RE: Bible contradictions?
March 15, 2012 at 9:39 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2012 at 9:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Chip, the common ancestor of cattle and deer would be what you're looking for with regards to giraffes ..not horses. Horses are Equidae Perissodactyla, Giraffes - Giraffidae Artiodactyla. They're both ungulates, both mammals, but apart from that there's quite a bit of separation.
Pointing to two animals in separate families and orders and asking for a transitional fossil between them is just about as far off the mark as you could get without shooting at something other than the mark. No one claims to have such a fossil, and no one claims that such a creature ever existed. You're arguing against a dragon.
Heres the only other surviving rep of the branch the giraffe belongs to btw.. Funny how it looks very little like a giraffe, and a whole lot like some other notable creatures. That's the trick about animals and their family trees btw, you can't judge them by how they look (ergo giraffe/horse), that's often convergence at play.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffidae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi
Pointing to two animals in separate families and orders and asking for a transitional fossil between them is just about as far off the mark as you could get without shooting at something other than the mark. No one claims to have such a fossil, and no one claims that such a creature ever existed. You're arguing against a dragon.
Heres the only other surviving rep of the branch the giraffe belongs to btw.. Funny how it looks very little like a giraffe, and a whole lot like some other notable creatures. That's the trick about animals and their family trees btw, you can't judge them by how they look (ergo giraffe/horse), that's often convergence at play.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giraffidae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okapi
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