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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 4:26 pm
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I thought we would in this thread go back in time and look at various animals, insects etc. that would have been contemporaries of dinosaurs (said to have gone extinct 65 million years ago) and is said by those who subscribe to Darwinian evolution to have existed millions of years before man. I think you will be surprised to see how many living fossils we have today that have remained unchanged for millions of years.. Are they unchanged because they were created with a blue print (DNA) which allows for variations within a kind, but not for something to become a different species? Will a wasp always look like a wasp? I will leave it up to you to decide if something is amiss with the theory of evolution as we move through the fossil record...
Our first creature is a fish. The Coelacanth.Coelacanth fossils have been found that are said to be from the Triassic period, some 210 million years ago, and is believe to have evolved into its current form 400 millions years ago. They were thought to have gone extinct 66 million years ago. There was a lot of speculation in the scientific community surrounding the coelacanth. It was thought to have been a transitional form and to have had primitive lungs and a large brain. Until 1938, many evolutionary biologists hypothesized that this life form used the two double fins on its body to walk along the sea bed and was a transitional form between marine and terrestrial animals. As evidence for these claims, those who subscribed to the theory of evolution pointed to the bony structures in coelacanth fossil fins. However, an event in the Indian Ocean on December 22nd 1938, totally demolished that idea. A living member of the Latimeria species, one of the coelacanth family, which had been depicted as a transitional form that had become extinct 60 million years earlier, was caught in the middle of the ocean! The discovery of a “living, breathing” coelacanth came as a huge shock to many. Unchanged for 400 million years.
Resources: How Could Fish Survive Noah's Flood? Where Are Fossils Found? Doesn’t the Order of Fossils in the Rock Record Favor Long Ages? What You Can Never Know Based on a Fossil A Scientific Defense of a Creationist Position on Evolution Are there out-of-sequence fossils that are problematic for evolution? The Miller-Urey experiment
"...what has evolution been doing for the last hundred million years? For example, if apes eventually became humans in just 6 million years, how, with ever-changing ecological pressures, can there be so many plants and animals that are basically unchanged from their forms supposedly millions of years ago?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:35 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 4:03 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 4:20 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 2:16 am
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 2:30 am
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 2:44 am
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 4:57 am
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Sawfish from the upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian, 95 million years old Sawfish, also known as carpenter sharks, are a family (Pristidae) of rays characterized by a long, narrow, flattened rostrum, or nose extension, lined with sharp transverse teeth, arranged so as to resemble a saw. Several species of sawfish can grow to about 7 m (23 ft). The family as a whole is largely unknown and little studied. The Pristidae are the only living family within the order Pristiformes, whose name comes from the Ancient Greek: πρίστης prístēs "saw, sawyer" Juvenile smalltooth sawfish, Florida.
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Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2015 5:05 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 4:51 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2015 5:11 am
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Pipefish from the Pliocene, extending from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years. Pipefishes look like straight-bodied seahorses with tiny mouths. The name is derived from the peculiar form of the snout, which is like a long tube, ending in a narrow and small mouth which opens upwards and is toothless. The body and tail are long, thin, and snake-like. They each have a highly modified skeleton formed into armored plating. This dermal skeleton has several longitudinal ridges, so a vertical section through the body looks angular, not round or oval as in the majority of other fishes. A dorsal fin is always present, and is the principal (in some species, the only) organ of locomotion. The ventral fins are consistently absent, and the other fins may or may not be developed. The gill openings are extremely small and placed near the upper posterior angle of the gill cover. Freshwater pipefish (Doryichthys boaja).
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:24 am
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:36 am
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Harpactocarcinus punctulatus, crab from the Eocene, 56 to 33.9 million years ago. Cancer pagurus, commonly known as the edible crab or brown crab, is a species of crab found in the North Sea, North Atlantic Ocean and perhaps in the Mediterranean Sea. It is a robust crab of a reddish-brown colour, having an oval carapace with a characteristic "pie crust" edge and black tips to the claws. A mature adult may have a carapace width of up to 25 cm (10 in) and weigh up to 3 kg (6.6 lb). C. pagurus is a nocturnal predator, targeting a range of molluscs and crustaceans. It is the subject of the largest crab fishery in Western Europe, centred on the coasts of the British Isles, with more than 60,000 tonnes caught annually.
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Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 2:41 pm
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Posted: Sat Aug 22, 2015 3:19 am
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