MR Mister Loc: Washington DC

I speak of an omnipotent being, there is no up or down in the universe.

Big dog

Bahh. Is there an is ? And is there an ain’t?

Nickolai

Lets use the evolution of the horse as an example. The modern horse is the result of 55 million years of evolution 55 million years ago the horse was a forest dwelling animal about the size of a dog. Paleozoologists have been able to piece together a more complete outline of the evolutionary lineage of the modern horse than of any other animal. Much of this evolution took place in North America, where horses originated but became extinct about 10,000 years ago. The horse belongs to the order Perissodactyla (odd-toed ungulates) the members of which all share hooved feet and an odd number of toes on each foot, as well as mobile upper lips and a similar tooth structure. This means that horses share a common ancestry with tapirs and rhinoceroses. The perissodactyls arose in the late Paleocene, less than 10 million years after the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

The early ancestors of the modern horse walked on several spread-out toes, an accommodation to life spent walking on the soft, moist grounds of primeval forests. As grass species began to appear and flourish, the equids' diets shifted from foliage to grasses, leading to larger and more durable teeth. At the same time, as the steppes began to appear, the horse's predecessors needed to be capable of greater speeds to outrun predators. This was attained through the lengthening of limbs and the lifting of some toes from the ground in such a way that the weight of the body was gradually placed on one of the longest toes, the third. Today the horse walks not on one toe but the nail of a single toe the other toes have receded to bony splints on the back of the legs

Nickolai

I don't condemn anyone for their belief " Mock " to laugh at in a scornful manner or contemptuous manner. I have laughed at any one I've simply presented my case Against supernatural beings. You conservatives amaze me if a media outlet doesn't lean to the right it is automatically labeled l*****t librul media and If an atheist makes a case for non belief he or she is mocking and condemning those who do. your damned if you do and damned if you don't Modern archaeology began in 1877. These were men who came to a dig with a shovel in one hand and a bible in the other there was nothing scientific about it.

One of the most important changes in the field of archaeology is analysis of archaeological evidence by scientific methods, which are developing day by day with new advanced scientific technology. There are lots of scientific methods which are used in the field of archaeology for dating the past, like Carbon-14, Potassium argon, Thermo luminescence, Fission Track, Pollen Analysis, Dendrochronology, Archaeomagnetism, Obsidian Hydration, Soil Analysis, and Magneto Meter. Mud drillings. Hitorical time lines. For example the story of Joseph mentions camel caravans and Camels were not used to haual cargo in caravans until centuries later than the time of Joseph

Carol Kelly

Thank you for your suggestion, but I do know the meaning of theory.

Carol Kelly

Mary and Joseph rode a donkey, not a camel.

Nickolai

Joseph and Mary weren't even born in the story of Joseph in Genesis and the coat of many colors

Big dog

God created evolution. Dwell on that.

JW

Did the horses that outran predators get longer legs to escape predators or did they escape predators because they had longer legs? My guess is that the ones that needed longer legs probably got eaten. Further, they had a choice to make, stand and fight or run. The successful ones apparently chose to run.

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Then you no doubt understand that after something has been proven it is still refered to as a theory....

Which makes your earlier post somewhat confusing...

Nickolai

How did he or she do that and more importantly why? What was the purpose ? And why does every organism need to k**l something else and eat it in order to survive, and of the millions of organisms are 60 % of them parasites that make their living attaching them selves to other things and sucking their juices out ?

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

I've heard it said that there is no such thing as a stupid question. You are proving this theory wrong.

MR Mister Loc: Washington DC

Wow, you use such big words!!!!

Nickolai

They got bigger stronger and faster and hose who escaped the predators lived to mate and reproduce passing their favorable genes to the next generation and the biggest strongest and fastest of that generation repeated ect ect

Nickolai

Stupid question ?? how so I think they are ligitimate questions. With a planet so tiny so insignificant in a cosmos vast beyond comprehension why is there so much attention from this holy spirit and if he created his world why did he create such a cruel world but most important what was the purpose ? is it because he was just playing around another question why human beings and snakes skeletons so similar is structure and why do snakes have vestiges of legs. shurly its because their early ancestors walked on legs rather than slithering.

Humans and snakes both have skulls, backbones and ribs that support and protect the softer structures in the body. Humans and snakes are each highly derived descendants of a common ancestor, so many features of their skeletons are analogous to each other, albeit heavily modified.
Humans and snakes both have skulls that contain brains and support most of the animals' sense organs, such as eyes and noses. Both have jawbones, though mammalian jaws are very simple, and reptilian jaws are complex arrangements of bone and cartilage. Humans and snakes both have teeth, although the number and types of each set vary between species, and even from one individual to another.
Snakes and humans each have identifiable neck, upper back and lower back vertebrae, and the bones of the spine are recognizably similar in form and function. Both types of bone are ring-shaped, with central gaps to support the passage of the spinal cord. Snakes usually have many more vertebrae than humans, and most of the bones in the vertebral column support a set of ribs. Humans also have ribs, though they are fewer in number than snakes', and all are attached to the bones of the upper back. A few snake species, such as boas, have structures analogous to hips and hind legs, but these are vestigial and are greatly diminished in size.