Platypus Genome Is As Weird As It Looks

New Scientist ^ | 5-7-2008 | Emma Young

[CDHart]

Can you explain further?

Carolyn

[CarrotAndStick]

But fossils have been found!

See #20.

[blam]

Platypus Genome Explains Animal's Peculiar Features; Holds Clues To Evolution Of Mammals

[Blood of Tyrants]

How convenient. We study the similarities of EXISTING species and then declare the existence of those similarities PROVES evolution. And we can conveniently do away with that horribly unreliable fossil evidence.

[NTHockey]

>>God doesn’t make mistakes. The Platypus and Echidna are just examples of him thumbing his nose at Darwinists.

Actually, it shows that God has a real sense of human. I’ll bet He ROFLHAO everytime one of these genuises makes some startling “discovery”. Then again, maybe He’s trying to find the angel in charge of brains.

BTW, the Echidna has a four-headed penis, according to the article. No jokes, please - it’s too easy.

[Andonius_99]

The good lord sure fiddled when he should have faddled when it comes to those things.

I think He made the platypus as the first joke to test Eve's sense of humor...as if cold weather and Adam wasn't enough to make her laugh. :)

[Paradox]

Knuckles, the Echidna..

[From many - one.]

See post 20.

[Soliton]

Can you explain further?

Sure, explain what?

[CDHart]

In what way does the genome make it possible to prove evolution?

Carolyn

[ucantbserious]

The Platypus and Echidna are just examples of [god] thumbing his nose at Darwinists. Except the existence of the platypus and echidna support the theory of evolution by natural selection. Both are wonderful examples of transitional forms between reptiles and mammals of the marsupial/placental variety.

[Soliton]

How convenient. We study the similarities of EXISTING species and then declare the existence of those similarities PROVES evolution. And we can conveniently do away with that horribly unreliable fossil evidence.

The fossil record was useful because we could compare anatomical features of various extinct animals to study their evolution. There are HUNDREDS of "transitional forms" in the fossil record that meet the definition of the creationists. However, ALL species are transitional species. That's why there gone and new ones have arissen.

Anatomical features are physical representations of the genes (phenotypes)that produce them. When looking at the genetic information directly, we are looking at the recipe for a specific species. We no longer need to look at imperfect accidentally preserved specimens.

[Soliton]

Please see 32

[Blood of Tyrants]

Similarity does not prove evolution. If a scientist who had never seen a dog of any sort were presented with the skeletons of a chihuahua, an English bulldog, and an Irish wolfhound, he would immediately declare them to be three separate and distinct species.

[Cinnamon Girl]

How does that establish that the platypus and humans “evolved from the same ancestor” as the article claims?

[CholeraJoe]

Both are wonderful examples of transitional forms between reptiles birds and mammals of the marsupial/placental variety.

Fixed it for you. The duck bill is a dead giveaway.

[CDHart]

That does make sense.

Carolyn

[Verginius Rufus]

"Monotreme" combines two Greek roots--monos meaning "alone" and trema (with an eta) meaning "hole, aperture, orifice."

"Platypus" is from Greek platys, "wide," and pous, "foot."

"Echidna" is the Greek word meaning "viper" or "adder."

[raygunfan]

ME: i agree, but that is pretty much the whole TOE in a nutshell...

YOU:

A nice story but there is absolutely no evidence that the platypus evolved from anything. Not one fossil of a platypus-like (but not a platypus) creature has ever been found.

[raygunfan]

amazing how a similar design can fool folks who insist on believing man-made fairy tales, under the guise of science and an elitest ‘we are smarter than the great unwashed, therefore listen to what we say’