Comments on: 365 million-year-old amphibian discovered in Latvia http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/ My diary on peace and wars, arts, sciences, politics, the fight for economic and social justice, the environment, and more. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:33:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Administrator http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4934 Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:31:08 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4934 Fingers originated in fish ancestors: study Previous findings on the subject were mistaken, a report claims. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080921_digits Fingers originated in fish ancestors: study
Previous findings on the subject were mistaken, a
report claims.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080921_digits

]]> by: Administrator http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4103 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:40:21 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4103 Most "primitive" four-legged animal described: New findings may further close the already shrinking gaps in in the fossil record of the epochal transition, from land to sea. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080626_tetrapod Most “primitive” four-legged animal described:
New findings may further close the already shrinking
gaps in in the fossil record of the epochal transition,
from land to sea.

http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080626_tetrapod

]]> by: Administrator http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4070 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:11:41 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4070 Hi, I think Jimmy has answered Jan's question pretty well. As for #4 by John, I think he confuses secular humanism and evolution biology science. There are evolution biologists who are Christians or believers in other religions. However, they are NOT creationist fundamentalists who are in denial about the fossil record and other facts of evolution biology. They don't believe that all species were created about 6,000 years ago in one week, and that they have been stable ever since that week. They don't believe that humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs; or as Ventastega curonica. Hi, I think Jimmy has answered Jan’s question pretty well.

As for #4 by John, I think he confuses secular humanism and evolution biology science. There are evolution biologists who are Christians or believers in other religions. However, they are NOT creationist fundamentalists who are in denial about the fossil record and other facts of evolution biology. They don’t believe that all species were created about 6,000 years ago in one week, and that they have been stable ever since that week. They don’t believe that humans lived at the same time as dinosaurs; or as Ventastega curonica.

]]> by: John http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4069 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:19:40 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4069 Yeh right. You talk about faith. What a stretch. Of course secular humanism stakes it's whole theology on faith in evolution Yeh right. You talk about faith. What a stretch. Of course secular humanism stakes it’s whole theology on faith in evolution

]]> by: Jimmy http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4068 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:15:48 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4068 Neither does "later" mean "more complex" Neither does “later” mean “more complex”

]]> by: Jimmy http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4067 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:14:42 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4067 And why can't smart people create a volcano? Or move earth's techtonic plates? Why haven't smart people crashed an asteroid into the earth to see if the dinosaurs will come back? It's the same reason why God could never create a Burrito so spicy that not even He could eat it. Personally I believe in punctuated equilibrium, which for the layperson means evolution of new species rarely happens unless something big and catastrophic happens, usually something that isolates part of a population of a species and forces it to develop unique characteristics. Otherwise species generally stay in their own ecological niches. Oh and FYI More complex doesn't necessarily mean better. And why can’t smart people create a volcano? Or move earth’s techtonic plates? Why haven’t
smart people crashed an asteroid into the earth to see if the dinosaurs will come back?
It’s the same reason why God could never create a Burrito so spicy that not even He could
eat it.
Personally I believe in punctuated equilibrium, which for the layperson means evolution of
new species rarely happens unless something big and catastrophic happens, usually something
that isolates part of a population of a species and forces it to develop unique
characteristics. Otherwise species generally stay in their own ecological niches. Oh and FYI
More complex doesn’t necessarily mean better.

]]> by: Jan http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4066 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:25:58 +0100 http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/2008/06/25/365-million-year-old-amphibian-discovered-in-latvia/#comment-4066 This raises doubts. A more complex creature was discovered that is OLDER than this new one? How exactly does evolution work anyway? Random mutation in genes? Why then can't science (with all the knowledge we have accumulated) not produce some mutations these days so we can see some evolution in progress? Not within species, either. I mean a NEW species. If it can happen randomly in nature, why can't smart people do it? (evolution, that is) This raises doubts. A more complex creature was discovered that is OLDER than this new one? How exactly does evolution work anyway? Random mutation in genes? Why then can’t science (with all the knowledge we have accumulated) not produce some mutations these days so we can see some evolution in progress? Not within species, either. I mean a NEW species. If it can happen randomly in nature, why can’t smart people do it? (evolution, that is)

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