Tiktaalik: When Fish Walked On Land
Hopefully this is the first of many posts loosely based on the theory of evolution and how it directly disproves the crazy world of creationism.
This is an old story from April this year but was the result of almost 5 years work by scientists and palaeontologists. It was the discovery of a 375 million year old fossil, named Tiktaalik Roseae, of a fish with front fins that have leg-like bones in them. So the creature was able to use its fins as legs and could lift itself off the ground and support its own weight.
It would have lived in shallow waters and used its foot-like fins to lift its head above the water and look around or maybe even waddle onto land. It is definitely a fish because it has scales and fins but its feet-like bones shows how life on earth made the transition from water to land. If it has the ability to walk on land then it probably had developed air breathing lungs too.
This was a significant find because the emergence of life from water to land is probably the most important step life has taken in the evolutionary process. This is a blow for people who believe in intelligent design because they often claim the gaps in the fossil record somehow prove the existence of a god.
If there is anybody out there then please leave your comments!
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January 13th, 2007 at 4:02 am
That’s a great find!
No matter how many facts and figures you present on the table, people who claim to be part of faith-based groups would turn a blind eye to such things.
Personally, I don’t think I’m an atheist. I like to leave a margin of error here and there, and like to leave room for some fluff. But I also think it’s sometimes silly when people live their lives worshipping something/someone without question. It’s kind of scary.
January 14th, 2007 at 11:40 am
I have a few more bits ‘hardcore’ evolutionist facts to talk about. I just need to get around to writing some quality posts, I’ve been on a long holiday for the last few weeks
January 23rd, 2007 at 2:13 pm
For all of you who believe in evolution soo greatly check this out dont let your ignorance blind your mind…
March 24th, 2007 at 6:01 am
Listen son you can look at evolution vs creation all you want. All I know is I used to live my life the way I wanted and you know what I made many many mistakes. THen one day I decided to try things God’s way and learn His way by studying the Bible. Not only did I commit to studying but also to obeying everything it taught me. I can tell you this son God’s way WORKS!
I’m not going to sit here and preach about God to you because it’s your right to live how you want. But I can tell you when you live according to what is taught in the Bible you’ll understand that there really is a God and what He teaches is the truth.
So you can argue evolution vs. creation all you want but all I know is I’m into the search for truth so if his way works then it’s more likely that creation is true too and not evolution. I can assume the problem is you like me never put any effort into learning God’s way and like me before I turned to God your life is full of failure’s and dissapiontments.
You should try it and beleive me the truth will reveal itself to you the way it did for me. It has too or nobody would follow it. THe only reason the Bible has stood the test of time is because it is true and it works. Or do you think all these people are dillusional? Evolution will come and go because it’s a false teaching. And during your lifetime you would have followed a lie. You’re buying a lie hook, line and sinker. I speak from experience son.
Let me ask you this. Do you think you know everything there is to know in the universe? JHow about half of everyhting there is to know? I doubt it but let’s say you did know half of everything there is to know. Do you think it’s possible that God could live in the other half of what you don’t know and understand. Study the Bible son, Good Luck
Randy
April 5th, 2007 at 9:09 am
Evolution is false teaching? Obviously, you’re strong on religion and I have no problem with that. But accusing evolution as false teaching is just too much. The idea of evolution has been around for a very long time. Even way before Charles Darwin, but it was not as popular because the idea was not well thought out and because people back then couldn’t find a way to explain evolution like Charles Darwin could. I am not saying people who believes in God is dillusional, but those who believes in evolution isn’t either. I mean there were and still are artifacts left behind.
April 12th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I dont understand why people cant seem to realize that its not all black and white. Think about it, when Charles Darwin spoke of evolution gernerations after found flaws in his original teachings bringing in words such as mutation etc. Creation is based on the world being created in 6 days (on the 7th He rested), yet 2 Peter 3:8–9 and Psalm 90:4 states a day is LIKE (not IS litterally) a thousand years. This means we cant take the 6 days as an exact 144hrs but an idea of the power God would have. It could have been done in that time, but then again- maybe it wasnt.
