Duck Billed Platypus

Next time you see your husband, look him in the eyes and say the following.The platypus presents absolutely no problem for evolution.All proto mammals lay eggs. The echidnas, for example, is another early mammal that lay eggs. Why? Because proto mammals evolved from reptiles. While other mammals evolved to live bearing, the platypus along with other proto mammals never stopped laying eggs. Why? Because Australia was geographically isolated from the rest of the world very early on in the evolution of mammals.Again, there is nothing puzzling about the platypus. It is a proto mammal evolved to live in a relatively small niche. The "duckbill" is absolutely NOT a duckbill. It is wide mouth with leathery skin that resembles a duckbill. This is a perfect example of convergent evolution (if you don't know what this is, I'll explain). This is primarily an aquatic mammal that hunts for prey in the muck in the bottom of streams. Other than that, this thing is all mammal.Just look at the marsupials in Australia. Again, the continent became isolated fairly early on in the evolution of mammals. With really no other competition, these early mammals radiated into much of the same niche role as found in other parts of the world. There are the herd grazers, the predators, the ground hog type rodent roles... basically just a perfect example of adaptive radiation.

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The first specimen of the platypus was brought back to England in 1799, and it was considered as a fake. The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was published in 1859.So MartinV, with your cosmic wisdom, how many Darwinists do you think there were in 1799?

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I'm going to go into your trap here I guess.Strange enough, nobody noticed the parabolic motion of a projectile until Newton pointed it out. Strange enough, nobody noticed how off the Ptolemic model of the solar system was until Copernicus pointed it out. Strange enough, nobody noticed that you can't know the position and velocity of a quantum particle until Heisenberg pointed it out.What's your point? Actually, what has this got to do with the topic? Huh? What has this to do with the topic? How does this disprove evolution? Um... so what's your point?

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Occasionally, owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have used he/him/his meaning he or she/him or her/his or her in order to avoid awkwardness of style.

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He, him, and his are not intended as exclusively masculine pronouns. They may refer to either sex or to both sexes!

You should be careful when talking about evolutionary theory. For example, the quote above is an example of one of the most popular misconception of evolutionary theory. Just remember that every animal is "intermediate". Evolution isn't about one animal having a goal of evolving into another and somehow some got left behind in the middle. That's not evolution. That's a creationist strawman.

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That's ok. I'm just saying that we really have to be careful with our wordings. The creationistos aren't good at science. But they are very good at nitpicking your wordings. That's all they can do really.

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Owing to the deficiency of the English language, I have occasionally used the academic jargon generator to produce phrases that even I don't fully understand. The jargons are not meant to offend anyone or to insult anyone's intelligence!