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The Miserable End of Darwinian Evolution
240B:
Sharks, Alligators, and Crocodiles, have been around for hundreds of millions of years. Very simple creatures who only live to eat and to reproduce.
On the other hand, complexity of the platypus is some kind of joke on nature. A duckbill venomous semi-aquatic amphibious mammal that lays eggs but nurses the young with milk. It has no stomach and no teeth. It grinds food using gravel. It detects prey using electrical receptors in its duckbill. It has a tail like a beaver which is used to store fat as a food reserve. The platypus is the most confused animal on Earth.
The first one that was sent back to Europe was deemed a hoax by scientists of the day. They considered such an animal to be preposterous and impossible.
Smokin Joe:
--- Quote from: 240B on March 11, 2024, 11:28:31 pm ---Sharks, Alligators, and Crocodiles, have been around for hundreds of millions of years. Very simple creatures who only live to eat and to reproduce.
On the other hand, complexity of the platypus is some kind of joke on nature. A duckbill venomous semi-aquatic amphibious mammal that lays eggs but nurses the young with milk. It has no stomach and no teeth. It grinds food using gravel. It detects prey using electrical receptors in its duckbill. It has a tail like a beaver which is used to store fat as a food reserve. The platypus is the most confused animal on Earth.
The first one that was sent back to Europe was deemed a hoax by scientists of the day. They considered such an animal to be preposterous and impossible.
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There are critters out there that look like an assemblage of leftover parts thrown together (ostrich comes to mind, too), but Australia has long had a distinctly different fauna (marsupials abound).
ChemEngrMBA:
I just updated the website:
http://TheMiserableEndOfEvolution.blogspot.com
roamer_1:
--- Quote from: Smokin Joe on March 11, 2024, 08:31:22 am ---I must note that the most elaborate forms of brachiopoda were the ones which did not survive the Permian Extinction. Only some basic (as in 'primitive') forms did.
The more complicated a system or an organism, the more likely that some point of failure will be encountered which will be lethal.
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Sorta... I would not put that to complication, but rather, to specialization to exploit very particular resources... Now, that often leads to complication - We could debate the chicken or the egg - But the complication that made them kings is often the very thing that brings them down when the resource disappears, or a more capable adversary arrives to exploit the resource better...
Mankind is the same way. As our societies grow more and more specialized, they grow and grow, until they become moribund by way of their growth... A peculiarity of the way things go.
ChemEngrMBA:
Darwinian evolution has led more people to atheism than any other lie.
Evolution remains controversial in American society, with roughly half of individuals rejecting human evolution (Miller et al., 2006; Gallup, 2019). Although there are aspects of evolutionary theory that are mostly accepted by college biology students (for instance, adaptation by natural selection), studies show that college biology students struggle to accept human evolution and the common ancestry of life on Earth. Almost half of the general college population does not accept that all of life evolved (Barnes et al., 2008), and in one study, more than a quarter of upper-level biology students did not accept that all of life on Earth is related (Ingram and Nelson, 2006). - (www.LifeSciEd.org)
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