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To: bobdsmith; All
Let's get all the "frauds" out of the way. In the 150 year history of this research since Darwin, the tens of thousands of scientists working in this field, and the millions of fossils uncovered, this is it. Maybe I've left out one or two:
Piltdown Man. Science (not creationism) uncovered the fraud.
Nebraska Man. It wasn't much of a fraud.
Peppered Moths. Another non-issue.
Haeckel's Embryos. Yet another.
Archaeopteryx. Despite howls from creationists, it's not a fake.
Archaeoraptor. A crude fake, publicised by Nat'l Geographic, then quickly exposed.
Lucy. The "fraud" claim is actually a creationist fraud.

Now then, contrast that to the frauds and lies on every creationist website.

598 posted on 06/05/2005 6:06:53 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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To: PatrickHenry

Missed a few.

Classification strategies are kind of tough. Have you heard about the Wholpin.

http://hotspotshawaii.com/Wolphin.html

Half pseudo killer whale and half dolphin.

Is this a transitional form, or do we not have a clue what the meaning of the word species is?

>>Although false killer whales and Atlantic bottlenose dolphins are different species, they are classified within the same family by scientists.

"They are not that far apart in terms of taxonomy," said Louis Herman, a leading expert in the study of marine mammals.

There have been reports of wholphins in the wild, he said. <<
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-04-15-wholphin_x.htm

She successfully bred with a dolphin. Fertile offspring, wow.

Thanks for sending me on this tangent.

So what's the NS take on this one?

DK


604 posted on 06/05/2005 6:56:20 AM PDT by Dark Knight
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