Fossil Fish Sheds Light on Transition

[dlamberth]

Over and over I hear from YECs AND non-evolutionist that it's only a matter of time before their line of reasoning is upheld. But it sure seems to be going the other way as can be seen in this article:

NEW YORK - Scientists have caught a fossil fish in the act of adapting toward a life on land, a discovery that sheds new light one of the greatest transformations in the history of animals.

Scientists have long known that fish evolved into the first creatures on land with four legs and backbones more than 365 million years ago, but they've had precious little fossil evidence to document how it happened.

The new find of several specimens looks more like a land-dweller than the few other fossil fish known from the transitional period, and researchers speculate that it may have taken brief excursions out of the water.

Please read rest of article HERE

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[OdwinOddball]

Very interesting find, thanks for posting it.

Gonna have to renew my Nature subscription now, tired of missing out on the new finds.

 

[dad]

Over and over I hear from YECs AND non-evolutionist that it's only a matter of time before their line of reasoning is upheld. But it sure seems to be going the other way as can be seen in this article:

NEW YORK - Scientists have caught a fossil fish in the act of adapting toward a life on land, a discovery that sheds new light one of the greatest transformations in the history of animals.

Scientists have long known that fish evolved into the first creatures on land with four legs and backbones more than 365 million years ago, but they've had precious little fossil evidence to document how it happened.

The new find of several specimens looks more like a land-dweller than the few other fossil fish known from the transitional period, and researchers speculate that it may have taken brief excursions out of the water.

Please read rest of article HERE

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Interesting how there used to be so many creatures God made, that are no longer with us. Amazing. Some in the sea, some on land and some in the air, and some a bit of more than one. I wonder if God created these thing like that, or if, in the changing pre flood world, it had to adapt? Either way, what a marvelous creation God made 6000 years ago!

 

[Hydra009]

Interesting how there used to be so many creatures God made, that are no longer with us.

Indeed. It's almost as if countless species lived and died long before the Holocene.

 

[Apos]

What a frustrating article. They never mention what its preliminary classification is.

 

[Apos]

Here's a more in-depth discussion.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/04/tiktaalik_makes_another_gap.php#more

 

[Dr.GH]

Very interesting find, thanks for posting it.

Gonna have to renew my Nature subscription now, tired of missing out on the new finds.

I dropped Nature when they stopped my discount rate and failed to expand their digital archive. Science magazine is the same price but you get total access from 1880 (every issue for over 125 years!) and many other membership advantages.

As far a a new transitional fossil goes, the creationist response is predictable; "Were you there?" "This is merely another plaster fake." "This is merely an example of microevolution." "They are really just fish." "There are still no transitional fossils between X1 and X#."

Blablablablablabalbal

 

[Split Rock]

I dropped Nature when they stopped my discount rate and failed to expand their digital archive. Science magazine is the same price but you get total access from 1880 (every issue for over 125 years!) and many other membership advantages.

As far a a new transitional fossil goes, the creationist response is predictable; "Were you there?" "This is merely another plaster fake." "This is merely an example of microevolution." "They are really just fish." "There are still no transitional fossils between X1 and X#."

Blablablablablabalbal

You forgot, "they made that up based on a few scattered bone fragments, just like Lucy's knee cap!!"

 

[dlamberth]

Here's a more in-depth discussion.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/04/tiktaalik_makes_another_gap.php#more

Great link...Thank You!!

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[Grizzly]

you know what they say....every transitional fossil discovered creates two more missing links....

 

[dad]

Indeed. It's almost as if countless species lived and died long before the Holocene.

Lots of things lived and died then. Lots live and die now. This I don't find terribly surprising.

 

[GoSeminoles!]

Over and over I hear from YECs AND non-evolutionist that it's only a matter of time before their line of reasoning is upheld. But it sure seems to be going the other way as can be seen in this article:

NEW YORK - Scientists have caught a fossil fish in the act of adapting toward a life on land, a discovery that sheds new light one of the greatest transformations in the history of animals.

Scientists have long known that fish evolved into the first creatures on land with four legs and backbones more than 365 million years ago, but they've had precious little fossil evidence to document how it happened.

The new find of several specimens looks more like a land-dweller than the few other fossil fish known from the transitional period, and researchers speculate that it may have taken brief excursions out of the water.

Please read rest of article HERE

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Impossible. There are no transitional forms.

 

[futzman]

Impossible. There are no transitional forms.

LOL well here's another article:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1747926,00.html

Sounds like this one's the one to me. Damn. So life really DID originate from the sea and move to land. I was betting on the alien seed version.

Futz (now, about those brachiopods...)

 

[TeddyKGB]

Indeed. It's almost as if countless species lived and died long before the Holocene.

Don't bother. Dad's probably a Holocene-denier.

 

[USincognito]

You guys are all crazy, this is nothing more than a specially created tetrapod fish kind and therefore not evidence of Universal Single Common Ancestor metaphysics.

 

[dad]

Don't bother. Dad's probably a Holocene-denier.

No, just the numbers of years ago are in question, I think it is greatly exagerated.

 

[Doctrine1st]

No, just the numbers of years ago are in question, I think it is greatly exagerated.

So where would you place the date Doctor?

 

[dad]

So where would you place the date Doctor?

Well, less than the standard quoted 10,000 years to present. The back end of it was likely less than half of that.

 

[invisible trousers]

Being a YEC these days must be pretty hard

 

[shinbits]

NEW YORK - Scientists have caught a fossil fish in the act of adapting toward a life on land

That phrasing---they are phrasing an assumption as a fact. They assume that it is adapting, but have no way knowing or proving this.

Scientists have long known that fish evolved into the first creatures on land with four legs and backbones more than 365 million years ago, but they've had precious little fossil evidence to document how it happened.

Again, another assumption of something they couldn't have possibly known actually happened. Think about it: if they had "precious little fossil evidence"---then why would they theorize that in the first place?


Let's ask a few simple questions:

Why would the first creature that came up out of the sea start to develop lungs? If all it's and it's entire dwelling and habitat is in the ocean, why wouldn't it better adapt to that enviornment?

These are things that make evolution foolish.