Thursday, March 15, 2007
Another "God Gap" Filled
American and Chinese paleontologists discovered a new mammal, Yanoconodon, that lived in what is now China during the Mesozoic Era (125 MYA). According to the Science Daily report, the mammal "...provides first-hand evidence of early evolution of the mammalian middle ear..."
H. Richard Lane, the program director of the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences, is quoted as saying: "This early mammalian ear...reinforces the idea that development of complex body parts can be explained by evolution, using exquisitely preserved fossils."
Another strike against irreducible complexity!
And, since the "...middle ear structure...is an intermediate step between those of modern mammals and those of near relatives of mammals..." (mammaliaforms), so much for "gaps" in the evolutionary record or a lack of "transitional" forms (also, see my comments on Tiktaalik, below).
Yanoconodon and Tiktaalik. The gaps are disappearing, and irreducible complexity is just irreducibly silly. I wonder what lies the ID/creationists will tell to explain these away?
H. Richard Lane, the program director of the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences, is quoted as saying: "This early mammalian ear...reinforces the idea that development of complex body parts can be explained by evolution, using exquisitely preserved fossils."
Another strike against irreducible complexity!
And, since the "...middle ear structure...is an intermediate step between those of modern mammals and those of near relatives of mammals..." (mammaliaforms), so much for "gaps" in the evolutionary record or a lack of "transitional" forms (also, see my comments on Tiktaalik, below).
Yanoconodon and Tiktaalik. The gaps are disappearing, and irreducible complexity is just irreducibly silly. I wonder what lies the ID/creationists will tell to explain these away?
