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1 posted on 12/09/2005 11:59:18 AM PST by Red Badger
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Did an ostrich ever die and come back reincarnated as a whale?


2 posted on 12/09/2005 12:01:00 PM PST by peyton randolph (Warning! It is illegal to fatwah a camel in all 50 states)
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"The dinosaurs were dominant animals. They became extinct around 65 million years before present. Simultaneously, large sea reptiles also became extinct. It created a vacuum in the sea as well as on the land. Thus there was a need of large animals, both on land and water, who could feed on fauna and flora to maintain the equilibrium. Thus whales evolved to fill in the aquatic ecospace.

What's interesting about this statement is that its author clearly doesn't understand natural selection--and his preferred language strongly smacks of intelligent design.

3 posted on 12/09/2005 12:01:30 PM PST by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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DARWIN OUTSOURCED?!?!?

Shhhh...Nobody tell A.Pole or Willie Green!

6 posted on 12/09/2005 12:02:58 PM PST by Redcloak (We'll raise up our glasses against evil forces singin' "whiskey for my men and beer for my horses!")
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Another land animal that took to the sea for a while and evolved there was our simian ancestor.

It's the reason we walk upright. Check out your webbed fingers!


9 posted on 12/09/2005 12:05:53 PM PST by Blue State Insurgent (Shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter the remnants to the wind. Avenge JFK.)
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Simultaneously, large sea reptiles also became extinct. It created a vacuum in the sea as well as on the land. Thus there was a need of large animals, both on land and water, who could feed on fauna and flora to maintain the equilibrium.
This sentence exhibits a very weak understanding of evolution. Here's a better way of describing what happened:

The exinction of sea dinosaurs and large sea reptiles created a vacuum in the sea as well as on land. Biological niches opened up for large animals, niches consisting of huge sources of unexploited fauna and flora. Whales evolved to fill some of those niches.

There is no "need" for anything in nature, and though equilibrium does occur, it is not "needed".

10 posted on 12/09/2005 12:06:17 PM PST by samtheman
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LOL!!!

Evolutionists ... LOL! Always coming up with something bizarre.

BTW, what did John Kerry evolve from? Human waste? A deranged ape? What?
12 posted on 12/09/2005 12:14:04 PM PST by nmh ( Intelligent people believe in Intelligent Design (God))
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To: Red Badger

Are there crocodiles in Argentina today, or are they speaking of fossil crocodiles found in the territory of modern-day Argentina?


14 posted on 12/09/2005 12:18:43 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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I'm an evolutionist, and all that, but I seriously doubt that whales evolved in India ... and not in some ocean somewhere.


22 posted on 12/09/2005 12:37:21 PM PST by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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India is taking over the evolution market now, too?!?

Its just going to piss me off thinking I am ordering an ostrich from ABC Warehouse and when it comes, its an emu and i can't send it back.

When's it all going to end?


24 posted on 12/09/2005 12:52:15 PM PST by LearsKent
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