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Hello Linda,

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I think we need to move this discussion to one fo RAZD's threads and discuss what evolution actually is.
But they don't want to know the truth. They would rather ignore the real evidence, as CTD does when he focuses on the difference in size and completely ignores the difference in lung scales. It's called cognitive dissonance.

Enjoy.
I'm not ignoring this claim - I just can't verify anything about it. I don't have the book, I don't find any references to scales in lungs beyond this source. They sound fairly antifunctional, and I'd expect them to cause quite a hub-bub if they could be substantiated. Obtaining a contemporary fish to study shouldn't be out of the question, but obtaining soft tissue from the old fossils is mighty iffy.

Until we have details on the claim, what's to discuss?

I did find this during my search:
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In 1992, Keith Stewart Thomson wrote in the American Zoologist that:

While the origins of major morphological novelties remain unsolved, one can also view the stubborn persistence of macroevolutionary questioning...as a challenge to orthodoxy: resistance to the view that the synthetic theory tells us everything we need to know about evolutionary processes.

But the bulk of Glen Morton's argument was about size, and this is just the kind of bogus argument one expects. Catfish aren't the only fish to come in many sizes; it's very commonly the case with fishes. Yet we see the mainstream attempting to downplay & suppress this fact because they need to sell size as a product of evolution.

Will what I actually posted be ignored? Is anyone going to concede that Glen Morton is incorrect, or offer counter-arguments in favor of his assertions? Is there a single creationist present who doesn't already have a good idea what to expect?

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