{"id":3967,"date":"2011-01-30T09:08:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-30T17:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2011-01-30T09:08:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-30T17:08:32","slug":"republican-demands-to-see-missing-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/30\/republican-demands-to-see-missing-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Demands to See Missing Link"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Republican pols and pundits lie, they expect us to accept their lies by faith, but when scientists are truthful, Republicans demand absolute proof.  Personally, as a Christian (authentic, not Republican Supply-side Christianity), I have no trouble reconciling faith with acceptance of that theory, with the reservations that certain Republicans make it evident that devolution is also in at work.  But Jack Kingston (R-GA) demands to see the missing link.  We can oblige.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"30rebulican-devolution\"On Real Time with Bill Maher, Representative Jack Kingston (R-GA) apparently wants to see some kind of manfishnewt before he will accept evolution (For Southpark fans, that would be half-man, half-fish, and half-newt<\/font><\/strong>). Which, if ever found, would utterly destroy our understanding of human evolution along with a giant chunk of vertebrate biology. But I digress, and we can — loosely and liberally — credit Kingston for grasping blindly toward a transitional tetrapod. So presumably, as long as it’s not Acanthostega, Ichthyostega, Hynerpeton or any of the dozens of fossils<\/a> found at the exact geologic time and coincidentally with the exact suite of traits which bridge the transition from early fish<\/a> to the first amphibians<\/a>, Kingston will be convinced. Let’s watch:<\/p>\n

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Kingston also demands a missing link. By which we can again loosely infer he means fossils demonstrating a mix of early and more modern hominid traits… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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If Kingston demands a missing link, a missing link he shall have! \ud83d\ude09<\/font><\/p>\n

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