What? :eek:
Which is closely related to my question. If you look at the animals that were around some time ago, it’s a different set of species from what we have now, and for each time interval that you go back, you get yet a different set of animals that were alive.
Did God create, then wipe out, then create again, and again and again? But he changed his design only in small steps each time! It’s as though God has been tweaking his designs, making small changes at each step, as he learns what works better and what’s not so good.
Is your explanation something like that, reef shark?
But then the mistery grows.
Dinosaurs/birds are better designed than mammals. Better eyes, better bones, better oxygen-to-muscle systems.
Which stands to reason as they were created after mammals.
Why then would God (nearly) wipe out the later, better design to let the older mammal design repopulate earth?
Those raptors were just too clever for their own good, they kept kept flanking him, it made him mad.
Once again, it is marked as a transitional creature.
And once again, it is not only that one, it is clear that you still think there are no transitional fossils so I think you are not here to see the evidence but only to proselytize.
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Don’t we mammals have better noses and better reproductive systems, at least? Are there any other advantages for mammals? The placenta has got to count for something.
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6 pages in one day? I think this thread counts as a post-bumping exercise. =P
Do we?
Vultures, for instance, have excellent smell.
Have you ever seen birds copulate? It’s over in a second.
What exactly is the huge advantage of long pregnancy + live-birth + care for young over short pregnancy + care for eggs + care for young?
I think a lot of women would rather lay an egg that came out more easily than a baby.
Joshua, when the walls fell.
Laying eggs is less stressful on the mother but giving birth to live young means less danger from predators and weather. If you’d like to read more about it, I found this article on the subject.
But that’s a disadvantage. The pumping action with humans serves the function of removing sperm from other males, therefore giving a better chance of passing on the genes of the male who does the pumping.
Plus, it’s kinda nice.
Hell, if an omnipotent god actually created us and wanted us to know of its existence and what it wants from us, I don’t see why we wouldn’t simply be born with that knowledge.
Gilgamesh and Enkidu, at Uruk.
Interesting, thanks.
But the article itself is not so sure about the advantages of live birth.
The one convincing advantage is , as you mentioned, temperature control.
A womb can keep a more regular temperature than an egg in the cold or heat.
I don’t see how protection from predators is easier. Both still need a nest/denn and protection by the parents. In the case of eggs both parents can protect the eggs. The highly pregnant mammal female would be at a disadvantage, I would say.
Although she is still more mobile than an egg, to get away from danger.
What the article seems to be saying is that it just kind of happens. Sometimes eggs stay inside longer and longer.
Well, if one were clearly advantageous over the other, you’d think the disadvantaged form would go extinct, no?
No, why would it?
Only if they were in direct competition over sources, in an area they couldn’t escape.
There are still plenty of ‘lower’ lifeforms around, despite there being vastly more efficient creatures.
Oh, hang on. I interpreted that wrongly, I think.
You’re saying there isn’t a clear advantage.
Anyway, isn’t this vastly more interesting than: “And on the fifth day god created birds.”