HOWEVER, evolution means “Biology. change in the gene pool of a population from generation to generation by such processes as mutation, natural selection, and genetic drift.” With this in mind lets think of 2 people, Adam and Eve. It doesnt matter what skin colour or which part of the world they were in, In todays world we see simple things such as skin colour having evolved to better adapt to its evironment from the diversity of albinos to Africans and facial structures such as eyes (Asia) just to name a few.
Why cant there be the thought of evolution within creation? Why cant we say that yes, there is a greater power and He created us and allowed for us to adapt?
June 1st, 2007 at 11:07 am
Oh, good grief. The fact that some fish fossil has “apparent” appendages that seem to resemble the beginnings of a leg no more proves evolution than does a crop circle in a farmer’s field prove the existence of spaceships.
This is a classic example of accepting a particular worldview FIRST, and then hunting around for scraps of evidence to support it.
So please don’t tell me again that creationism is faith-based, but evolution is not. You’ve just proven again that accepting evolution is as much a matter of faith as is accepting creation.
June 5th, 2007 at 5:03 am
[[2 Peter 3:8–9 and Psalm 90:4 states a day is LIKE (not IS litterally) a thousand years. This means we cant take the 6 days as an exact 144hrs but an idea of the power God would have. It could have been done in that time, but then again- maybe it wasnt.]]
These verses are so often misunderstood by well-meaning, but misguided people who are attempting to defend evolution within the scheme of creation.
What these verse are ACTUALLY telling us is that what for us seems like a thousand years only feels like a day to our eternal God. It’s in no way, shape, or form an argument that “a day in the Bible doesn’t mean 24 hours”. If you’ve studied Hebrew at all, the word being used in the Genesis account for day is commonly used in that language to define the period from sunset to sunset — 24 hours.
[[In todays world we see simple things such as skin colour having evolved to better adapt to its evironment from the diversity of albinos to Africans and facial structures such as eyes (Asia) just to name a few.]]
This is not an argument for evolution at all. What you are citing is an example of microevolution which any creationist will agree has taken place. But there are no jumps from one species to another in microevolution. That is what is commonly referred to as Macroevolution, something which evolutionists postulate, but consistently are unable to prove.
[[Why cant there be the thought of evolution within creation? Why cant we say that yes, there is a greater power and He created us and allowed for us to adapt?]]
Because if God has misled us about how He created the world, then how can we trust Him when He tells us about salvation through the blood of Christ? Also, because if theistic evolution is true then the notion that sin has resulted in death is false, since many hominids and evolutionary stages of man would have died before reaching the state of man. Also, because theistic evolution denies that Adam is the first man. This has huge ramifications regarding sin and salvation. If we’re going to question the creation account then we have every right to question the salvation account.
And that, of course, is precisely what Satan wishes for us to do.
June 6th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
@Alan
I guess you think the whole of Paleontology is ‘faith based’? Or maybe just when it steps on your precious religion.
July 31st, 2007 at 1:45 am
@Shnide
“Why cant there be the thought of evolution within creation? Why cant we say that yes, there is a greater power and He created us and allowed for us to adapt?”
Because ’saying’ something doesn’t make it true. Yes there is a higher power! But no there is no evidence of this higher power!
November 8th, 2007 at 10:43 am
This was a significant find b ecause the e mergence of life from water to l and is probably th e most important step life has taken in the evolutionary process. This is a blow for people who belie v e in intelligent design because t hey often claim the gaps in the fossil record some h ow prove the ex i s tence of a god.
This was a significant find because the emergence of life from water to land is probably the most important step life has taken in the evolutionary process. This is a blow for people who believe in intelligent design because they often claim the gaps in the fossil record somehow prove the existence of a god.
believe this.