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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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To: LearsFool

Right...All those big leg bones of dinosaurs are plastic, huh?


81 posted on 03/28/2009 8:44:51 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: mamelukesabre

LMAO.


82 posted on 03/28/2009 8:45:32 PM PDT by dddanonymous
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To: KevinDavis

Bingo. To a person of real faith, it doesn’t diminish belief one bit.


83 posted on 03/28/2009 8:45:53 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: KevinDavis
The story of creation is a myth... A simple one.. Also the bible has been translated so many times there have been a mistake here and there...

Correct, bed time story for children.

84 posted on 03/28/2009 8:46:07 PM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: buccaneer81; All

Have you forgotten... The T-Rex was on Noah’s Ark..


85 posted on 03/28/2009 8:46:08 PM PDT by KevinDavis (No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
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To: org.whodat

You a Dawinista?


86 posted on 03/28/2009 8:46:15 PM PDT by dddanonymous
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To: buccaneer81

87 posted on 03/28/2009 8:46:29 PM PDT by LearsFool ("Thou shouldst not have been old, till thou hadst been wise.")
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To: Gordon Greene

Snap

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/317/5838/632
http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=2963


88 posted on 03/28/2009 8:47:29 PM PDT by JNL
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To: buccaneer81

“The Old Testament was written for primitive people to understand a greater message.”

And in what ancient writing did you find this little tidbit. In the same one that supports evolution?

With all due respect that’s an ignorant line to throw out there and shows no thought on your part. What I’m running into with evolutionists is that they accuse young earth creationists of spouting the company line, yet you guys all sound like a broken record with your parable/alegory stories. Give me some evolutionary proof and I’ll listen very close. Not just scattered bones and the ever-so-accurate carbon dating.


89 posted on 03/28/2009 8:47:45 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: buccaneer81; All

That is correct.. My faith god is not threaten by science.. My faith is strong..


90 posted on 03/28/2009 8:47:57 PM PDT by KevinDavis (No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
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To: KevinDavis
==I suppose you want darwin banned in America right?? Nope, I just want state support to be knocked out from underneath the unconstitutional establishment of religion that is the Temple of Darwin. Once that happens, and the Temple of Darwin is forced to stand on their own two feet, the will collapse under the weight of massive scientific falsification.

Btw, did I mention the Evos have finally been forced to admit what Creationists have been predicting all along?


91 posted on 03/28/2009 8:48:00 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: KevinDavis
Have you forgotten... The T-Rex was on Noah’s Ark..

LOL! Yep. Right next to the Pteradactyl.

92 posted on 03/28/2009 8:48:19 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: dddanonymous
What in the hell is a Dawinista??
93 posted on 03/28/2009 8:48:47 PM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: buccaneer81
Inbreeding. There's a gene pool for a reason.

Inbreeding in humans does not involve sexual reproduction? Who knew, lol?

94 posted on 03/28/2009 8:49:00 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: PatHimself

“PatHimself”

I was going to quote your intelligent post but decided instead to point out your quote pertaining to what you obviously do in your spare time...


95 posted on 03/28/2009 8:49:28 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: buccaneer81; All

and somehow the T-Rex didn’t eat the mammals and Noah himself was a miracle..


96 posted on 03/28/2009 8:49:48 PM PDT by KevinDavis (No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
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To: buccaneer81

Until they couldn’t pay the mortgage asked for a bailout and Noah said NO.

Noah first proud member of the “Party of NO”


97 posted on 03/28/2009 8:49:50 PM PDT by JNL
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To: buccaneer81; All

Bad part is Noah didn’t save the people of Bedrock..


98 posted on 03/28/2009 8:50:35 PM PDT by KevinDavis (No one should question our "Dear Leader"!)
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To: buccaneer81
So the pigs on the ark killed off T-Rex and the big boom was really a pig fart. Sounds like and exceptional creationist theory.
99 posted on 03/28/2009 8:51:10 PM PDT by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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To: org.whodat

==What in the hell is a Darwinista??

They are the commie materialists who are currently attempting to infiltrate the conservative movement so they can destroy it from within d;op


100 posted on 03/28/2009 8:51:18 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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