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.
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.
[[She said she had personally favored the notion that fish emerged from oxygen-deprived waters in order, quite literally, to catch their breath.]]
Yep- they all held a meeting underwater- decided that their water breathing system good enough amd prayed to the goddess of evolution to evolve them some air breathing lngs, and by golly, the goddess delivered- oh, and she prvided legs, and all the necessary new muscle structures to bear the wieght of the little fishy-amhpibian-mammals to scurry about on too- then hid the evidence- she’s a trcky goddess to be sure- it’s simply amazing what the goddess can accomplish when noone is looking- Heck, even when they are looking- the godess just does it all behind closed doors and then destroys the evidence so noone can see th4e supposed transformations as they took place ‘millions of years ago’
A splendid example of Science doing its job just as envisioned when first assigned so long ago by Western Civilization to set out upon its fact-finding mission.
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