Then where did shepherds and retrievers come from?
Are you serious?? I do not understand this line of thought---all dogs come from wolves--that is known--how come you don't know that??
No, it was never that - just the opposite, it has always been that that would totally falsify evolution.
This is what is so very confusing--no--it never was this from the beginning. It definitely would have proven evolution. It certainly can not, in any way shape or form, prove creation as God says after it's kind so a dog can not produce a pig, but it would prove evolution. That is what I was taught in school and please do not tell me that I wasn't taught that when I was!! Like I said, when I went to school, everything morphed from some primordial sludge and everything came from fish---the fish thing is still in vogue--we all evolved from fish--even the apes and even corn came from the sea.
PBS series explores evolution of 'Your Inner Fish'
Traci Watson, Special for USA TODAY 11:01 a.m. EDT April 8, 2014
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Paleobiologist Neil Shubin digs up the fossils of extinct animals. Now television is bringing those fossils to life.
In an episode of Shubin's new PBS series,
Your Inner Fish, based on his best-selling book of the same name, he cups a tiny Jurassic reptile called a tritheledont in his palm before it jumps off his hand and meanders across a tabletop. No flesh-and-blood tritheledont has scuttled the Earth for at least 150 million years. But 21st-century computer animation has resurrected the little animal in all its lithe, long-tailed glory for a star turn in Shubin's series, premiering April 9. (Check local listings.)
The tritheledont's appearance is a moment of wonder, but Shubin and his collaborators have greater ambitions than making a more factual
Jurassic Park. They want viewers to realize that their own bodies are directly related to those of fish and reptiles that lived millions of years ago. And, in a tougher sell, the show's creators want viewers to be enraptured not just by scientific results but also by the halting, messy, failure-ridden scientific process itself.
"I didn't go into science to memorize note cards. I went into science to discover, to go into the unknown," Shubin says. "I want (viewers) to see the joy of discovery in science."
That philosophy also pervaded Shubin's 2008 best-selling book,
Your Inner Fish, which makes a point of telling readers not only what scientists know but also how they know it — and how they learn to know anything at all. The book chronicles Shubin's own evolution, from naive graduate student who couldn't spot a fossil even when he was staring right at it to skilled paleontologist whose fossil expeditions have uncovered groundbreaking new specimens. Along the way, the book introduces a throng of scientists whose work contributed to the book's central thesis: that our own anatomy bears the traces of animal ancestors that lived eons ago.
Shubin didn't write the book with a film treatment in mind. But when the production company now called Tangled Bank Studios came calling in 2011, Shubin was persuaded that executives there wanted to "elevate the conversation … but also make it entertaining," as he did. Shubin agreed to host a documentary based on his book, an agreement that would eventually find him baking on the plains of Africa, shivering on the tundra in the Arctic and climbing a tree with monkeys despite a lifelong fear of heights.
So if we both believe that one species can not produce a litter of a different species (not naturally anyway)--what are we arguing about???