Snails, Slugs, and Evolutionary Absurdities
It seems like a good life to travel with your home. Some folks do that with recreational vehicles and call it RVing, whether for vacations, after retirement, or as a lifestyle because it seemed like a good idea. Critters like snails do it out of necessity because they were designed that way.
Propagandists for minerals-to-malacologist evolution tend to oversimplify things so the public will be more accepting of their stories. Such is the case with snails, semi-snails, and slugs.
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A recent article from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History made some very interesting claims about the evolutionary history of snails, slugs, and semi-slugs. According to the article, slugs evolved from snails by passing through a semi-slug stage. A semi-slug is a snail with an external shell too small to accommodate the entire organism. There are, as usual, large-scale problems with this evolutionary claim.
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