Fossils Vote on Evolution
31 Dec 2008
Jerry Richard Boone asked:
According to Darwin, brand brand new class movement by light accumulation of incremental changes over prolonged durations of time. That’s expansion in a nutshell. Can Darwin’s supposition be tested? To find out, you spin to a usually genuine justification you have of antiquated life, a bone as well as bombard beam to a past - a hoary record.
The vicious subject is: Does a hoary jot down await Darwin’s light shift theory? What do you consider would occur if you put expansion to a vote, permitting a fossils themselves to confirm a outcome? Sounds fair, sounds reasonable; even sounds democratic, doesn’t it? Let’s give it a try. We can begin with a oldest hold up form of all . . .
Bacteria: Taken from rocks antiquated 3,600 million years old, a oldest single-celled prokaryote is radically a same as today’s variety. That is a in couple of instances prolonged duration of stability. They have not evolved. Bacteria opinion no to evolution.
Peripatopsis: The South African “walking worm” classification of a Onychophora family. This quadruped has remained unvaried given a commencement of a Cambrian period. That is over 500 million years of stability. Consequently a peripatopsis votes no to evolution.
Lingula: Commonly called a lampshell due to it’s surprising shape, a Lingula is a classification of brachiopod. No fossils lead up to or divided from a Lingula. This quadruped has remained unvaried given a Silurian period, 435 million years ago. The Lingula votes no to evolution.
Neopilina as well as Nucula: Two genera of sea animals both have defended a same forms their ancestors had over 400 million years ago. They as well opinion no to evolution.
Pyenogonum: A sea classification of fifty class which resemble spiders. They have not altered for 350 million years. These holdouts from a Devonian duration opinion no to evolution.
Hutchinsoniella: A sea bottom home classification of a cephocardia family has remained consistent for 340 million years. Another no opinion for evolution.
Liphistius: Trap doorway spiders. Their ancestors have been unknown. The initial hoary stays were found in a Permian duration 275 million years ago. Trapdoor spiders afterwards were really matching to trapdoor spiders now. A wolf spider recorded in amber from a Eocene period, 55 million years ago, is matching to a complicated day species. Again, you find creatures who crop up unexpected in full form as well as stay a same to a present. Along with a bacteria, lampshells, as well as sea animals, spiders opinion no to evolution.
Nautilus: A classification of mollusks which has defied expansion for 270 million years. One some-more no opinion for evolution.
Anaspides: a Segmented classification of H2O bugs as well as Limulus: Horseshoe crabs both have hoary annals fluctuating behind for 250 million years. Neither has altered over a centuries. Again, dual some-more votes opposite evolution.
Latimeria chalumnae: A coelacanth, a class of tassel-finned fish has remained a same for 200 million years. No fossils lead up to or divided from a Latimeria. This Triassic duration survivor votes no to evolution.
Entemnotrochus: Another classification of sea animals carrying no well well well well known ancestors. It has a hoary jot down fluctuating behind 180 million years ago. They have not changed. Entemnotrochus votes no to evolution.
Ornithorhynchus anatinus: Duckbill platypus have stayed a same for 160 million years. They opinion no to evolution.
Sphenodon punctatus: Usually called tuatara in English. This invertebrate has no well well well well known ancestors as well as no know descendants. And it has shown small shift for 140 million years given a late Jurassic. It as well votes no to evolution.
Leiopelma: An “archaic” frog classification in New Zealand. They have been deliberate vital fossils of a Cretaceous period. For 135 million years these frogs have resisted change. Once again, no evolution. Therefore, Leiopelma votes no to evolution.
Apteryx: Genus of kiwis, a flightless bird. Their fossils date behind to a Cretaceous duration 95 million years ago. The bird has not changed. Apteryx votes no to evolution.
Lepisosteus: Garfish; Lanthanotus boorneenish: A family of assuage sized lizards; as well as Didelphis: Opossums have been all represented in a hoary jot down 70 million years ago. They have not evolved. Garfish, lizards, as well as possums all opinion no to evolution.
Cheroptera: Bats. Once again, you see creatures have a conspicuous coming in a figure you know them today. The oldest well well well well known bat, 50 million years old. is uncelebrated from complicated bats. We have a successive hoary jot down for these animals given a early Eocene period. No signs of elaborating as well as their ancestors have been unknown. Bats opinion no to evolution.
Insects: Ants, mites, as well as plant lice were trapped together in oozing amber 35 million years ago. Their appearances have not changed. Insofar as expansion goes, all 3 insects have conspicuous time given then. Where have been a goods of mutations as well as healthy selection? For 35 million years those forces have someway bypassed ants, mites, as well as plant lice. instead of light change, you find 3 some-more undoubted examples of long-term stability. Ants, plant lice, as well as mites all opinion no to evolution.
Tupaia: Treeshrews; Crytoprocta ferox: Mongoose; as well as Dicerorhinus sumatrensis: Rhinoceros all have hoary annals for thirty million years. No conspicuous changes have occurred. All 3 opinion no to evolution.
Tipirus: Tapirs demeanour a same as their twenty-five million year aged ancestors. They as well opinion no to evolution.
