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Sam Stone wrote:
> Trevor Wilson wrote:
> 
>>> them, among other evidence. "Micro-Evolution," or change of genes within
>>> species, is possible, however, as the breeding of dogs and the Bible 
>>> itself
>>> attest.
>>
>>
>>
>> **Altering of genes within a species, IS evolution.
> 
> 
> 
> Yes it is, and huge gaps in the fossil record belie claims of a complete 
>  evolutionary progression for many of the species known as native to 
> this planet.

Why is that so many so-called Christian educators, including the pastors 
consider it fair game to lie to their flocks about evolution?  Are they 
just willfully uninformed, or do they do it deliberately?

The fossil records for a given species may, or may not be, complete - 
but enough complete fossil records exist for enough species to prove 
that evolution exists and is at work all of the time.

Item:  "EVOLUTION OF MODERN CATS (SUMMARY)"
From:  http://www.messybeast.com/cat-prehistory.htm

Carnivorous mammals evolved from Miacids small pine marten-like 
insectivores that lived 60 million - 55 million years ago. The miacids 
split into two lines: Miacidae and Viverravidae. Miacidae gave rise to 
Arctoidea/Canoidea group (bears and dogs) while Viverravidae gave rise 
to Aeluroidea/Feloidea group (cats, hyenas, civets, mongooses) around 48 
million years ago. The Viverravidae also gave rise to a group called 
Nimravidae. The Nimravids were cat-like creatures that evolved in 
parallel with true cats; they are not part of true cat lineage and have 
left no living descendents."

Google on the word miacid for more.

Item:  Whales
From:  http://darla.neoucom.edu/DEPTS/ANAT/Whale.html
	http://darla.neoucom.edu/DEPTS/ANAT/Ambulocet.html

"Modern whales are fully aquatic mammals, i.e. they cannot live outside 
of water. Like other mammals they breathe air, give birth to live young 
that they nurse, and have hair in early stages of their development. 
Scientists usually use the word "whale" as a synonym for the order 
Cetacea, which includes dolphins and porpoises as well as whales. Modern 
cetaceans can be divided into two groups: mysticetes, or baleen whales, 
and odontocetes, or toothed whales (the group that includes sperm 
whales, dolphins, and porpoises). Cetaceans arose in the Eocene, 
approximately 50 million years ago and became fully aquatic in a few 
million years. Whale origins are well known from fossils. They document 
the transition from land to water and tell one of the most exciting 
stories in evolution."

Go look up that second link for Ambulocetidae - or google on Ambulocetidae.

Want to see evolution in action?  Go see:
http://www.flyingsnake.org/
(be sure to scroll down to the gliding movies)
http://www.accessexcellence.org/LC/TL/sly/sly_imgWin22.html
(for a flying lizard)
http://frogweb.org/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=10
(for Wallace's Flying Frog)

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Cheers,
Bama Brian
Libertarian