predict that the world and living things would appear designed
evolutionist and atheist dawkins says
"Richard Dawkins begins
The Blind Watchmaker with [this statement:] ‘Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose’; whereupon he requires an additional three hundred and fifty pages to show why it is only an appearance of design."—
*Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, p. 1; quoted in W.A. Demski, Signs of Intelligence, p. 23.
famous evolutionist Francis crick said
“Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.”5
Crick, F. 1988.
What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery. London: Sloan Foundation Science, 138.
So it seems to me the most ovius answer is it was created, easiest simplest explanation.
there are systems in biology that if it were not part of "evolution"and did not contain theological implications would be recognized as designed and should be.
If you could build a motor one millionth of a millimetre across, you could fit a billion billion of them on a teaspoon. It seems incredible, but biological systems already use molecular motors on this scale.1
Feringa, B. L. 2000. Nanotechnology: In control of molecular motion.
Nature. 408 (6809): 151-154.
biological machines can store repair transmit decode and translate information.
each cell has enough information to fill books to the moon and back 500 times over, and you want me to believe this all came from matter, from lightning hitting rocks or dirt? and that all fits on the pin of a needle.
The DNA can make 300,000 proteins and tell them how, were ,how many and when.
Some functions of cellular machines
DNA maintenance robots that proofread information, unwind the double helix, cut out defects, splice in corrections, and rewind the strands
- Intracellular elevators
- Mobile brace-builders that construct distinct internal tubular supports
- Spinning generators that move molecules from low to high energy states
- Ratchet devices that convert random molecular forces to linear motion
- Motors that whirl hair-like structures like an outboard motor
- A microscopic railroad with engines and tracks
A 1997
Nature article by Steven Block detailed the "Real engines of creation" that included a discussion of sub-cellular structures composed of springs, rotary joints, and levers--all made of protein.2
Block, S. M. 1997. Real engines of creation.
Nature. 386 (6622): 217-219.
all point i believe to the ovius conclusion and easiest explanation creation.
Information and mutations
evolution has to be able to add new information to the genome of organisms if you are to evolve a bacteria or single celled organism to a human fish bird etc.
originally there was no information in the dna code to construct wings brains blood feathers etc. So were did all this originate?
In our dna we have coded information that is needed for life and to construct our bodies all organisms bodies, mutations is the only way for this to come about according to evolutionist but this has never been observed the origin of new novel functional genes.
Information always comes from intelligence if evolution cannot explain its origin than it is dead in the water.
They give examples of natural selection, bacteria resistance, bacteria ddt Resistance not one has been observed to do what evolutionist must believe it has many times over[which is to add information to the genome]. I believe it has been falsified already.
No mutations contradict creation because they are heading in the wrong direction for evolution but fit perfectly with creation
There is no evidence for evolution direct observable evidence at all in any field upward complexity evolution.
So creation says any change that happens will be downhill or variation and this is all we see loss of information or variation of already existing information.
my only links to quick article describing how variation happens through natural section
read under natural selection and adaptation
http://creation.com/refuting-evoluti...rsus-evolution
dna is “letters and instructions manual” on how to assemble organisms
genes spell out the
information required to build proteins
p42 oct 2010 scientific American
jonathan k pritchard professor of human genetics at the university of Chicago
“Not even one mutation has been observed that adds a little information to the genome . This surly shows that there are not the millions upon millions of potential mutations the theory evolution demands.”
L.spetner not by chance 1997
http://www.amazon.com/Not-Chance-Sha.../dp/1880582244A code system is always the result of a mental process (it requires an intelligent origin or inventor) ... . It should be emphasized that matter as such is unable to generate any code. All experiences indicate that a thinking being voluntarily exercising his own free will, cognition, and creativity, is required.
24There is no known natural law through which matter can give rise to information, neither is any physical process or material phenomenon known that can do this.
25“There is no known law of nature, no known process and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter.
26Werner Gitt
After receiving his Ph.D. he was appointed head of the Department of Information Technology at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt [PTB], in Braunschweig). Seven years later he was promoted to Director and Professor at PTB.
So information fits perfect within the creation model being a non material thing with original outside intelligence needed to create it which in turn is needed for all life.
How does atheistic evolution explain information arising from matter?
Not enough time even assuming billions of years
one cell needs a minimum of 400 different proteins to make the machines needed for life.
Just one of these essential machines rna polymerase [see www.mun.ca/biochem/courses/3107/lectures/topicks/rnap- bacterial. Html.
