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leoofno
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Posted - 06/15/2006 :  04:46:25  Show Profile Send leoofno a Private Message
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13328579/

Perhaps this is the end times. Doesn't the Bible say something about the dead rising? Maybe "the dead" is a mis-translation of the original Greek: "extinct species".

(edit to fix Subject name)

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Edited by - leoofno on 06/15/2006 04:47:58

filthy
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Posted - 06/15/2006 :  05:10:50   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I seem to recall that we had a thread on this one some months ago, and this is an update. Glad to see that they finlly got a live one. Looks like it'd be really good substitute for squirrel in a brunswick stew.

On an equally serious note, I've little doubt that there are many more species thought extinct that aren't. Sorta makes the term 'living fossil' a little silly, doesn't it?

Thanks, leo!




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Dave W.
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Posted - 06/15/2006 :  08:23:28   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Dave W.'s Homepage Send Dave W. a Private Message
From the article:
[Redfield] and Uthai Treesucon, a bird-watching colleague, befriended hunters who captured a live rock rat after four failed attempts. They returned the animal, which the locals call kha-nyou, to its rocky home after photographing it.
So, they admit that the photos they have are staged (no rock rat would ever be found on a park bench naturally), so therefore evolution is false.

Edited to add: and it's still obviously of "rat kind."

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filthy
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Posted - 06/15/2006 :  10:29:51   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.

From the article:
[Redfield] and Uthai Treesucon, a bird-watching colleague, befriended hunters who captured a live rock rat after four failed attempts. They returned the animal, which the locals call kha-nyou, to its rocky home after photographing it.
So, they admit that the photos they have are staged (no rock rat would ever be found on a park bench naturally), so therefore evolution is false.

Edited to add: and it's still obviously of "rat kind."

No.... "Stew kind!" I think that it should be domesticated right away.....

Shades o' the peppered moth, eh?




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leoofno
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Posted - 06/15/2006 :  12:46:07   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send leoofno a Private Message
Even more, this time waterfowl:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13342029/

Oops... not "living". Its transitional. My bad.
But there do seem to be a lot of transitional fossils being found of late.

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Edited by - leoofno on 06/15/2006 13:08:08
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tomk80
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Posted - 06/16/2006 :  07:36:15   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit tomk80's Homepage Send tomk80 a Private Message
quote:
Originally posted by Dave W.
and it's still obviously of "rat kind."


Of course not! It's obviously of the "squirl kind".

Tom

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