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How We Got On Land, Bone by Bone
National Geographic ^ | January 13, 2014 | Carl Zimmer

Posted on 01/13/2014 7:44:25 PM PST by EveningStar

Travel back far enough in your genealogy, and you will run into a fish.

Before about 370 million years ago, our ancestors were scaly creatures that lived in the sea, swimming with fins and using gills to get oxygen from the water. And then, over the course of millions of years, they began moving ashore, adapting to the terrestrial realm. They became tetrapods, a lineage that would eventually produce today’s amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. As scientists have unearthed fossils from those early days, one lesson has come through ever more loud and clear: the transition was not a single leap. Instead, it was drawn out and piecemeal.

(Excerpt) Read more at phenomena.nationalgeographic.com ...


TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: biology; evolution; godsgravesglyphs; paleontology; science; tiktaalik
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1 posted on 01/13/2014 7:44:25 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar
you will run into a fish

As a wordsmith, this guy is all wet.

2 posted on 01/13/2014 7:46:43 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Anti-Complacency League! Baby!)
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To: EveningStar
Travel back far enough in your genealogy, and you will run into a fish …
Dagon worshipers? Sure sounds familiar.


3 posted on 01/13/2014 7:52:59 PM PST by Olog-hai
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To: EveningStar

Liberals evolved from slimy asexual creatures from the sponge family.


4 posted on 01/13/2014 7:53:58 PM PST by Proud2BeRight
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To: EveningStar

I see evidence of adaption everywhere but I don’t buy the evolution theory because geneticists have said you generally / technically can’t breed two different genus families and that’s the implied assertion that evolutionists make. Sure there are species that look like they are crosses between two different genus family trees but that could have been the Creator mixing things up just the same...: )


5 posted on 01/13/2014 7:56:12 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: jsanders2001
IOW, it's like this:

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6 posted on 01/13/2014 8:00:35 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

Travel back far enough in your genealogy, and you will run into a fish.

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Where is the absolute scientific proof of that?


7 posted on 01/13/2014 8:07:30 PM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo....Sum Pro Vita - Modified Descartes)
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To: SumProVita
Where is the absolute scientific proof of that?

Artists have drawn very clear diagrams. I saw the diagrams in school. And if an artist draws it, it must be true.


8 posted on 01/13/2014 8:18:17 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: jsanders2001

I think we’re descended from the stars since everyone has a ton of hydrogen within their bodies.


9 posted on 01/13/2014 8:26:58 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
I think we’re descended from the stars
since everyone has a ton of hydrogen within their bodies

Yup we all products of a lot of hot air


10 posted on 01/13/2014 8:33:33 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: HangnJudge

Maybe Al Gore has realized this more than the rest of us! LOL!


11 posted on 01/13/2014 8:34:21 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: HangnJudge
Deuterium + Deuterium --> He

This is hard enough to do that it keeps us from hurting ourselves unless we are really, really smart. /s

12 posted on 01/13/2014 9:03:31 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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13 posted on 01/13/2014 9:17:36 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: jsanders2001
I see evidence of adaption everywhere but I don’t buy the evolution theory because geneticists have said you generally / technically can’t breed two different genus families and that’s the implied assertion that evolutionists make. Sure there are species that look like they are crosses between two different genus family trees but that could have been the Creator mixing things up just the same...: )

I don't know what you mean by "genus families" or "genus family trees." A family is one taxonomic level higher than a genus (plural: genera). There is thus no such thing as a "genus family."

And no biologist worth his salt would ever assert (even only by implication) that evolution involves members of different genera or members of different families interbreeding.

Regards,

14 posted on 01/13/2014 9:21:07 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: EveningStar

Now if you’re looking for an idea that just keeps going like a never-quit zombie, you’ve got to put Lamarck right up there at the front of the pack.


15 posted on 01/13/2014 10:12:36 PM PST by lurk
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To: lurk

Our whole universe was in a hot dense state
then nearly 14 million years ago expansion started
wait
The earth began to cool the autotrophs began to drool
Neanderthals developed tools
We built a wall
We built the pyramids
Math science history, unraveling the mystery
It all started with a big bang
Bang


16 posted on 01/13/2014 10:59:30 PM PST by bicyclerepair (TERM LIMITS TERM LIMITS TERM LIMITS)
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To: alexander_busek

Now if you start getting all sciences, you’re gonna piss someone off...


17 posted on 01/14/2014 12:18:59 AM PST by stormer
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Supposed to read “sciency” - stupid auto-correct...


18 posted on 01/14/2014 12:21:41 AM PST by stormer
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To: EveningStar

Is this sarc? I don’t get it, but I’m dumb and don’t know anything, I guess, not like the cartoonist.........SARC!


19 posted on 01/14/2014 12:30:16 AM PST by hulagirl (Mother Theresa was right)
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To: alexander_busek

> And no biologist worth his salt would ever assert (even only by implication) that evolution involves members of different genera or members of different families interbreeding.

Thats the point I was trying to make but the terminology didn’t come out correctly. The thrust of evolutionists if I understand their thought process as that ond species evolved from an amoeba, later into a lungfish type creature, then eventually evolving into snd becoming Man

Correct me if I’m wrong but that’s what I get from some of them. No use trying to debate them seriously until you’ve done your homework though and spoken to some informed sources with a career background in the subject


20 posted on 01/14/2014 1:26:04 AM PST by jsanders2001
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