One protein component of machine less than 10% of total machine , that protein is 329 amino acids in length, the chance of getting that one protein by random chance is 1/20 times 1/20 times 1/20 etc is a probability of 1 in 10 to the 428 power
there are only 10 to the 80th power of atoms in the universe.
10 to the 18th power is the amount of seconds in the supposed evolutionary history of the universe.
noahs flood
If a global flood happened what would we expect to see?
Wouldn't we aspects to see trillions of dead plant and animals buried laid down rapidly by water all over the earth?
Rock layers spread continent wide? thousands of feet of water deposited sedimentation? examples of large scale rapid erosion? Sea creatures buried on top of mountain ranges all over earth?
Billions of fish and deep sea creatures buried rapidly together with land animals?
This is just what we see, found in rock layers all over the earth.
Also many extinct animals
age of earth
Earths surface is constantly being eroded, this rate of erosion is easily measured , the average height reduction for all continents is 2.4 inches per thousand years.
J.N Holleman 1968 the sediment yield of major rivers of the world,water resources research 4:737 747 E W sparks 1986 geomorphology,in georaphies study S H Beaver ed london and new york: Longman group 509-510 J D Milliman and J P M Syvitski 1992 geomorphic/tectonic control of sediments discharge to the ocean: the importance of small mountainous rivers journal of geology 100 525-544 A Roth origins linking science and scripture hagerstown, MD review and herald publishing 264
Using this rate the north American continent would be eroded flat to sea level in “a mere 10 million years”
S Judson and D F Ritter 1964 rates of regional denudation in the united states journal of geophysical research 69; 3395-3401 R H Dott Jr and R L Batten. Evolution of the earth fourth edition , new york,st Louis and san Francisco Mcgraw- Hill Book company 155
Even using the slowest possible rates of erosion the continents would have eroded in 623 million years
The resulting measured rates [lower than normal ] would give only 9.6 million years until all above sea level continents would be totally eroded.
As one evolutionist said
“
if some facets of the contemporary landscape are indeed as old as is suggested by the field evidence they not only constitute denial of commonsense and everyday observations but they also carry considerable implications for general theory”
C R Twidale 1998 antiquity of landforms an “extremely unlikely” concept vindication Australian journal of earth sciences 45 ; 657-668
Radiocarbon (carbon-14) is a very unstable element that quickly changes into nitrogen. Half the original quantity of carbon-14 will decay back to the stable element nitrogen-14 after only 5,730 years. (This 5,730-year period is called the half-life of radiocarbon, Figure 1).12 At this decay rate, hardly any carbon-14 atoms will remain after only 57,300 years (or ten half-lives).
- G. Faure and T. M. Mensing, Isotopes: Principles and Applications, 3rd edition (Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2005), pp. 614–625. Back
So if fossils are really millions of years old, as evolutionary scientists claim, no carbon-14 atoms would be left in them. Indeed, if all the atoms making up the entire earth were radiocarbon, then after only 1 million years absolutely no carbon-14 atoms should be left!
But every piece of supposed ancient carbon has radiocarbon, supposed to be millions and even billions of years old.
This has been reported in the secular radiocarbon journals over 70 times.
P. Giem, “Carbon-14 Content of Fossil Carbon,” Origins 51 (2001): 6–30.
These finding have also been done and found by creation scientist many times
- A. A. Snelling, “Conflicting ‘Ages’ of Tertiary Basalt and Contained Fossilised Wood, Crinum, Central Queensland, Australia,” CEN Technical Journal 14.2 (2002): 99–122.
- A. A. Snelling, “Radiocarbon Ages for Fossil Ammonites and Wood in Cretaceous Strata near Redding, California,” Answers Research Journal 1 (2008): 123–144.
- J. R. Baumgardner, A. A. Snelling, D. R. Humphreys, and S. A. Austin, “Measurable 14C in Fossilized Organic Materials: Confirming the Young Earth Creation-Flood Model,” in Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Creationism, ed. R.L. Ivey Jr. (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Creation Science Fellowship, 2003), pp. 127–147.
- J. R. Baumgardner, “14C Evidence for a Recent Global Flood and a Young Earth,” in Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth: Results of a Young-Earth Creationist Research Initiative, eds. L. Vardiman, A. A. Snelling, and E. F. Chaffin (El Cajon, California: Institute for Creation Research, and Chino Valley, Arizona: Creation Research Society, 2005), pp. 587–630.
