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Originally posted by dj_alfi I saw a documentary on hippos that each year took their young to a beach in Gabon. Other animals (elephants++) also went there, but they went for some washed up pods that they ate. anyhoo, none of the hippos ate those pods, they just went to stand in the water and noone knows why, but some believe it is evolution in-the-making.

Isn't that akin to committing the same mistake that Atheists accuse religious people of making?

"We don't know, so it must be evolution." sounds very much the same as "We don't know, so it must be God." from where I'm sitting.

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Originally posted by Spam Isn't that akin to committing the same mistake that Atheists accuse religious people of making? "We don't know, so it must be evolution." sounds very much the same as "We don't know, so it must be God." from where I'm sitting.

let me rephrase. there is no apparent reason why the hippos are going great distances to a beach to stand in the water (salt water) when they have perfectly good fresh water ponds to swim in, other than that they are trying to (hmm.. cant find the right word.. ) get used to salt water, so that they one day may be able to live in it.

if that makes any sense.

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Originally posted by dj_alfi let me rephrase. there is no apparent reason why the hippos are going great distances to a beach to stand in the water (salt water) when they have perfectly good fresh water ponds to swim in, other than that they are trying to (hmm.. cant find the right word.. ) get used to salt water, so that they one day may be able to live in it. if that makes any sense.

Or maybe the salt helps keep their pores clean and kill off any fresh-water parasites. What options have scientists run down? Is there a list somewhere?

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Captain Planet is gey.
Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Heart???
These forces are supposed to combine to create Captain Planet?
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Originally posted by Nrg2Nfinit This is true.. but your speaking on a grand scale of things. And mammals are whales lol. I'm sure that was just a typo. anyways, he have been able to manually manipulate the features of dogs significantly to the point where they barely even look like their true form (the grey wolf). Think about what nature could do to organisms over an even longer extended period of time.

I said dog-like mammal. We have been able to manipulate dogs, but we have not been able to create an animal we wouldn't consider a dog. I don't care how long of time they have, a dog will always give birth to a dog.

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Remnant bones have been found in whales which are clssified as femurs (rear upper legs) and are remainder for what is presumed to be a walking land mammal. Whales also have lungs and require air to respire.

Cockroaches take shits just like us. Doesn't mean we evolved from them.

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I still dont have a conclusive argument from your side. What form of intelligent design do you speak of? What time frame am i dealing with?

I'm giving you very conclusive arguments but it seems like you'r just rejecting my arguments out of hands. Where's you scientific objectivity?

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yea thats an awful example karim

i mean alfi

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Originally posted by dj_alfi LOL. Noone has seen it, seeing as this is something that happens over a period of time longer than any living beings timespan. Guess we'll just have to invent a way to translate the thoughts of rocks and trees and ask them.

Have you seen a dog give birth to anything other than a dog?

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Do you really believe in ID or are you just taking the piss?

LOL, hell no. I'm just playing devil's advocate since there are no creationists around. I graduated from a fundamentalist Christian school so I know the creationist's arguments very well.

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Originally posted by Krypton Have you seen a dog give birth to anything other than a dog?

I'm pretty sure that chihuahuas are rodents.

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Captain Planet is gey.
Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Heart???
These forces are supposed to combine to create Captain Planet?
Bullshit.
Those forces combine to create a soaking, boiling mudstorm on Valentine's Day.

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Originally posted by Spam Or maybe the salt helps keep their pores clean and kill off any fresh-water parasites. What options have scientists run down? Is there a list somewhere?

That might be, i didn't say that it necessarily was "evolution in the making", but this is most likely how whales came to existence when they went back into the oceans.

Anyhoo, Im too drunk to reason properly right now, but I'll see if I can find the name of that documentary. It was pretty interesting, even if you believe in evolution or not.

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Hahaha i love this now 10 vs 1.. or maybe 2 i can't decide whos team sunsail is on.


Don't get me on semantics here ill kill you all i dont care about your gods.


Let me review that video and i will answer all your questions

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Originally posted by Spam If species evolve, then it would stand to reason that out of the billions of species on this planet, at least ONE of them would be found to exist in a half-way state. A fish with legs, a small rodent with a dorsal fin, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambulocetus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx

oh, but you want species that are living today?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking_catfish

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Originally posted by Sunsnail yea thats an awful example karim i mean alfi

haha fuck you. it would be alot better if i just knew how to put the words in my head into words on my computer.

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