The Bible and Science Episode 47 - Did reptiles evolve into mammals? - Part 4

For a wonderful video of the intricacies of how mammalian hearing works, copy the following link and paste it into your browser.

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Biological considerations making it virtuallty impossible for reptiles to evolve into mammals.

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Did mammals evolve from reptiles? (Part 2) - Pelycosaurs, therapsids , non-mammalian cynodonts. Intro to jaw and middle ear structure.

.Conclusion of Dinosaurs, "Mammal-like reptiles," Birds, Intro to origin of Mammals. Did mammals evolve from "Mammal-like reptiles"? Did marine or flying reptiles evolve from dinosaurs?

Episode 43 - Were dinosaurs ferocious predators? Were they warm-blooded? Were they mentioned in the Bible? How could any have survived Noah's Flood?

DInosaurs part 1 - How many types of dinosaurs? No indications of evoluton from lowest to highest strata containing dinosaur fossils.

Hypothetical evolution from amphibians to "stem reptiles," marine reptiles, flying reptiles

Invertebrates up to the Devonian - no traces of evolution anywhere