Quote Originally Posted by Sledlude
^^ OH word.... another thing I forgot to mention.... vestigial body parts. As in organs or parts that we possess but have absolutely no use for, ie. coccyx (tailbone, as in, our progenitor had a tail), appendix (remnant of a cecum), also why do human embryos have gill slits? why do human embryos have tails? during embryonic development, it seems that our phylogenetic history is conserved.

And about the cholera paper--- as i said, skip to page 759, thats where it talks about these infectivity genes that the bacterium absorbed from bacteriophage (pathogenecity island).
The one that I found online was only 14 pages long - so I couldn't find p.759. Like I said, I can use help finding the right pdf.


Gills? Are you referring to Haeckel's biogenetic law? That was disproven back int he 1800's but still persists today.
Fact: Mammalian embryos never had gills in any sense of the word. The notion of gills is based upon the presence of four pharyngeal arches and pouches that bear a superficial resemblance to gills. While similar arches do give rise to gills in certain aquatic vertebrates such as fish, in mammals, these four arches and pouches develop into part of the face, muscles of mastication and facial expression, bones of the middle ear, and endocrine glands. They are not gills.

Appendix? If evolution is correc, then a tailed mammal without an appendix gave rise to a monkey with a tail but still without an appendix, which then gave rise to an ape without a tail but with an appendix, and then on to man where the appendix has developed to the extreme. See the problem with that scenario?

You are putting some pretty good questions up though. Keep it up.