Posted on Saturday 8 April 2006

I mentioned in the comments of my post about the exotic animal forgery that the underrated evolutionist Lamarck thought that the newly discovered platypus should be given its own taxonomic category which served as the "missing link" between birds (lower) and mammals (higher). That prompted Peter to point me in the direction of an article at Nature's news site about the discovery of a 375 million year old fossil of a fish with arms. The specimen has been described as a possible "missing link" between fish and land animals.

The hybrid creature also reminded him a bit of a "Fejee mermaid". Here's the picture that accompanies the story.

Predictably the comments section of the article quickly filled up with the remarks from creationists who no doubt are very keen to "teach the controversy" to us all.

I'm sorry, I've got no more time for "respectful debates". Creationists are dullards — excruciatingly verbose dullards to boot.