BREAKING NEWS:
The brilliant minds of modern (pseudo-)science now claim that your distant grandfather Joe or uncle Bob was a crocodile-like animal with sharp teeth who swam and also crawled on land. They say he is the missing link between fish and land animals. See article below.
I am glad he cannot show up for a family reunion.
Granted, we may look or act like that some mornings, but this is another example of foolishness by the egghead community, who draw large salaries from taxpayers or tuition-paying parents and are exalted as "intellectuals" for their great minds, and even called "Doctor." This shows you how foolish society has become and is another sign of the times.
God refers to such people as "ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth" (2 Timothy 3:7, KJV).
He speaks of them in Psalm 53:1 and calls them what they are: "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' " (NIV).
Jim
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Discovered: the missing link that solves a mystery of evolution
Alok Jha, science
correspondent
Thursday April
6, 2006
The
Guardian
Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago.
Palaeontologists have said that the find, a crocodile-like animal called the Tiktaalik roseae and described today in the journal Nature, could become an icon of evolution in action - like Archaeopteryx, the famous fossil that bridged the gap between reptiles and birds.
As such, it will be a blow to proponents of intelligent design, who claim that the many gaps in the fossil record show evidence of some higher power.
Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist, said: "Our emergence on to the land is one of the more significant rites of passage in our evolutionary history, and Tiktaalik is an important link in the story."
Tiktaalik - the name means "a large, shallow-water fish" in the Inuit language Inuktikuk - shows that the evolution of animals from living in water to living on land happened gradually, with fish first living in shallow water....
The scientists who discovered it say the animal was a predator with sharp teeth, a crocodile-like head, and a body that grew up to 2.75 metres (9ft) long.
See http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1747926,00.html
Here is a photo of old Uncle Bob so you will recognize him at the next family reunion in case he shows up:
Jim