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Photo: Giant Lungless Worm Found Living on Land - 11/20/2009 11:05:52 AM   
Brain


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Status: offline 		This must be an example of evolution unless this is an alien creature or maybe it was on Noah's Ark and nobody noticed it.

Photo: Giant Lungless Worm Found Living on Land
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/52020376.html
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RE: Photo: Giant Lungless Worm Found Living on Land - 11/20/2009 11:23:18 AM   
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Photo: Giant Lungless Worm Found Living on Land










You knew this was coming, didn't you?




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RE: Photo: Giant Lungless Worm Found Living on Land - 11/20/2009 11:38:24 AM   
Brain


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This is the question, So is Rush Limbaugh an alien or is he an example of evolution?

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RE: Photo: Giant Lungless Worm Found Living on Land - 11/20/2009 12:50:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		It isnt a worm.  Just a legless amphibian that lives in the tropics.  (worms dont have backbones, this animal is a vertebrate.)  It is lungless because there is enough moisture where it lives so that it can absorb Oxygen thru its skin and the lining of its mouth.  The amount of Oxygen absorbed this way is low but the animal is small and has a slow metabolism so O2 utilization is very low.

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RE: Photo: Giant Lungless Worm Found Living on Land - 11/20/2009 1:28:19 PM   
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It isnt a worm.  Just a legless amphibian that lives in the tropics.  (worms dont have backbones, this animal is a vertebrate.)  It is lungless because there is enough moisture where it lives so that it can absorb Oxygen thru its skin and the lining of its mouth.  The amount of Oxygen absorbed this way is low but the animal is small and has a slow metabolism so O2 utilization is very low.



uh....that was in response to Brain's first post, or his second?

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RE: Photo: Giant Lungless Worm Found Living on Land - 11/20/2009 1:31:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		First, I think. If Limbaugh didn't have lungs he'd have had trouble getting a job where he's paid to shout shit all the time.

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RE: Photo: Giant Lungless Worm Found Living on Land - 11/20/2009 1:37:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		Thank you for clarifying the matter and I would like to add, in my opinion, it is a great example of evolution based on this creature living in a moist environment. It is an excellent example of what can happen over the course of time or billions of years of evolution.

This is really interesting too, at least to me anyway:

I think the universe expands for 30 billion or 50 billion years or maybe even 100 billion years. And then it contracts until it is infinitesimally small as described in this video. And then I think it hibernates/sleeps like a polar bear or squirrel in the "winter". That's my theory anyway, if anybody can pass this thought on to Stephen Hawking or some other physics professor, please do so if you think they might be interested.

YouTube - First Second Of The Universe
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RE: Photo: Giant Lungless Worm Found Living on Land - 11/20/2009 1:41:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		The terrible thing is that such extreme examples have to be resorted to as demonstrations of evolution in action. You'd think that there's a lot more examples a lot closer to home that could be cited. You know, the appendix, wisdom teeth, New York TB, the fact that you need a new flu jab every year, like that.
(Nice pictures, though.)

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RE: Photo: Giant Lungless Worm Found Living on Land - 11/20/2009 2:58:56 PM   
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I would like to add, in my opinion, it is a great example of evolution based on this creature living in a moist environment.


I hope, if I'm ever in a high stakes argument, that you aren't on my side, even if you agree with me.

That's hardly an argument. It's just as easily "proof" of intelligent design.

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RE: Photo: Giant Lungless Worm Found Living on Land - 11/20/2009 3:07:41 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

The terrible thing is that such extreme examples have to be resorted to as demonstrations of evolution in action. You'd think that there's a lot more examples a lot closer to home that could be cited. You know, the appendix, wisdom teeth, New York TB, the fact that you need a new flu jab every year, like that.
(Nice pictures, though.)


Remove appenidx from that list. You may have missed that it is no longer considered a useless appendage. They have identified its function in storing bacteria should it be needed in the intestinal tract, and has evolved in other animals as well.

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RE: Photo: Giant Lungless Worm Found Living on Land - 11/20/2009 3:34:50 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead

The terrible thing is that such extreme examples have to be resorted to as demonstrations of evolution in action. You'd think that there's a lot more examples a lot closer to home that could be cited. You know, the appendix, wisdom teeth, New York TB, the fact that you need a new flu jab every year, like that.
(Nice pictures, though.)


Remove appenidx from that list. You may have missed that it is no longer considered a useless appendage. They have identified its function in storing bacteria should it be needed in the intestinal tract, and has evolved in other animals as well.

Actually you are quite incorrect. The appendix is a very good example of evolution. It is apparently the greatly reduced vestige of the cecum which our herbivorous ancestors would have needed as seen in the other great apes. With our more omnivorous diet and the loss of the need to digest high cellulose items like leaves we evolved the much smaller appendix.

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