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From: VIRGIL@VIRGIL.com
In article , mur@.not.
wrote:
> Unless it was successful right from the start the transitional limbs
> that couldn't make the animals fly would have been a handicap
> instead of a benefit
Not so. Feathers were originally developed either for sexual display or
warmth or both, and still are important for both uses, and in a number
of species have apparently never been used for flying.
And the original purposes of all sorts of things that various species
have developed are known to be totally unrelated to their present use.
> Again there is no similarity, and you STILL have no transition
> animals to use as examples.
That there are gaps, often huge gaps, in the current evidence for a
continuous evolutionary tree is only an artifact of the rarity of
preservation of such evidence. That as much has been found so quickly is
almost miraculous (only a few people have been looking and only been
looking for about 150 years on a huge Earth much of which is effectively
inaccessible).
> Instead of having none you should have a
> number of them IF evolution happened only by chance.
That assumes that transitions were the standard instead of the
exception. But the most successful species remain effectively unchanged
for many millions of years, usually until relatively sudden changes in
their environments forces relatively rapid adaptions to their new
environments.
> The fact that
> you don't have a number of them is evidence that it did not happen
> only by chance.
Physics has been around at least since Newton and is still incomplete
(the big bang is not the only origin hypothesis still around and there
are still a number of variations even within the the big bang hypothesis
not yet eliminated) so why expect evolution to be in finalized?
--
Virgil
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