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jayfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:15 PM Original message |
Scientists Discover Fish in Act of Evolution in Africa’s Greatest Lake |
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mainegreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
1. Their argument: it's still a fish so it doesn't count. |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
26. "kinds".... Science is just a word game to them |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 03:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
42. They want to see a horse hatching from a fish egg |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
2. Don't tell Bible Spice. Nanookie of the North would shoot them from a helicopter. |
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angstlessk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
3. that's just a devil trick..he does that to fool us into not believing the bible |
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Schema Thing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
4. When a fish can turn itself into food for 5000, I'll be impressed |
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WillParkinson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
5. Gawd put it there... |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
6. not to rain on your parade, but is this merely adaption within the same species? |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:31 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Exactly. To prove they are different species would mean to prove they cannot interbreed, |
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Jackpine Radical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:38 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. That's a very old definition of species, with many problems. |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 04:46 PM Response to Reply #11 |
24. I am aware of that, as I said. Species is a murky term. nt |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:53 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. that isn't always the case |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 02:40 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. Lions and tigers can interbreed. So can horses and mules. |
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antigone382 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 04:21 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. No, mules generally can't breed. |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 04:28 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Donkeys, I meant to say. |
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antigone382 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 04:46 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. I didn't know that! |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:04 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Not to mention the unspeakable experiments with pitbulls and lipstick /nt |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:15 PM Response to Reply #10 |
27. The article says the fish are splitting into two distinct species. |
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Anticon (68 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 02:21 PM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Any adaptation is evolution... |
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Lerkfish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 02:29 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. ok, thanks. |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 04:26 PM Response to Reply #16 |
21. Exactly... and welcome to DU. (nt) |
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fed_up_mother (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:57 PM Response to Reply #6 |
32. Haha I think you did rain on that parade |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 09:53 PM Response to Reply #6 |
38. "merely adaption within the same species" IS evolution. |
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geomon666 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:23 PM Response to Original message |
7. Satan's fish! n/t |
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Ian David (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:24 PM Response to Original message |
8. And the commie Lysenkoism crowd will have their own take on it too. |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:40 PM Response to Reply #8 |
12. Do people still beleive in Lysenkoism??? |
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Submariner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
9. We'll talk evolution when the Lutefisk stops tasting like shit |
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Seldona (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
13. But, but, there is a cave painting in France roped off! |
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cobalt1999 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 02:15 PM Response to Original message |
15. Technically, all species are in the "act of evolution" all the time. |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
29. I thought about that but was going to skip commenting on it - I'm glad that you did! |
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Winterblues (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
19. I wonder what it taste like? |
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Greyskye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
28. I'm so going to hell for this... |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:31 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. I don't think so! |
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Greyskye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:50 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. OMG - I got CaliforniaPeggy to drop the F-Bomb! |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 06:23 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. No. You. Are. Not! |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 06:47 PM Response to Original message |
34. that meme has been preposterous for a long time now.... |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
35. I'm hoping this means that fundies will soon be extinct. |
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chknltl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 03:27 PM Response to Reply #35 |
41. Now that you mention it...John McCain has been evolving into a slug... |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:15 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. For most of us, that would be a regression... |
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progressoid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
36. it's not evolution. Jeebus did it. |
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Zhade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 09:52 PM Response to Original message |
37. Although this is not the first time evolution has been observed, this is awesome! |
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NoodleyAppendage (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
39. Those aren't fishes, godless fool. Those are loaves of bread! |
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Dogmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 12:16 AM Response to Original message |
40. Shades of *Darwin's Radio* |
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harun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
44. You are obviously not a scientist |
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