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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

Actually, I had done some searching before posting. He's not an active scientist nor does he have any advanced degrees in science. He's a fundamentalist apologist.

The North Texas Skeptic

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1977 300d 70k--sold 08
1985 300TD 185k+
1984 307d 126k--sold 8/03
1985 409d 65k--sold 06
1984 300SD 315k--daughter's car
1979 300SD 122k--sold 2/11
1999 Fuso FG Expedition Camper
1993 GMC Sierra 6.5 TD 4x4
1982 Bluebird Wanderlodge CAT 3208--Sold 2/13

He's the new face of foolishness. Lipstick on a pig.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

I have been to Glen Rose, Texas where the dino tracks are. First off they are very hard to see.

And dino tracks next to any other tracks of any kind were nowhere to be seen.

It is mind bending stuff. If one buys the sea sponge theory about it being a link to all animals with a circulatory system one wonders about the where and when of the branch that went off to crustaceans, then insects and then later (before?) to land reptiles and mammals.

It is a tad remarkable that birds and bats share skeletal similarities but not much else. This pic of the bird skeleton is interesting. Has the double boned forearm like many other critters.

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1984 300D, 138K

Probably the most eye-opening biology course available to undergrads is "Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy." To me, it's the one course that every aspiring biologist should take before a degree is granted. Yeah, take genetics, and biochem and ecology and so forth. Botany. Whatever. They're all good. But take Comparative or stay home. When you get to be an old fart find yourself a university that will let you audit the course. I'm sure you'd enjoy it as you seem to have an interest in organic evolution and comparative is essentially a study of similarities and differences along an evolutionary path from fish to mammals. It's worth the money to audit and most old farts are too calcified to keep up for a grade. It's that difficult.

Dang. I'm far away from being an old fart so it's unlikely I'll be able to do it.

But that does sound like a fun sort of study.

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1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

...heck, even god continutes to evolve.

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