Actually you cite some biased scientist who is trying to make a silk purse out of a sows ear. Can't blame him since he has to prove it to get all that gummit graft he lives off. Bottom line is that the weight support is nothing more than some scientist's opinion.
There are litterally thousands of questions about this being anything other than a glorified catfish.
If you have the faith to believe that this is some sort of transitional species great, just don't count me in on this hoax. But you are good at namecalling and making your god scientist as the only side anyone should believe.
There should thousands of transitional species and you have this single weak link. The distance between monkey and man is the same as the distance between this fish and monkey or 1/1,000,000th the distance between man and God.
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What's a "glorified catfish"? Something that looks like a catfish, but isn't?
I can back up anything I say about Tiktaalik. You said there weren't any transitionals, I dumped a trainload of them on you, only the tiniest sample of what is out there.
You seem to think if you continue to spew unsubstantiated statements about Tiktaalik's shoulder, then there are no transitionals. Any scientist I cite is a biased scientist? Is that any scientist except the "scientists" at the Institute for Creation Research, Answers In Genesis, ReasonsToBelieve.org, or the prestigious Discovery Institute of Seattle which has thus far only discovered that some announced study needs a same-day rebuttal?
There are litterally thousands of questions about this being anything other than a glorified catfish.
Your ignorance is showing. Please substantiate any claim in the scientific literature that Tiktaalik is any kind of catfish, even an inglorious one.
There should thousands of transitional species and you have this single weak link.
I gave you tons more than that, including fish turning into elephants in 50 steps of "microevolution." (Kudos to Ichneumon and Kathleen Hunt on that one.) Your amnesia looks like Morton's Demon.
Seriously, I linked this earlier post of mine on the subject of transitionals. You are now saying "There should thousands of transitional species and you have this single weak link."
Even in the area of fish-to-amphibian, Tiktaalik is just the latest. There was already a nice series starting with the early lobe-finned Osteolepis and ending with the primitive amphibians Ichthyostega and Acanthostega. Tiktaalik is most of the way to being an amphibian but still a fish. It is very similar to the afore-mentioned early amphibians and also very similar to fish like Panderichthys which precede it. All of which you could have learned for yourself if you had actually used that Internet you wave about to learn something rather than trying to club people with your militant ignorance.
The distance between monkey and man is the same as the distance between this fish and monkey or 1/1,000,000th the distance between man and God.
67.8 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot. Yours is one of those.