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Evolution in Action
September 3, 2010 at 11:40 am
More reality to throw in the faces of creationist morons.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...irth-eggs/
Quote:Evolution has been caught in the act, according to scientists who are decoding how a species of Australian lizard is abandoning egg-laying in favor of live birth.
Along the warm coastal lowlands of New South Wales (map), the yellow-bellied three-toed skink lays eggs to reproduce. But individuals of the same species living in the state's higher, colder mountains are almost all giving birth to live young.
Only two other modern reptiles—another skink species and a European lizard—use both types of reproduction. (Related: "Virgin Birth Expected at Christmas—By Komodo Dragon.")
Evolutionary records shows that nearly a hundred reptile lineages have independently made the transition from egg-laying to live birth in the past, and today about 20 percent of all living snakes and lizards give birth to live young only.
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RE: Evolution in Action
September 3, 2010 at 2:50 pm
(September 3, 2010 at 11:40 am)Minimalist Wrote: More reality to throw in the faces of creationist morons.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/...irth-eggs/
Quote:Evolution has been caught in the act, according to scientists who are decoding how a species of Australian lizard is abandoning egg-laying in favor of live birth.
Along the warm coastal lowlands of New South Wales (map), the yellow-bellied three-toed skink lays eggs to reproduce. But individuals of the same species living in the state's higher, colder mountains are almost all giving birth to live young.
Only two other modern reptiles—another skink species and a European lizard—use both types of reproduction. (Related: "Virgin Birth Expected at Christmas—By Komodo Dragon.")
Evolutionary records shows that nearly a hundred reptile lineages have independently made the transition from egg-laying to live birth in the past, and today about 20 percent of all living snakes and lizards give birth to live young only.
This would be one of those transitional species that creationists say dont exist.
Ah but the more sophisticated moron will still say, its evolving within its "kind". The goal posts conveniently shuffled.
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RE: Evolution in Action
September 3, 2010 at 4:26 pm
I can't wait for people to try and disprove this........
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RE: Evolution in Action
September 3, 2010 at 5:55 pm
Clearly Satan planted those fossils. It's the only logical explanation.
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RE: Evolution in Action
September 3, 2010 at 6:55 pm
(September 3, 2010 at 5:55 pm)The Omnissiunt One Wrote: Clearly Satan planted those fossils. It's the only logical explanation.
It's not even a fossil! It's a normally egg-laying species that is now sometimes giving live births!
The only way this could prove the case for evolution harder is if it gave birth to a girbil with psychic powers and the ability to maul Brendon Fraiser.
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RE: Evolution in Action
September 3, 2010 at 7:01 pm
(September 3, 2010 at 4:26 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: I can't wait for people to try and disprove this........
Well...let's see.
How about this?
God is tweaking his creation because he didn't get it right the first time.
Oh wait....THEY can't say that, can they?
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RE: Evolution in Action
September 3, 2010 at 7:13 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2010 at 7:16 pm by LastPoet.)
To find transitional species... just look everywhere  We are all tansitional.
@Minimalist: They don't need that, they will simple disregard it as they disregard radiometric dating.
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RE: Evolution in Action
September 3, 2010 at 10:11 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2010 at 10:12 pm by HeyItsZeus.)
(September 3, 2010 at 7:01 pm)Minimalist Wrote: (September 3, 2010 at 4:26 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: I can't wait for people to try and disprove this........
Well...let's see.
How about this?
God is tweaking his creation because he didn't get it right the first time.
Oh wait....THEY can't say that, can they?
God gone dun' it cuz he tryin' to make us believin' in evolusitionasjkajhdlkh or wat evar dat word iz... to trick us folks
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RE: Evolution in Action
September 9, 2010 at 10:40 am
Aren't dogs living examples of speciation?
Dogs are the result of artificial selection, granted, but nonetheless are examples of how a different species might come about.
Natural selection works by a similar process as artificial. It just takes longer. If you can walk a block, you can walk a mile.
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RE: Evolution in Action
September 9, 2010 at 11:32 am
That's incredibly interesting, to say the least! It makes you wonder what these species will end up like in a few hundred years, and how they will have advanced in that time.
I remember hearing somewhere about how cheetahs are beginning to hunt in packs as opposed to remaining solitary hunters. Very intriguing stuff!
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