That's not correct - you mentioned the Polish tracks in your very first post on April 10th
Good point. I guess I meant I had most recently mentioned them because of what Christine said. Previously it was just to set up the Tiktaalik example and delineate between relatedness and acestrality. My mistake.
Nothing you have said contradicts my conclusion that you are creationist who has come into this forum under false pretenses.
I am not sure why I am bothering with you, Robert, since nothing I say seems to matter, including explicitly stating that I have no metaphysical angle here, merely curiosity. You are basing your assumption on the title of the post rather than its contents. I have made the point that if you are going to take a post title that is a question as thetical and ignore the actual content of the post then you should be abusing haworthroberts right now too. How do you respond to that? You have failed utterly to quote any part of my actual post that supports your delusion. I guarantee you will fail to do so in the future. This means that all you have on which to found your accusations is your preconceived ideas which are independent of the evidence. I hear you guys don't like that sort of thing.
Besides which, it's not at all polite to come to a forum with an insulting first thread title like that
Sorry Brian, I knew it was a provocative title but I did not realize it was a rude one.
I'm struggling to understand what point you are trying to make, can you be more specific about where your questions are leading.
You are making the same mistake that Robert is making less cordially. My questions are leading to understanding some specifics of how certain conclusions are reached in paleontology. That is the goal. I ask Christine for confirmation because I am trying to ensure that I have correctly understood her post.
f we look at the Middle Devonian fossil record there is an entire adaptive radiation of fishes with finger-like projections --- e.g. Sauripterus, which based on skull morphology and/or other features of the limb, is more towards the base of the tetrapodomorph fish. There's something going on with the shallow marine environment at that time which benefits a fish to get more limb-like fins, so even if a fish evolved something a little more like a tetrapod foot it could be completely convergent with the situation in tetrapods --- we wouldn't know until we found the actual bones.
So the Polish tracks are considered by some researches to have been produced by fish rather than something more on its way to tetrapod status. Is this because of the temporal setting or print morphology? Or both? In case you are worried (though the paranoia doesn't seem to have infected you), this is just a question, not part of a secret creationist trap as Robert fears.