Foundational Falshoods of Creationism

[Uriel]

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A new vetulicolian from Australia and its bearing on the chordate affinities of an enigmatic Cambrian group

Background

Vetulicolians are one of the most problematic and controversial Cambrian fossil groups, having been considered as arthropods, chordates, kinorhynchs, or their own phylum. Mounting evidence suggests that vetulicolians are deuterostomes, but affinities to crown-group phyla are unresolved.
Results

A new vetulicolian from the Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte, South Australia, Nesonektris aldridgei gen. et sp. nov., preserves an axial, rod-like structure in the posterior body region that resembles a notochord in its morphology and taphonomy, with notable similarity to early decay stages of the notochord of extant cephalochordates and vertebrates. Some of its features are also consistent with other structures, such as a gut or a coelomic cavity.

Conclusions

Phylogenetic analyses resolve a monophyletic Vetulicolia as sister-group to tunicates (Urochordata) within crown Chordata, and this holds even if they are scored as unknown for all notochord characters. The hypothesis that the free-swimming vetulicolians are the nearest relatives of tunicates suggests that a perpetual free-living life cycle was primitive for tunicates. Characters of the common ancestor of Vetulicolia + Tunicata include distinct anterior and posterior body regions – the former being non-fusiform and used for filter feeding and the latter originally segmented – plus a terminal mouth, absence of pharyngeal bars, the notochord restricted to the posterior body region, and the gut extending to the end of the tail.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/14/214

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Creationists cry salty tears over blasphemous ‘Come Back To The Sea’ cruise ship evolution ad




This year, Carnival Cruise Lines — who have had yet another rocky year, poop cruise-wise – dropped some serious cash to say “Come back to the sea,” using the solemn voice-over skills of former President John F. Kennedy, whom some people believe was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald on a moon-landing soundstage in the Arizona desert where lizard people were inventing jet fuel that can’t melt steel.

Yeah, you know who you are… or do you?

Kennedy — whose head may still be being kept alive in a jar — said this:

I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it’s because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it’s because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

According to to the Jesus-rode-a-dinosaur crowd, Carnival just slapped them right across their highly-pronounced supraorbital ridge with one of those Darwin fish things with the feet.

Creationist Ken Ham — who is both evolution’s biggest foe as well as evolution’s slowest evolving work-in-progress — took particular offense at the commercial:

Don’t you just feel this “personal connection?” After all, your ancestor came out of the sea and evolved by natural processes to produce you. Don’t you feel the connection? Don’t you just want to go on one of their cruises so you can stand on the deck of a big cruise ship, look at the sea, and contemplate your accidental beginnings—and perhaps worship the sea, because it gave birth to you!

Oh—and really, you can spend a lot of money on such a cruise, but because you evolved from the sea and are just an evolved animal, and when you die you won’t even know you existed—so you won’t even remember the cruise—so what’s the point anyway? You just evolved to have an ultimately meaningless existence!

Obviously Ham has never been on a cruise and experienced the divine joy of an all-you-can-eat buffet with its seductive chocolate pudding fountain.

Seriously, they have those. It’s like Jesus with the fish and loaves only … endless pudding.

On Twitter, others were umbrage-taking and declaring that they too will never set one Croc-shod foot on one of Carnival’s Satan-Boats to Perdition.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/c...e+Raw+Story%29

[Blake]

You do know that's a checker board right?

You're quick

[Blake]

Creationists cry salty tears over blasphemous ‘Come Back To The Sea’ cruise ship evolution ad




This year, Carnival Cruise Lines — who have had yet another rocky year, poop cruise-wise – dropped some serious cash to say “Come back to the sea,” using the solemn voice-over skills of former President John F. Kennedy, whom some people believe was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald on a moon-landing soundstage in the Arizona desert where lizard people were inventing jet fuel that can’t melt steel.

Yeah, you know who you are… or do you?

Kennedy — whose head may still be being kept alive in a jar — said this:

I really don’t know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it’s because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it’s because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came.

According to to the Jesus-rode-a-dinosaur crowd, Carnival just slapped them right across their highly-pronounced supraorbital ridge with one of those Darwin fish things with the feet.

Creationist Ken Ham — who is both evolution’s biggest foe as well as evolution’s slowest evolving work-in-progress — took particular offense at the commercial:

Don’t you just feel this “personal connection?” After all, your ancestor came out of the sea and evolved by natural processes to produce you. Don’t you feel the connection? Don’t you just want to go on one of their cruises so you can stand on the deck of a big cruise ship, look at the sea, and contemplate your accidental beginnings—and perhaps worship the sea, because it gave birth to you!

Oh—and really, you can spend a lot of money on such a cruise, but because you evolved from the sea and are just an evolved animal, and when you die you won’t even know you existed—so you won’t even remember the cruise—so what’s the point anyway? You just evolved to have an ultimately meaningless existence!

Obviously Ham has never been on a cruise and experienced the divine joy of an all-you-can-eat buffet with its seductive chocolate pudding fountain.

Seriously, they have those. It’s like Jesus with the fish and loaves only … endless pudding.

On Twitter, others were umbrage-taking and declaring that they too will never set one Croc-shod foot on one of Carnival’s Satan-Boats to Perdition.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/c...e+Raw+Story%29

Lol that's hilarious

[mouse]

You're quick

Mainly just a little more observant given my photoshop background.

Good thing I don't support creation you dodged a huge truth bullet.

[Blake]

Mainly just a little more observant given my photoshop background.

Good thing I don't support creation you dodged a huge truth bullet.

When I said you're quick, I was joking. You're not.

But good observation though.