It has even benn found in diamonds
R. E. Taylor and J. Southon, “Use of Natural Diamonds to Monitor 14C AMS Instrument Backgrounds,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B 259 (2007): 282–287
J. R. Baumgardner, “14C Evidence for a Recent Global Flood and a Young Earth,” in Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth: Results of a Young-Earth Creationist Research Initiative, eds. L. Vardiman, A. A. Snelling, and E. F. Chaffin (El Cajon, California: Institute for Creation Research, and Chino Valley, Arizona: Creation Research Society, 2005), pp. 587–630.
- D. B. DeYoung, Thousands . . . Not Billions: Challenging an Icon of Evolution, Questioning the Age of the Earth (Green Forest, Arkansas: Master Books, 2005), pp. 45–62.
comets
comets disintegrate rapidly so that they can have a maximum ages long term comets of 200,000 years at most all evolutionist and creations agree on that.
So why if these are suppose to be billions of year old universe do we still have them? they assume imagine hope for a oart cloud or kupitor belt but none are observed to supply more comets.
salt in oceans
Many processes continually add salt to the oceans and seas, but salt is not removed as easily from the sea , resulting in a steady increase of salt in the oceans.
This has been used as a way to date the earth since 1715 when it was first calculated to be maximum of 80 to 90 million years old.
Today every kilogram of sea water contains about 10.8 grams of dissolved sodium, the oceans contain 1,370 million cubic kilometers of water making a total of 14,700 trillion tons of sodium in the oceans.
Every year rivers and other sources dump 457 million tons of sodium into the oceans.
M ,Meybeck, 1979 concentrations des eaux fluvials en majeurs et apports aux oceans, revuede geologie dynamique et de geographie Physique 21 [3] 215-246 F.L sayles and P C Mangelsdorf,1979 Cation-exchange characteristics of amazon with suspended sediment and its reaction with seawater, geochimica et Cosmochica acta 43 767-779
The rate of sodium output is only 27% of the input. Or 122 million tons each year using the most generous assumptions to evolutionist the maximum possible amount is 206 million tones each year.
F.L sayles and P C Mangelsdorf,1979 Cation-exchange characteristics of amazon with suspended sediment and its reaction with seawater, geochimica et Cosmochica acta 43 767-779
S.A Austin and D R Humphreys 1990 the seas missing salt proceedings of the second international conference on creationism vol 2 R E Walsh and C L books,eds Pittsburgh Pa creation science fellowship 17-33
Assuming the oceans originally had no sodium and given the best possible assumptions and rates for evolutionist, than the current sodium would have accumulated in less than 62 million years. Far less than the 3 billion they claim the oceans to be.
Also more recent studies show salt is entering much faster than previously thought, showing more groundwater which is higher concentration of salt is being discharged via river flow more than 40% than the previously thought 10%.
W S Moore 1996 Large groundwater inputs to coastal waters reveled by 226 Ra enrichments Nature, 380 [6575] 612-614 T M church 1996 An underground route for the water cycle Nature 380 [6575] 579-580
Also additional calculations for for many seawater elements give much younger ages for the ocean.
http://www.icr.org/article/evolution-ocean-says-no/
dino blood vessels cells hemoglobin and proteins, there decay rates from observable science proves they cannot be millions of years old. Some cannot last 2.7 million years frozen.
There are also many bacteria dna etc that have been found that also could not last that long
- Schweitzer, M.H. et al., Heme compounds in dinosaur trabecular bone, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 94:6291–6296, June 1997. Return to text.
- http://creation.com/sensational-dinosaur-blood-report
Schweitzer, M.H.
et al., “Biomolecular characterization and protein sequences of the Campanian hadrosaur
B. canadensis”,
Science 324(5927):626–631, 1 May 2009 | DOI: 10.1126/science.1165069,
<www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5927/626?ijkey=47dc1272e069cf51caab0651d4462cbe5045f92c>
Return to text.“Proteins, Soft Tissue from 80 Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur Show that Molecules Preserve Over Time”,
www.physorg.com/news160320581.html, accessed 3 May 2009
collagen found dated as 80ma , yet proven cannot last more than 2.7 ma frozen.
