Posted on 11/07/2014 2:43:53 PM PST by Alter Kaker
Researchers report that they've found the missing link between an ancient aquatic predator and its ancestors on land. Ichthyosaurs, the dolphin-like reptiles that lived in the sea during the time of the dinosaurs, evolved from terrestrial creatures that made their way back into the water over time.
But the fossil record for the lineage has been spotty, without a clear link between land-based reptiles and the aquatic ichthyosaurs scientists know came after. Now, researchers report in Nature that they've found that link an amphibious ancestor of the swimming ichthyosaurs named Cartorhynchus lenticarpus.
"Many creationists have tried to portray ichthyosaurs as being contrary to evolution," said lead author Ryosuke Motani, a professor of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California Davis. "We knew based on their bone structure that they were reptiles, and that their ancestors lived on land at some time, but they were fully adapted to life in the water. So creationists would say, well, they couldn't have evolved from those reptiles, because where's the link?"
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No matter. What ever entity we came from, we still have to eventually face the creator. Believe it or not
Problem?
No problem matches that one
If one of God’s creation days equals one billion years to us, then how long do you suppose it will take Him to create a new heaven and a new earth as promised in Revelation? Where was evolution in the resurrection or any of Jesus’ miracles or the Apostles miracles. In the miracles in the OT?
If God will raise the living and dead, how will evolution factor in? It seems to me that God either transcends the laws of nature, as their Creator, or He is bound by them, in which case all of the above would be impossible.
Got it. So bad air and humors -- not bacteria and viruses -- could cause disease. The Earth could be flat. The Sun could revolve around the Earth, or be pulled by Apollo across the sky. I'm a bit surprised to learn that none of these questions have been settled by science.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Hoo haha ha ha! Snort! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! (Wheeze) Ha hee hee hee ha ha!
Evolution is observable. I don’t have a problem with that at all. But to listen to the theories of evolutionists is to make creationists look sane in comparison.
The whole thing is one flight of fantasy.
No life has ever been found on a meteorite, but the theory still remains, one came here with life on it, or lightening sparked life in a pool of water.
LMAO, that’s more rational than belief in a supreme being?
Wow.
All offspring have different genes from their parents. In history there has not been one child with the same genome as its parents. Genomes don't change overnight. They evolve over time.
Boy, she’s an “Ickyosaur” if I ever saw one!
That’s a good point. Even moreso is how inorganic raw elements can become the complex molecular structure of living organisms. It’s an absurd stretch. Incredibly improbable. I came up with a better understanding of this through organic chemistry, a topic I believe that you are quite familiar with. Even in Organic Chemistry, you don’t just expect complex organic molecules to form. Instead, you run a strictly controlled procedure to form the substance. Given what it takes to form polymers, it would take a whole lot more to form living organisms, even basic ones, from the elements or simple compounds. Expecting spontaneous formation, gets even more crazy.
But if he was looking for a mate, the improbability is still a real stretch.
“...It seems to me that God either transcends the laws of nature, as their Creator, or He is bound by them, in which case all of the above would be impossible....”
I just suppose God does what He wants. If He wants it to play out over a billion of our years or snap his finger and do it now it’s his choice.
After all, He is God.
Not really. Just a humble observation. There are two things humans seem particularly good at....the arrogance to claim infallibility in knowledge in the very face of vast and inestimable mystery before them and the uncanny ability to corrupt what is good and pure. Only fools think they have it all figured out.
Ok that’s fair enough.
Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
9 Scientific Facts Prove the "Theory of Evolution" is False
http://humansarefree.com/2013/12/9-scienctific-facts-prove-theory-of.html
” Because no matter how much evidence accumulates, they will still find a way to ignore it. The scientific question was settled more than a century ago.”
Baloney.
In this new fossil, is there evidence that there is a biochemical progression of all of the protein, enzyme, and DNA replication pathways from the one organism to the other?
The results of forming an extremely complex molecule are far fetched. Organic chemical reactions, whether electricity, combustion, or mixing with other chemicals, we do it with STRICT control and observation over the procedure. The other reality is that chemicals can also revert back. Not impossible, but extremely improbable.
Amen. And it appears that evolution was one of the tools he used.
We have vast evidence for evolution. We have observed speciation. The fossil and geologic record supports evolution. Yet there is money to be made in creationism. Text books, lecture circuits, museums, etc. and there is no way the believers will ever turn away. Science is one of the greatest accomplishments of humans but none of it will be even listened to and is constantly ridiculed.
I’m a Christian and I don’t need science to prove my religion. Science can neither prove or disprove God or right and wrong.
Living pterosaurs in Papua New Guinea, living sauropods in the Arkansas-sized Likuala Swamp region of the Congo, and Noah’s ark resting on Mt Ararat and visible during years of minimal sunspot activity pose grave challenges for the General Theory of Evolution...
Not neccessarily. Entropy can and often does decrease on a smaller scale. The overall trend in the universe, however, is that entropy increases. So on smaller scales than the entire universe, it can decrease.
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