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... links appear with fully formed features. I'd suggest you read up on Tiktaalik ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik ), a species of lobe-finned fish that's about as close to a half-fish/half-amphibian as you can wish for. To claim that the fossil record is inconsistent with current ...

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... else, so chemists go with it even though some parts of it seem downright weird. p-orbitals are a perfect example. The p-orbital exists in two lobes projecting in opposite directions from the nucleus, with a gap in the center. Somehow, an electron is capable of crossing from one lobe to the ...

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... or system being gradually adapted for something completely different from its original purpose. Tetrapod limbs, evolved from the paired fins of lobe-finned fish, is one such example. The biggest problem I have with ID theory is that it seems to paint a picture of a creator who's indecisive and ...

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... or system being gradually adapted for something completely different from its original purpose. Tetrapod limbs, evolved from the paired fins of lobe-finned fish, is one such example. The biggest problem I have with ID theory is that it seems to paint a picture of a creator who's indecisive and ...

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... fish today (such as gar) still have lungs while in other fish the lungs evolved into the swim bladder. As for limbs, the bone structure of lobe-finned fish is almost identical to that of terrestrial vertebrates, and thus a clear evolutionary ancestor. Add to this the existence of "missing ...

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