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Modern mammal lungs have undergone hundreds of millions of years of development; the genetic foundation is long set and probably rather complex. No set of mutations will occur to randomly produce gills in any generation that you or I will ever be witness to.wait...that should have no bearing on randomly-mutating gills.
Modern mammal lungs have undergone hundreds of millions of years of development; the genetic foundation is long set and probably rather complex. No set of mutations will occur to randomly produce gills in any generation that you or I will ever be witness to.
Wow, I did not know that. That is just cool:Some marine turtles have re-evolved gills, although not pharyngeal gills. They have developed the ability to absorb oxygen from sea water through their cloacae.
Spectacular viewThe champion in this regard seems to be the recently discovered (1973) Fitzroy River turtle Rheodytes leukops ('white-eyed stream-diver'), which is confined to its namesake river in Queensland, Australia. It lives in shallow rapids where the water is highly oxygenated. One can detect the keen sense of discovery in the account by the scientists who found it, John Legler and John Cann: 'One of our vivid early impressions of Rheodytes was that adults of both sexes swam with a widely gaping cloacal orifice (up to 30mm in diameter). The orifice remains open when individuals are out of the water. We first became aware of the large cloacal bursae when a female was examined in bright sunlight; the carapace transmitted enough light to illuminate the coelomic cavity and produce a spectacular view internally for at least 100mm, via the cloaca, revealing a large sac lined with vascular, villose mucosa. . . . Water is pumped in and out of the bursae of captives and experimental animals at rates of 15 to 60 times per minute' (Legler and Cann 1980). Only dedicated herpetologists could characterize the vista up a turtle's gaping bunghole as a 'spectacular view.' But you can understand their enthusiasm--since the turtle's shell is only 260 millimeters long, a 100-millimeter-long bursa is relatively enormous. Up to 68 percent of the turtle's oxygen uptake is accomplished through the cloacal bursae, so it rarely needs to come to the surface to bask or breathe.
How the hell did you get 2600 reps with only 12 posts?Yeah, but...God...
What?How the hell did you get 2600 reps with only 12 posts?
What?
You haven't seen THESE kinds of threads before?
Yeah, kinda completely destroys the entire point of Reputation, doesn't it?
I'm not trying to annoy anyone? When I posted I thought it made sense.Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
I actually do think that this is Poe. The questions answered here are PRATTs, but I have never seen a creationist accept the arguments before.
Where did the process start?
Never in our world has it been observed of life being spontaneously created,
This applies on equal measure to cosmology as a whole; take this, for instance. I assume you are all familiar with the cosmological argument, and exactly the same applies to evolution. As far as our empirical evidence tells us, one thing is Always caused by another, so we have no reason to doubt that maybe this causation goes on forever, infinity if you will.
However, science has proven with cone theory etc that this is not the case. Whatever we observe to be the case now does not apply to the beginning of time surely. the logical explanation?
A little guy called Jesus H Christ.
This applies to evolution also, as we know scientifically, that life is not an infinite. it must have started somewhere. but science fails there. something BEYOND science cause life.
And this is a little guy I call Jesus.
Boy, am I embarrased, but whats a Poe guys?
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