Four-legged Creatures Emerged Earlier than Thought

Scientific Computing ^ | 1/9/10 | Raphael G. Satter

[null and void]

My ancestors are older than your ancestors...

[shineon]

I have found the missing link, his name is Adam. He was there all the time.

[tet68]

The game is a foot.

[Random Access]

Maybe it was all a big mistake. Most Winters I spend big bucks to go somewhere with a beach and spend my time getting back into the ocean.

[shineon]

I had a Polish find for Thanksgiving, it was a Krakus Ham

[Born to Conserve]

They’re 3% off! Evolution must be wrong.

[Flycatcher]

Until now, scientists thought they had the evolution from fin to foot fairly well understood.

Yes. Just like climatology.

[stormer]

I just did the math too. GMTA.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Four-legged Creatures Emerged Earlier than Thought

Fifth day, IIRC.

[JusPasenThru]

BUSH’S FAULT!

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Piltdown science ping!

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Piltdown science ping!

[metmom]

Until now, scientists thought they had the evolution from fin to foot fairly well understood.

Fairly well understood?

They find a few fossils, take some guesses about how it happened, and consider something that happened millions of years ago, that nobody saw or left a written record about, *fairly well understood*?

Still, [Clack] said the new fossils would force scientists — herself included — to reconsider what it was that originally turned fish into land-lovers.

She said some theorized that tetrapods originally went ashore to lay their eggs out of reach of water-going predators or that their ancestors grew legs to scurry from pool to pool. She said she had personally favored the notion that fish emerged from oxygen-deprived waters in order, quite literally, to catch their breath.

Science at its finest, I see. What a joke.

[Chunga]

"Four-legged Creatures Emerged Earlier than Thought Emerged?"

or

"Four-legged Creatures Emerged Earlier than Previously Believed?"

[Allen In Texas Hill Country]

Its “Snap Your Finger” time again.

[count-your-change]

I’ve actually seen fish catch their breath out of water.
When an old pond was drained the fish didn’t have enough water so they came up on the banks of the pond.
They flopped around really fast for a while and then when they were all rested up they lay still. After a few days they evolved into big black birds and flew away.

Saw with my own eyes! and Yes, they left lots of tracks.

[Euker]

LOL
Yea,the headline states that Four-legged Creatures came before Thought.
LOL, that may be true but that's not what the article's about.
LOL

[metmom]

They flopped around really fast for a while and then when they were all rested up they lay still.

I'd think that when they got tired of all that flopping around, they decided to take a nap.

[canuck_conservative]

Well using Genesis to explain the Earth's biological history has always been a stretch. And this is a good example.

- Fifth day: God commands the sea to "teem with living creatures", and birds to fly across the heavens (sixth command)[Gen 1:20-21] He creates birds and sea creatures, and commands them to be fruitful and multiply.

- Sixth day: God commands the land to bring forth living creatures (seventh command);[Gen 1:24-25] He makes wild beasts, livestock and reptiles. He then creates Man and Woman in His "image" and "likeness" (eighth command).[Gen 1:26-28] They are told to "be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it."

Got that? Sea creatures and birds are made at the same time, while land animals come the next day. Yet all scientific evidence clearly shows that birds evolved from land animals (i.e. dinosaurs), not before them.

Explain that one away.

[metmom]

Got that? Sea creatures and birds are made at the same time, while land animals come the next day. Yet all scientific evidence clearly shows that birds evolved from land animals (i.e. dinosaurs), not before them. Explain that one away.

Because you're dealing with an ASSUMPTION made about the fossil record, both that the the fossil record is complete enough to make that determination accurately and that the conclusions about what allegedly evolved from what is correct, since no one was there to see it.

The evidence merely shows what was alive at one time and died and happened to be preserved. It can show what other creatures existed in the same vicinity and at the same time, especially if they were fossilized together, but beyond that, is speculation, not fact.

You can't say Scripture is wrong, when you don't even know what *right* is and a guess, aka hypothesis, is not a hard fact.