Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Crawling with transitional forms...

Creationists are fond of claiming that there is a lack of transitional fossils. Well here is another one:
Scientific American: From Jaw to Ear: Transition Fossil Reveals Ear Evolution in Action
Now hear this: early mammal fossil shows how sensitive ear bones evolved.

As Larry Martin said in response to creationist claims: "My drawers are crawling with transitional forms-" uh, meaning his fossil storage drawers of course.

2 comments:

e_journeys said...

Judging from this article, the other type of drawers may have been crawling with transitional forms, too...

(Might need (free) registration at the New York Times to view.)

Paul D. said...

ROFL...I sure hope not. But when I was at the University of Georgia a neighbor lady brought a very small insect for me to look at. I asked her where she got it and she said from her plants. Well one look with my magnifier told me it was not a normal insect on flowers. So I said S, now WHERE did you find this? She blushed and said "ummmm from my belly button?"

I should have my students read this time article.