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mutation doesn't equate evolution. There's no reason to believe that it introduced any new data into the genome, or that its descendants (if it had any) had the same mutations.
This simple little post says it all in confirming kd'sastonishing ignorance of genetics and evoluton. Perhaps he thinks he "wins" by quoting scientifically illiterate nonsense? In fact, he's just a sad sorry guy gloating over his imagined debating "accomplishments". When we point out a Grade 6 biology class factoid, he denies or ignores it as though that makes it incorrect. Yee-hah!
I have nothing more to say. Rifleman has left the building.
Pardon me for being less-than-impressed. They found a fossil of a monkey, and have created a history around it...right down to the idea that its fractured wrist prevented it from climbing trees...so it had to leave the forest to drink and...and.....
oh boy.
And how is this a "missing link"? It was a fossil of a tiny monkey. Yay.
The part here where you say "they created a history around it" is interesting....remind you of anything else? I'm thinking the Bible and all of it's "created history" by men.
The part here where you say "they created a history around it" is interesting....remind you of anything else? I'm thinking the Bible and all of it's "created history" by men.
mutation doesn't equate evolution. There's no reason to believe that it introduced any new data into the genome, or that its descendants (if it had any) had the same mutations.
Any body remember Java man this Lemur is just trying to steal his thunder. And what about the unbias finding of Jesus's bones? Oh and I was so suprised to see that David Attenborough wet his short's over this he has been making a living of Darwin's pipe dream for how many years now? this section cracks me up I can't help but smile when I read these post.
That's a fascinating discovery indeed. But it's not as if rational people were waiting for this to come down on the side of evolution. And it's not as if crazy Christians won't merely find a new and inventive way of explaining it away.
direct ancestor" and described the discovery as "a dream come true".
Key words to watch: closest, closest yet direct. Oxymoroning can be a crime. Then it's dreams.
Just wanted to point out that an oxymoron consists of two contradictory concepts. A 'deafening silence' is an oxymoron, because silence, by definition, cannot be deafening. Shakespeare's 'sweet sorrow' is an oxymoron, because sorrow cannot be 'sweet' by any means.
The 'closest thing to a direct ancestor', as described in the article, is not an oxymoron -- it's a descriptor (it is possible to find a 'closer' thing to a direct ancestor; we simply haven't found it, yet).
Actually, for some time now, I've been hiding the fact that I, rifleman*, am themissinglink. I'm less intelligent than many posters here, apparently, and I exhibit certain more primitive behavioral patterns (I hunt, I fish, I build old weapons, I like being in a tree versus in a big city high-rise apartment; I know how to survive off the land without a micro-wave, and I grunt a lot during certain, umm.. activities).
And, I'm available for review as a transitional. And, I'm also gonna admit, this lemur was my auntie.
So. There you finally have it. Evo proved once and for all!
Satisfied?
(*once known as lemur-man....)
Dang, and all this time I thought you had that fuzzy little nose just to attract women!!!!!!
This simple little post says it all in confirming kd'sastonishing ignorance of genetics and evoluton. Perhaps he thinks he "wins" by quoting scientifically illiterate nonsense? In fact, he's just a sad sorry guy gloating over his imagined debating "accomplishments". When we point out a Grade 6 biology class factoid, he denies or ignores it as though that makes it incorrect. Yee-hah!
I have nothing more to say. Rifleman has left the building.
so a fish that mutates and grows a third eye will only have 3 eyed fish from there on? Seriously...you guys are so rude and obnoxious.
If I'm wrong, tell me how instead of insulting
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