Posted on 03/23/2009 8:47:12 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Oh no, I meant the ones about 200 million years upstream.
Remember, I specified "beentzy" wings worthless for anything except making the poor misbegotten possessor, thereof, more cumbersome, less well balanced and, ultimately, less fit to survive.
And when he dies (or is killed by his parents) since he was the only mutant that millennium or eon, sadly the evolutionary "march" had to be put on hold (again).
{But those are cute "artists renderings", no doubt generated from a bone fragment and a way too fertile imagination.}
Well, if you want to call biblical catastrophes "typical"...
Then what makes you think buying into Darwiniwm would change their ways for the better?
Gee, I don’t know. Maybe because “buying into” creationism doesn’t seem to have done them, or us, any favors. Whereas “buying into” the rationality of the scientific method has served the west pretty well.
Why should anything have "beentzy" wings, if wings evolved from arms (or front legs)? What, you think they grew wings and then lost their arms? You've been playing too much Spyro the Dragon.
And the artist renderings are based on about 9 pretty good casts, like this:
Interestingly, some of them show feather development on the hind legs, too, which is a pretty good indication that feathers had a purpose before the animals had wings as we know them today.
Why? What does a catastrophic global flood do, fossil-wise, that local floods or slower processes couldn't do just as well?
You mean like the rational, scientific, modernist Germany?
I have no problem with minor variations within kinds. For instance, I have no problem believing that all dogs descended from the original ancestral dog-type. However, I do have a problem with cows evolving from gophers. Not only is there no observational evidence for it, but it violates Genesis re: each organism reproducing after its own kind.
All the best—GGG
Or do you mean the contemporary Germany? The one where western science prevails, and where the theory of evolution is widely known and accepted by the population? The one that is a peaceful, prosperous, and civilized participant in western society?
Who is the threat today? The western societies that have accepted the reality of rational scientific investigation? Or the middle eastern societies that are mired in the mythological mumbo-jumbo of creationism?
If “evilution” leads so inexorably to mass murder, why are the “evilutionists” today the ones you choose to live amongst, instead of the wise and murderous creationists of the middle east?
We are in perfect agreement, my brother! Blessings to you.
Your grasp of history is, to be charitable, extremely weak.
“But evolution is hit-or-miss proposition, and there’s much more miss than hit. The majority of genetic mutations have no effect whatsoever, but a very small percentage result in an adaptive improvement every few million years or so. The genetic accident that caused the first two-legged dinosaurs to sprout feathers 120 million or 130 million years ago provided one such improvement. Because feathers (like fur) provide good insulation, feathered dinosaurs in chilly climates had an adaptive advantage over their lizard-skinned cousins. These fluffy dinos lived longer and had more kids, and eventually in some parts of the world feathers became the norm rather than the exception.
As with so much in evolution, the true potential of feathers revealed itself very slowly. When they first appeared 100 million years ago, feathers were more like scraggly strands of hair than the majestic plumage found on birds today. The same process of slight, incremental genetic mutation that gave rise to feathers in the first place went to work in causing these feathers to grow to larger sizes. In addition to keeping dinosaurs warmer (which increased their chances for survival and allowed them to produce more offspring), this development also conferred an aerodynamic advantage.”
http://www.sparknotes.com/home/biology/article/from_scales_to_feathers.html
Thanks, Doc!
Keep up the good work.
HAHAHAHA. So I take it you know bluejeans are designed and manufactured by humans not from the physical evidence, but from some sort of first principles? Please demonstrate your reasoning!
Also, how do you feel about bananas? Is their evident suitability for humans more proof of special creation?
hahaha, this is just too good. Philosophical reasoning for human manufacture of bluejeans! Why let a simple visit to a bluejeans factory decide things when you can invent crazy philosophical reasoning about it!
Okay, I'll play your shell game:
Explain this: How did the relatively huge hind legs (with or without feathers) which no doubt made flight impossible for eons make the creature more fit for survival during those scores of millions of years while its aforementioned legs became more spindly and, therefore, less able to walk, run and hunt but not yet skinny enough to facilitate flight?
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