Schweitzer, M.H.
et al., “Biomolecular characterization and protein sequences of the Campanian hadrosaur
B. canadensis”,
Science 324(5927):626–631, 1 May 2009 | DOI: 10.1126/science.1165069,
<www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5927/626?ijkey=47dc1272e069cf51caab0651d4462cbe5045f92c>
http://www.biochemist.org/bio/02403/0012/024030012.pdf
It has been pointed out many times that fragile, complex molecules like proteins, even if hermetically sealed, should fall apart all by themselves from thermodynamic considerations alone in well under the 65 million years that evolutionists insist have passed since Schweitzer’s
T. rex specimen was entombed.
Nielsen-Marsch, C.,
Biomolecules in fossil remains: Multidisciplinary approach to endurance,
The Biochemist, pp. 12–14, June2002.
Return to text.Doyle, S., The real ‘Jurassic Park’?
Creation 30(3):12–15, 2008.
Also dna and material that should have decayed away has been found in these supposed ancient ice cores
Willerslev, E. et al. 2007. Ancient Biomolecules from Deep Ice Cores Reveal a Forested Southern Greenland.
Science. 317 (5834): 111-114.
http://www.icr.org/article/bacteria-...from-greenland
“
Our findings challenged everything scientists thought they knew about the breakdown of cells and molecules. Test-tube studies of organic molecules indicated that proteins should not persist more than a million years or so; DNA had an even shorter life span.”
"Why are these materials preserved when all our models say they should be degraded?"
Schweitzer, M. H. 2010. Blood from Stone: How Fossils Can Preserve Soft Tissue. Scientific American. 303 (6): 62-69.
multilayer fossils [commonly tress]tress prove 100% rock layers were laid down rapidly, there are trees sometimes 90 feet in length fossilizes between layers supposedly separated by millions of years.
No erosion between layers,if those rock layers were separated by millions of years there would be evidence of erosion between the layers, instead there is only rapid or no erosion constant with deposition during Noah flood.
1Galaxies wind themselves up too fast
The stars of our own galaxy, the Milky Way, rotate about the galactic center with different speeds, the inner ones rotating faster than the outer ones. The observed rotation speeds are so fast that if our galaxy were more than
a few hundred million years old, it would be a featureless disc of stars instead of its present spiral shape.
Yet our galaxy is supposed to be at least
10 billion years old. Evolutionists call this ‘the winding-up dilemma’, which they have known about for fifty years. They have devised many theories to try to explain it, each one failing after a brief period of popularity. The same ‘winding-up’ dilemma also applies to other galaxies.
For the last few decades the favored attempt to resolve the dilemma has been a complex theory called ‘density waves’.The theory has conceptual problems, has to be arbitrarily and very finely tuned, and lately has been called into serious question by the Hubble Space Telescope’s discovery of very detailed spiral structure in the central hub of the ‘Whirlpool’ galaxy, M51.
Also
"We have found it impossible to reproduce the traditional theory, but stars move with the spiral pattern in our simulations at the same speed.2 The "traditional theory" held that stars are channeled into arms by "density waves." However, this explanation merely pushes the problem back one step to another puzzle—what caused the density waves? And clearly, Grand was unable to make the physics of the "traditional theory" of density waves work in his simulations. 3
Scheffler, H. and H. Elsasser, Physics of the Galaxy and Interstellar Matter, Springer-Verlag (1987) Berlin, pp. 352–353, 401–413. Return to text.
D. Zaritsky
et al.,
Nature, July 22, 1993.
Sky & Telescope, December 1993, p. 10.
3
NAM 21: New theory of evolution for spiral galaxy arms. Royal Astronomical Society press release, April 20, 2011.
http://www.icr.org/article/6069/
2 decay of earths magnetic field
10,000 years ago it would have been so strong the planet would have disintegrated--its metallic core would have separated from its mantle.
The strength of the magnetic field has been reliably and continually measured since 1835. From these measurements, we can see that the field's strength has declined by about seven percent since then, giving a half-life of about 1,400 years. This means that in 1,400 years it will be one-half as strong, in 2,800 years it will be one-fourth as strong, and so on. There will be a time not many thousands of years distant when the field will be too small to perform as a viable shield for earth.
Calculating back into the past, the present measurements indicate that 1,400 years ago the field was twice as strong. It continues doubling each 1,400 years back, until about 10,000 years ago it would have been so strong the planet would have disintegrated--its metallic core would have separated from its mantle. The inescapable conclusion we can draw is that the earth must be fewer than 10,000 years old.
