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150 "Panda's Thumb" Error, The

per haps even in struct ive, but not sci -
en tif ic. 172

Why is this branch of sci ence, of -
fer ing no ev i dence for the the o ry of
ev o lu tion, re gard ed as so im por tant
by ev o lu tion ists? Why is ev ery fos sil
dis cov ery in ter pret ed in such a bi -
ased, ex ag ger at ed man ner? At a
meet ing held at the Biology
Teachers' Association, the ev o lu tion -
ist Greg Kirby de scribed this men - As can be seen here, the bone that pro -
tal i ty: trudes from the pan da's wrist is not re al ly a
bone at all, but a sup port mak ing it eas ier
If you were to spend your life pick ing for the an i mal to cling on to bam boo stalks.
up bones and find ing lit tle frag ments
of head and lit tle frag ments of jaw, on its wrist known as the ra di al ses -
there is a very strong de sire there to ex - am oid bone.
ag ger ate the im por tance of those frag -
In ev o lu tion ists' view, the pan -
ments. 173
da—orig i nal ly a car ni vore like dogs
No sci en tif ic pa le o an thro po log i - and cats—be gan feed ing on bam boo.
cal find ings pro vide any sup port for According to the ev o lu tion ist sce nar -
ev o lu tion. All the "proofs" that ev o - io, the sixth fin ger emerged so that
lu tion ists of fer are fos sils one-sid ed - the pan da could grasp bam boo more
ly in ter pret ed in or der to de ny the eas i ly. A dif fer ent ev o lu tion ist claim
ex is tence of Allah, the su preme is that though this sixth fin ger is not
Creator. per fect, it's as good as nat u ral se lec -
tion could make it. But in fact, these
are claims made en tire ly in line with
"PANDA'S THUMB" ERROR,
ev o lu tion ist pre con cep tions, de void
THE
of proof and ex plain noth ing.
One of the clas sic ev o lu tion ist ar - Of pan das be ing de scend ed
gu ments is that of the Panda's from car niv o rous an ces tors:
thumb, made fa mous by Stephen Jay Evolutionists in clude the pan da
Gould. Along with its five fin gers, among the car ni vores be cause it has
the pan da al so has a bony pro tru sion wide jaws, teeth and strong claws.

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