Sunday, April 09, 2006

Another transitional fossil

It's not looking good; not looking good at all. These machinating scientists keep finding "proof" of evolution:

Paleontologists working in the Canadian Arctic have discovered the fossilized remains of an animal that elucidates one of evolution's most dramatic transformations: that which produced land-going vertebrates from fish. Dubbed Tiktaalik roseae, the large, predatory fish bears a number of features found in four-limbed creatures, a group known as tetrapods.

Neil Shubin of the University of Chicago and his colleagues found Tiktaalik on Ellesmere Island, some 600 miles from the North Pole, in deposits dating to 375 million years ago. Like all fish, Tiktaalik possesses fins and scales. But it also has a number of distinctly un-piscine characteristics, including a neck, a flat, crocodilelike skull, and robust ribs. As such Tiktaalik neatly fills the gap between previously known tetrapodlike fish such as Panderichthys, which lived some 385 million years ago, and the earliest tetrapods, Ichthyostega and Acanthostega, which lived about 365 million years ago. "Tiktaalik blurs the boundary between fish and land animals," Shubin observes.


This sinister scientific cabal is far more influential and devious than I expected. How do they persuade such a vast global network of eminent scientists into believing in this evolution craziness? Something's afoot. Soon they'll be trying to convince us we don't live in a geocentric universe.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

After emerging from yet another internet debate with a creationist (I know, I know...why bother?), all I can say is they could find a missing page of the Bible that endorsed evolution and it still wouldn't convince these nutters....

8:34 pm  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, and "scientits"?

Were you staring at the chest of some nubile, pneumatic fellow PHD student while you typed, young Engels?

8:35 pm  
Blogger Engels said...

The chest of a fellow PhD student? Mate, there's one here...if this blog was for adults only....

3:17 pm  

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