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Sea Urchin Teeth Are Designed to Grind Stone
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| June 5, 2009
| Brian Thomas, M.S.
Posted on 06/05/2009 9:05:02 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts
The aurhor of the article is
Brian Thomas, M.S.*
And the little reference star ("*") leads to this at the bottom of the article...
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
Which ieads to the question: who is Brian Thomas, and what are his credentials?
Wikipedia doesn't have him ...
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posted on
06/05/2009 10:01:09 AM PDT
by
OldNavyVet
(The essence of evil.lies in the irrational)
To: OldNavyVet
They put a referrence star after every author, no matter what their credentials. But for the record, Brian Thomas has an M.S. in Biotechnology.
To: GodGunsGuts
The teeth are composed of crystals in plate and needle patterns that interlock, like the fingers of folded hands.2 In addition, the concentration of magnesium atoms in the crystals is graded such that the highest concentration of magnesium is found at the very tip of the toothwhere the main grinding pressure occurs. Thus, the magnesium is conserved and used to harden the teeth exactly where the need is most critical.There are no transitional sea urchin teeth, and sea urchins are fully sea urchins wherever they are found. Their abundance in certain rock strata need not be interpreted as representing some kind of ancient time of sea urchins. Rather, it represents the catastrophic burial of a sea urchin-rich habitat that occurred early in the global Flood described in Genesis. And the precisely regulated manufacturing process that forms the sea urchins teeth can only be the result of a supreme Designer
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posted on
06/05/2009 10:07:43 AM PDT
by
sr4402
To: mnehring
Actually, I believe that sea-urchins have one of the best transitional fossil records available and there is also a good genetic mapping of evolution backwards to sea stars, sand dollars, and simpler and simpler organisms whose relatives still exist today.Sshhh...every time you say that, a Creationist winks out of existence!
And just to add insult to injury, there's no fossil record to prove he ever existed at all!
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posted on
06/05/2009 10:12:12 AM PDT
by
Androcles
(All your typos are belong to us)
To: GodGunsGuts
From the article:
“The sea urchins that were preserved in rock layers must also have had these specialized grinding teeth.”
Why *must* they have had such teeth? What leads Brian Thomas MS* to that conclusion?
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posted on
06/05/2009 10:14:21 AM PDT
by
Natufian
(The mesolithic wasn't so bad, was it?)
To: GodGunsGuts
To: GodGunsGuts
First the creationist assumption:
The sea urchins that were preserved in rock layers must also have had these specialized grinding teeth.
Mr. Thomas could've just looked at the available evidence, but "creation science" is generally a fact-free activity.
Second is the conclusion based on the assumption:
The sudden appearance in fossils of the mature sea urchin tooth [with] incredible structural and compositional complexity1 contradicts Darwins evolutionary claim that animals advance by the shortest and slowest steps.4
A claim with no evidence.
And of course, evolutionary biology begins and ends with Darwin for "creation scientists", except when cosmology is involved.
Does Mr. Thomas know Darwin is dead?
To: GodGunsGuts
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posted on
06/05/2009 10:30:23 AM PDT
by
OldNavyVet
(The essence of evil.lies in the irrational)
To: GodGunsGuts
God is amazing with His creation.
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posted on
06/05/2009 10:36:04 AM PDT
by
rawhide
To: GodGunsGuts
One thing that will never evolve: The IQ of a regular ICR reader.
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posted on
06/05/2009 11:29:57 AM PDT
by
Eddeche
To: mnehring
Before the sea urchins were the sea ur-chinless, which didn't have mouths large enough for teeth so they had to “gum” the limestone until selective pressure provided them with little dentures while primitive-evolutionary-orthodonistry was designing teeth for them.
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posted on
06/05/2009 11:30:04 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: OldNavyVet; GodGunsGuts
The aurhor of the article is Brian Thomas, M.S.* And the little reference star ("*") leads to this at the bottom of the article...
* Mr. Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.
Which ieads to the question: who is Brian Thomas, and what are his credentials?
Wikipedia doesn't have him ...
Some background:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2250875/posts?page=20#20
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posted on
06/05/2009 11:36:05 AM PDT
by
Caramelgal
(When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
To: Eddeche
Creationists were created with the highest IQs right from the beginning:
To: rawhide
To: OldNavyVet
For some reason, the link in ...
Thank you, and ... for the record, my scientific references come primarily from Steve Jones, and his bio information is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jones_(biologist)
... doesn’t work.
Best workaround is to use the link, add the symbol ) to what’s on your browser, and then press enter.
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posted on
06/05/2009 12:14:47 PM PDT
by
OldNavyVet
(The essence of evil.lies in the irrational)
To: FormerRep; GodGunsGuts; metmom
Mr. Thomas again masters the great leap of taking a singular supposed example and making great inferences where none exist.But meanwhile, supposing urchins evolved from a single-celled life-form, as did everything else...is no great leap at all?
Riiiiiiight.
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posted on
06/05/2009 2:17:42 PM PDT
by
tpanther
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for g!ood men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
To: tpanther
Excellent point, tpanther!
To: Eddeche; GodGunsGuts
That’s funny considering that scientists are saying that humans have evolved to believe in God.
That must mean that those who don’t believe in God are not as highly evolved.
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posted on
06/05/2009 3:00:56 PM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: OldNavyVet
Did you try HTML?
Steve Jones (biologist)(The above looks like it should work...)
FR's auto link feature hiccups sometimes.
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posted on
06/05/2009 5:44:02 PM PDT
by
Fichori
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