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The Duck-Billed Platypus Gets Even More Confusing
Apologetics Press ^ | 2004 | Brad Harrub, Ph.D.

Posted on 12/27/2012 9:35:55 AM PST by lasereye

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To: lasereye
The duck-billed platypus has always been a thorn in the side of evolutionists.

Straw man.

41 posted on 12/27/2012 12:55:34 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Cicero
Now he’s got me wondering whether God created the duck billed platypus on the fifth day, with the birds and the fishes, or on the sixth day, with the beasts of the field

Stop wondering, it was very late Saturday night, using left over parts.
That's when I usually do something utterly inexplicable.

42 posted on 12/27/2012 1:00:09 PM PST by norton
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To: JRandomFreeper

If you will believe birds descended form dinosaurs, you are a birdbrain.

No animal has EVER been shown to have evolved from another.
Adaptation, however, occurs all the time.

Science is about things that are (1) Observable and (2) repeatable.
Darwinian evolution is neither.
Darwin himself said that the fossils should be found to show a smooth transition over millions of years as species evolved form one to another.
There is no such fossil record.
So we go “punctuated equalibrium” theory, that states that nothing evolves until a traumatic event, and then it bounds forward. So how will complex organs be formed by punctuated equalibrium driven by cataclysmic changes? It can’t.

Before Darwinism, people believe in Spontaneous Generation. That farce was destroyed and replaced with Darwinism. So no more horsehairs turn into worms, or mandrake roots into man, but now we have dinosaurs into chickens. Or mud into Microbes. Even a microbe has thousands of genes, which consist of hundreds of thousands of base pairs.

Useful complexity does not arrive by chance. If you believe so, next time tou want to invent something, just put atoms in a bag, and shake until you have an iphone.


43 posted on 12/27/2012 1:05:45 PM PST by BereanBrain
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To: BereanBrain
I didn't say anything about my beliefs.

I reported what the current theory is, which isn't what the guy said.

He stated a falsehood.

/johnny

44 posted on 12/27/2012 1:19:51 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Interestingly, Darwinians place mammals on the planet 100 million years before birds.

That is dishonest.

Birds are modified dinosaurs, according to the latest understanding.

Mammals and dinosaurs are supposed to have coexisted. There's no contradiction there.

45 posted on 12/27/2012 1:52:53 PM PST by lasereye
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To: allmendream
Creationists routinely lie. To themselves and others.

Mammals and dinosaurs are supposed to have coexisted. There's no contradiction there.

46 posted on 12/27/2012 1:56:14 PM PST by lasereye
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To: mjp
The fossil record indicates that the platypus appeared fully formed, with all of its “adaptations” perfectly balanced. Fossils dated to millions of years ago look almost identical to the modern animal.

I think that's the norm in the fossil record.

47 posted on 12/27/2012 1:59:22 PM PST by lasereye
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To: mjp
The fossil record indicates that the platypus appeared fully formed, with all of its “adaptations” perfectly balanced. Fossils dated to millions of years ago look almost identical to the modern animal.

Check out Living Fossils.

48 posted on 12/27/2012 2:07:24 PM PST by lasereye
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To: lasereye

More proof that God has a sense of humor.


49 posted on 12/27/2012 2:29:43 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: Resolute Conservative
Simply because God is awesome.

Why do so many "scientists" refuse to acknowledge this fact?

50 posted on 12/27/2012 4:16:41 PM PST by dearolddad
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To: Resolute Conservative; dearolddad
From Isaiah:

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the breadth of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance?

Who has understood the mind of the Lord, or instructed him as his counselor?

Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding?

Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.

51 posted on 12/28/2012 11:02:13 AM PST by lasereye
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To: lasereye

Never mind that.

How did the platypus get home to Australia from Mount Ararat after the flood?

:)


52 posted on 12/29/2012 6:06:29 PM PST by Salman
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