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Date Posted: 23:11:43 11/27/03 Thu
Author: LionhearT
Subject: Re: Out of Body

The beings you call spirit guides are nothing more than demons. You should not be tampering with the suoer natural.
But thats ok,I'll let God tell you;)

Evolutionists would have us believe that all living things are related to each other: that fish became amphibians, and amphibians became reptiles, then some became birds, others mammals … etc. So when Three Dog Night sang ‘Jeremiah was a bullfrog’, the band could have been mistaken for making an evolutionary statement. Yet, in reality, evolutionists do believe that we have, if not frogs, some other amphibian in our ‘evolutionary ancestry’: that frogs really can, in principle, turn into princes — given millions of years.

There is no evidence of such a link in the fossil record. But first, let’s take a closer look at these small, fascinating creatures that inhabit our wetlands, deserts, mountains and forests. Although there are many different species of frogs and toads, with many different habits and features, they are all extremely similar, if not essentially the same.

Frogs and toads make up the order Anura, which is part of the vertebrate class Amphibia. There are more than 4,000 species of modern amphibians in three orders; in addition to the Anura, the Urodela (salamanders and newts) and Gymnophiona (cæcilians — worm-like, with no limbs).1


‘Frog’ usually means those anurans with long legs and smooth, mucus-covered skin, while ‘toad’ refers to the robust, short-legged ones, especially those with rough, ‘warty’ skins (true toads are actually members of the family Bufonidæ).

Worldwide, frogs range in size from the tiny Cuban frog (Sminthillus limbatus), which grows no bigger than 12mm (1/2 inch), to the African giant frog, which is up to 300mm (one foot) long (legs drawn in).

Most frogs move by leaping. Many arboreal (tree-dwelling) frogs have adhesive disks on the ends of their fingers and toes and leap between branches. Some toads have relatively short hind limbs and move forward by a series of hops, while others actually walk.

Frogs and toads inhabit most regions in the world except extremely cold areas. They live in deserts and on mountains — up to 4,560 m (15,000 feet) above sea level. However, they are most diverse and abundant in the tropics. For example, the Amazon Basin in eastern Ecuador has 83 species, which is about the same number known for the entire United States.

The wide variety of features in frogs and toads today, particularly in reproduction (see boxes below) makes it hard to know how many original Genesis kinds they represent. But each such kind (starting as a single species) may have had a substantial amount of genetic information, enabling a lot of different species to descend from it, each more specialized (and with less information) than the parent kind.2

Being so specialized, many frogs are easily threatened by changes to their environment. Around the world, species are becoming endangered because of timber harvesting, weed invasion, herbicides, grazing, predation by introduced fish and other animals, road building, and recreational sports, including fishing.

In Australia, threatened species include the gastric brooding frogs (see ‘Amazing Birth’ box), the spotted tree frog, mountain mist frog, northern tinker frog, sharp-snouted day frog, waterfall frog, common mist frog, Eungella torrent frog, and southern dayfrog.3

Back in 1992, scientists began expressing concern about the number of vanishing frogs and toads worldwide.4 An article in the San Francisco Chronicle that same year said some scientists blamed acid rain for the losses. Others thought that increased ultraviolet radiation was enough to devastate amphibians that were typically thin-skinned and often basked in the sun, and whose eggs and larvæ lived in shallow, sun-lit waters. The article went on : ‘But nobody claims to know for sure. Scientists are hard-pressed to understand how a diverse order of animals that has been on Earth for 200 million years should be highly vulnerable to an environmental change so subtle that experts can not agree what it is.’ 4

In his book Evolution: The Fossils Still Say No!, Duane Gish points out that evolutionists struggle to explain the supposed common ancestry of the amphibian orders, which appear to have changed little since first appearing in the fossil record.

He quotes evolutionist R.L. Carroll: ‘When they first appear in the fossil record, both frogs and salamanders appear essentially modern in their skeletal anatomy. … Despite these similarities, frogs, salamanders, and cæcilians are very different from one another in skeletal structure and ways of life, both now and throughout their known fossil record … we have found no fossil evidence of any possible antecedents that possessed the specialized features common to all three modern orders. … In the absence of fossil evidence that frogs, salamanders and cæcilians evolved from a close common ancestor, we must consider the possibility that each of the modern orders evolved from a distinct group of Paleozoic [supposedly 200 million to 500 million years ago] amphibians.’5

Gish also quotes evolutionists E.H. Colbert and M. Morales, who admit, ‘Despite these similarities, there is no evidence of any Paleozoic amphibians combining the characteristics that would be expected in a single common ancestor. The oldest known frogs, salamanders and cæcilians are very similar to their living descendants.’5

Gish argues against suggestions by Carroll, Colbert and Morales that the very frog-like Triadobatrachus is a possible link between other, supposedly ancient amphibians, and modern frogs. He says there is ‘a fundamental difference between all frogs, and, in fact, all modern amphibians, and the temnospondyls, and all of the supposed earliest amphibians.’5

He also points out that there is a lack of evidence in the fossil record to suggest a link between fish and amphibians (which requires a substantial evolutionary change in the skeletal structure).

Michael Tyler, an evolutionist frog expert, admits the origin of frogs has been the subject of considerable debate. He says that just when and how the first frogs evolved ‘remains unknown’, and that there is difficulty tracing ancestry back to the ‘early Amphibia that roamed the earth and the fish stocks from which they, in turn, had evolved.’6

Dr Tyler says there is some agreement that the common ancestor was a bony fish (class Osteichthyes). ‘But just which kind of osteichthyan produced the basic stock is disputed hotly,’ he says.

He also says that other scientists favor the Dipnoi (lung-fish) of which one member (Neoceratodus leichardti) lives in Australia today. This would mean that while some lung-fish gave rise to amphibians, others remained unchanged for hundreds of millions of years afterwards.

Encyclopædia Britannica claims that amphibians evolved from lobe-finned fishes of the early Devonian epoch (supposedly about 400 million years ago). Yet: ‘The biologist interested in evolution finds a vast array of interesting, and often perplexing, problems in the study of frogs, a highly specialised group of amphibians’.7

However, Britannica then admits there is great debate as to how frogs in particular should be classified, due to a lack of evolutionary evidence: ‘A scanty record of meaningful fossils and inadequate knowledge of the morphology and mode of life history of many kinds of frogs result in inconclusive evidence for any classification of the families; consequently, the following classifications must be considered to be tentative.’ 8

Of the 17 family classifications then listed, eight are recorded as having ‘no fossil record’, with other classifications dating back as far as the so-called Cretaceous period (supposedly about 70 million years ago). All these families are obviously recognizable enough in the fossil record for scientists to be able to refer to them as species still existing today. It is clear then, that the species listed look very much the same way they did supposedly tens of millions of years ago.

The lack of evidence in the fossil record of such evolutionary changes is not perplexing: it simply tells us that the toads and frogs in the world today are not descended from totally different kinds of creatures.

Rather, the ancestors of all toads and frogs were created by God ex nihilo, looking much like they do today, but with all the immensely complex genetic information needed for a wide variety of species to descend from them.

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