Interesting, imaginative and irrelevant. I'm STILL looking for a good,
substantial reason WHY Drosophila cannot be mutated to a more complex
structure. IMHO, scientists ignore this fact in an inordinate desire to
prove a fallacy.
Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth
shall make you free. John 8:32
Ron Chitwood
chitw@flash.net
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> From: Glenn R. Morton <grmorton@waymark.net>
> To: Ron Chitwood <chitw@flash.net>; Donald Howes
<dhowes@ansc.une.edu.au>; evolution@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: Evolution!!
> Date: Friday, July 17, 1998 10:18 PM
>
> At 04:36 PM 7/17/98 -0500, Ron Chitwood wrote:
> >>>>>Not in 100 years it isn't.<<<
> >
> >Absolutely right on IF random selection of Drosophila is depended upon.
> >Using ID the process of mutation is enormously accelerated but there is
> >STILL no evidence that macroevolution took place.
> >I am really most anxious to see what your usually cogent reply is to
this,
> >as others on this thread seem to, too.
> >
> How about the entirely new phylum and entirely new life form that was
found
> this century living on lobsters. A phylum is the highest level of animal
> organization and there is no fossil record of this thing so I can
certainly
> claim that it is a recent product of evolution. In fact there has been
no
> new phyla since the earliest Paleozoic until this thing appears in modern
> animals.
>
> "The mouthparts of the Norway lobster Nephrops are colonized by an
> acoelomate metazoan, Symbion pandora gen. et sp. nov. Sessile stages
> continually produce inner buds replacing feeding structures. They also
> produce one of three motile stages: (1) larvae containing new feeding
> stages, (2) dwarf males, which settle on feeding stages, or (3) females,
> which settle onto lobster mouthparts, eand eventually degenerate, giving
> rise to dispersive larvae. All motile stages are short-lived, and do not
> feed. The structure and function of the cilia suggest a phylogeneitc
> position in Protostomia, while some aspects of inner budding and brooding
> of larvae are similar to those of Entoprocta and Ectoprocta. The
> dispersive larva possesses a mesodermal supporting chordoid structure,
> otherwise absent in protostomian larvae. We believe that all the above
> features of this previously undescribed species warrant the recognition
of
> a new phylum with affinities to Ectoprocta and Entoprocta."~Petar Funch
and
> Reinhardt Mobjerg Kristensen, "Cycliophora is a new phylum with
affinities
> to Entoprocta and Ectoprocta," Nature, 378, Dec. 14, 1995, p. 711.
> glenn
>
> Adam, Apes and Anthropology
> Foundation, Fall and Flood
> & lots of creation/evolution information
> http://www.isource.net/~grmorton/dmd.htm