{"id":2885,"date":"2008-05-08T20:52:16","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T02:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/platypus-is-living-transitional\/"},"modified":"2016-04-13T18:41:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T00:41:03","slug":"platypus-is-living-transitional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/platypus-is-living-transitional\/","title":{"rendered":"Platypus is Living Transitional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/platypus.jpg\" title=\"platypus.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/platypus.jpg\" alt=\"platypus.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oxford University decodes the platypus genome and finds it to be a mix of bird, reptile and lactating mammal.  YAHOO NEWS SOURCE<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s so exciting about that? It has to do with the ongoing Evolution vs. Creation and Intelligent Design debates. (I use the word &#8220;debates&#8221; lightly).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Creation theory and ID proponents usually state that all species are designed by a creator as is and without change &#8211; and evolution states that species change over time. If species change, then there must be &#8220;transitional&#8221; species that show one species changing to another. Or at least an indication of it.<\/p>\n<p>One of the famous (and ludicrous) and common creationist statements is: &#8220;If evolution is true, why don&#8217;t we see monkeys with wings.&#8221; In other words, where are the transitional forms?<\/p>\n<p>Well here&#8217;s one: the platypus.<\/p>\n<p>How odd is the platypus? In the 19th century taxidermists that received platypus thought they were a joke &#8211; a stitching together of several different animals. And in a way they are.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is impossible to use logic to change a belief reached without it.&#8221; If this information DID appease creationists &#8211; the debates would have been over a hundred years ago.<\/p>\n<p>I run several forums for public discussion of evolution vs. creation. It is quite amazing to me, flabbergasting actually, how much information is put forth &#8211; and ignored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford University decodes the platypus genome and finds it to be a mix of bird, reptile and lactating mammal. YAHOO NEWS SOURCE What&#8217;s so exciting about that? It has to do with the ongoing Evolution vs. Creation and Intelligent Design debates. (I use the word &#8220;debates&#8221; lightly).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-Kx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6610,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2885\/revisions\/6610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}