Is this evidence of one animal turning into another?

Question

Creationists are always asking me for evidence of one animal turning into another and then they'll believe in evolution.

Well here is a link to a duck that was born with four legs! So this is the first step towards a duck turning into a dog, or cat!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2007-02-17-duckling-four-legs_x.htm?csp=34

Answer 1

Beck - Loser
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
Butane in my veins and i'm out to cut the junkie
With the plastic eyeballs, spray-paint the vegetables
Dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose

Answer 2

That's no more evidence of speciation than a retarded person being born with 6 arms and 1 leg. I believe the theory of evolution, don't get me wrong. A duck being born with four legs does not suggest anything other than a genetic defect. Evolution moves very slowly. It takes years just to gain a dimple in your buttcheek. If evolution worked like that, the morons believing that an ape just crapped out a human one day would be right! Not even close! We just need to stop filtering our human waste into their environment, and we'll see a lot less 4 legged birds.

Cheshire, your third leg is probably the same adaptation as mine... a little bit of the French blood...

Answer 3

Let me know if that duck can reproduce more ducks with four legs. Remember the mutations that occur are supposed to help the species survive. I havent seen a survivable mutation yet that can be reproduced in its offspring

Now take a look at artificial selection. When i watch a dog show with all kinds of breeds i recognise that hey they are all dogs

Answer 4

It's an unusual scenario. It is always possible that it is not a genetic mutation, but a developmental abnormality in which twin ducks in a two yolk egg fused. This is why the details are studied. Legs are formed from several embryonic segments, making mutations that produce extra limbs unlikely and functional limbs less likely.


If it is genetic, we may have the key to engineer the centichicken with drumsticks for everyone.

Answer 5

That duck is a product of genetic mutation. If you read the whole article you would notice that other ducklings hatched into this blood line also had extra legs, just not as many.

I suppose the same principle as, mental retardation running in families.

Answer 6

Animals do not turn into other animals. Evolution is within a species and we know that from ancient skelatal structures. For instance our domestic cat evolved from the early cats of ancient times. The dog evolved from Hyenas a dog like creature in Africa and birds share a similiar skelton structure to dinasaurs. Evolution is always with in a species. Did you know Oppossums and Rabbits are from the rodent family? Each specie evolves to be able to adapt to different geological changes.

Answer 7

There is a difference between one animal evolving into another and a MUTATION.

People and animals are born with mutations all the time.

What you have found is not evidence of macro evolution.

"LONDON (AP) — Webbed feet run in Stumpy's family, but he's the first to have four of them.
A rare mutation has left the eight-day-old duckling with two nearly...."

You WILL NOT find the evidence you are looking for that says that evolution is a fact. It is not, it is a theory.

Answer 8

No, you misunderstand evolution. A duck with four legs is simply due to a transcript error in the genetic switching mechanism of a HOX gene which organizes cells in embryogenesis.

The process of speciation, where one species gives rise to another species, does not happen in a single generation. It is an accumulation of genetic differences in reproductively isolated generations over thousands of generations.

Answer 9

WOw! Maybe someday there will be four legged chickens?

So maybe the third leg I have growing despite my shoe size is an evolutionary response to short guys needing more action? Or are you saying it's just a random mutation and I shouldn't tell the other short guys?

Answer 10

There's also the Komodo dragon that has now reproduced asexually for the second time. Nice adaptation!

The duck thing might be a favorable adaptation, may just be an aberration. Time will tell.