Fish With Feet

by metatron 21 Replies latest jw friends

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  metatron

  http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/13/tiktaalik-fossil-fish-four-legged-land-animal

  Well, almost. Had gills and lungs, too.

  Can you say 'missing link'?

  metatron
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  cantleave

  Tiktaalik is a fascinating fossil. Cofty wrote an excellent thread on it once.

  http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/223989/1/Tiktaalik-A-Brief-Introduction#.UtQ08NJ_sxE
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  Gopher

  "Satan the Devil" put those in-between fossils there so that scientists can fool us.
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  happy@last

  Take a look at these then:

  http://youtu.be/84rqMzH4Nvw
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  Nathan Natas

  
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  Nathan Natas

  http://www.markstivers.com/cartoons/Cartoons%202006/Stivers-6-10-06-Fish-walkin.gif

  gifs won't display?
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  Earnest

  If you are going to say 'missing link' then you will need to be more precise as to exactly how and when amphibians evolved tens of millions of years later. As it happens, this period is called Romer's gap because the fossil record is so sparse it is effectively non-existent. In fact, the descendants of Tiktaalik, the Acanthostega, were completely wiped out so Tiktaalik was a missing-link to nothing.
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  Phizzy

  Thank you Earnest. You have made me wish to research further.
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  LucidChimp

  Kinda on topic... Kinda.

  6:30
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  metatron

  As to the precise chain of development, I know not - and I doubt anyone else really does either.

  However, as this and many other examples make clear, transitional or in-between forms did exist. The idea of fixed 'kinds' is nonsense because animals exist or did exist that don't fall into neat catagories, as creationists would have it.

  and the addition of millions of years, as asserted, doesn't help either.

  metatron