Check this out, "Intelligent Designer" Fans:

[spindrifter]

Discovered: the missing link that solves a mystery of evolution

Alok Jha, science correspondent
Thursday April 6, 2006
The Guardian

Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago.
Palaeontologists have said that the find, a crocodile-like animal called the Tiktaalik roseae and described today in the journal Nature, could become an icon of evolution in action - like Archaeopteryx, the famous fossil that bridged the gap between reptiles and birds.

As such, it will be a blow to proponents of intelligent design, who claim that the many gaps in the fossil record show evidence of some higher power.

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Scientists have previously been able to trace the transition of fish into limbed animals only crudely over the millions of years they anticipate the process took place. They suspected that an animal which bridged the gap between fish and land-based tetrapods must have existed - but, until now, there had been scant evidence of one.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1747926,00.html

[silverweb]

1. NONONONONO!!

IT'S A TRICK!!

SATAN planted that fossil in that place to be discovered at this time to test the faith of the faithful!

Pay no attention to those heathen scientist demon tricksters!

:sarcasm:

[spindrifter]

3. I know--they will say it's another

Piltdown hoax!:banghead:

[joemurphy]

4. I wonder what species of life form the IDers evolved from?

Perhaps the Neanderthals?

[spindrifter]

6. No--not that intelligent.

[rpannier]

8. I know for a fact you are correct.

I was on a boat fishing with Jeeeeesus and Moses when we saw a red guy with horns, goats legs, a goatee and a pitchfork putting something that looked like the fossilized remains of a croc-looking thing near the water.

[silverweb]

12. I knew it!

:D

[DefenseLawyer]

10. If it is not a trick then I'm sure

Adam and Eve must have frolicked with this "walking fish" in the Garden of Eden. I think it's in the Bible.

[BeyondThePale]

2. It won't be a "big blow" to proponents of ID...

There is plenty of evidence already and none has swayed them. They are frightened children -- no amount of scientific evidence will change their narrow minds.

[realisticphish]

5. Nope

they'll do what they always do...


"Well, where's the transitional fossil between this supposed link and the fish? And the transitional fossil between this find and land animals?"

and around and around it goes... We find one link, and all we've done is given them two more spaces that they demand we fill. At this point, I say fuck 'em :shrug:

[0rganism]

7. Creationists have made an art, even a science, out of moving goalposts

I am astounded at their persistence and determination in the face of the wonders of modern biology.

[Crunchy Frog]

9. Here's the transitional form

between this creature and land animals.

[realisticphish]

11. Oh yeah?

so how did that change into a monkey? and why are there still monkeys, smart guy?

:P

[Ladyhawk]

13. You're good at this...LOL! n/t

[Crunchy Frog]

14. I'm a gal not a guy.

But really, it's amazing how similar the skull of this creature is to the one above.



Anyway, we still have monkeys because God needs one in the Whitehouse to bring about His kingdom on Earth.:P

[realisticphish]

15. Sorry, ma'am

and Satan made that skull so we would think it was evolution (but it really wasn't. It was Satan)

[PublicWrath]

20. Or maybe God made the world "perfect" including a faux fossil history

Didn't they try that one (or some such nonsense) in the 19th century, when evolution started becoming a problem for them? And said Adam was created "perfect" and had a navel even though he had no mother? Something like that.

[Sydnie]

22. Is that a picture of the fossil on the right?

[rpannier]

21. They look totally different

One's got skin, the other one is just bones.

[misternormal]

16. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain !!!

[dweller]

17. Tiktaalik

i don't know, just fun saying it.

dp

[leftofthedial]

18. but but but but

that is impossible, since everything was created by magic 6000 years ago, so nothing existed 375 million years ago, except in your phony "science."

[longship]

19. Sorry, guy. That doesn't help Evilution!!

Now you've got two gaps where there was only one before. So this makes it worse.
Face it. The more evilutionists find, the more evidence that our great Jeebus is Lo-ard.
:sarcasm:

[Warren DeMontague]

23. "NAaaa NAAAA NAAAAA I CAN'T HeeeEEEAAAARRR YOOUUUU!!!"