Another missing link: $2.50 / lb

Joseph Farah had an excellent article about the latest “missing link”.

In the article he compares the newly discovered “Tiktaalik” with the “Coelacanth”. The coelacanth was said to be a 350 million year old fossil, but unfortunately they were being sold in fish markets. That’s funny.

My favorite line is “The Tiktaalik is no more a missing link between sea life and land life than a Tic Tac is a missing link between a Lifesaver and an Altoid.”

Ted Byfield in a related article suggests that maybe the tiktaalik is just another species that we haven’t discovered yet.

The question I’ve always had is: Okay, a little guy is swimming around in the primordial soup (forget how he got there, he’s just there ok?), and he adapts. He fights his way to land, grows legs (randomly), grows lungs for air (randomly) and he crawls onto land and what does he find? He finds someone to mate with. Humm, so you’re telling me that he underwent a bunch of random changes and finds a woman that underwent the exact same random changes so that they were compatible enough that they could mate?

Verrry Interesting.

Different kinds of things cannot reproduce. A wolf and a cocker spaniel can reproduce because they’re both a dog kind. A dog and a cat cannot reproduce because they’re different kinds. A llama and a camel can reproduce because they’re both… umm whatever kind a camel is – they’re both of the, I guess, goofy kind.

Evolution about to lose appendages

This is an interesting story.

Evolution theory on last legs, says seminary teacher

I love this quote:

U.S. District Judge John E. Jones wrote that "overwhelming evidence at trial established that ID is a religious view, a mere relabeling of creationism, and not a scientific theory." Jones found intelligent design failed as a scientific theory because it can't be tested.

It's funny because we're talking about ORIGINS and according to the best of evolution, the unique circumstances that happened at the beginning that sparked life cannot be reproduced! Evolution, therefore, has failed as a scientific theory because it can't be tested.

By the same token, we should also toss out all archaeology sciences and scrap all history departments. I mean, history and anything related to hsitory is something that happened in the past – it's non-repeatable. Historic events cannot be tested. How many times did Washington cross the Delaware? How many times did Lincoln free the slaves. How many times did Clinton have adultery in the White House… okay, bad example, but you get the idea.

When it comes to historical sciences, the best they can do is examine evidence. They can't repeat the event.

Intelligent Design article

Check it out: Why intelligent design will change everything

Not a bad little article describing what ID is all about. It's not about religion vs science, but good science vs bad science. I'll write more about this sort of thing when I have more time and the inclination.

If you've never heard of Scientific Dissent from Darwinism then check out the pdf file of these guys credentials. Pretty impressive dudes.