DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

 

• Developmental Plasticity and the Origin of Tetrapods

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• Board discussion link: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1082479/pg4#pid19763702

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• http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2014/08/27/walking-fish-raised-on-land-mimic-ancient-evolutionary-transition/

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• Your Brain Evolved from Bacteria

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• http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/your-brain-evolved-from-bacteria/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciam%2Fevolution+%28Topic%3A+Evolution%29

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• From fish to man: Research reveals how fins became legs

• http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-12/cp-fft120412.php

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• 10 Popular Fallacies and Misconceptions About Evolution

• Thread link: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1028024/pg1#pid18302337

• Contributed by krazysh0t

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• Evidence for Evolution - https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=evidence+for+evolution&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

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• C-14 dating is unreliable and therefore cannot be trusted - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating#Modern_dating_methods

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• Evolution Violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics

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• Evolution doesn't adequately explain the origin of life - http://atheism.about.com/od/evolutionabiogenesis/a/evolution.htm

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• Mutations are only harmful -

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation

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• Evolution has never been observed - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._coli_long-term_evolution_experiment

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• http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/community/about/index.html

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• Evolution doesn't answer such and such question about the universe and the origin of life -

• No scientific theory answers 100% of the questions in science. Sorry I don't have a link for this one, but it is just so absurd that it doesn't really need one. If you find a theory or idea that claims to answer every question imaginable (religion) then it is HIGHLY suspect. The idea of science is that it works to answer a question, but then when that question is answered many new questions appear that the scientists then work to answer. It is an infinite process, but it certainly doesn't discredit the information gained and answers to questions that it does answer.

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• Evolution is just a theory - http://www.livescience.com/21491-what-is-a-scientific-theory-definition-of-theory.html

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• Evolution doesn't explain the diversity of life on the planet - http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover.html

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursion

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• Any number of hoaxes about evolution (ex: piltdown man) -

• Ok, unfortunately this one won't have any links either because it is rather obvious. Thanks to the peer review process once a hoax is identified, it is removed from the scientific knowledge base and is no longer regarded as evidence for anything. HOWEVER, because a hoax exists is NOT proof that the prevailing theory that is for is also untrue. In order for that to be the case, ALL the evidence for that theory would have to be exposed as fradulent, and this is simply not the case for evolution. In fact new evidence surfaces all the time that proves evolution is true, while literally zero evidence surfaces that completely contradicts it.

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• Every now and then there is some evidence that shows that evolution doesn't work EXACTLY how we originally thought, but in this case we just modify the theory to account for the new information. An example of this would be the punctuated equilibrium idea that I posted in the last point. Originally evolution was thought to happen at the same rate across the species, but evidence kept surfacing that contradicted this account. So now, the theory was updated to include this and show that not all species evolve at the same rate. What DIDN'T happen however is that evolution was completely discredited by this new evidence.

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• From chicken to dinosaur: Scientists experimentally reverse the evolution of the perching toe

• 22 May 2015 Universidad de Chile

• http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=153027&CultureCode=en

• Board discussion link: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1082479/pg6#pid19771751

• Contributed by flyingfish

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