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Missing Link Fossil Discovered
choongiri writes "The Guardian is reporting the discovery of a missing link of evolution. From the article: "Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago.""
Clearly, His Noodliness is testing us.
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I Am Not An Evolutionary Biologist -- So talking about this makes me feel a bit like a fish out of water.
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Funny... following your link to "The Missing Link" says "The page cannot be found." So I guess that means it's still missing? :)
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http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/93q2/creationfaq .html
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Heh, there's lots of missing links here in canada - calling each other hosers and swilling cheap beer, eh.
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it wouldnt surprise me in the least if you were found dead tomorrow, with signs of pirate related injuries
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster just put it there to confuse us.
I'll probably be modded down for this...
m = milli = 10^-3
M = mega = 10^6
325m years = ~ 118.6 days
Missing link may be a bit young don't you think?
You know, the grandparent post was a little difficult to understand for me, thank you for translating it into numbers.
why? forty-two.
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You're a fookin returd.
Oh, and your post was really stupid too.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
"Then do you also believe that Homosapien is the final product of Creation? Are we the zenith of Evolution?"
Well, I don't know about this we business, but I know I am... :-D
You can only find a "link", not a "missing link." Once found it is no longer missing.
/attempted humor
In much the same way as a hot water heater is unneeded since hot water is already hot.
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> > > agree. It's time to stop. It's like saying that 1.5 is the missing link between 1 and 2 and then someone comes along and says "no, there's a gap between 1 and 1.5".
> > You know, the grandparent post was a little difficult to understand for me, thank you for translating it into numbers.
> Could someone please translate it into something simpler than numbers? Math hurts my brain.
Ok, try "no, there's a gap between l and l.S".
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Wait, they make Gods that create animals? Mine only keeps hot things hot and cold things cold.
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Whoa! Speaking of predictive power! Man, you really nailed it!
So you are saying, that evolution researchers have an unfair advantage, because they not only have a theory (evolution), but also facts (fossil record) to prove the theory is sound?
What IS surprising, is that there is no image - not even the obligatory 100-pixel-across thumbnail, which links to a lame-ass 200-pixel-across "Large Picture".
That qualifies as the missing link then, doesn't it.
"Lessee now, God spent 2 billion years making them, and we've spent 200 years looking for them"
:-p
Um, no, God spent 6 days making them, and that was only 6000 years ago, the universe didn't even exist 2 billion years ago, DUH!!!
hehehe, how stupid do you feel now?!
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I had a debate on evolution vs. creationism/intelligent design once with a born-again Christian. It lasted about 15 minutes. Only after I gave up having gotten frustrated that I felt like I was talking to a brick wall.
Dude, who cares ok?
Wanna see what life forms look like when they live half in and half out of the water? Go watch surfers...
-if at first you don't succeed, stay the heck away from paragliding.
Not living on the moon for the last 5 years is probably one of the bigest reasons no one will nuke every city by noon tomarrow.
In other words, I think the only thing stoping us from vacationing on the moon is the fact that too many people think that if governments had a safe place to escape the effects of nukes, they would be used more then they have been. We have the ability, just the desire of those with the ability has seemed to weaken a little.
Maybe i'm wrong and it is just a fuunding issue?
Let's assume the creationists are right, and that the creator built the earth in 7 days a few milennia ago.
Then the creator camuflaged this work to perfection:
1. Dinosuar bones
2. Carbon dating
3. Erosion and tektonic activites
4. DNA evolution
The allmighty obviously have _on-purpose_ misled us to find perfect support for evolution.
This must be for a reason.
Should we, his humble followers, try to reveal this perfect camuflage by shouting Creation?
I say _no_. The Creator have obviously done a perfect job hiding the evidence of creation, and planted false evidence for evolution to perfection.
He must obviously want us to conclude the evolution is the truth.
And even if we know better, who are we to try to find flaws in His effort to hide the nature of His creation.
It will at any rate be fruitless, for who think they can do better than the Allmighty, and find the evidence He has hidden to the ability of the Omnipotent?
As a creationist one therefore faithfully should document and support the beauty of the evolution, while quietly in your soul know the true nature of the universe.
So to the creationists I tell you: Abandon your blasphemic and arrogant ways. Preach Evolution!
"Fix it"
right here.
2. Why did the sea creatures decide to go on land?
To get to the sea on the other side.
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You mean this sucker is important evidence of evolution, has been missing for who knows how long, they found it, and now they tell us about it? Where was all the hoopla when it was missing?
Before they found it. I don't recall any scientists saying "This theory of evoution might be convincing if we could find a fish with toes, but until then...."
Nor do I recall anyone saying "Well we had this link, but Mortimer apparently slipped it into his pants and took it out of the Smithsonian, and since then it has been missing..."
What else are they missing and not telling us about?
Whole thing just deepens my suspicion. I want an accounting of all the links they claim to have, but for all we know have also gone missing.
who created god?
Easy! Man.
Heh
[i]If anything is, I am a transitional form between apes and super-humans.[/i]
Since you are on Slashdot most likely you are just an evolutionary dead-end.
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Quite funny that the only reference that your struggle unearthed, while admittedly a Christian, is actually an ID critic
LRC, the best-read libertarian site on the web
Doesn't seem to me like this guy supports Intelligent Design, he's just giving his spin on Gould's Non-Overlapping Magisteria of Science and Religion.