Science in the move towards enlightenment.
To: Jeff Gordon; PatrickHenry
The fossil of the Gogonasus fish, found in the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia, at a site of a former major coral reef, shows the skull had large holes for breathing through the top of the head.
To: Jeff Gordon
3 posted on
10/21/2006 8:12:40 PM PDT by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: Jeff Gordon
I wish they had offered a photo.
I love fossils. My collection is short of a museum, but it's pretty neat.
4 posted on
10/21/2006 8:13:07 PM PDT by
Dog Gone
To: Jeff Gordon
Good post, and interesting find, but its from Al-Jazeera???
I thought Muslims were strictly creationists!
Will wonders never cease.
5 posted on
10/21/2006 8:13:50 PM PDT by
Coyoteman
(I love the sound of beta decay in the morning!)
To: Jeff Gordon
I saw a guy who looks like a fish the other day!
The missing link6 posted on
10/21/2006 8:13:56 PM PDT by
eleni121
("Show me just what Mohammed brought:: evil and inhumanity")
To: Jeff Gordon
People actually believe this crap. Too funny.
7 posted on
10/21/2006 8:14:46 PM PDT by
Jorge
To: Jeff Gordon
380 million years, ooooookaaaay...so does it have a sister?
To: Jeff Gordon
You can think of it that way....
There are fish that can go onto land today. That does not make those fish the ancestors of land animals. So this fossil has bones in its front fins similar to human arm bones. Could that be because the fish actually could go on or very close to land and would have use for fins that could support its weight out of water?
In many cases, hypothetical missing links (such as feathered reptiles) would have been weeded out by natural selection unless their oddness conferred upon them usefulness. A reptile with feathers who couldn't fly (or who could fly but the feathers would not make it easier)would use up energy making feathers--energy which could be used for other things. Also, it would be a freak, so unless it could get lots of food, was very fast, etc. how would it have children?
36 posted on
10/21/2006 8:59:42 PM PDT by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( The r/l thing is Japanese, not pan-Asian, and, in any case, making a mockery of it is rude.)
To: Jeff Gordon; DaveLoneRanger
37 posted on
10/21/2006 9:00:09 PM PDT by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( The r/l thing is Japanese, not pan-Asian, and, in any case, making a mockery of it is rude.)
To: Jeff Gordon
Lots of loaded keywords, on both sides.
38 posted on
10/21/2006 9:00:38 PM PDT by
Jedi Master Pikachu
( The r/l thing is Japanese, not pan-Asian, and, in any case, making a mockery of it is rude.)
To: Jeff Gordon
Is this guy objective, or does he maybe have some preconceived notion about this evolution business?
45 posted on
10/21/2006 9:18:25 PM PDT by
petertare
(!)
To: Jeff Gordon
It takes a whole lot of ignorance to believe the hooey.
46 posted on
10/21/2006 9:19:21 PM PDT by
Frwy
(Eternity without Jesus is a hell-of-a long time.)
To: Jeff Gordon
so it's filling in a blank in evolution we didn't know about before." So the B -I -I- I- I- I- I- I- I- G Gap is now the B- I- I- I- I- I- I- I- G Gap.
50 posted on
10/21/2006 10:50:30 PM PDT by
taxesareforever
(Never forget Matt Maupin)
To: Jeff Gordon
Al-Jazeera published this?
To: Jeff Gordon
... fish developed features characteristic of land animals much earlier than once thought.Creationist interpretation: those stupid scientists were wrong again.
54 posted on
10/21/2006 11:29:34 PM PDT by
edsheppa
To: the-ironically-named-proverbs2
"It has revealed a whole suite of characters that link it to the higher land animals or tetrapods, so it's filling in a blank in evolution we didn't know about before." Not that there's anything wrong with that.
60 posted on
10/22/2006 2:28:33 AM PDT by
Thinkin' Gal
(As it was in the days of NO...)
To: Jeff Gordon; betty boop; Alamo-Girl; .30Carbine; cornelis; Whosoever
There must be a scale how much of.....
New DATA PROVING evolution linkage is fact and how much is tale..
because there is ALWAYS a tale.. a story.. that goes along with alleged facts..
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense - Tom Clancy
68 posted on
10/22/2006 2:54:33 PM PDT by
hosepipe
(CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole.)
To: Jeff Gordon
Naaaahhhh, fossil finds never fill gaps, they just create two new gaps on either side...
94 posted on
10/24/2006 7:23:32 AM PDT by
null and void
(Age and experience -- It makes no sense to get one without the other. - Sundog)
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