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To: Willie Green
"A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes"

Or it could just be another extinct animal.

36 posted on 11/18/2004 4:41:10 PM PST by MEGoody (Way to go, America! 4 more years!)
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To: MEGoody
Or it could just be another extinct animal.

The funny thing, though, is how those extinct animals when we find them continue to further outline what looks like a phylogenetic tree of life, as evolution demands. That's important because an intelligent designer wouldn't have to mimic evolution so precisely.

For instance, we could someday find a bird-amphibian hybrid or a fossil thereof, if only an intelligent designer had ever once seen fit to order one. Such a monster could not have evolved under the commonly understood amphibians-reptiles-birds evolutionary scenario. In fact, it would falsify that scenario at once. However, 145 years after Darwin, we have seen nothing like that. What we see might as well be evolution as anything looser.

40 posted on 11/18/2004 5:14:41 PM PST by VadeRetro (A self-reliant conservative citizenry is a better bet than the subjects of an overbearing state. -MS)
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To: MEGoody
Or it could just be another extinct animal

Well, yes, since it is an animal and it is extinct, it is an extinct animal.

What's your point?

71 posted on 11/19/2004 7:39:46 AM PST by Modernman (Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin)
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