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Attack Of The Alien Walking Fish
by Jonathan Drake
TrueAuthority.com

When an angler in Maryland pulled up an air-breathing, land-crawling, voracious predator this past weekend, biologists started biting their nails.

Why?  Because it's an alien species, and once established can pose a huge threat to the biodiversity and health of the nearby ecosystem.  The northern snakehead, as it is called, can breathe out of water.  Not only that, it can travel across land.  If it does so, it could reach the Little Patuxent River which is only 75 feet away from where the fish was caught, and thereby invade the state's river system.

"Our biggest fear is that there are more than one and they'll reproduce," says Bob Lunsford, a biologist with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

The fish is native to Africa and Asia, and is as hardy as any catfish.  Anglers who catch any have been told to bleed them since the fish have the ability to live days out of water.  Like some horror movie, these critters are wanted dead or alive.

Is it just me, or is the title of this article far more interesting than the actual article? 

Effects Of Galapagos Oil Spill Unknown
by Jonathan Robison
TrueAuthority.com

A fuel spill in Ecuador's world-renown Galapagos islands appears to have not harmed the wildlife, but scientists are still worried that it may do so in the near future.

A relatively small barge spilled up to 2,000 gallons of diesel on Thursday near Puerto Villamil, the second time in only 18 months near the "enchanted islands."

"We can't quantify the effects or tell which species are affected until we analyze marine species, fish, mollusks, crustaceans, to determine its real dimension," said Jaime Cevallos, a representative for the Charles Darwin research station.

The islands are equated with Charles Darwin, whose trip there in the 1800s inspired the his idea of the survival of the fittest.  Darwin noted the varieties of birds and iguanas, believing they came from a common ancestor.  Are they evidence for evolution?

The simple answer:  No.  New information is not being created in the gene pool;  these are simply built-in adaptations already present.  This is the fatal flaw of Macro-Evolution, the evolving of one kind of animal to another (i.e. lizard to bird).  It has never been observed, isn't happening today, and didn't happen in history.  

The iguanas indeed had a common ancestor.  An iguana.  What Darwin noticed were adaptations, not the progression of species with new information being created.  Furthermore, small changes among the iguanas can happen in a very short period of time, not "millions" of years (see Jeff Corwin At The Galapagos).  It is this fine border between Micro-evolution and Macro-evolution that evolutionists commonly cross.  Adaptations have nothing to do with evolution . . . indeed, they are polar opposites.  

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