Re: [asa] creation: T. Rex.

I've always felt that among silly "refutations" of evolution, the survival of the coelacanth is one of the silliest. Of course it's remarkable but there's nothing in evolutionary theory that puts a hard & fast limit on the length of time a species can survive.

& needless to say, anyone who thinks scientists believe the coelecanth "to be the beginning of all life" has no business saying anything at all about evolution.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Dehler, Bernie
  To: _American Sci Affil
  Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 6:56 PM
  Subject: RE: [asa] creation: T. Rex.

  From:
  http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/11/27/133025.php

  "How can evolution stand up to this? The theory has been proven wrong time and time again. In 1938, a coelacanth, a fish that evolutionists had presumed to live 70,000,000 years ago and to be the beginning of all life, was caught in the Indian Ocean. Since then, hundreds of these fish have been caught and observed in their own habitat."

  Suppose that is correct. Question: What if we discover a group of living T. Rex somewhere. Would that have any implications for evolution at all? Would it prove a recent creation? Would it prove fossil dating was incorrect? Or would it only prove that animals can live on from ancient times?

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