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Predation Did Not Come from Evolution
ICR ^ | March 28, 2009 | Daniel Criswell, Ph.D.

Posted on 03/28/2009 7:56:22 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts

Predation Did Not Come from Evolution

by Daniel Criswell, Ph.D.*

Although the origin of predation is poorly understood, it is incorrect to attribute to young-earth creation the assertion that predatory animals quickly and recently evolved the physical features necessary for predation. It is a common fallacy that carnivores evolved from a change in form and function. No physical evolution was required to change herbivores to predators--it was merely a change in behavior.

The view that an alteration of genomes and phenotypes, such as sharp teeth and claws, would have been required to supply the physical features for predation from herbivorous features common in plant-eating animals is not correct. The shape of the teeth, the ability to run fast for short distances, and all the other physical attributes given to predators can be used for acquiring plant food sources as well. A few examples of mammal diets will verify this quite well...

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: creation; evolution; fruitbat; fsm; grizzly; intelligentdesign; omnivore; predation; vegetarian
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1 posted on 03/28/2009 7:56:22 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: editor-surveyor; metmom; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; GourmetDan; MrB; valkyry1; DaveLoneRanger; ...

Ping!


2 posted on 03/28/2009 7:56:57 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Yet another proof of the utter failure of Darwinistas.


3 posted on 03/28/2009 8:07:33 PM PDT by dddanonymous
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To: GodGunsGuts

Ok. But I bet you won’t see goats and sheep hunting down coyotes anytime soon.


4 posted on 03/28/2009 8:08:39 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: GodGunsGuts

Ya gotta be fast to outrun a Texas tumbleweed.


5 posted on 03/28/2009 8:09:39 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: dddanonymous

I hear they’re making a comeback in Nicaragua ;op


6 posted on 03/28/2009 8:11:25 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Okay, how do you explain El Chupacabra? / sarc (snicker)


8 posted on 03/28/2009 8:14:17 PM PDT by stboz
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To: mamelukesabre
Ok. But I bet you won’t see goats and sheep hunting down coyotes anytime soon.

As I recall, a rabbit with giant canine teeth once attacked the President of the United States.


9 posted on 03/28/2009 8:19:35 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: GodGunsGuts
The need for predation by these animals clearly results from a change in behavior, not from a change in form and function.

The most functional metric in studying the different biologies of predators and herbavores is the length of the digestive tract. This is because soft raw flesh needs to be digested as quickly as possible and then eliminated before putrifaction occurs, while an herbaceous diet requires a much longer digestive process to break down the tough plant material adequately enough to extract it's nutritious qualities. And indeed, predators have much shorter diegstive tracts than the much longer digestive tracts of herbavores, while omnivores have digestive tract lengths between the two extremes (the metric beign established by the calculation of a ratio of body length to digestive tract length). These differences are mandatory for survival, and constitute clear proof of the operation of form and function rather than mere behavior. Whether evolution caused these differences is another question, but denying their existence and importance is simply ignorance.

10 posted on 03/28/2009 8:20:23 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: mamelukesabre

How about Eagles hunting mountain goats!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3n4qPpL8T0


11 posted on 03/28/2009 8:21:03 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

In nature you are the eater or the eaten.


13 posted on 03/28/2009 8:22:13 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
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To: GodGunsGuts
Yeah, right. As if the digestive systems of animals changed with a finger snap as well.

I am a God-fearing Catholic. Evolution is not incompatible with Christianity. The 6000 year people make all Christians look like idiots.

14 posted on 03/28/2009 8:22:20 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: Polybius

Hey that’s different. Rabbits are mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ez5QPW-ku4


15 posted on 03/28/2009 8:22:26 PM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: GodGunsGuts

Same failed ideas too.


16 posted on 03/28/2009 8:24:16 PM PDT by dddanonymous
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To: Gordon Greene; All

Sorry I just find hard to believe that the Earth is flat, the Earth is the center of the universe, or 6000 years old.... Just pointing out the facts..


17 posted on 03/28/2009 8:25:01 PM PDT by KevinDavis (No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
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To: KevinDavis

But it is isn’t it...I mean...oh good lord...even I can’t keep it up that long.

LOL

I mean really WTF


18 posted on 03/28/2009 8:25:17 PM PDT by JNL
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To: buccaneer81

And the people who discount young earth are denying the scriptures.

And these are the same ones who call everyone else idiots then cry because they can’t back up their own lousy theories.

You may fear God, but you either don’t believe or don’t know your bible.


19 posted on 03/28/2009 8:25:41 PM PDT by Gordon Greene (www.fracturedrepublic.com - It is possible to be so open minded that your brains leak out.)
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To: JNL; All

Carbon dating has proved other wise..


20 posted on 03/28/2009 8:26:33 PM PDT by KevinDavis (No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
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