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To: Centaur
We've always said that the 2 month old chicks around the farm here look like mini-dinosaurs...

Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny:

The theory claims that the development of the embryo of every species repeats the evolutionary development of that species fully. Or otherwise put: each successive stage in the development of an individual represents one of the adult forms that appeared in its evolutionary history. Haeckel formulated his theory as such: "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny". This notion later became simply known as recapitulation. (From Wikipedia)

Although not an embryo, your observation of young chicks reminded me of this.

27 posted on 09/17/2005 4:33:39 AM PDT by Socratic (Liberal's motto: Capio ergo sum.)
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To: Socratic
Interesting. Fifteen chicks running across the lawn always reminded me of that scene in Jurassic Park where the herd of dinosaurs were running through the field...guess I might become a recapitulationist.
35 posted on 09/17/2005 5:22:50 AM PDT by Centaur (Never practice moderation to excess.)
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To: Socratic
Evolution theory also requires that the species improve, or add characteristics. Like grow 4 toes from 3, 4 fingers from 3, etc etc.
There has never been found any fossil evidence of this. Dinosaurs lived, then died.They went extinct. They didn't change into birds. Birds began as birds, and still are birds now.
Apes were apes then, just as apes are apes now. Humans were human then as now.
There is absolutely no evidence to support evolution. Never was, and never will be.
75 posted on 09/17/2005 8:22:58 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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