Posted on 11/21/2008 7:54:58 AM PST by Ozob
Slowly rolling across the ocean floor, a humble single-celled creature is poised to revolutionize our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth.
A distant relative of microscopic amoebas, the grape-sized Gromia sphaerica was discovered once before, lying motionless at the bottom of the Arabian Sea. But when Mikhail Matz of the University of Texas at Austin and a group of researchers stumbled across a group of G. sphaerica off the coast of the Bahamas, the creatures were leaving trails behind them up to 50 centimeters (20 inches) long in the mud.
The trouble is, single-celled critters aren't supposed to be able to leave trails. The oldest fossils of animal trails, called 'trace fossils', date to around 580 million years ago, and paleontologists always figured they must have been made by multicellular animals with complex, symmetrical bodies.
(Excerpt) Read more at dsc.discovery.com ...
The Roy Rogers Show (”Happy Trails”) Theme
Some trails are happy ones,
Others are blue.
It’s the way you ride the trail that counts,
Here’s a happy one for you.
Happy trails to you,
Until we meet again.
Happy trails to you,
Keep smilin’ until then.
Who cares about the clouds when we’ere together?
Just sing a song, and bring the sunny weather.
Happy trails to you,
Til we meet again.
Neato torpedo.
The probable is always improbable for the evoidiots,
The possible is always impossible for the evoidiots,
The unobserved is always ‘predicted’ for the evoidiots.
What ever you do, don’t let it get at hte elctrical system.
Don’t!...no really......Aaaaaaarrrrrghhhhhhhh Run for your lives!
Ok so I have anew Japanese horror film screenplay (see above). I aarron Burr still kicking around? And we will need some cute Japanese reporterettes....and some Japanese fairies to sing.....
The possible is always impossible for the evoidiots,
The unobserved is always ‘predicted’ for the evoidiots.
Science is out there exploring and making new and exciting discoveries, and all you can do is sit on the sidelines, sniggering and making disparaging comments.
It sure must suck to be you.
That is one funky looking critter.
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Actually, what must suck is to have been defending the so-called theory of evolution for so long and so consistently, and to constantly have the sand of reality kicked in your face. Just imaging Al Gore shivering in Philadelpha trying to pay golf today. That's what it must feel like.
ML/NJ
Religious or not, if one is not awed by that which we see then one is incredibly arrogant and/or ignorant.
No sand.
What these discoveries do is expand our knowledge of the past. So far, none have required any substantial change in the theory of evolution.
What they are doing is filling in some of the missing details.
But if something is found which requires modification or abandonment of the current theory, so much the better. The resulting product would be a stronger and more accurate theory. The discovery of DNA and all that came with it could potentially have disproved the existing theory of evolution, but instead they supported it while filling in a lot of the details.
That's how science works--it describes and seeks to explain reality wherever that may lead.
Unfortunately, fundamentalist religions are often just the opposite; they bend, distort, and ignore reality in order to force a match with a priori beliefs. We see a lot of that on these threads.
Evolution has no relation whatsoever to science; science deals with reality.
We need a Fantasy Forum to post evolution prayers.
Science is excluded here, this is an evolution thread.
Buy Ben Stein’s “Expelled” DVD!!
Perhaps when I've learned to live without the benefit of food, shelter, and other assorted necessities I'll borrow one from an employed friend....that is, if the proposed electricity cost increases from PPL Pennsylvania aren't too prohibitive.
That’s the nice thing about believing in Evolution. No matter what you find, you’re good — it just “changes” the theory.
Kind of like global warming/climate change.
God created evolution.
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