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Scientists find missing link between whale and its closest relative, the hippo
UC Berkeley News ^ | 24 January 2005 | Robert Sanders, Media Relations

Posted on 02/08/2005 3:50:43 AM PST by PatrickHenry

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To: Michael_Michaelangelo

"(1) key expected fossil transitions be found, but also (2) the amount of biological change must be mathematically possible given the size, reproduction rate, and mutation rate of the evolving population, the supposed time allowed for the change in the fossil record, and the rules of population genetics, (many of these characteristics may be dependent upon one another, but the point is that in the end, the numbers must add up), and also (3) all stages of intermediate macro- and micro- morphology of the transitional organisms must be conceivably functional and advantageous to survival. "


The above is what they base their "science" on. Pretty funny. Thanks for the laugh.

Do you have anyone in creationism that can separate between science and assertion, evidence and philosophical Bravo Sierra?


1,981 posted on 02/11/2005 3:27:34 PM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: garybob
Let's face it: you're just an unpleasant person to be around. You are too quick to give offense when none has been offered to you.

You offered offense to all good thinking people here with your first post about Whales. Care for me to repost it?

1,982 posted on 02/11/2005 3:29:18 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: Pantera

Global Warming is not man caused as far as I can tell. I can't tell whether we are warming or cooling from politicized science involved.

And what I gave you is evidence. What is your problem?


1,983 posted on 02/11/2005 3:29:29 PM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: Pantera
How about sending me to your website. Maybe I can see a "monkey mixed with ass".

I'm tempted to say for you to look in a mirror but I won't.

1,984 posted on 02/11/2005 3:30:31 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: King Prout
Order and pattern are in the mind of the observer.

One of the biggies for the maintenance and upbringing of life on earth is the moon. It's one of those inspirations you get sometimes. The moon causes regular tides, which in turn give a slightly fluctuating rhythmic environment on the seashore that favors the cycles of living creatures and promotes their adaptation in easy steps. The moon also stabilizes the rotation of the earth, which would otherwise flip its polar axis at frequent intervals. Of course, the moon is tiring and gradually withdrawing, so the little littoral creatures may be headed for trouble eventually.

1,985 posted on 02/11/2005 3:30:53 PM PST by RightWhale (Please correct if cosmic balance requires.)
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To: Chaguito
Whoa, that's a pretty bold assertion. Care to elaborate? BTW, I do know a little about entropy, so don't hold back in your explanation.

You have a problem with that! Speak up!

1,986 posted on 02/11/2005 3:31:21 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: Tribune7

I thought they decided to call the Brontosaurus something else. I am no expert on paleontology or dinosaurs.

Are you?

Evolution is a fact. Instead of continuing to ridicule what you don't understand, give us a piece of evidence that refutes evolution. None of your buddies has been able to do that. All they have is silly-science and sophistry.


1,987 posted on 02/11/2005 3:31:33 PM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: MHalblaub

You may just find yourself the new dartboard.

Regardless of Dr. Popper, I still think gravity is real. ;)


1,988 posted on 02/11/2005 3:31:38 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Pantera
I will happily follow a link to something other than "lion mixed with cheetah" or "dog mixed with wolf".

Okay, how about a venomous mammal? Here's a shrew whose venom is chemically similar to that in cobras. Would creationist theory predicted the existence of these creatures?

1,989 posted on 02/11/2005 3:32:28 PM PST by Liberal Classic (No better friend, no worse enemy. Semper Fi.)
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To: WildTurkey

Yeah, that remark was really uncalled for.


1,990 posted on 02/11/2005 3:32:42 PM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: Pantera; shubi
You call that evidence? you truly are a "scientist" in the mold of Al Gore. I bet you think global warming "science" is pretty cool too. Next we will be called baby-killing Nazi's ...
1,991 posted on 02/11/2005 3:32:45 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: Pantera
shubi, i haven't read a single thing from you that might indicate you know anything in the scientific realm. You are truly a liability to the real world of science.

Well, we have read multiple things from you that confirm you have no scientific background but get your "quotes" from creationist websites, DVD's, books ...

1,992 posted on 02/11/2005 3:34:05 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: WildTurkey
Oh yes, you are super-heroes of the science world. the scientific knowledge that was presented was clear, concise and left no room for alternative ideas. In fact your scientific brains are so immense that you can simply disregard a fundemental law of thermodynamics in your quest for the ultimate scientific crown. Any questions are dismissed as irrelevant by the all-knowing science legends on this board.

That is the problem with you evangelical evolutionaries, you can't see the science from the propaganda you have wrapped yourself in.

1,993 posted on 02/11/2005 3:34:15 PM PST by Pantera
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To: WildTurkey

Since he doesn't know any science, I take it as a compliment that he doesn't see any science from me. ;-)


1,994 posted on 02/11/2005 3:35:24 PM PST by shubi (Peace through superior firepower.)
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To: Pantera

You want to tell us how thermodynamics is violated?


1,995 posted on 02/11/2005 3:35:55 PM PST by js1138
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To: Pantera

Your total concept of entropy is based on the false science of the creationist that told you about entropy.


1,996 posted on 02/11/2005 3:36:24 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: RightWhale
Order and pattern are in the mind of the observer.

"order" certainly is. "pattern" otoh... I am not certain a cyclic period requires an observer to be a cyclic period.

I've heard that about the moon. Why wouldn't solar tides suffice?

1,997 posted on 02/11/2005 3:37:19 PM PST by King Prout (Remember John Adam!)
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To: Pantera

Put some O2 and H2 together and see what happens. It is called chemistry.


1,998 posted on 02/11/2005 3:37:32 PM PST by WildTurkey (When will CBS Retract and Apologize?)
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To: js1138

placemarker


1,999 posted on 02/11/2005 3:37:46 PM PST by RadioAstronomer
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To: RadioAstronomer

2000?


2,000 posted on 02/11/2005 3:38:02 PM PST by RadioAstronomer
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