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Originally Posted by Stoney McFried
Whenever someone asks for proof that evolution occurs, I usually point to this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_catfishThe walking catfish is a fish which has adapted to its environment by evolving the ability to walk on its fins for short distances to find more water... |
hi, stoney
the problem with this is that one has to assume it is a "transitional species" as appose to "just a species."
if one were to use the fossil records and go back in time they would see walking fish then as we see them today, if fish walked walk millions of years ago and they can walk today then it's a species (not transitional)
a good example of this is the Coelacanth fish which was said to be a transitional fish species having limbs, walked... etc. they lived 416 to 359.2 million years ago, until, they found the same exact fish today living having not evolved at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth
peace