[fanfan]

[cripplecreek]

I can’t see a fossil making much of a splash in this race one way or the other.

For the record I’m a creationist / evolutionist crossbreed.

[BallyBill]

The only fossil dogging the Huck would be Helen Thomas.

Sorry, I just had to.

[bill1952]

Incredible misunderstanding of American politics. Classic.

[meandog]

But, but, but, the earth is only 10,000 years old and was created in a mere six 24-hour periods just like the entire universe, so how could this be? By the way (for you Romulan fans) was the fish a Nephite or a Lamanite?

[taxesareforever]

That issue has dogged Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and an ordained Baptist minister, who publicly rejects the idea that humans came from apes.

Huckabee has stated his belief in ID. He does not believe in the six day creation so where does he believe man came from and when?

[Justice4Reds]

Science, shmience. It’s a shame that their anti-religion agenda is still funded by the government, and a major failing of George Bush’s.

[Badeye]

I’m hardly a Huckabee fan (see my tag line) but this is a stretch.

[Greg F]

Yah, man! A flipper fish fossil is what I base my vote on! Silly connection between politics and this story.

[repentant_pundit]

Canadian fossil

Gordon Lightfin ?

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[Coyoteman]

Though he has tried to avoid the issue in recent months, Mr. Huckabee's views about evolution are coming under renewed scrutiny...

Has Huckabee expressed an opinion yet on the age of the earth?

[Verginius Rufus]

If this fossil represents a species intermediate between fishes and amphibians, it’s hardly one of earth’s “most primitive” species—it was a vertebrate, much more complex and developed than tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of species.

[RightWhale]

The only science allowed in the Presidential Campaign entertainment show is Global Warming.

[dinoparty]

I do not understand the hostility to the idea of teaching ID. Some scientists act as if science is somehow degraded by ID, for reasons I don’t understand. Granted, if I had cancer and the researchers were reading about ID instead of trying to find a scientific cure, I wouldn’t like it, but evolution/natural selection is not an APPLIED science, so what does it hurt to combine it with ID? After all, science has never found a satisfactory explanation of time, light, matter, consciousness, eternity ... thus begging for an answer regarding creation. The question of creation is more pressing than any purely “scientific” theory of genetic variance.

[DouglasKC]

I really don't understand this. Most evolutionists make a primary part of their case on similar DNA. Why wouldn't everything that God creates have similar DNA? After all we all start with the same raw materials and once God found a good design why would he give each component of every single animal a unique design? Use similar design where warranted and change enough to make each thing unique and adaptive to its role.

[dinasour]

"fishapod"

Would that be a fish with a built in MP3 player.

[PAR35]

Tiktaalik roseae -- a 375-million-year-old fossilized "fishapod" discovered on Ellesmere Island in 2004 -- has been hailed as an "evolutionary icon" because it represents the crucial transition from sea to land for some of the Earth's most primitive creatures.

That's what the worshipers of Darwin used to say about the 'extinct' Coelacanth before one of them got itself caught in the Indian Ocean.

At least the evolutionists are persistent. No matter how many times they are proven wrong, they keep inventing new proof.

[oldsalt]

So let me get this straight. You want me to accept as fact that 375 million years ago this fish was in some stage of morphing into a land animal,shedding its' scales and gaining some other covering,and necessarily going from a cold-blooded to a warm-blooded creature, thereby leaving its' aquatic past.

If all this is so then why are there still fish in the oceans? Why wouldn't they all evolve into something else?

The Church of Darwin asks me to take almost everything on faith and forget using logic. Sorry, not for me.

[Grig]

Whoa, 77 replies and nobody posted ‘Blame Canada’. Someone is asleep at the switch. :)

[valkyry1]

Just because the fish looks like that does not infer that it was evidence a creature transitioning through several generation from fish to salamander.

Much more likely it was a variant of Gar or other primitive scaly fish which had adapted to its environment.

Just like Ichneumon’s mud skippers, there is no indication that they ever went further in development than a fish that can exist and feed on a mud flat between tides, or that the crawling catfish now in Florida ever turned the spiny fins it crawls on into limbs, its external gills into internal lungs, yada yada yada.

Look at how wide and varied the Sharks & Rays are, but still a shark, or a ray.

Because the evolutionist ‘sees’ evolution and calls it science, does not make it so, PHD or not.