Guess that statement furthers the idea of evolution

hmmmmm

See why I don't believe in evolution...


I would never throw poo at anyone....




I love everyone.....gigglesnort.....for mahan....

There is a theory that women share 98% of the genes for producing milk.....hmmmmmmmm so now I come from a cow......

NOW THIS I TOTALLY WILL BY

Actually the majority of the world's milk drinkers drink goats milk so I think your picture needs to be redone.

who can explain the platypus????? I NEVER understood that one

No one ever said evolution was perfect.

lol ok...so it evolved into that??? what was mating with what? hey my grandmother likes to say that God played an april fools joke with it. or maybe it was a creation gone amuck

still don't get what it is lol

that is something that I don't think either side can figure out lol

Be it from creation or evolution, it's oddities serve it well.

Platypus

All fossils found of it are essentially the same as today’s living creatures. It certainly shows no signs of evolution. Its only significant change seems to have been to lose some teeth and shrink in size. Indeed, evolutionary scientists are baffled about the ancestry of the platypus. They openly admit that nothing is known about its history that can explain its geographical distribution. But then, all they had to go on until 1984 were two teeth, a jaw fragment, a hip-bone from the deserts of north-eastern South Australia, and a skull from north-western Queensland, over 1,200 kilometres away.


Creation, Flood, Fossils

So what has been the history of the platypus? Where did it come from? We are told that God created water creatures on Day Five and the land animals on Day Six of Creation week, so the first platypuses, even though not mentioned by name, were obviously included. And we know they survived Noah’s Flood, because God sent two of every kind of land animal to Noah’s Ark and water creatures didn’t need to go. It is most likely however, that Noah had a pair of platypuses on board his Ark, since even though they are water dwellers, it is unlikely the platypuses would have survived the raging flood waters. How did the platypuses get to Australia after Noah’s Flood? If they were on the Ark they obviously swam and walked here from Mt. Ararat. This would have taken years, even centuries. The platypuses could have used any land bridges that existed between Asia and Australia as a result of the drastic lowering of sea level during the ice age subsequent to the Flood. But once the ice age ended and the land bridges disappeared, the platypuses were left to thrive in isolation on their island continent home.

Magnificent Design

Some of the most marvelous engineering in God’s creation can be seen in this shy ball of fur. When under water the platypus catches its food with its ears and eyes firmly shut. They are enclosed in a facial furrow. So how does it find food on the murky river beds? Platypuses don’t stay under water long to collect food; only a minute or two before surfacing. Then another minute or two at the surface to sort and chew its food, which it holds in large cheek pouches, before diving again. This feeding process may total 12 hours a day.

Researchers didn’t even know this was such a puzzle until recently. It was assumed that the dumb platypus hadn’t ‘evolved’ far enough to be a smart food collector and he simply blundered along stream beds, swamps or ponds, grabbing any potluck delicacies he came across.

I just don't get the platypus at all.

I'm sure there is a reason for it...but it just makes ya wanna say hmmmmmmmmmmm

so they always looked like that???

The evolution of a platypus is quite complex. Too long to actually post here, yet if you are truly interested in its history then go to this site.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7192/full/nature06936.html

I was actually trying to lighten the mood some.

Platypus' are members of the monotremes family of mammals. It is the only mammal known to have a sense of electroreception: they locate their prey in part by detecting electric fields generated by muscular contractions. Modern monotremes are the survivors of an early branching of the mammal tree; a later branching is thought to have led to the marsupial and placental groups.

ok ok ok ...i'm sorry. I was just joking. trying to get my mind off of things and act silly

forget the platypus...it's a figment of your imagination

Because of the early divergence from the therian mammals and the low numbers of extant monotreme species, it is a frequent subject of research in evolutionary biology.

In 2004, researchers at the Australian National University discovered the Platypus has ten sex chromosomes, compared with two (XY) in most other mammals (for instance, a male Platypus is always XYXYXYXYXY). Although given the XY designation of mammals, the sex chromosomes of the Platypus are more similar to the ZZ/ZW sex chromosomes found in birds.

The platypus genome also has both reptilian and mammalian genes associated with egg fertilisation.

It also lacks the mammalian sex-determining gene SRY, meaning that the process of sex determination in the Platypus remains unknown.

A draft version of the platypus genome sequence was published in Nature on 8 May 2008, revealing both reptilian and mammalian elements, as well as two genes found previously only in birds, amphibians and fish.

More than 80% of the Platypus' genes are common to the other mammals whose genomes have been sequenced and the study has (proved) that the platypus was the first species to diverge from reptile to mammal.


Here it says that their is (proof) that a platypus was the first species to change from a reptile species into a mammal.

Wouldn't that go against Creationist idealogy?

The information comes from Wikipedia.

what have I done??? I don't know my own strength