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Horseshoe* crabs.

http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203...
Look under circulatory system.

Sure, they have circulatory systems, but has a fossil one been found where a circulatory system can be detected? I don't know.

Yes, there are fireflies that mimic other fireflies in order to eat them:
http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2011/smith_ash2/nutrition.htm
And yes, I would consider fireflies land animals, because they spend most of their lives on the ground as larvae:
http://www.bio.davidson.edu/people/midorcas/animalphysiology/websites/2006/cahermes/larvae.htm

matlab can take in the statements you've suggested and provide the answer you claim it can't...... have you ever done anything with computer programming? because you're coming off as completely ignorant. most of the things you're claiming impossible are nearly trivial.

i have built web based systems solvers... linear/nonlinear/polynomial... 10 years ago in freshman year of college on an undergraduate research grant from the national science foundation... again, it's nearly trivial and wasn't as much research as it was typing out an established recipe. http://www.compute.uwlax.edu/ - i'm not sure if the server is still live as it isn't responding right now.

Huh?

Genetic mutations are by definition evolution.

Maybe what you meant was that it's not proof of what creationists like to term "macro evolution" (a scientifically meaningless term which I gather roughly means evolution of new species).

The only functionally useful definition of new species is ability to interbreed which make me wonder how you are guageing that in a species (ecoli) that predominantly reproduces asexually!

I wonder if the starting and ending strains were unable to reproduce by conjugation you would then accept them as separate species? I wonder are you at all impressed by the rather trivial changes in our lineage over the last 250,000 generations (5 million years)?

http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/s2008/moder_just/reproduction.htm

The latter, it turns out, is not remotely "junk", but contains important regulatory sequences which control gene activation/deactivation and the physical structure of the chromosomes.

actually, known regulatory sequences comprise only a small fraction of the junk....

a much bigger fraction is mobile DNA of various kinds (transposons, satellites, etc.) which may (or may not) be evolutionarily important.....

some more may be unannotated genes, e.g. small ORFs or noncoding RNAs... basically the content of intergenic DNA is still an open question...

oops, here is the right link

i made this site using matlab about 4 years ago.

matlab is VERY powerful, ESPECIALLY in for loops and recursive problems. any walls you are finding while writing MatLab scripts, well, you aren't trying very hard. i would even write MatLab scripts that would write Perl Scripts that would write MatLab scripts!