Re: Tiktaalik: So What's The Fuss?

uraniumcommittee@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

DDBi...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Not impressed. Desperate Darwinians.

A lobe-finned fish
We are reminded of the history of a lobed-finned fish called the
coelacanth considered by evolutionists to be an index fossil that would
date sedimentary strata to millions of years (the Devonian, a period in
the Paleozoic Era). However, in 1938 a coelacanth was discovered alive
off the coast of South Africa. Since then, others have been filmed and
coelacanths have recently appeared in the South Pacific. Tiktaalik had
lobed fins like the coelacanth and it "would have breathed like a
lungfish", says senior assistant curator Jennifer Clack of
Cambridge's University Museum of Zoology (Owen 2006).
Evolutionist Michael Denton states

If the case of the coelacanth illustrates anything, it shows how
difficult it is to draw conclusions about the overall biology of
organisms from their skeletal remains alone. Because the soft biology
of extinct groups can never be known with any certainty then obviously
the status of even the most convincing intermediates is bound to be
insecure. The coelacanth represents yet another instance where a newly
discovered species, which might have provided the elusive evidence of
intermediacy so long sought by evolutionary biology, ultimately proved
to be only another peripheral twig on the presumed tree of life (Denton
1985).

In his description of this fossil, evolutionist Shubin states the front
fins look basically "like a scale-covered arm" with "bones that
correspond to a shoulder, upper arm, elbow, forearm and a primitive
version of a wrist" (AP 2006). Shubin is speaking of an unstable
macroevolutionary cornerstone called homology. The Concise Oxford
Dictionary of Zoology defines homology as, "the fundamental
similarity of a particular structure in different organisms, which is
assumed to be due to descent from a common ancestor" [my emphasis]
(Allaby 1992). The word assumed means supposed or taken for granted.
The whole theory of homology assumes macroevolution to be a fact.
One should note that the bones in Tiktaalik's fins have no axial
skeleton connections. This is significant because without this direct
connection, no true walking could be done by Tiktaalik. Furthermore,
the fins of this creature enclose rays, not digits such as toes or
fingers.


Tiktaalik is not a fish. It's something not entirely 'fish' and not
entirely amphibian. It needed to be able to survive in shallow water,
and the adaptations visible do exactly that It had no 'intention' or
'purpose' in coming onto land to found land-dwelling lineages. It did
not want to be our great grand-daddy. It was just trying to cope...

That's right. In fact none of the extinct fishy-looking animals are
fish. The word "fish" was invented to describe living organisms, not
extinct ones. Only modern fish are real fish, and the rest are
proto-fish-things. Not only that, Latimeria isn't a coelacanth.

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