Evolution is the biggest lie ever told !

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Reptiles have existed since the Late Carboniferous. What's taking so long?

Evolution does clearly show us that crocodiles are survivors. The ancestors of crocodiles were likely the largest animals to survive the K-T extinction event ... but they still stayed stupid.

Darwin was the guy who publicized the theory of evolution to his contemporaries, just like Freud was the guy who publicized psychoanalysis.

I never claimed Darwin "pioneered" evolution or that Freud "pioneered" psychology.

Overall, I think that the Cenozoic Era is still in its early stages.

During the Late Cretaceous, most large animals were dinosaurs. Most small animals were either mammals or arthropods. Arthropods cannot grow into giants because their crummy respiratory system won't allow it. That's how mammals became dominant.

Today, we are in a similar situation. Most small animals are either arthropods (which are still under the same limitations) or mammals. If there were another mass extinction, new mammal groups would likely take over. Rodents, lagomorphs, treeshrews, eulipotyphlans, tenrecs, microbats, mustelids, hyraxes and fairy armadillos would likely experience evolutionary radiation. Larger mammals would perish. New aquatic mammals would evolve to replace the pinnipeds and the cetaceans. The age of mammals would still continue.

I don't care what you were watching. After Man: A Zoology of the Future is better. Read it.

http://sivatherium.narod.ru/library/Dixon/main_en.htm

Reptiles are not stupid.New research is proving that.All it will take is one to be born with more adaptable digits.They are also prolific egg layers,so it would be easy for them to populate an area quickly.Most larger mammals which preyed upon nests will be long gone.
http://www.animalcognition.org/2015/07/ ... m-solvers/

Dinosaurs weren't the sharpest tools in the shed.

They were the sharpest tools in the Triassic shed.

Eutherian mammals later surpassed them. This was one of the many factors which led to their downfall.

Nowadays, reptiles are essentially an evolutionary relic. They don't play a crucial role in most ecosystems. They only occupy a few niches. The land essentially belongs to arthropods, birds and therian mammals at this point. Reptiles, amphibians and monotremes only exist because therian mammals haven't figured out how to wipe them out yet.

Reptiles have definitely been in decline ever since the mammals came around. Mammals are just better.

Face it scaleheads! You favorite vertebrate class is just an evolutionary relic. Reptiles are just primitive amniotes! You had your glory day. It isn't coming back.

The past belonged to reptiles. The present belongs to humans. The future belongs to rodents. That's basically a fact.
Deal with it.

Determism:
the doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will.

Indeterminism
the doctrine that not all events are wholly determined by antecedent causes.

Do you get it now?

Darwin taught that biology (evolution) is deterministic, not indeterministic.

Quantum biology -- borrowing from quantum indeterminacy -- suggests biology is indeterministic.

Indeterminism means the human DNA may not have antecedent causes. It might have popped into existence based on non-antecedent cause.

Great, now you just need to find a way to measure how deterministic the universe is and you will have something resembling an argument. It still has the major problem that the probability of DNA randomly assembling into the human genome without any kind of natural selection process is so stupidly absurdly unlikely that it could be considered impossible but at least it would be an improvement on your current argument.

I cited university quantum biology professors.

That's what the scientific research suggests, particularly, they cite photosynthesis with respect to "quantum tunneling" appears to show biological indeterminism.

Of course, what do they know, they're only science professors doing research, and you're some random person on the internet, who has a history making grossly incorrect statements about physics.

Reptiles and amphibians are crucial to many ecosystems.They keep rodents from eating food crops,they also help prevent tick borne illness by eating the rodents that spread Lyme disease.They are also an impotatant indicator species.Amphibian decline in polluted water.If you eliminated all the snakes in the world there would be mass starvation,rodents would consume most of the grain grown by humans.
Reptiles rule,mammals drool.
http://sciencing.com/importance-reptile ... 87593.html

It's too bad non-mammalian synapsids are extinct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapsid

They left one Hell of a fossil record ... and now they're gone.

I've often mused over the possibility that the platypus might be a late echo of their kind.

FACT: Male mice sing to attract mates. Most people don't know this because the songs are too high-pitched for human beings to hear.

GAWWWWWWWWWW

Mice are smarter than you think.

What if mice were larger?

The synapsids dominated for about fifty million years. Those critters with the sails on their backs came first. Basically solar panels. But later they found ways to achieve endothermy (warm bloodedness) without the external solar panels. They became the Mammal-like reptiles. Some were as big as cows.

Then the climate got hotter and more swamplike. And the diapsid branch of the Reptile took over:the lizards snakes, and dinosaurs. They drove the mammal-like reptiles to extinction. But a few mammal-like reptiles were pushed over the line to become specialized for (a)miniaturization, and (b) for living at night. Both ways to avoid being eaten by dinosaurs. These became the true mammals. The true mammals lived under the feet of dinosaurs for 200 million years. But non were much bigger (or much different) than the hedgehogs and shrews of today.

Then the asteroid hit at 63 million years ago. Wiped out the dinosaurs. And the mammals took over the planet.

But in the middle of the 200 million year epoch when dinosaurs ruled, one type of dinosaurs also became specialized for miniaturization, living in trees, and for endothermy (with insulatinog modified scales -that became feathers). And became the birds. The birds also surved the demise of the bigger nonavian dinosaurs and have more living species than do the mammals even.

Well, monotremes do retain some primitive traits that therian mammals have lost, such as the ability to lay eggs.