieces of evidence that today's species evolved from some of the species captured in fossils."

Yes, if you want to interpret it that way, but it is equally good evidence the today's species did not evolve from those same creatures.

So in fact, it is only evidence that the species (or creatures, if they were indeed different secies) once existed. There is no evidence of any connection, one way or the other, with current species, except in the wild immagination of evoloutionists and academics who get paid to have them.

[Before you jump to any conclusions, I happen to be an atheist.]

Hank

5 posted on 01/01/2009 1:56:44 PM PST by Hank Kerchief
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New interpretations of fossils

I prefer science that is repeatable and falsifiable, not "so-called-science" where the results are based on the same kinds of "interpetation of evidence" that the democrats are using to find votes for Al Franken.

Another example of evolutionists giving real science a bad name.

6 posted on 01/01/2009 2:28:06 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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"New interpretations of fossils have revealed an ancient missing link between today’s spiders and their long-extinct ancestors. The research by scientists at the University of Kansas and Virginia’s Hampden-Sydney College may help explain how spiders came to weave webs."
 
and then again... maybe not.

7 posted on 01/01/2009 2:51:56 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ("I've got a bracelet too, Jim")
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8 posted on 01/01/2009 4:43:44 PM PST by Raul Raul
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Your ignorance is showing

Better read up a little


9 posted on 01/01/2009 5:06:07 PM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Save America......... put out lots of wafarin (it's working))
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