Re: Trilobites



[M]adman wrote:
I find it intresting that many of you clain that EVERYTHING in the
fossil record is proof of evolution and that everything has is common
ancestor.

That is, everything alive today evolved from a common ancestor.


There are More than 17,000 different species of trilobites known to
exist. Are you saying NOT ONE OF THEM EVOLVED INTO MAMMELS?

Right. They went extinct before mammals evolved, and they weren't in the
line that led to mammals anyway. They were arthropods, more closely
related to insects than to vertibrates like mammals. At the time the
trilobites lived, the ancestors of mammals were jawless fish.



That MUST MEAN EVOLUTION IS A LIE

No, it just means you don't understand how evolution works.


Because here it says Trilobites went through some extrodinary changes:

http://www.geotimes.org/july07/article.html?id=WebExtra072707.html

Quite correct, but there's no reason why they would evolve into mammals.

DJT

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