Split Rock said:
I don't know what it has to do with "Granny" ....
It determines whether the supposed first lifeform (granny bacteria) has anything to do with the adapting and evolving, or the creation of God was the starting point! Who cares that some adapting and evolving went on, or the spectrum of created life on earth was greater?
I agree with the first part, that evolution from fishes to tetrapods that could inhabit the land may well have been a "normal part of God's creation."
Great, but how many of these kind of fossil creatures we can hardly figure out whether they are sea or land creatues are there? Not that many, so, who cares? If we could definitively show that these things did adapt or evolve, it doesn't mean the so called first lifeform magically appearing was the reason for it all!
This "hyper-evolution" stuff you are eluding to is pure ad-hoc speculation on your part, however. Unless you give us a mechanism, or some physical evidence that evolution worked faster in the past, that is where the idea will have to stand with the rest of us.
I don't need to hash that out here, any more than you need to hash out proving that the world was precisely the same back then, in genetical happenings. Suffice it to say that some adapting or evolution seems to have gone on, time isn't the issue in this thread. But the connection to a common ancestor, is, and there is no connection in the realm of evidence for that leap of faith.
You need to say more than, 'if things evolved from a common little lifeform, we expect a full spectrum of creatures, some that look like they evolved or adapted from the sea to land'. Just as a creationist has to say more than' if things started adapting or evolving from Eden, and creation, we expect there was a full spectrum of creatures, some that could adapt from sea to land as well'
Either way, such a transitional appearing fossil is not proof of their belief, or evidence that science says a thing about linking this to either creation, or the first lifeform! So, again, --so what?????
The significance is that this organism had features in common with both lobe-finned fish and tetrapods (amphibians).
As above.
It also occurs in strata preceeding well-developed amphibians and coming after the first lobe-finned fish.
So? Either it co existed with these other things, or was an adaptation. Great. So? What does that have to do with Granny Bacteria?
In addition, the other 14 or so known tetrapods from the Devonian Period are similarly not fully adapted to terrestrial life.
The planet there at that time seems condusive to such a creature collection then, perhaps there was a lot of water, and land, and these things really got around well. Maybe some adapting went on. So??
Where are the frogs, turtles and snakes? Where are the salamanders? They didn't exist yet. This all supports evolutionary theory.
They were still neared the sea of Eden, or ponds near Eden, etc. At least, they were not in some areas yet, that we know about. So?? Creation handles that without a sweat. This all
supports creation. But it cannot be used as proof of creation, or that we came from the imagined first lifeform!!!! Creationism eats theories like evolution for breakfast.