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Originally Posted by VipVenom
All my point is, is that things change and if you breed leopard geckos you can see that everytime you selectivly breed them. All this is , is an accelerated natural "change".
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I agree with that. I mean there are people who say the leopard gecko body in captivity is different than their wild cousins. Most people believe its from intermixing the many different subspecies of leopard gecko. Heck any morph and other oddities can be a sign of evolution.
Also, a little known fact to alot of people. 2,500 years ago there roamed an american tiger. Other creatures roamed this land at that time that was scary (The giant sloth and the small face bear comes to mind). Heck some of the missing links in reptiles too roamed the land. Can anyone of you believe there was an arboreal alligator? somehow they evolved into the current aligators that we know of now. (kinda glad for that, imagine a aligator jumping from a tree....)
2,500 years ago was not that long ago compared to 200,000 years of human evolution. This would bring the time to 500 bc, which is not the "stone age" as fabled by alot of stuff. indians of the land hunted and feared these animals.
Reptiles, fish and birds are a good array of evolution too. The fish i was reffering to in my other post was a fish who has 4 fins that have bone in the fins and is related to the first fish to walk onto the shores. Lizards either evolved into snakes or vice versa. Look at monitor lizards and legless lizards. Certain legless lizards actually do have 4 legs, but they did not develop on the outside of the body, suggesting either them losing the legs because of the non-need of them or development of legs. Monitors, come form lands where boa's and pythons are normally found. Which to me explains there more snakelike look the have.
The flightless birds of new zealand and surrounding islands, are another fine example. Thousands of years ago they settled the lands, no other predatory mammals and animals existed there. The only thing that flourished the land was bugs and other things.These birds did not feel threatened no more and spent all their time walking the grounds free and picking at food. Now these same birds have lost the use of these wings. Which is why most are extinct or are nearing extinction now. (IE; the dodo bird)
The platypus is a sign of signifigant changes in evolution. Remember this also exist on a land of other unusual creatures and even marsupials, which only exist in austrailia. Which was pre-mammal, if i recall.
To me all these things suggest that evolution is not fiction, but fact.
Sorry for a another long post, like i said before i read all that i can about evolution and earlier animals.
Oh, and one more thing since my news just reminded me at the end of this post. They have recently found male fish, that carry eggs in ohio...... Mutation or evolution??? Really what is evolution anyways? its nothing, but a mere mutation....
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