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To: jrestrepo
Boar, elephants, rhinos, etc. have very little hair, but yaks, gnus, bison, etc. have a lot of hair.

Yaks and bison are cold-climate animals. Elephants and rhinos are warm-weather animals. Some animals rely on subcutaneous layers of fat for warmth.

64 posted on 11/18/2004 1:55:17 PM PST by megatherium
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To: megatherium
I'll give you the yaks, but I am pretty sure that bison go fairly far south in the US. So then let me swap yaks for buffalo.

If you want to discuss cold-climate, the polar bear has to be the most awesome example out there. A white furred, black skinned animal where the fur is fiber optic in nature. The black skin is highly effective at absorbing radiation and the fiber optic fur transfer heat down to the animal...

Whales can swim in temperature that would a freeze a human in seconds, yet they have now fur. Their skin does not get frost bite and the blubber is an exceptional insulator.

Ridge vent worms along the bottom of the ocean withstand temperatures that kill everything else out there and have biological processes which seems alien to us.

I still stand by what I have been saying. Without knowing where the evolution was going these changes would have never occurred. Climate change is rapidly occurring event (relatively and not like that stupid movie) and there is not enough time to change for extreme heat or cold, yet there are animals that are dialed in to extremes. Evolution as it is taught, required millions of years to make changes, not thousands.

I appreciate the arguments you have presented, but I start from a basis where I need the theory to be proved to me and I do not take it for granted. From that perspective there are too many holes. Simply enough, life violates the universal law of entropy, yet it flourishes here in extreme places. Consider how many mistakes, evolution-wise, there had to be and how many coincidences there had to be to get ridge vent worms. Just consider that, no response is required.

It is not evolution if knowledge of the outcome is required to direct the changes.

"God does not play dice." - Einstein
65 posted on 11/18/2004 2:42:19 PM PST by jrestrepo
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