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Author Topic:   Use of Science to Support Creationism
Gary
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Message 60 of 122 (107454)
05-11-2004 12:10 PM
Reply to: Message 54 by almeyda
05-11-2004 3:18 AM


Re: Oldest tree
Plants and animals both evolved together, but that doesn't mean trees have been around just as long as animals were.
Plants evolved over hundreds of millions of years, originally descending from green algae. There used to be, and still are, many types of green algae. The ones living on shorelines had to adapt to the more extreme climate, since they would be exposed to more light, heat, and dryness than normal seaweed. These plants evolved into the ones we have growing on land today, including trees.
Early land plants were probably bryophytes, nonvascular mosses and lichens, and later on, ferns. Most of our oil comes from various ferns and related plants that prospered during the Carboniferous period. From these, conifers evolved, and from those, angiosperms (flowering plants) evolved, about 125 million years ago. Many plants coevolved with animals (flowers and bees, for example) or with other life forms such as fungi (lichen).
Here is some information on plant evolution:
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http://www.mansfield.ohio-state.edu/~sabedon/biol3060.htm

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Gary
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Message 122 of 122 (155309)
11-02-2004 10:00 PM
Reply to: Message 109 by Cold Foreign Object
10-30-2004 9:46 PM


Re: Original title: Asking for a clarification from Creationists.
quote:
Why is human evolution alleged as proven fact based upon a paucity of physical fossil evidence ?
Millions of years to get erect yet an amount of disputed body of evidence that could fit into a medium sized box at best = so much based on so little = irrational belief not supported by the evidence.
I think I replied to you a few weeks ago on this very subject. Why must you ignore things just because they are rare? While I believe your "medium sized box" analogy is a bit flawed, I am willing to admit that the fossils are few and far between when compared to other types of animals. However, saying that the fossils are rare and just ignoring them does not explain their existance.
Willowtree, how would you explain the existance of these fossils, however uncommon, if they did not arise by evolution? Keep in mind that dozens of skeletons and artifacts have been found from early Homo sapiens, Neanderthals, Homo erectus, and many others, many in quite good condition.

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