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'Supersize' lions roamed Britain
bbc.co ^ | 31 March 2009

Posted on 03/31/2009 11:38:03 PM PDT by JoeProBono

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To: MyTwoCopperCoins
No, let’s all accept the truth about this one man and his incestuous family, his partner made out of his rib, and that talking snake. Only that can be the truth. No fairy tale, this!

yes it is there is absolutely no evidence for evolution. DNA restricts species from interbreeding. An eagle cannot mate with a crow and make a chicken. Although there are some examples of hybrids , like the mule, it took a lot of action from humans to make it happen, it goes aginst nature and there are no examples evident in nature. Evolution also defies the laws of physics, entropy. From nothing, nothing comes. Evolution relies on magic in order to support the THEORY, yes it is just a THEORY, far from any fact to support it

21 posted on 04/01/2009 8:57:24 AM PDT by KTM rider ( the Red Dawn has arrived)
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To: KTM rider

The theory of gravitation too is just that- a theory.

“DNA restricts species from interbreeding. An eagle cannot mate with a crow and make a chicken.”

By that, you demonstrate your lack of knowledge about evolution, or natural selection. What you typed above is not the mechanism of either.

“Evolution also defies the laws of physics, entropy.”

And by this, you demonstrate your lack of knowledge of basic physics, too.

Quote the 2nd law of thermodynamics that deals with entropy, and I’ll show you where you blundered.


22 posted on 04/01/2009 9:05:59 AM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins (I don't have a license to kill; I have a learner's permit.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Its time to trot out my personal theory on the extinction of megafauna: Note that Aleuts in skin kayaks killed 50 ton whales with harpoons and atlatls. The trick was they made poison (aconite) out of monkshood flower roots for the harpoons. Using atlatls and similar poisons, it would be relatively easy to bring down megafauna, e.g., mammoths who travel in herds. Human tribes would prosper and multiply until the megafauna were extinct. Smaller prey, e.g., deer, would survive.


23 posted on 04/01/2009 9:15:25 AM PDT by darth
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To: darth
Using atlatls and similar poisons, it would be relatively easy to bring down megafauna

Right. One mammoth would feed a large tribe for a long while, and a lot of hunters targeting a particular mammoth with a swarm of spears thrown from a distance would bring it down with fairly low risk to themselves.

After bringing the megafauna to extinction, the large hunting tribes would split up and use the same techniques on deer and such (but with lower returns per given effort, since deer are faster and present smaller targets)

24 posted on 04/01/2009 9:31:24 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: Slings and Arrows

lolz


25 posted on 04/01/2009 9:38:34 AM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (You are receiving this broadcast as a dream)
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To: Slings and Arrows
Yipes!


26 posted on 04/01/2009 9:40:20 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: KTM rider
DNA restricts species from interbreeding. An eagle cannot mate with a crow and make a chicken. Although there are some examples of hybrids , like the mule, it took a lot of action from humans to make it happen,

You can also mate lions with tigers and get viable offspring.

It's a matter of genetic distance. Animals that are closely related (lions and tigers) can interbreed viably. Animals that are more distantly related (horses and donkeys) can interbreed but the offspring are sterile (mules). Animals that are still more distantly related (eagles and crows) cannot interbreed at all. As related species are isolated from each other (like African lions and Asian tigers), they will over time grow more genetically distant until interbreeding can no longer occur.

27 posted on 04/01/2009 9:40:34 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“Evolution would not predict or require all animals evolve towards giantism or any other extreme trait, rather the most successful species would be those that balance competing requirements.”

You really have to stop making sense—the creationists here will have none of it!


28 posted on 04/01/2009 10:37:43 AM PDT by Buck W. (The President of the United States IS named Schickelgruber...)
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To: Buck W.

Darwinism lacks the intellectual elegance and economy one associates with tautologies.


29 posted on 04/01/2009 10:43:41 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (The death cult wants death, the Israelis want peace. I, for one, see only one solution.)
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To: Slings and Arrows
For the record, Tigger would like to point out that he's never even BEEN to Britain!


30 posted on 04/01/2009 1:46:01 PM PDT by PERKY2004 (Proud Military Wife -- my DH is in his 26th year of military service! PRAY 4 OUR TROOPS!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

31 posted on 04/01/2009 2:12:34 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Beauty is in the sty of the beholder." ~ Joe 6-pack)
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To: JoeProBono
I like this thread. BAWAHAHAHAHAHA! I like ligers too.


32 posted on 04/01/2009 2:14:11 PM PDT by Daffynition ("Beauty is in the sty of the beholder." ~ Joe 6-pack)
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To: Daffynition
Goodgookamama!Some Liger.


33 posted on 04/01/2009 2:21:03 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

I caught a snip of some show on Ligers that my daughter was watching. Something about the cross breeding can cause this “supersized” version!


34 posted on 04/01/2009 2:34:07 PM PDT by 21twelve (Drive Reality out with a pitchfork if you want , it always comes back.)
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To: 21twelve

Of course it just makes sense. You take a tiger and a lion and combine them - of course you’ll get something twice as big! ;)


35 posted on 04/01/2009 2:35:40 PM PDT by 21twelve (Drive Reality out with a pitchfork if you want , it always comes back.)
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To: JoeProBono

I think someone’s lion.


36 posted on 04/01/2009 2:36:18 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: JoeProBono
Cool! WTF was that from??!!

Cheers!

37 posted on 04/01/2009 4:19:37 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: PapaBear3625
You can also mate lions with tigers and get viable offspring.

Cheers!

38 posted on 04/01/2009 4:23:16 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: JoeProBono
HERE KITTY KITTY KITTY ...
39 posted on 04/01/2009 6:14:30 PM PDT by LiberConservative
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To: LiberConservative
"HERE KITTY KITTY KITTY ..."


40 posted on 04/01/2009 6:23:44 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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