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To: johnnyb_61820

I'll take the Coelacanth fish. It is not the same species as the one in the past, not even in the same family. It is a different family of Coelacanth.


143 posted on 07/11/2005 5:17:44 AM PDT by bobdsmith
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To: bobdsmith

"It is not the same species as the one in the past, not even in the same family. It is a different family of Coelacanth."

True, but largely irrelevant. And actually they are the same family but different genuses:

http://www.marinebio.com/species.asp?id=54

The point being that NONE of these have been in the fossil record for 70-80 million years. If we found a living T-Rex would you complain because it was slightly different and needed to be in a different genus?


146 posted on 07/11/2005 6:34:28 AM PDT by johnnyb_61820
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