(Note: the image included isn't a shark, it's an osteoglossomorphan fish called Xiphactinus)
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Quote: "This prehistoric shark fossil is exhibited at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum. Many shark fossils were found in Kansas."
Sharks 'evolve', right?:thumbsup:
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Things evolve to become better adapted to their environment.
Apparently 'shark' is a surprisingly long lasting niche in the ecology that doesn't seem to change much.
Hell, crocodile's are the same way. amphibious ambush predator seems to be a stable place to be.
So long as there's food, fucking and a moderately good chance of not being killed by predators or environmental hazards there's no real pressure to cause major evolution.
Ok, I took a crack at the first quote, and then saw the quote is actually from just over five years ago, and then I read the whole thread over there. He/She/It is Gish Galloping through the crap even Ken Ham won't touch because it's outright embarrassing and fraudulent bullshit.
Lost cause is the phrase that comes to mind.
Such bullshit! Not only is that obviously not a shark, you missed by a whole taxonomical superclass! Sharks are cartilaginous fishes, while that is clearly a bony fish in the picture. Do you expect me to take seriously the scientific arguments of a guy who cannot tell the difference between a bony fish and a cartilaginous one, Collapsed4nus?
@Mister Spak: well, it has big pointy teeth and lived in the water, right? So what else would it have been except a shark?
That's about the level he operates on. Like a lot of creationists, he probably thinks a fish is a fish is a fish, just like an insect is an insect.
I mean, he thinks that magicians have magic powers they traded their souls for.
This is an insect:
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Count 'em, Collapsedarse.
So either (check one):
[ ] Those two extra legs - after 'Creation' - must have appeared due to millions of years of gradual biological change . Thus Evolution improved on an inferior 'Creator's un Intelligent Design and proves Evolution.
[ ] They evolved with six legs, your 'God' is a spasmo dellanoid herp-a-derp-derp mentally handicapped mong retard who can't count beyond four, is inferior to mere insects, never mind we humans, ergo your 'God' doesn't exist.
Choose wisely.
...oh, and I suggest you click on the CF thread quote link.
Collapsedarse has gone Full Retard. [/California Institute of [I]Omniology[/I] ]
@Tempus
"@Mister Spak: well, it has big pointy teeth and lived in the water, right? So what else would it have been except a shark? "
Leviathan?
I just noticed the pointy bone in top of the head, it looks like a dorsal fin. Maybe that's what tripped up the OP.
"Like a lot of creationists, he probably thinks a fish is a fish is a fish, just like an insect is an insect."
Yeah, you would have to be that stupid to think this is a shark.
A variation of the old "if monkeys evolved into humans, how come we still have monkeys"?
BTW, the earliest known hammerhead was only about 20 million years ago - about 70 million years later than the Kansas sharks; so yeah, sharks evolve.
I think Calypsis was referring to the exceptionally preserved cartilaginous skeletons of Cretoxyhina mantelli... :
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...or Squalicorax falcatus ...image
...which WERE Cretaceous sharks from Kansas for his "proof" against evolution. Unfortunately, it appears he was too lazy to even find the correct picture and instead posted the BONY FISH Xiphactinus audax .
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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