Since nobody has yet; I'll throw this out there.
National Geographic News reported from the Field Museum’s John Bolt, a curator for fossil amphibians and reptiles:
Bolt, the Field Museum expert, cautioned that it is difficult to say for sure whether this creature was itself a common ancestor of the two modern groups, given that there is only one known specimen of Gerobatrachus, and an incomplete one at that.
“At this point I would say it is by no means certain that this is representative of a common ancestor to frogs and salamanders, although it might be,†Bolt said.
Bolt also says, intriguingly, “The most astonishing thing to me about this study is that this animal is far more froglike than I would ever have expected from its age. Nothing this nonprimitive has ever been described from this age. It's just amazing.â€Â
Our second thought is that it is possible that, assuming the incomplete fossil has been interpreted accurately and truly shares frog and salamander features (and such assumptions often fail to hold true), frogs and salamanders descended from the same amphibian kindâ€â€that is, selective pressures gradually exploited the genetic variation in an original amphibian kind, resulting in the two modern groupings. If not, it is possible God created an amphibian kind with features in common with both salamanders or frogs.
As always, though, Christians must separate the actual finding from the interpretation. There are several creation-based explanations for an incomplete fossil with salamander and frog features, but all too often, well-meaning Christians swallow the evolutionary propaganda whole, facts and worldview, without trusting God over man’s often-foolish speculation.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/article ... e-05242008
Deep Thought said:
BTW, those Bible prophecies are a joke. Please count how many of them relate to the last hundred years. The author clearly needs to take a course in basic logic, science and statistics.
Did you see the last part? A 1/10 chance of the son of God dying :-?
