Ain\'t nature wonderful (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, September 17, 2010, 17:43 (5180 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


> > Have you studied the size of the ARK. not like an ocean liner. And again of 5,100 mammals, how did he get the kangaroos, llamas, platypus to the Middle East?
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> You missed the point of the what I was saying, and quote mined me. I said there are 5100+ current species of mammals, not that he would have had to load 5100 species. Specifically, I pointed out the fact that of those 5100 species, a large majority belong to reducible families, i.e. canine, feline, bovine, marsupial, etc etc. Knowing that there was an mass extinction event some 10000-16000BP, I predict that you would find that all members of the canine family share a very recent common ancestor, and the same for all other suborders of species.-I'm not quote mining. You are mis-stating known science. There have been only 5-6 mass extinctions in the literature. Have you read Raup's book "Extinctions, Bad Genes or Bad Luck?", 1991? Or just quickly looked at the summaries in Wikipedia? There is a quite minor extinction from the recent ice age, 16-10,000 years ago. "Lucy", (our "Mother"), the original female mitochondria dates at about 150,000 years ago. There is no evidence in the paleologic record of the spread of hominims to humans of the gap you seem to be trying to claim. -It seems as if you want great speed in genetic development in a 10,000 year period. Do you believe in Noah? Or just trying to have fun in an internet debate? There is good evidence of a Black Sea flood at the right time to fit the chronology of Genesis, as the glacial ice melted, blocked by an ice dam, and then released. And if you believe Noah, I'm still waiting for an answer about those animals on far-away continents getting to the ark. Camalids got to the Americas on the glacial ice bridge, not after it melted, before Noah.