Moontanman

No it does not, DNA is just chemicals, natural selection makes it seem like a code but we call it a code to make it easier to understand. http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional.html Popularity doesn't have anything to do with it... We don't know the exact nature of lots of things but we can infer quite a bit using methodological naturalism. How would you explain the origin of life?

I understand what you mean but I was thinking of the ecosystem itself, we think and it is commonly taught that our current ecosystem is superior. What i am suggesting that our current ecosystem isn't the only or most complex or advanced. Nearly every animal alive today had its "twin" and if those animals were thrown together to compete the out come wouldn't be us instead of them due to any inherent superiority. Pitted against each other in a stable ecosystem, just as an example, who would win out, gorgonopsids, velociraptors, or tigers? We humans exist because other successful ecosystems were wiped out by catastrophes not because modern mammals are superior to all that come before..

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I'd have to assume that those things are all in the right ballpark. most people think of the permian extinction, as an example, just blotted out primitive animals that couldn't compete but recent fossils suggest a quite complex assemblage of sophisticated animals comparable to extant animals. The dinosaurs also present a conundrum, once thought to be big dumb lizards we now know they were really closer to birds and at least a match for modern mammals. The mammals they suppressed were not near as sophisticated as modern mammals and so the competition is debatable on many levels.

Evolution is the survival of the fittest but is our modern ecosystem really the result of survival of the fittest or survival of the luckiest? Most of the real changes in the biodiversity of the planet resulted from mass extinctions caused by everything from flood lava flows to asteroid impacts are they the real causes of the success of the animals we have now? Even if that is true would modern animals compete well with the best of the lost ages of the Earth? If you could take a snapshot of the entire biosphere every million years for the last 500 million years and combine them all at once would modern animals win out or would they face some real challenges and would we possibly end up with a much more diverse ecosystem than we currently have or would modern animals lose out to a great extent?

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You said corals dude, and I think we need to eliminate no oxygen from the list, only a few actual animals can live thus and those are microscopic and live in symbiosis with methanogen bacteria instead of mitochondria to get their energy. Low oxygen can be defined many ways, what level of oxygen qualifies for your OP? Oh and BTW https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jellyfish Not exactly what you were insinuating is it? On the other hand cold oxygenated water is quite conducive to jellyfish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion's_mane_jellyfish

I said there were exceptions in fact there are "anoxic" organisms "protists" that live in water devoid of oxygen. You may be correct about sponges living in low oxygen water but citation would be nice. I would like to see a citation for corals living in anoxic water as well Loricifera

No,in fact they require a normal level of oxygen and water movement and are not found in anoxic waters. Again corals only thrive in areas of high oxygen content and water movement. No, jellyfish live in oxygen rich water, some species do live in warm tropical water but the oxygen content is still high. Some few exceptions my exist but they are few and far between.

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More organisms living deep in the earth by metabolizing hydrogen. Cyanobacteria show up in yet another odd place! Just ad them and stir to create an earth like environment! https://www.space.com/42001-weird-underground-microbes-aid-mars-life-search.html

An adult african bull elephant would be hard to deal with using an ar-15 especially if he knew you were there, it's said an african elephant can sneak up on any human and use you like a whisk broom. From a distance a human with a high powered rifle is hard to beat but even the odds a little and the human is dog food... Tigers regularly hunt humans as food in some areas, if a tiger was hunting you i doubt any weapon would make much of a difference when he ambushes you. crocodiles eat people with some regularity as well, many animals can ambush a human armed with an nuclear device and the human is food unless he has a dead man's switch... In which case he is still dead.. A kodiak bear would be a tough kill if it ambused you as well...

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Not my house, it is the house where three people were killed, it was a couple blocks from my house... Well, the food and freezer will be expensive to replace, I'm gaining ground on removing the down trees, the house is slowly being cleaned up, still lots to do, I am slow but steady... The bassets suffered greatly, they are old dogs now and the heat and humidity was hard on them. One of them went deaf during the outage, not sure why, he is still capable of smelling and seeing but most bassets pretend to be deaf to their own names at a distance of a few feet but can hear a treat package being opened at 300 meters. The other one is perking up, if a basset can be described as perky. I lost some of my breeder fish, adult F2 breeders of spotted bullhead all six of them. Back to the starting board on them the rest made it through ok.

Oh well, he was on the scene and it was on NBC news... Here is the house Evidently someone didn't do it right!

Nah, she did have a thick French accent, I think she was a foreign reporter, I've not seen her on TV but then I don't watch much TV. I thought it would be a good deed to let her in off the street. Women have more of a problem finding a place to go tinkle... The storm was still raging pretty hard when she showed up but i guess news people are invincible.. I was told Lester Holt (from ABC news?) Was on the scene when they pulled the fatalities from the destroyed home

I've been told my house made the national news, I don't know because today will be my first view of the news since this went down. I did let a female news reporter come in and use the facilities, maybe that is why...

No but the local gator population was a bit pissed...

I am back, just got my isp back, 9 days with no power, 19 days with no tv phone or internet. I have been through more than a dozen hurricanes, had the eye of several including a strong cat 3 go over me. This was the worst storm I have ever seen, it stayed over us forever, usually you might get 24 hours of wind and rain, we got 4 days of wind and rain. I have never seen rain even close to this intense in my life. Tornadoes were rampant throughout the storm, 20 or more city blocks around me were flattened by tornadoes. Huge trees more than a meter thick and 25 or 30 meters tall were twisted up and out of the ground by the roots, houses were demolished electrical service was simply wiped out. 3500+ people had to be rescued due to flood waters. Three people a block away from me were killed when a tree smashed their house, even though the maximum sustained winded were only 109 mph 175 kph, the winds and heavy rains stayed over us for almost 4 days, it was a nightmare... I will post photos...

If you you are going to battle animals then pit animals against each other with similar abilities. Say a Tiger against a Kodiak bear, in reality such powerful predators would seldom ever confront each other..

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