Cave lion cub

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(09-07-2016, 08:54 AM)Blackleopard Wrote: Hey maybe they're not related, I don't know that much about the prehistoric records and fossils.  I'm just saying, the whole this animal came from that animal, this grew from an ameba, that thing grew feathers, its just not actual fact, just as it isn't fact that humans came from apes, none of this can be proven as actual fact, and science should be about facts only, not we don't know so we'll just pretend we do.

Each cat species whether tiger, leopard, or lion, is its own species, and there are no missing links that can be found between them, just as there are no missing links between any other animal. Only small adaptations to unique environments, not whole species jumping from one to another.  The genetic code and design in a living creature is far to sophisticated and complex to just morph into another completely different species or animal. No matter how long given, it still wouldn't matter, changes in environments would only cause the minor changes needed to fit those environmental changes, so the environment helps subtle changes to take place, no environment could be so full of unique changes that it could perform species hopping, and even species creating, that would basically be supernatural.  Even one of the biggest environmental changes, the ice age, wiped out some of the most sophisticated and largest land creatures the dinosaurs.

Further evidence in many cultures also proves the existence of the supernatural, many examples of this are evident in different religions, strange feats have been performed, Chi power used in various Asian and Indian religions, levitation, healings, actual sightings.  This sheds light, there is something else out there, and that the world does not just consist of the natural, whether that something is good or bad.

With all respect, but your answer has no scientific base, it is just an opinion from someone that simply don't understand the Evolution. We have good evidence to reconstruct the evolutionary history of the great cats, and the new genetic studies present even more tools to estimate the times of the arise of these animals. You should know that all the species have links with they relatives, that cats simply don't pop up from nothing, they have a complex and very interesting evolutive history.

Your mentions of religion, chi power and levitation, show that you are not a scientific person, and I think you would be more interesting in topics like "Dragon Ball" than the evolution of great cats, or studies of ancient DNA.

Finally, the goal of this forum is the present scientific evidence, studies from Scientists and naturalists and that type of reliable data. If you can measure the "chi power", or if you can quantify the number of levitations of humans with reliable samples, in other words, if you can PROVE with scientific studies that this modern "myths" are real, then it will be welcomed, but for the moment, this has no relation with the evolution of the great cats, and are not a proper defense against the new study of Dr Barnett and his team, which finally proved that the Cave "lions" were a different species and related with the lion clade. Reply