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Tiktaalik
Fins to feet fairy tale
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It was definitely the biggest adventure of my life...
Neil Shubin - HHMI BioInteractive: Tiktaalik and the Fossil Record
Tiktaalik serves as a prime example of evolution propaganda. The world of mainstream science presents a fully metaphysical fairy tale as science to the world. According to Sci-News it is labeled "the best-known transitional species between fish and land-dwelling tetrapods". The HHMI BioInteractive promotional video reveals a lot about the people behind Tiktaalik. Neil Shubin is the evolution crackpot who discovered it. In this video, also published by PBS under the title 'Amazing Places, Amazing Fossils,' he says "we dug, hoping to find the fossils we were looking for." In another video called on the Evolutionary Step from Sea to Land, after explaining how intrigued he was by the fantastic evolutionary just-so story of water-to-land evolution he said "my goal was to find new evidence that tells us about how it happened". It is obvious that evolutionists like Neil desperately hope to find transitional fossils, they always did. The University of Chicago payed "professor" Shubin to make expeditions to the Canadian Arctic in order to find something like this. But as William James wrote...
William James - The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
That the belief in evolution will help create the "facts" for evolution is the result of paradigm paralysis. Check the following fanatic evolutionist promoting the fantastic fairy tale called Tiktaalik...
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BBC - David Attenborough's Rise of the Animals: Tiktaalik's First Steps
And here's how mainstream science organizations treat evolution crackpots like Neil...
Calling the three-part, prime-time PBS special Your Inner Fish an "enthralling examination of the ancient animal ancestry in the fossil record and in our own bodies," the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine named Neil Shubin, the Robert R. Bensley professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago. ... "We enjoyed an embarrassment of riches this year, with outstanding entries representing a tremendous diversity of scientific subjects," said May Berenbaum, NAS member and chair of the communication awards selection committee, and professor and head of entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "Choosing the best among the best was difficult but the winners are exemplars of how excellent popular science writing can make complex science understandable, relevant, and thoroughly engaging." ... Your Inner Fish has also been nominated for two Emmy awards, for graphics and for science.
UChicago - Neil Shubin's Your Inner Fish TV series swims on (September 9, 2015)
This is how the world of mainstream science functions and operates. Today computer generated images of Super-Tiktaaliks fly out of the water with a narrator saying things like "primitive air breathing lungs kick in, simple wristbones propel them off the ground, this amazing creature is the first vertebrate to walk on land" with heavy music in the background to make it all very impressive. So obviously this evolutionary fairy tale is presented as yet another fact of evolution to the world by the world of mainstream science. The Smithsonian has an article titled 'Did the Evolution of Animal Intelligence Begin With Tiktaalik?'. It says that "Tiktaalik roseae had fish-like fins, a flattened skull similar to a crocodile". This simply reminds us of the fact that Tiktaalik, like all imagined transitional forms, is based on metaphysics. This is of course obvious in all these kind of propaganda videos so heavily promoted by mainstream science...
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UChicago Medicine - Neil Shubin discusses the hind fin of Tiktaalik
Berkeley - What has the head of a crocodile and the gills of a fish?
In a video called 'Your Inner Fish part 1' "professor" Neil Shubin says "There are deep connections among all life forms on this planet". In 'Your Inner Fish part 2' he goes on to explain that "a human arm resembles the fin of a fish". Yes, and a banana looks more like a boomerang than like a frisbee and therefore it is more closely related to the boomerang, right? Similarities and differences simply don't mean anything. It's pure metaphysics. Everything evolutionary "professor" Neil says comes down to similarities of this or that. The "University" of Chicago says "Tiktaalik has a mix of fish and amphibian traits. Tiktaalik looks like a cross between..." and "Tiktaalik shares anatomical features with both primitive fish and the first tetrapods". Pure metaphysics. Wikipedia says "many features akin to those of tetrapods". BBC says "Tiktaalik is considered pivotal because it has many features that look half-way between fish and land animals". The Guardian says "aquatic features mixed with others more suited to life on land". NPR says "Tiktaalik bridged the gap between sea living and land living creatures, and played an important evolutionary role on our journey to becoming human". This stuff of course reminds of frogs turning into princes. What is missing in all these fantastic fairy tales believed by so many around the world is of course the science because science can not offer any evidence for a transition from one unique species into another. So-called transitional forms are completely based on metaphysics.
Reality
Zachełmie tetrapod footprints in Poland
Nature - Tetrapod trackways from the early Middle Devonian period of Poland
The oldest known tracks of a four-limbed land animal could rewrite part of vertebrate evolution. ... This would mean that large, land-roaming tetrapods would have coexisted for 10 million years with the elpistostegids — including Tiktaalik roseae, which lived 375 million years ago — a group thought to mark the transition of from fish to land-roaming animals.
Nature - Discovery pushes back date of first four-legged animal (6 January 2010)
If the scientists behind this new research are correct then tetrapods evolved much earlier than we previously supposed, and what we have taken up till now as the general evolutionary sequence of forms in early tetrapod evolution are actually disparate forms which are part of a more complex radiation of early tetrapods. In this case, as the authors note, creatures like Tiktaalik did not quickly give way to early tetrapods but lived alongside them for 10 million years or more.
Brian Switek - Ancient tracks question ideas about tetrapod origins
Paleontologist Jennifer Clack said "we thought we'd pinned down the origin of limbed tetrapods, We have to rethink the whole thing". Nevertheless the evolution propaganda machine is working overtime to sell this fantastic metaphysical just-so story to the world as another one of its many so-called "facts" of evolution. And in the meantime evolution crackpots at for example the "University" of Chicago stick feathers up each other's asses.
Hardcore reality
Handfish
Handfish propel themselves by walking on the sea floor rather than swimming. Fossils from the Eocene show they haven't undergone any evolution for many millions of years. Gobies are so-called bottom-dwellers and they haven't undergone any evolution for at least 34 million years. It's cousin the mudskipper is a completely amphibious fish that can use its pectoral fins to walk on land. Another unique and completely functional animal.
Alligator gar
The alligator gar is a primitive ray-finned fish and has an alligator-like appearance and an elongated snout. Fossils from the Eocene show they haven't undergone any evolution for at least 47 million years. Other fish have flat heads. The Crocodilefish for example. All of them are fully functional and unique life forms.
Flying fish
Flying fish can make powerful, self-propelled leaps out of water into air, where their long, wing-like fins enable gliding flight for considerable distances above the water's surface. Another fully functional and unique animal. Their fossils from the Middle Cretaceous Cenomanian Stage show they haven't undergone any evolution for at least 95 million years! Etcetera. Evolutionists systematically leave out the most logical and scientific explanation, namely that newly found fossils are unique life forms unrelated to any other. Just a simple fact.
Extra...
A New Approach to Earth History - Tiktaalik roseae: a missing link?
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