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Evolution: a new boost for ‘aquatic ape’ theory
The Japan Times ^ | May 4, 2013 | Robin McKie

Posted on 12/30/2013 2:06:44 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Aquatic Ape, coming to a toy store near you!


21 posted on 12/30/2013 5:28:48 AM PST by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

So we are related to the Sea Monkeys they used to sell in comic books?


22 posted on 12/30/2013 5:38:54 AM PST by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Graybeard58; St_Thomas_Aquinas

Here’s a whole bunch more of these pesky inconvenient facts.

101 Evidences for a Young Age of the Earth...And the Universe
http://creation.com/age-of-the-earth

Modern day science prefers to downplay and ignore anything which is contradictory to their pet theories though...


23 posted on 12/30/2013 5:52:29 AM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels

Just as question. Have you ever studied physics and geology at all. Respectfully, it doesn’t seem like it.


24 posted on 12/30/2013 6:12:07 AM PST by onedoug
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To: onedoug

I’ve studied enough to know when I’m being mis-informed grossly. Enough to know ho much our institutions of higher learning and our government have been subverted from their origins.


25 posted on 12/30/2013 6:58:28 AM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“The theory was first proposed in 1960 by British biologist Sir Alister Hardy, who believed apes descended from the trees to live not on the savannah as is usually supposed, but in flooded creeks, river banks and sea shores — some of Earth’s richest sources of food. To keep their heads above water, they evolved an upright stance, freeing their hands to make tools to crack open shellfish. Then they lost their body hair and instead developed a thick layer of subcutaneous fat to keep warm in the water.”

The omni-theory of evolution is so amorphous that one can can dream up any scenario to fit any data, no matter how silly. Exactly what mutations occured to “evolve” the above traits? And why were each of the mutations so advantageous so as to dominate the species and preclude the former traits? A lot of furry creatures live near the water. Perhaps they too are on their way to a furless body. The evolutionists have not a clue - so they speculate and spin yarns.


26 posted on 12/30/2013 7:01:24 AM PST by Mudtiger
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas; All

The failure of evolution proponents is a linear model. Radial is much more likely to produce a positive result. I think it’s the finches on the Galapagos that have like 20 different species that each fill a niche.
Did it take 50 generations to make each individual species OR was the success when offspring found a niche and those that ate, bred, those that didn’t died? More likely the second.
The success of the finch could have actually be a product of the environment.


27 posted on 12/30/2013 7:21:42 AM PST by j.argese (Not anymore!)
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To: BrandtMichaels

I didn’t say anything about government or academia. I was asking you. Consistency, and its agreement with mathematics is what holds physics together. And it is not at all inconsistent with The Bible.


28 posted on 12/30/2013 7:29:24 AM PST by onedoug
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

““Humans are very different from other apes,” said Peter Rhys Evans”

Maybe because we are not apes.


29 posted on 12/30/2013 8:06:28 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: onedoug

Evolution and long ages are completely inconsistent with the Bible. I’ve studied physics and science enough to know you can’t re-create history.

At this point what difference does it make? Everyone wants to assume their own interpretation rather than a plain reading of scripture. ymmv.


30 posted on 12/30/2013 8:14:33 AM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: Boogieman

If someone wants to claim that they’re an ape... I tend to let them.


31 posted on 12/30/2013 8:16:06 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: BrandtMichaels

If you can present a theory better than that of nuclear synthesis of the elements in successive generations of stars, I’m all ears.

My plain reading of scripture would be quite consistent with even the multi-verse concepts of M-Theory if we could ever achieve the energies necessary to test them.

God has truly made existence astounding!


32 posted on 12/30/2013 10:34:02 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Venturer
but the one thing scientists cannot explain is that if the creatures evolved, what stopped the evolution.

Nothing. It's still going on.

33 posted on 12/30/2013 2:31:42 PM PST by Ha Ha Thats Very Logical
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I think I’ll stick with the persistent hunter theory.


34 posted on 12/31/2013 3:07:40 PM PST by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: MrB

The never ending story for the Darwinists, Communists, leftists, Demonkrats. and the rest of the Academia that pumps the college low brows’ heads full of crap.


35 posted on 12/31/2013 3:14:25 PM PST by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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