Compare this "clock" with others used to estimate earth's age. This method utilizes a long period of measurement, amounting to over one-tenth of a half-life, whereas radioisotope decay has been accurately measured for only about 100 years, while its half-lives are typically measured in the billions. The short half-life should be favored by uniformitarians for it minimizes the chances that something dramatic has happened to change things, since longer spans are more susceptible to out-of-the-ordinary events. Magnetic field decay also involves a whole earth measurement, and on this large scale it cannot be easily altered or "contaminated," as could any rock selected for radioisotope dating. The young-earth implications are even stronger when the
energy of the field is considered rather than its strength, for the energy's half-life decays each 700 years.
http://www.icr.org/article/earths-magnetic-field/
http://creation.com/the-earths-magne...earth-is-young
3 earth-moon system
the tides when the moon would have close enough would have drowned all life on earth twice a day and shattered the moon
How long has the moon been receding?
Friction by the tides is slowing the earth’s rotation, so the length of a day is increasing by 0.002 seconds per century. This means that the earth is losing
angular momentum.
7 The
Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum says that the angular momentum the earth loses must be gained by the moon. Thus the moon is slowly receding from Earth at about 4 cm (1½ inches) per year, and the rate would have been greater in the past. The moon could never have been closer than 18,400 km (11,500 miles), known as the
Roche Limit, because Earth’s tidal forces (i.e., the result of different gravitational forces on different parts of the moon) would have shattered it. But even if the moon had started receding from being in contact with the earth, it would have taken only 1.37 billion years to reach its present distance.
8 NB: this is the
maximum possible age — far too young for evolution (and much younger than the radiometric ‘dates’ assigned to moon rocks) — not the actual age.
http://www.answersingenesis.org/home.../2006/0811.asp
4 Comets disintegrate too quickly
According to evolutionary theory, comets are supposed to be the same age as the solar system, about
5 billion years. Yet each time a comet orbits close to the sun, it loses so much of its material that it could not survive much longer than about
100,000 years. Many comets have typical ages of
10,000 years.
3
Evolutionists explain this discrepancy by assuming that (a) comets come from an unobserved spherical ‘Oort cloud’ well beyond the orbit of Pluto, (b) improbable gravitational interactions with infrequently passing stars often knock comets into the solar system, and (c) other improbable interactions with planets slow down the incoming comets often enough to account for the hundreds of comets observed.
4 So far, none of these assumptions has been substantiated either by observations or realistic calculations.
Lately, there has been much talk of the ‘Kuiper Belt’, a disc of supposed comet sources lying in the plane of the solar system just outside the orbit of Pluto. Even if some bodies of ice exist in that location, they would not really solve the evolutionists’ problem, since according to evolutionary theory the Kuiper Belt would quickly become exhausted if there were no Oort cloud to supply it. [For more information, see the detailed technical article
Comets and the Age of the Solar System.]
Steidl, P.F., ‘Planets, comets, and asteroids’,
Design and Origins in Astronomy, pp. 73–106, G. Mulfinger, ed., Creation Research Society Books (1983) 5093 Williamsport Dr., Norcross, GA 30092
5 human population growth giving generous numbers to the evolutionist
It is relatively easy to calculate the growth rate needed to get today’s population from Noah’s three sons and their wives, after the Flood. With the Flood at about 4,500 years ago, it needs less than 0.5% per year growth.
6 That’s not very much.
Evolutionists claim that mankind evolved from apes about a million years ago. If the population had grown at just 0.01% per year since then (doubling only every 7,000 years), there could be 1043 people today—that’s a number with 43 zeros after it.
say each individual is given ‘standing room only’ of about one square meter per person. However, the land surface area of the whole Earth is ‘only’ 1.5 x 1014 square meters. If every one of those square meters were made into a world just like this one, all these worlds put together would still ‘only’ have a surface area able to fit 1028 people in this way. This is only a tiny fraction of 1043 (1029 is 10 times as much as 1028, 1030 is 100 times, and so on). Those who adhere to the evolutionary story argue that disease, famine and war kept the numbers almost constant for most of this period, which means that mankind was on the brink of extinction for most of this supposed history.
10 This stretches credulity to the limits.
http://creation.com/where-are-all-the-people
fossil record
creationist would predict variation within the basic bodies types but all the major phyla and basic bodies types to be separate. we would predict sudden abrupt appearances of organism not slowly evolving.
when multiple experts that would favor one outcome admit to another i think that certainly says something.
So i m going to use just for know the biggest experts and most famous evolutionist who all admit the fossil record does not support evolution.
