Crocoduck Fossil Found in Peru

[Iason Ouabache]

http://chaoskeptic.blogspot.com/2009/03/crocoduck-fossil-discovered-in-peru.html

I'm sure many of you have seen the footage of bone-headed Creationist Kirk Cameron on the O'RLY Show saying that if evolution was true we'd find a crocoduck in the fossil record. Since we haven't found a crocoduck, that means that God wins. Well, it appears that Mr. Cameron will now have to eat his words:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_PERU_FOSSIL?SITE=FLROC

The unusually intact fossilized skull of a giant, bony-toothed seabird that lived up to 10 million years ago was found on Peru's arid southern coast, researchers said Friday.

The fossil is the best-preserved cranium ever found of a pelagornithid, a family of large seabirds believed to have gone extinct some 3 million years ago, said Rodolfo Salas, head of vertebrate paleontology at Peru's National History Museum...

With fossils discovered in North America, North Africa and even Antarctica, Kepska said, the birds were ubiquitous only a few million years before humans evolved and scientists puzzle over why they died out. Some believe they are related to gannets and pelicans, while other say they are related to ducks.

I can't wait to hear what his reaction to this story will be.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That's almost like a fucking masterful joke by Cameron's god. 

[Cain]

I'm pretty sure I ate something like that in the soup once...

[Vene]

I can't wait to hear what his reaction to this story will be.

Same here, I eagerly await some lulz, maybe even a little bit of horrormirth if we're lucky.

[Kai]

This is PERFECT. 

[Template]

The fossil record is the devil's nefarious fabrication, anyways.

Someone should cook up a "concerned" e-mail and send it, but that's my prediction.

[Kai]

If then the geological record be as imperfect as I believe it to be, and it may at least be asserted that the record cannot be proved to be much more perfect, the main objections to the theory of natural selection are greatly diminished or disappear. On the other hand, all the chief laws of paleontology plainly proclaim, as it seems to me, that species have been produced by ordinary generation; old forms having been supplanted by new and improved forms of life, produced by the laws of variation still acting round us, and preserved by Natural Selection.

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If then the geological record be as imperfect as I believe it to be, and it may at least be asserted that the record cannot be proved to be much more perfect, the main objections to the theory of natural selection are greatly diminished or disappear. On the other hand, all the chief laws of paleontology plainly proclaim, as it seems to me, that species have been produced by ordinary generation; old forms having been supplanted by new and improved forms of life, produced by the laws of variation still acting round us, and preserved by Natural Selection.

Sweet quote.  Who do you hope to persuade with good ideas?  Smart people?

[Kai]

If then the geological record be as imperfect as I believe it to be, and it may at least be asserted that the record cannot be proved to be much more perfect, the main objections to the theory of natural selection are greatly diminished or disappear. On the other hand, all the chief laws of paleontology plainly proclaim, as it seems to me, that species have been produced by ordinary generation; old forms having been supplanted by new and improved forms of life, produced by the laws of variation still acting round us, and preserved by Natural Selection.

Sweet quote.  Who do you hope to persuade with good ideas?  Smart people?

Darwin wrote that, more than 150 years ago.

[Template]

If then the geological record be as imperfect as I believe it to be, and it may at least be asserted that the record cannot be proved to be much more perfect, the main objections to the theory of natural selection are greatly diminished or disappear. On the other hand, all the chief laws of paleontology plainly proclaim, as it seems to me, that species have been produced by ordinary generation; old forms having been supplanted by new and improved forms of life, produced by the laws of variation still acting round us, and preserved by Natural Selection.

Sweet quote.  Who do you hope to persuade with good ideas?  Smart people?

Darwin wrote that, more than 150 years ago.

I knew Darwin wrote it. (90% confident, at least)  For some reason, I thought it was a reply to my post.

[Kai]

You said something about the fossil record. I was thinking about Darwin's chapter in On the Origin about the Geologic Record. Therefore, quote got posted.


Heh, 90% confident. With a significance level of 0.1?

[Thurnez Isa]

Listen through out the fossil record you don't find that transitional fossil...  The Crocoduckfrog..
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[fomenter]

the crocoduck is the perfect food it fits easily in the human hand and is delicious and filled with nutrients
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[LMNO]

The crocoduck was created by God to fuck with archeologists.
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[Kai]

 

Fundamentalism is line shifting. Science shows you're an idiot? Shift the lines a little. No one likes your bigotry anymore? Shift the lines a little. Still hate fags but don't want to give up mixed fibers? Shift the lines a little. Apocalypse didn't come when you predicted? Shift the lines a little.