>Hi ASA
>
>>From: egm <e_g_m@yahoo.com>
>>To: asa@calvin.edu, evolution@calvin.edu
>>Subject: Independent support for Behe's thesis?
>>Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 10:15:44 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>The Boston Globe, May 30, 2000, Tuesday, Pg. E1
>>HEADLINE: A LITTLE FISH CHALLENGES A GIANT OF SCIENCE
>>BYLINE: By Fred Heeren, GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
>>
>> CHENGJIANG, China The fish-like creature was hardly more than an
>>inch
>>long, but its discovery in the rocks of southern China was a big deal.
>>The
>>530 million year old fossil, dubbed Haikouella, had the barest beginning
>>of a
>>spinal cord, making it the oldest animal ever found whose body shape
>>resembled modern vertebrates.
>
>Hmmm... I kind of wonder if it's as advanced as the fossil "lampreys" also
>discovered in China from c. 530 mya. It's not as advanced as the conodonts
>[c.510 mya] I suspect and they seem to be the first vertebrates - bone
>bearing chordates, at least. The article expands on the discoverer's idea
>that "harmony" is as much a part of evolution as selection - whatever
>harmony is. Lots of quotes from "doubting Thomases" about the Cambrian
>Explosion being explicable by neoDarwinism and then a biased view on the
>meaning of fossilised embryoes from the PreCambrian. The whole article seems
>like a beat-up written for a few cheap points.
>
>Evidence? Of bias, yes.
>
>Adam
I thought so but I couldn't decide for sure. Thanks for the confirmation!
Susan
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