1 posted on
02/03/2004 2:37:18 PM PST by
AdmSmith
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To: PatrickHenry
A snake for your collection.
2 posted on
02/03/2004 2:38:17 PM PST by
AdmSmith
To: Modernman
Ping for you and your Creation "science" adversaries.
4 posted on
02/03/2004 2:39:58 PM PST by
BroncosFan
(Howard Dean, M.D. -- coming soon to a state near you!)
To: shaggy eel; RightWhale
ping
5 posted on
02/03/2004 2:42:11 PM PST by
Willie Green
(Go Pat Go!!!)
To: AdmSmith
14 And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
6 posted on
02/03/2004 2:43:25 PM PST by
VRWC_minion
(Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and most are right)
To: AdmSmith
Good grief this is common sense stuff.
Shoot, the Bible says right in Genesis that God cursed the serpent and said it would from that day forth crawl on its belly.
7 posted on
02/03/2004 2:43:48 PM PST by
Chewbacca
(I want to be Emperor of Mars.)
To: AdmSmith
Scientists Discover Where Snakes Lived When They Evolved into Limbless Creatures
Democratic Underground?
8 posted on
02/03/2004 2:44:56 PM PST by
anonymous_user
(Politics is show business for ugly people.)
To: AdmSmith
And I thought snakes came from Hope, Arkansas.
9 posted on
02/03/2004 2:47:46 PM PST by
colorado tanker
("There are but two parties now, Traitors and Patriots")
To: AdmSmith
"Having limbs is a real problem if you need to fit through small openings underground, as anybody who has tried exploring in caves knows," Hedges says. "Your body could fit through much smaller openings if you did not have the wide shoulders and pelvis that support your limbs." ![](http://www.blarg.net/~dr_z/Movie/Posters/Reproductions/MolePeople_Rep.jpg)
To: AdmSmith
Their land-based lifestyle, including burrowing underground at least some of the time, may be the reason. "Having limbs is a real problem if you need to fit through small openings underground Land-based lifestyle? Are limbs somewhat rare among land-based creatures? And the burrowing part? I guess that explains why moles and prairie dogs have no limbs.
As usual, close to 100% guesswork, culminating in a conclusion. The "science" of evolution.
12 posted on
02/03/2004 2:50:22 PM PST by
ClearCase_guy
(I'm having an apotheosis of freaking desuetude)
To: AdmSmith
There isn't even enough fossil evidence to complete the evoluationary fairy tale in theory.
"The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nods of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils. Yet Darwin was so wedded to gradualism that he wagered his entire theory on a denial of this literal record." (Gould, Stephen J. "The Pandas Thumb, 1980, p. 181)
"Fossil discoveries can muddle over attempts to construct simple evolutionary trees--fossils from key periods are often not intermediates, but rather hode podges of defining features of many different groups... Generally, it seems that major groups are not assembled in a simple linear or progressive manner--new features are often "cut and pasted" on different groups at different times." (Shubin, Neil, "Evolutionary Cut and Paste," Nature, vol. 349, 1998, p. 39.)
"Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species but the situation hasnt changed much. The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwins time. By this I mean that some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded or modified as a result of more detailed information..." (Raup, David M., "Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology," Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin, vol. 50, 1979, p. 25.)
"Large evolutionary innovations are not well understood. None has ever been observed, and we have no idea whether any may be in progress. There is no good fossil record of any." (Wesson, R., Beyond Natural Selection, 1991, p. 206)
To: AdmSmith
"Having limbs is a real problem if you need to fit through small openings underground, as anybody who has tried exploring in caves knows," Hedges says.
Picture thinking.
27 posted on
02/03/2004 3:10:47 PM PST by
aruanan
To: AdmSmith
"Given that evolution, according to Darwin, was in a continual state of motion ...it followed logically that the fossil record should be rife with examples of transitional forms leading from the less to more evolved. ...Instead of filling the gaps in the fossil record with so-called missing links, most paleontologists found themselves facing a situation in which there were only gaps in the fossil record, with no evidence of transformational intermediates between documented fossil species." (Schwartz, Jeffrey H., Sudden Origins, 1999, p. 89.)
To: AdmSmith
INTREP - and the "facts" story changes once again.
To: PatrickHenry
Ping
To: AdmSmith
I'm wondering...did they manage to get any genes from sneaky snake?
To: AdmSmith
Scientists Discover Where Snakes Lived When They Evolved into Limbless Creatures Not, one presumes, in Georgia.
54 posted on
02/04/2004 6:05:33 AM PST by
steve-b
To: AdmSmith
Now, the first study ever to analyze genes from all the living families of lizards has revealed that snakes made their debut on the land, not in the ocean.Hell, we've known this for years on FR. Hillary spends most of her time on dry land.
57 posted on
02/04/2004 6:08:24 AM PST by
rintense
To: AdmSmith
This research was supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astrobiology Institute and the National Science Foundation.Everyone is missing the point here.
Why are we spending hard-earned taxpayer money on this nonsense?
If somebody wants to do this kind of research, fine. But let them get private funds or pay for it out of their own pocket. Don't make us pay for it!
115 posted on
02/04/2004 7:57:10 AM PST by
Gritty
("I have little interest in streamlining government. I mean to reduce it's size"-Barry Goldwater)
To: AdmSmith
I thought this was an article about the U.S. Senate. Oh Well, moving on...
121 posted on
02/04/2004 8:19:49 AM PST by
PsyOp
(Note to Jihadists: I profile and carry a gun.)
To: AdmSmith
It must have been easier to dig the burrow using limbs.
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