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  • If you look at all the traits animals and plants have, there are correlations and patterns unrelated to the environment, consistent only with a pattern of descent with modification.

    For example, all the animals that produce milk also have fur, while all the animals with beaks and hollow bones also have feathers.

    These groups of correlated organisms are found regardless of their environment, so penguins have all the bird traits even though they live in the ocean, seals have all the mammal traits even though they live in the ocean.

    This pattern only has one consistent explanation: life on earth is a result of descent with modification: evolution.















  • My favourite is the belief that goose-necked barnacles grew into geese.

    The idea was started by the Norman scholar Giraldus Cambrensis in the 12th century when he visited Ireland, and was very popular because it meant that the monks who were required to fast and eat only fish during Lent could eat geese. Technically if they lived part of their life underwater, they must be fish.