RE: Transitional fish

I hope they have an extra fossil that can be donated to the Creation
Museum in Cincinnati. Then kids could ask the curator, "Excuse me, is
that a pre-flood, specially created, transitional life form or a
post-flood, specially created, transitional life form?
 
Dick Fischer
Dick Fischer, Genesis Proclaimed Association
Finding Harmony in Bible, Science, and History
www.genesisproclaimed.org
 
-----Original Message-----
From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
Behalf Of Pim van Meurs
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 8:23 PM
To: asa
Subject: Transitional fish
 
  Quirky "fishapod" crawls onto our family tree
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002913907_fossil06.ht
ml
 
U.S. researchers say they have found the missing evolutionary link
between fish and land animals: fossils of a strange creature that
crawled onto the shore about 375 million years ago.
 
Editor's Summary 6 April 2006 When fins became limbs
<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7085/edsumm/e060406-01.html>
 
    When fins became limbs
 
    The transition between fishes and limbed vertebrates, or tetrapods,
    occurred over 370 million years ago and required changes to
    virtually the entire body. Sensational fossil finds, and
    reinterpretations of old ones, have radically altered thinking on
    this topic in the past 20 years. But the transition itself - the
    very point where fishes became tetrapods - remains obscure. What
    fossils there are tend to be incomplete or badly preserved. All that
    changes with the discovery of remarkable new fossils from the late
    Devonian of Canada of a near-complete transitional form preserved in
    the round. It's a fish with fins, but fins that flexed and extended
    like arms and hands. It has tetrapod-like ribs, a mobile neck and
    wrist. The impact of this discovery will be felt far and wide in
    evolutionary biology. On the cover, the fossil as found emerges from
    under a log as it might have in life in a shallow-water habitat.
 
Per Erik Ahlberg and Jennifer A. Clack Palaeontology: A firm step from
water to land
<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7085/full/440747a.html> p747
 
Edward B. Daeschler, Neil H. Shubin and Farish A. Jenkins, Jr
A Devonian tetrapod-like fish and the evolution of the tetrapod body
plan
<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7085/pdf/nature04639.pdf>
p757 Abstract
<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7085/abs/nature04639.html>
 
Neil H. Shubin, Edward B. Daeschler and Farish A. Jenkins, Jr The
pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb
<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7085/pdf/nature04637.pdf>
p764 Abstract
<http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7085/abs/nature04637.html>
 
PT has two articles on this topic
http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/04/post_10.html (Transitions on

the DI blog)
and http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/04/tiktaalik_makes.html
(Tiktaalik makes another gap) PZ Myers more at Pharyngula
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/04/tiktaalik_makes_another_gap.p
hp
 
And for comic relief
http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2006/04/trollart_on_tik.html at
http://www.trollart.com/
 
This is cool news since another major transitional gap has been filled
in.
 
<quote>But fossil records showed a gap between Panderichthys , a fish
that lived about 385 million years ago which shows early signs of
evolving land-friendly features, and Acanthostega , the earliest known
tetrapod (four-limbed land-living animals) dating from about 365 million

years ago. In 1999, palaeontologists Professor Neil Shubin, from the
University of
Chicago, and Professor Edward Daeschler, from the Academy of Natural
Sciences in Philadelphia, set out to explore the Canadian Arctic in an
attempt to find the "missing link" that would explain the transition
from water to land. After several years of searching with very little
success, they hit the jackpot in 2004.</quote>
 
I love it when science hits the jackpot.
Remind me again what ID would predict?
Received on Sun Apr 9 00:30:57 2006