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== Postscript ==

== Postscript ==

About five minutes ago, a certain user, who shall remain nameless, read an earlier version of this essay in which I suggested the following:{{cquote|It [might] actually [be] an antediluvian laboratory [[chimera]] and hence an [[out-of-place artifact]] of a society already known to have been inordinately cruel.}}

About five minutes ago, a certain user, who shall remain nameless, read an earlier version of this essay in which I suggested the following concerning ''Tiktaalik'':{{cquote|It [might] actually [be] an antediluvian laboratory [[chimera]] and hence an [[out-of-place artifact]] of a society already known to have been inordinately cruel.}}

After perusing some of the actual, as opposed to the widely touted, evidence about ''Tiktaalik'', I abandoned that interpretation in favor of the simpler one that ''Tiktaalik'' is still a fish, with lobate pectoral and pelvic fins. But evidently this other user couldn't wait to make a snarky remark, in which he called me{{cquote|the only human being on earth more willing to believe a transitional form is genetically engineered by an unrecorded era of human history, than the scientific evidence at his fingertips.}}

After perusing some of the actual, as opposed to the widely touted, evidence about ''Tiktaalik'', I abandoned that interpretation in favor of the simpler one that ''Tiktaalik'' is still a fish, with lobate pectoral and pelvic fins. But evidently this other user couldn't wait to make a snarky remark, in which he called me{{cquote|the only human being on earth more willing to believe a transitional form is genetically engineered by an unrecorded era of human history, than the scientific evidence at his fingertips.}}