Preshistoric Jawbone Reveals Evolution Repeating Itself

University Of Chicago Chronicle ^ | 4-16-2005 | Catherine Gianaro

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Gumlegs]

Well, it can't be related to the platypus. Gore3000 posted threads and threads and threads proving the platypus appeared ex nihilo.

[Doctor Stochastic]

It'll give you something to chew on.

[Doctor Stochastic]

You want me to break out the ping machine?

For those highly evolved enough to hear it?

[RightWhale]

It seems like there are insects that have their ears on their legs. Granted, they are not close relatives.

[LiteKeeper]

YEC INTREP

[AntiGuv]

Insects vary. Some detect acoustic waves from their knees or sides, others from the chest or abdomen (the two most common), and yet others by antennae. Some can hear ultrasonic waves; others hear subsonic waves; yet others can barely hear at all. The detection mechanism can be either vibrating membranes or undulating hairs.

For some odd reason, the designer didn't simply reuse the best blueprint for insect hearing, but rather seems to have changed his mind a few dozen times. Maybe he just doesn't like bugs..

[bobdsmith]

“Recent studies of jaw and ear function in primitive mammal-like reptiles indicate that the larger angular bone may have supported an eardrum while still part of the lower jaw,” Hopson said.

Bah look at that! He tries to confuse us with long words and evo-speak. I mean has anyone ever heard of an "eardrum"? What the hell is that? Some sort of drum in the ear? So how come I can't hear drum beats all the time? These evolutionists do make me laugh with their silly little theory.

But once the dentary bone made a new jaw hinge with the skull in the immediate predecessor of mammals, the accessory jawbones may have abandoned their job of supporting the jaw and evolved exclusively to perform the middle ear, sound-transmitting function.

Notice how he asserts things called "jawbones" exist without proving it. There actually are no transitions between jaws and bones, something that Intelligent Design predicted years ago.

[/first creationist response]

[2ndreconmarine]

[/first creationist response]

LOL.

You know what is really funny about your post? When I first read it and before I saw your disclaimer, I actually believed one of the creationist/IDers might have written it and been serious.

An interesting diagnostic as to the level of debate on these threads. LOL.

[narby]

Thanks for the ping PH. I'm a bit late to the party, but.....

[VadeRetro]

Well, it can't be related to the platypus. Gore3000 posted threads and threads and threads proving the platypus appeared ex nihilo.

He proved it was a chimera because it has a duck's bill. And the proof of that was the name "duck-billed platypus."

[PatrickHenry]

And the proof of that was the name "duck-billed platypus."

Yes. That was the clincher.

[Gumlegs]

Why, doesn't the name prove what a thing is? What are you guys going to do next -- try and tell us that your Adam's apple isn't an actual piece of the first Winesap?

[PatrickHenry]

... doesn't the name prove what a thing is?

Sure does. That's why Greenland is the breadbasket of the North Atlantic.

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2 more missing transitionals.