Posted on 04/27/2008 6:07:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Earth's first animal was the ocean-drifting comb jelly, not the simple sponge, according to a new find that has shocked scientists who didn't imagine the earliest critter could be so complex... scientists analyzed massive volumes of genetic data to define the earliest splits at the base of the animal tree of life... The new study surprisingly found that the comb jelly was the first animal to diverge from the base of the tree, not the less complex sponge, which had previously been given the honor... Unlike sponges, comb jellies have connective tissues and a nervous system, and so are more complex. Though squishy and tentacled, they are not, however, true jellyfish as they lack the classic bell-shaped body and characteristic stinging cells. The finding was unexpected because evolutionary biologists had thought that less complex animals split off and evolved separately first... "evolution is not necessarily just a march towards increased complexity," Dunn said.
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You still must discern what you read. However the material was there. God just reconfigured it to make Eve.
The real question is, did Adam say "God, I've still got some more ribs if you aren't too busy..."
“Out of curiosity, how do they know what the first animal was?”
Because they think they understand genetics and can trace back through a gazillion years of DNA with their fancy new Mac.
” You still must discern what you read. However the material was there. God just reconfigured it to make Eve.”
Now you’re creating things. The Bible says God made Eve. By your reasoning Adam wasn’t created either. God just reconfigured material he had created for the universe.
“The real question is, did Adam say “God, I’ve still got some more ribs if you aren’t too busy...” “
hmmm, don’t recall that line in there anywhere. It says God saw Adam needed a helper so he made one.
Tiamat, what sayest thou?
Funny, I was just thinking about comb jellies the other day. I couldn’t get them out of my mind. Now I know why. They are currently being thought of as the first animals who lived on this planet! Imagine that. I knew there was something special about comb jellies.
I just couldn’t put my finger on it.
I know. You're no fun.
Sorry, I just try to be as accurate as possible on evo threads because there are so many folks who don't know better.
S’Truth.
I mean cmon, these evo folks can’t balance their checkbooks but expect us to believe what they say. its a constant litany; life came from algae, no it came from mud, no it came from single cell organisms, no it came from rain drops, no it came from a chemical reaction, no it came from a highly complex sponge.
That is one scientist who naively talked himself out of his job with one little uttering.
Either way, according to both the Bible and Science, human beings were most certainly NOT the first animal.
Ignorant of Science and ignorant of the Bible is no way to go through life.
Average lifespan is on the increase, average intelligence on the increase, average height on the increase, food production on the increase, population on the increase, education on the increase, human knowledge on the increase.
What way would be better pray tell?
Declining lifespan, intelligence, height, food production, population, education and human knowledge? Let the Discovery institute fulfill its mission to destroy the empirical nature of Science and maybe things will go the other way, but it won't be the way I would like to see things go.
It’s the time frame that is the difference between conventional science (Darwinism) and religion (Creationism). I, for one, put my faith in the Creation story … six days and all that. ;-)
I don't know anyone who "believes in" scientists. And sure, individual scientists can be closed-minded, like every other human on the planet. Luckily, science, as a field of inquiry, goes where the data leads, which is the point I made in the post you replied to, and which the contributor to whom I replied to in the first place apparently sees as a weakness.
As for "some god" or "one God" - well that depends on where and/or when you live or lived, doesn't it?
Certainly, you simply throw a bunch of chemicals into a blender and voila, you get living organisms.
no, an alien starship deposited it.
/s
Thanks alot for the ping.
And thanks to you also.
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