"We are now about 120 years after Darwin, and knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species but the situation hasn’t changed much. The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin’s time! By this I mean that some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded or modified as a result of more detailed information."—*Dr. David Raup, in op. cit.
After publishing his 1978 book,
Evolution, *
Dr. Colin Patterson of the British Museum of Natural History was asked why he did not include a single photograph of a transitional fossil. In reply, Dr. Patterson said this:
"I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. You suggest that an artist should be used to visualise [portray] such transformations, but where would he get the information from? I could not, honestly, provide it.
"[Steven] Gould [of Harvard] and the American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils. As a paleontologist myself, I am much occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record. You say that I should at least ‘show a photo of the fossil from which each type of organism was derived.’ I will lay it on the line—there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument. The reason is that statements about ancestry and descent are not applicable in the fossil record. It is easy enough to make up stories of how one form gave rise to another, and to find reasons why the stages should be favoured by natural selection. But such stories are not part of science, for there is no way of putting them to the test."—*Dr. Colin Patterson, letter dated April 10, 1979 to Luther Sunderland, quoted in L.D. Sunderland, Darwin’s Enigma, p. 89
"No one has found any such in-between creatures. This was long chalked up to ‘gaps’ in the fossil records, gaps that proponents of gradualism [gradual evolutionary change from species to species] confidently expected to fill in someday when rock strata of the proper antiquity were eventually located. But all the fossil evidence to date has failed to turn up any such missing links.
"There is a growing conviction among many scientists that these transitional forms never existed."—*Niles Eldredge, quoted in "Alternate Theory of Evolution Considered," in Los Angeles Times, November 19, 1978.
"Sudden appearance: In any local area, a species does not arise gradually by the steady transformation of its ancestors; it appears all at once and ‘fully formed.’ "—*
Steven Jay Gould, "Evolution’s Eratic Pace," in Natural History, May 1977, p. 14.
"It is a feature of the known fossil record that most taxa appear abruptly. They are not, as a rule, led up to by a sequence of almost imperceptible changing forerunners such as Darwin believed should be usual in evolution."—*
G.G. Simpson, in The Evolution of Life, p. 149.
‘I admit that an awful lot of that has gotten into the textbooks as though it were true. For instance, the most famous example still on exhibit downstairs (in the American Museum) is the exhibit on horse evolution prepared perhaps 50 years ago. That has been presented as literal truth in textbook after textbook. Now I think that that is lamentable, particularly because the people who propose these kinds of stories themselves may be aware of the speculative nature of some of the stuff. But by the time it filters down to the textbooks, we’ve got science as truth and we’ve got a problem.’
- Dr. Niles Eldredge, curator at the American Museum of Natural History, in a recorded interview with Luther Sunderland, published in Darwin’s Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems, Master Books, El Cajon, California, USA.
“
T
he extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils. ... We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life’s history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we never see the very process we profess to study.” Stephen Jay Gould, “Evolution’s Erratic Pace,” Natural History, Vol. 86, May 1977,
“
All paleontologists know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt.”
Gould, “The Return of Hopeful Monsters,” p. 23.
". . intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic change, and this is perhaps the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory [of evolution]."—
*Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species, quoted in *David Raup, "Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology," in Field Museum Bulletin, January 1979
2001 staunch evolutionist Ernst Mayr wrote the following: “ Given the fact of evolution, one would expect the fossils to document a gradual steady change from one ancestral form to the descendants. But this is not what the paleontologist finds. Instead, he or she finds gaps in just about every phyletic series. New types often appear quite suddenly, and their immediate ancestors are absent in the geological strata. The discovery of unbroken series of species changing gradually into descending species is very rare. Indeed the fossil record is one of discontinuities, seemingly documenting jumps (saltations) from one type of organism to a different type. This raises a puzzling question: Why does the fossil record fail to reflect the gradual change one would expect from evolution?[80]
“
in the years after Darwin his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions in general these have not been found yet the optimism has died hard and some pure fantasy has crept in the textbooks”
raop David education and the fossil record science vol 217 July 1982 p289
many more quotes from evolutionist can be used also, but it goes to show the fossil record points to creation not evolution.
"In any case, no real evolutionist, whether gradualist or punctuationist, uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of the theory of evolution as opposed to special creation."—*Mark Ridley, "Who Doubts Evolution?" in New Scientist, June 25, 1981, p. 831.