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pesto
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Message 31 of 33 (302939)
04-10-2006 1:18 PM
Reply to: Message 21 by arachnophilia
10-11-2005 8:39 PM


Re: bad paleontology strikes again
From the creationist website you linked to.
quote:
Moreover, just having wings is not sufficient for a land organism to fly. Land-dwelling organisms are devoid of many other structural mechanisms that birds use for flying. For example, the bones of birds are much lighter than those of land-dwelling organisms. Their lungs function in a very different way. They have a different muscular and skeletal system and a very specialised heart-circulatory system. These features are pre-requisites of flying needed at least as much as wings. All these mechanisms had to exist at the same time and altogether; they could not have formed gradually by being "accumulated". This is why the theory asserting that land organisms evolved into aerial organisms is completely fallacious.
I wonder how bats compare as far as these "pre-requisites" are concerned. Anyone here knowledgable on this subject? How do bat lungs compare to bird lungs?

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Message 32 of 33 (302944)
04-10-2006 1:31 PM


As far as I know, only birds have much differntiated lungs compared with their extant closer relatives.
What I think that is more weird in that quote was the part
All these mechanisms had to exist at the same time and altogether; they could not have formed gradually by being "accumulated".
It’s simply stated, but I just can’t see any logic in the affirmation

"Science comits suicide when it adopts a creed."
Thomas H. Huxley

  
arachnophilia
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Message 33 of 33 (303083)
04-10-2006 10:47 PM
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04-10-2006 1:18 PM


Re: bad paleontology strikes again
I wonder how bats compare as far as these "pre-requisites" are concerned. Anyone here knowledgable on this subject? How do bat lungs compare to bird lungs?
heh, that would be beautiful. unfortunately, i don't know squat about bat. though i am pretty sure they lack the lung function of birds, considering that birds are the ONLY animals that breath this way. other than, apparently, theropod dinosaurs. there's the other reason this argument is totally specious:
theropod skeletons contain, gradually, more and more of specialized fusing and hollowing of bones seen in birds. we know they had air-sacs, like birds. they have the right muscular and skeletal, and probably circulator system. while they're not neccessarily pre-requisites for flight, they do help -- and they apparently help land dwelling theropod dinosaurs, too.


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