Crucial Fossil Found; 'Missing Link' Between Sea and Land Creatures

[Rissask]

More evidence that support evolution (like we needed any more ). A 375 million year old fossil has been found in the Canadian Arctic that is huge in the science world.

A crucial fossil that shows how animals crawled out from the water, evolving from fish into land-loving animals, has been found in Canada.

The creature, described today in Nature<SUP>1</SUP>,<SUP>2</SUP>, lived some 375 million years ago. Palaeontologists are calling the specimen from the Devonian a true 'missing link', as it helps to fill in a gap in our understanding of how fish developed legs for land mobility, before eventually evolving into modern animals including mankind.

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/0604.../060403-7.html

There has been many fossils found of creatures that have features of both fish and land-living animals, but this find is particularly important because it seriously narrows the gap in the fossil record; it has:

a structure on its head that looks like a small gill slit that is on its way to becoming an ear, for example, and a long snout that would have been suited to catching prey on land. It probably lived in shallow waters, says Maisey, only hauling itself on to land temporarily to escape predators.

Now, I know this ain't no 'New Rings Found Around Uranus', but it is still interesting!

[Ginger]

Aww, the first hint of evolution from water mammals is already on display in Banff, Alberta:

[UGAplaya]

Eureka!!!! Life of Earth is solved....
All they have actually found is a fish that is another example of a lobe-finned fish (one of which still lives today—the coelacanth) that has bones similar in position to those seen in the arm and wrist of land-walking creatures—except these structures support fins with rays in them, not digits like fingers and toes (and as has been stated, they are NOT connected to the axial skeleton). We can confidently state that evolutionists have no examples of mutations or evolutionary processes that can lead to an increase in genetic information in a creature that would, for example, develop the appendage of a land animal from the fin of a fish (as would be required by molecules-to-man evolution). Evolution is stopped in its tracks at this point.

[Rissask]

Ginger I can't see the picture....you gotta link?

We can confidently state that evolutionists have no examples of mutations or evolutionary processes that can lead to an increase in genetic information in a creature that would, for example, develop the appendage of a land animal from the fin of a fish (as would be required by molecules-to-man evolution). Evolution is stopped in its tracks at this point.

Who is 'we'?

You need some further edu-ma-cation :p from something other than 'Of Pandas and People' and similar pseudoscience Intelligent Design crapola. Or maybe stop perusing 'Answers in Genesis' and sites like that.
Evolution is far from 'stopped in it's tracks' by anything, it is fact.

[Ginger]

I fixed it!!

bTW, I"ve seen it in person...pretty funny.

[Rissask]

Okay I can see it now, Ginger - Uncle Henry!!!

[Ginger]

Originally Posted by Rissask

Okay I can see it now, Ginger - Uncle Henry!!!

[UGAplaya]

Originally Posted by Rissask

Evolution is far from 'stopped in it's tracks' by anything, it is fact.

I'm so glad that you're a member here!! And it has nothing to do with your avatar..

[bbA2]

Originally Posted by UGAplaya

Eureka!!!! Life of Earth is solved....
All they have actually found is a fish that is another example of a lobe-finned fish (one of which still lives today—the coelacanth) that has bones similar in position to those seen in the arm and wrist of land-walking creatures—except these structures support fins with rays in them, not digits like fingers and toes (and as has been stated, they are NOT connected to the axial skeleton). We can confidently state that evolutionists have no examples of mutations or evolutionary processes that can lead to an increase in genetic information in a creature that would, for example, develop the appendage of a land animal from the fin of a fish (as would be required by molecules-to-man evolution). Evolution is stopped in its tracks at this point.

This is a joke right????
I mean, seriously, could anyone really believe this drivel...thanks for making me laugh!! ...if not with you then at least at you!...either way I am laughing!
bba2

[UGAplaya]

Originally Posted by bbA2

This is a joke right????
I mean, seriously, could anyone really believe this drivel...thanks for making me laugh!! ...if not with you then at least at you!...either way I am laughing!
bba2

laugh with me or at me....doesn't really matter to me. See....people are scared to death to hear an opinion from the other side. We are simply expected to accept evolutionist views and if you question it then surely you have to be nuts. Call me nuts.

[bbA2]

Originally Posted by UGAplaya

laugh with me or at me....doesn't really matter to me. See....people are scared to death to hear an opinion from the other side. We are simply expected to accept evolutionist views and if you question it then surely you have to be nuts. Call me nuts.

ummm...er...you're nuts...no doubt about it...scary nuts...like crazy-eyes-guy-on-the-subway-talking-to-his-paper-bag nuts...no doubt about it...thankfully people with your thought processes are here to sustain your end of the bell curve for my children...thanks!
I am done with this...I refuse to debate fiction with facts...live in your fantasy world of psuedo-scientific false altruisms I really don't care...no sweat of my brow...

bba2

[JudyBluEyes]

Originally Posted by UGAplaya

laugh with me or at me....doesn't really matter to me. See....people are scared to death to hear an opinion from the other side. We are simply expected to accept evolutionist views and if you question it then surely you have to be nuts. Call me nuts.

......No one's ever questioned evolution before!.....

[UGAplaya]

Originally Posted by bbA2

ummm...er...you're nuts...no doubt about it...scary nuts...like crazy-eyes-guy-on-the-subway-talking-to-his-paper-bag nuts...no doubt about it...thankfully people with your thought processes are here to sustain your end of the bell curve for my children...thanks!
I am done with this...I refuse to debate fiction with facts...live in your fantasy world of psuedo-scientific false altruisms I really don't care...no sweat of my brow...

bba2

Thanks friend.

[Rissask]

See....people are scared to death to hear an opinion from the other side. We are simply expected to accept evolutionist views and if you question it then surely you have to be nuts. Call me nuts.

Okay....you're nuts. Nut-er-ooney-ville. Nutty boy.:p

But seriously - I am not scared to death to hear 'opinions'....everyone has opinions. I just like facts better.

[UGAplaya]

Originally Posted by Rissask

Okay....you're nuts. Nut-er-ooney-ville. Nutty boy.:p

But seriously - I am not scared to death to hear 'opinions'....everyone has opinions. I just like facts better.

Facts? They're not giving you facts.......nothing even close to a fact. The problem is the methods for determing the dates are flawed to begin with. Even Evolutionist will tell you that the dating methods are no where close to being exact. Both sides have the same evidence, I happen to support the biblical view. Regardless, I respect your opinion and I enjoy talking / chatting / venting / etc. with you on these types of issues.
Some people feel like a nut.....some don't....