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Author Topic:   Willowtree's Scientific Evidence against Evolution
Chiroptera
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Message 6 of 299 (73813)
12-17-2003 3:26 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by Darwin's Terrier
12-17-2003 10:22 AM


My guess is that there is more to the Tasmanian Wolf than just a pouch. I bet careful morphological examination has been done (after all, taxonomists would have wanted to classify it long ago), and that the morphological characteristics clearly show that it is much more closely related to marsupials than to placentals. In other words, I suspect that the thylacine resembles wolves as much as *ahem* bats resemble birds, or whales resemble fish.

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Chiroptera
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Message 98 of 299 (75365)
12-27-2003 5:45 PM
Reply to: Message 97 by NosyNed
12-27-2003 5:12 PM


You want transitions?
How is this for paucity. (Scroll down a bit to see the phylogenic tree. Click on the links to see the descriptions of the fossils.) This cladogram extends up to the first tetrapods, and down to the modern mammals. Every species listed is represented by an actual fossil found, studied, measured, and carefully placed in its place on the phylogenic tree.
Willowtree may have his reasons for not accepting the theory of evolution, but I assure you that the "paucity" of transitional forms is not one of them.
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