Posted on 11/20/2009 8:37:04 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
Crud!, and I was all ready to throw the 360 million year old mayfly genus into the mix.
There is no shortage of things that science should quit teaching as conclusions and instead should start acknowledging as only theories.
Scientific analysis is not harmed by such a change.
To do any scientific analysis a well grounded theory, recognized as a theory - not a conclusion - is enough.
The life scientists have previously held theories and beliefs about the conditions necessary for life, any life; theories that suggested where life could and could not exist.
In the past few decades though, they have found unanticipated life forms at ocean depths and under extreme temperature and pressure conditions once believed impossible for life, any life, to survive.
Recently they have discovered living, and fossilized remnants of living, organisms in rock formations deep in the earth; suggesting that “life” (in some sense) can exist even in an environment where the entire life cycle related to sunlight (not just a life-form but all the life-forms related to it’s existence) has never existed.
Now, as far as theories go, you can expect the evolution theory to not rebuke these new findings but to accept them, in an unanticipated shift, appending the evolution theory with the possibility that whenever the “water-sun” climate on earth became established in earth history that “life”, pre-existent life, gradually migrated “out of the rocks”.
The extreme extension of that theory, in the future, may be that “life” arrived in the rocks, the very “rocks” from which the infant earth was “born”.
Full disclosure. I am not advocating any of the above theories. I’m only providing an armchair view of where they all may be going.
Both male AND female mosquitoes feed on “plant juices”, including nectar AND the photosynthate in phloem....and can quite easily pierce the skin of plants to the phloem to extract the photosynthate...especially soft-sided tropical plants.
As in, they are not nectar exclusivists like you want them to be....in any manner.....and even if they were today like you want them to be, that would not mean they were 300+ million years ago...it would mean that they are taking advantage of an easy food source.
Entomology is your friend.
Plenty of flying insects ranging back to 300 million years.....long before flowers.
FAIL!
So what are you saying, that God created spiders 100 million years ago? Does it mean that the number 6,000 does not apply anymore?
Really?
“..... If one’s representation of reality takes evolution to be irrelevant to understanding biology, then it is one’s representation, not evolution, whose relevance should be questioned!” A New Biology for a New Century
Carl R. Woese*
Question reality if you must but never evolution!
“The impression is about three inches long and is imprinted on the flat side of a rock. The impression does not contain direct evidence of the insect having wings but Knecht and Benner say evidence suggests that it was a winged insect. According to Benner, the insect's anatomy and body plan are consistent with those of primitive flying insects. He also points out that “there are no walking tracks leading up to the body impression, indicating that it came from above.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081014134015.htm
Right. No wings so the insect flew on a set of “suggestions”.
You don’t have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.
You gentlemen should read up on Hox genes. Both arachnids and mammals share the same Hox genes. This means there is a common ancestor older than both families which had Hox genes.
All one needs to do it to make a few simple checks to arrive at the truth. Flying insects, such as mosquitoes were prevalent were so web spinning (something you do seem to know a lot about) spiders occupied a niche. With the explosion in the numbers and kinds of flying insects that resulted from the "evolution" of flowering plant species, web spinning spiders were poised to dominate. As natural selection also points out had flying insects disappeared web-spinning spiders would have disappeared with them.
Science is based upon an epistemology that recognizes the primacy of reality - not the primacy of an explanation.
I might also add that it is also in no way dependent upon the personal beliefs or character of the ex plainer. Science is not carried out by saints or prophets, but men and women.
The sicko who figured out that Mad Cow Disease came from eating brains may have been in New Guinea for immoral purposes, but his finding is 100% correct.
The widely debunked, yet still frequent trotted out, deathbed renunciation of evolution from Darwin, is untrue; but immaterial to the science even if it was true.
If Newton on his deathbed had screamed out “it is Force equals mass times acceleration CUBED!” it wouldn't have changed the fact that it is actually force equals mass times acceleration squared.
The skeptic in all of us needs to take the publications of Brian Thomas with a very small pinch of salt. He is predisposed to taking a legitimate paper, mining a nugget from it, stating that it then "suggests" an alternate meaning or purpose to the paper and then concluding with a classical "if-then" recitation of his agenda. He is the YEC version of Erich von Däniken.
Then, to our detriment, process is then repeated on Thomas' article by GGG.
“There’s cleverness here somewhere...” as she searched for her pony...
Evolution was scientifically discredited LONG ago. But the “faithful” continue to believe.
I’m gone for a week or so ... See you all next month ..
Has anyone notified the scientists?
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