"The major problems with life on land relate to weight and structural support
as much as to the physiology of breating air. A fish is buoyed up by the water
and its body weight may be effectively zero. On land, however, the body as to
be held up by some form of limbs, and the skeleton as all the internal organs
have to become structuarally modified in order to cope with the new downward
pull of gravity. The backbone of a fish is adapted for the stresses of lateral
stretching and bending during swimming, but the main forces to which a
tetrapod is subject are caused by gravity. The vertebrae and the muscles
around the backbone have to become modified to prevent the body from sagging
between the limbs. The mode of locomotion of a tetrapod on land is generally
different from that of a fish in water." [Benton, Vertebrate Palaeontology,
Chapman & Hall 1990, pp. 46-47]
and wrote:
>Funny, no mention anywhere of "walking" catfish in his book. The guy must
> be a nut.
No he is not. I am sure he didn't mention lots of animal species. So why is
it so difficult for you to acknowledge that a fish which can spend 12 hours on
land is something that must be of interest to the creation/evolution debate?
Somehow this fish has done what this author is talking about.
glenn
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