Becasue he is soooooo OLD!!!
Posted on 11/07/2014 2:43:53 PM PST by Alter Kaker
Researchers report that they've found the missing link between an ancient aquatic predator and its ancestors on land. Ichthyosaurs, the dolphin-like reptiles that lived in the sea during the time of the dinosaurs, evolved from terrestrial creatures that made their way back into the water over time.
But the fossil record for the lineage has been spotty, without a clear link between land-based reptiles and the aquatic ichthyosaurs scientists know came after. Now, researchers report in Nature that they've found that link — an amphibious ancestor of the swimming ichthyosaurs named Cartorhynchus lenticarpus.
"Many creationists have tried to portray ichthyosaurs as being contrary to evolution," said lead author Ryosuke Motani, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California Davis. "We knew based on their bone structure that they were reptiles, and that their ancestors lived on land at some time, but they were fully adapted to life in the water. So creationists would say, well, they couldn't have evolved from those reptiles, because where's the link?"
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I’m confused. Did we crawl out of the ocean or into it or did we play around going back and forth?
Becasue he is soooooo OLD!!!
Our ancestors aren't ichthyosaurs. However ichthyosaurs did descend from land animals that evolved into sea animals. Just like whales and dolphins later did.
>>I’m confused. Did we crawl out of the ocean or into it or did we play around going back and forth?<<
Amphibious=”relating to, living in, or suited for both land and water.”
I hope that helps.
back and forth as conditions may have required
I wouldn’t expect anything different than “the science is settled” out of a rigged intellectual game.
looks like a man. A very ugly man.
There is NO problem for us Creationists. Who made the animal now fossilized in the first place? I think God did that. See? No problem.
There goes my appetite for the next eight hours.
“The scientific question was settled more than a century ago”
Yeah the science is settled, the consensus has been reached...evolution happened...thus there is no God../s
Sounds like the reasoning of Global warmists.....the science is settled, the consensus has been reached...men caused global warming and if you disagree with Hanson’s thermal “hockey stick” we will get the Democrats to pass a law to put you in jail(and there is no God)...../double sarcasm!
You HAD to ruin a perfectly good thread.
Now there’s a missing link, to... to..., well it is!!!
That entity is not of this Earth.
Really? Your faith is that fragile? I believe in evolution and God. If observed reality doesn't match your understanding of scripture, did it ever occur to you that your understanding of scripture might be off?
I didn’t think evolutionists admitted there were any missing links. I guess there aren’t until they find one? Now we are back to no missing links?
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