(September 3, 2010 at 11:40 am)Minimalist Wrote: More reality to throw in the faces of creationist morons.And here is a rebuttal to throw in the face of evolutionists.
Quote:But giving birth to live young is quite different for skinks than for mammals. Skinks simply retain the eggs (that is, the shelled embryos) inside their bodies, while most mammals develop with a placenta rather than a shell. But keeping the eggs inside causes the shells to thin, so mother skinks counteract by secreting calcium into the embryos. This, according to Stewart, is “basically the early stages of the evolution of a placenta in reptiles.” He added, “We tend to think of this as a very complex transition, but it’s looking like it might be much simpler in some cases than we thought.”
So is the skink really “moving” from eggs to live birth, as the National Geographic News headline states? On the contrary, it appears that God designed some creatures with the amazing capability to switch birth methods to protect them from environmental dangers; meanwhile, Stewart’s team has observed no sign that skinks (or other creatures) have acquired or are acquiring any abilities they once lacked.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles...e-09042010
In order to show that this is evolution it would be necessary to prove that there was a time in the past when no skinks had the ability to produce live births.
Quote:God is tweaking his creation because he didn't get it right the first time.God got the creation right but it has been severely damaged as a result of sin. The time is coming when this world will be destroyed to be replace by a better one, but perhaps God has to do a little tweaking to keep this one functioning until then.
Oh wait....THEY can't say that, can they?
His invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Romans 1:20 ESV
Romans 1:20 ESV
