Posted on 03/27/2009 4:23:03 PM PDT by Ron Jeremy
2009 Scientists are baffled by the latest fossil find.
It's an octopus they claim is 95 million years old.
And, guess what? It looks just like a modern-day octopus – complete with eight legs, rows of suckers and even traces of ink.
In all that time, it seems, the octopus hasn't evolved – not one tiny bit.
What's rare about this find is that octopuses are almost all muscle and skin. When an octopus dies, it quickly decays and liquefies into the oozy slime from which evolutionary scientists claim life began. After just a few days, there's nothing left at all of a dead octopus. No octopus fossil has ever been found before – especially not one 95 million years old, explained Dirk Fuchs of Freie University Berlin, the lead author of the study.
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Don't confuse phenotype with genotype.
That was no octopus. It’s Helen Thomas hiding from conservatives and the Joosz.
Ping-Pong
Got a link?
1) posted several times
2) Octopus fossils aren’t all that rare.
3) Octopus fossils aren’t really fossils, they’re more of a chemical image in the rock.
A fossil is simply evidence of a former living thing. Even a footprint is a form of fossil: a “trace fossil.” Fossils do not have to be bones or other skeletal matter. They can be molds (cavities left when the actual organic remains decayed). They can be minerals deposited by chemical changes in the sediment as the organism decayed. And cephalopods (the group which includes octopi) have been around for about 500 million years, so a 95 million-year-old fossil which resembles living species is not shocking. The horseshoe crab has been around for about 200 million years with hardly any visible change.
I'll accept.
It looks just like a modern-day octopus...
Accepted.
In all that time, it seems, the octopus hasn't evolved – not one tiny bit.
Not accepted. Note the "it seems" escape hatch. "Not one tiny bit" is totally unsupportable.
Not proof of anything. Statements like this damage the credibility of an issue, for all they may attract more adherents to the issue.
And maybe that's the point... to attract the most adherents?
Call me unresolved on this issue -- especially as my questions have or came close to costing me FReeper friends from both sides (everything was Created vs. there never was a "Creation").
Stuff like this just muddies the waters.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41977
I just bought a 10 mega pixel camera with a 20x optical zoom - it runs on 4 AA batteries so why don’t pictures of those dinosaurs exist?
Wonder if the calamari came with marinara sauce back then.
Do you have a picture of me?
Cockroaches havent evolved much either, along with many other animals. Darwin is still a failed theory for other reasons, though.
"I am NOT an octopus"
Sheesh.
yep:
The evolutionists insist the dinosaurs lived millions and millions of years ago and became extinct long before man walked the planet. I don't believe that for a minute. I don't believe there is a shred of scientific evidence to suggest it. I am 100 percent certain man and dinosaurs walked the earth at the same time. In fact, I'm not at all sure dinosaurs are even extinct! Think of all the world's legends about dragons. Look at those images. What were those folks seeing? They were clearly seeing dinosaurs. You can see them etched in cave drawings. You can see them in ancient literature. You can see them described in the Bible. You can see them in virtually every culture in every corner of the world. Did the human race have a collective common nightmare? Or did these people actually see dragons? I believe they saw dragons – what we now call dinosaurs. Furthermore, many of the dinosaur fossils discovered in various parts of the world were found right along human footprints and remains. How did that happen? And what about the not-so-unusual sightings of contemporary sea monsters? Some of them have actually been captured. There are also countless contemporary sightings of what appear to be pterodactyls in Asia and Africa.
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41977
Horseshoe crabs are like 400 million years old. Creepy critters, but survivors.
No - the fact that you ask that question sort of shows you exist.
Great thing about freedom of speech, you can make a complete ass out of ones self at any time, just like the writer did.
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