(July 1, 2014 at 8:48 pm)snowtracks Wrote: nice try - these thoughts ( 1 & 2) go together - 1) Because of the complexity of the bone arrangement, some scientists have argued that the innovation arose just once—in a common ancestor of the three mammalian groups. 2) Now, analyses of a jawbone from a specimen of Teinolophos trusleri, a shrew-size creature that lived in Australia about 115 million years ago, have dealt a blow to that notion. The recently discovered fossil, one of six jawbones by which the species is known, is also the best preserved, says Thomas H. Rich, a paleontologist at the Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. Rich and his colleagues describe their find in the Feb. 11 Science.
New data caused scientists to revise their opinion about whether the mammalian ear bones developed once or twice among mammals. That's it. The shrew sized creature does not call evolution into question, just clarifies one of the details.
Again notice that the shrew is brought to you by scientists openly and proudly discussing it. So the scientists (notice that it was some not all of them) who thought that the mammalian ear bones developed from one common ancestor will have to revise their opinion about the development of the ear bones in mammals. New data has clarified a detail. That's how science is done.
Creationism, on the other hand is done by looking for arguments among scientists and declaring that any disagreements about the details of how evolutions occurred prove god created the universe.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.