To: TheGhostOfTomPaine
Hey, that's right! The world must have been created in 4004 BCE OTOH, this spider's descendents must have forgotten to evolve. The 20 million year old spider looks like the ones I see in my kitchen today.
115 posted on
09/30/2005 10:39:06 AM PDT by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: Aquinasfan
OTOH, this spider's descendents must have forgotten to evolve. The 20 million year old spider looks like the ones I see in my kitchen today.It has evolved, if you read the article it is a distinct species. That the morphology is similar (although distinct and not identical) to what we find today suggests that spiders' fit well within their niches, that they have found a succesful and flexible model.
121 posted on
09/30/2005 10:42:44 AM PDT by
Alter Kaker
(Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one’s nose.-Heine)
To: Aquinasfan
The 20 million year old spider looks like the ones I see in my kitchen today.Ah, a test. Supposing DNA can be sequenced from this dead spider (and that it's not contaminated and that the dating is accurate and so on), we can compare it to DNA of the spider you killed. Evolution, being a scientific theory, predicts there will be at least 20M years of difference.
To: Aquinasfan
The 20 million year old spider looks like the ones I see in my kitchen today
Not so fast my friend...
I believe this spider is now recognized as todays "Kangaroo"
in fact I'm almost sure of it...well kind of sure....
ummmm....it could happen...I think...
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