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To: Aquinasfan
I'm looking for a lion with a half-formed wing. That type of thing.

That's just bogus, of course. Would you settle for a bird with a half-wing, half raptorian claw?

Or would you like a detailed treatment of eye evolution?

How Could An Eye Evolve?.

The problem with your lion-wing is it's a standard "When have you ever seen a snake turn into a bird?" strawman attacking something which no scientist would propose as the way evolution works.

Basically, all of your arguments reflect a keen study of the creationist pamphlets of the late 1970s. There's some slop in the dating but I'd say it's no later.

578 posted on 03/18/2002 5:06:08 AM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
That's just bogus, of course. Would you settle for a bird with a half-wing, half raptorian claw?

No. This does nothing more to prove the theory of evolution than does an archaeopteryx or a platypus. Just like the platypus (kiwi, penguin, flying squirrel, etc.), this creature seems to be integrated and fully functional.

580 posted on 03/18/2002 5:59:21 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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To: VadeRetro
How Could An Eye Evolve?

Seriously, you don't think this is funny?

Besides the sheer ludicrousness of this "just so" story, the author forgot to mention how the rest of the creature's support systems (nervous, musculoskeletal, circulatory) were simultaneously and beneficiently 'evolving.' (Neither does the author even attempt to explain how this happened.)

582 posted on 03/18/2002 6:14:47 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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