[In reference to a 'dinosaur shark' found in Japanese waters]
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macro evolution is a lie.
That's a pretty bold assertion after just one specimen of the "dinasour" shark.
Jumping to Conclusions and Getting Foot Stuck in Mouth award.
"Seriously, evolution is not a gradient..."
Nor is it compulsory if you've got an undisturbed niche that works
"It is interesting that this “dinasour” in the fossel record believed by naive people to have been fossilized 50,000,000 years ago, and now it is the same creature found alive today."
Never heard of a living fossil I see.
"Why didn’t it evolve into something else? Because macro evolution is a lie."
Two reasons: either it was/is superbly adapted to it's environment to the point that natural selection no longer supplies sufficient pressure to adapt or, like the modern Celocanth, it is superficially identical to the fossil species but is, in fact, a closely related species/genus and not the creature found in the fossil record.
Macro evolution, by the way, is most certainly not a lie. I'll propose what I always propose when I hear such stupidity: If micro evolution is possible but macro evolution is not, kindly explain why many, many, many such micro evolutions cannot compound into a macro evolution. Identify the mechanism that prevents such a thing from occurring and explain how it work. In detail. Support your claim with objective, verifiable, scientific evidence.
Evolution isn't a ladder, where everything moves "up" - whatever "up" means. Horseshoe crabs don't look much different than they looked 300 million years ago. Humans look very different from their ancestors only a few million years ago. If something works, evolution keeps it. If it doesn't, evolution changes it.
"Why didn’t it evolve into something else? Because macro evolution is a lie."
Holy shit, finally! Hard proof!
Why didn't it evolve into something else?
It probably did evolve into something else. It just so happens that the original species didn't go extinct.
Fossilization happens to ANY ancient bones, not just those of extinct species, you nut.
"macro evolution is a lie."
Correct, as the term "macro evolution" does not exist. Dividing the theory of evolution into "micro" and "macro" evolution is splitting hairs and not to mention really fucking retarded.
Because it filled an evolutionary niche that didn't change.
Like cups. Cups have not changed a great deal since man invented them.
Think of the shark as a cup.
Confused?
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