Re: [asa] Extinction/Extant

Wait for the recall.

Shalom
George
http://home.roadrunner.com/~scitheologyglm

----- Original Message -----
From: <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
To: "Keith Miller" <keithbmill@gmail.com>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 11:06 PM
Subject: Re: [asa] Extinction/Extant

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> This should help in some serious thinking...
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> http://www.theonion.com/content/news/god_introduces_new_bird
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> Enjoy!
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> Quoting Keith Miller <keithbmill@gmail.com>:
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>> Bernie asked:
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>> Isn't the lungfish a great example of a "transitional form?" If not, why
>> > not (a fish with lungs... almost all fish have no lungs)?
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>> Actually no. It is not a transitional form. Lungfish and coelocanths
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>> sometimes referred to as a "living fossil" but that is also deceptive.
>> Both
>> are recent members of lineages that go back to the Devonian. But like
>> everything else they have also evolved over that long period of time.
>> They
>> are not the same as their ancestors.
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>> To find transitional forms that link lobe-finned fish with tetrapods, you
>> have to go back into the past down the evolutionary tree. As it turns
>> out
>> there is quite a number of transitional fossil species in the late
>> Devonian
>> around the time that the first tetrapods appeared. These are the
>> transitional forms -- not modern species.
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>> A lot of the popular misconceptions about transitional forms are a result
>> of
>> uniformed media coverage, and some misguided popularization by some
>> scientists as well.
>>
>> Keith
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Received on Tue Oct 13 10:31:14 2009