Re: [asa] Extinction/Extant

I'm more concerned about backward compatibility. Will this model co-exist with
earlier models or will that be a problem?
--Merv

Quoting George Murphy <GMURPHY10@neo.rr.com>:

> Wait for the recall.
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> Shalom
> George
> http://home.roadrunner.com/~scitheologyglm
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> ----- 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
> >> are
> >> 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
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> >> of
> >> uniformed media coverage, and some misguided popularization by some
> >> scientists as well.
> >>
> >> Keith
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