These “living fossils” obviously denote a elemental smirch in naturalist theory. If impersonal, fatalistic evolutionary forces arbitrarily holder out a certain turn for any 500 million or so individuals, afterwards because have so many creatures in a hoary jot down remained unblushing by this routine for such a really prolonged time? Even some-more to a point, where have been those creatures who do uncover a successive array of certain mutations?
In his book, Adam as well as Evolution, Michael Pitman says which a stock of rodents, birds, reptiles, sheep, dogs, cats, cows, horses, sea cows, marsupials, sea lions, elephants, giraffes, whales, monkeys, apes, as well as male is uncertain. Consequently, they contingency refrain from choosing by casting votes upon evolution.
Animal phyla, classes, orders, family groups as well as even many genera as well as class come in a hoary jot down similar to a shaft out of a blue. We see no viewable ancestors in underlying stone levels. Once established, they turn fast as well as tarry with small or no shift for millions of generations. They do not adapt; they do not evolve. Many turn singular as well as eventually disappear. Others have been still with us currently in many a same unaltered form as when they initial surfaced. This method is a rule, not a exception.
Plants as well as Paleontologists
Does a hoary jot down uncover light shift over time in plants? Petrified plants do uncover opposite class during opposite times. Many have been varieties of plants you have today. We see brand brand new class popping up as well as many starting in to extinction. But from their initial appearances you can identify: algae, ferns, flowering plants, mosses, as well as pines in a hoary record. Furthermore, fungi, algae, mosses, ferns, peilopsids, horsetails, tree horsetails, bar mosses, progymnosperms, seed ferns, ginkgo, cycads, conifers, as well as flowering plants any open up with no well well well well known ancestor.
Angiopteris: A classification of Old World ferns has been found in a hoary jot down dating 180 million years old. They haven’t altered over this period.
Ginkgo biloba: The maidenhair tree has been in a benefaction form for during slightest 160 million years.
Dipteris: A family of 8 class of eastern Asian ferns have remained in a same form for 140 million years.
Matonia: A classification of human ferns has been found in a hoary jot down dating 140 million years. They as well haven’t changed.
Araucaria: Tall evergreen tree classification local to a Southern Hemisphere which has been in a benefaction form for 136 million years.
Cycas: Evergreen tree with pennate leaves which dates behind 135 million years. Its a same currently as it was in a Cretaceous period.
Sequoia: Tall deciduous evergreen classification local to North America. It hasn’t altered for 65 million years.
Stylites: Quillwort genus, an nautical plant which has additionally persisted in a same form for 65 million years.
The plant dominion similar to a animal kingdom, offers small or no await for Darwin’s theory.
Charles Darwin was wakeful of a problem. In a Origin of a Species, he wrote: “. . . middle links? Geology confidently does not exhibit any such finely graduated organic chain; as well as this, perhaps, is a many viewable as well as critical conflict which can be urged opposite a speculation [of healthy selection].”
David M Raup, former curator of a Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, wrote in a Jan 1979 book of Field Museum Natural History Bulletin:
“Well, you have been right divided about 120 years after Darwin as well as a believe of a hoary jot down has been severely expanded. We right divided have a entertain of a million hoary class though a incident hasn’t altered much. The jot down of expansion is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, you have even fewer examples of evolutionary passing from a singular to an additional than you had in Darwin’s time. By this we meant which a small of a classical cases of darwinian [sic] shift in a hoary record, such as a expansion of a equine in North America had to be rejected or mutated as a outcome of some-more minute report - what appeared to be a good elementary course when comparatively couple of interpretation were accessible right divided appears to be many some-more formidable as well as many reduction gradualistic.”
Speaking during Hobart as well as Wilson Smith College in 1980, Stephen J. Gould, conspicuous evolutionist bard as well as lecturer, remarked:
“Every paleontologist knows which many class do not change. They get a small bigger or bumpier though they sojourn a same class as well as which is stasis. And nonetheless this conspicuous stasis has in all been abandoned as no data. If they do not shift it is not expansion so do not speak about it.”
Professor Niles Eldridge of a Museum of Natural History additionally questions Darwinian evolution. In theory, healthy preference produces a array of incremental changes solemnly transforming a singular sort of hold up in to another. The complaint has regularly been a hoary record. Intermediate fossils have been missing. In a past, evolutionists simply discharged a jot down observant it’s incomplete. That, points out Eldridge, is no longer a case.
Geologists have right divided complicated stone layers representing a final 5 hundred million years, as well as a fossils sojourn a same. Those prolonged sought transitory creatures have been as illusory as ever. If a hoary jot down is not during fault, afterwards it contingency be a theory.
Anyone can pull up an evolutionary chart; any a singular can explain a singular hold up form developed from another. But such stories have been not science. There is no approach to exam or infer it. If fossils were authorised to vote, expansion would lose. Darwin could not equate upon a singular vote.
Question to Consider: Scientists have right divided carefully thought about 100,000 citation from around a universe covering fauna from a past 3,500,000,000 years. Does this hoary jot down denote evolution, or a fortitude of species?
According to Darwin, brand brand new class movement by light accumulation of incremental changes over prolonged durations of time. That’s expansion in a nutshell. Can Darwin’s supposition be tested? To find out, you spin to a usually genuine justification you have of antiquated life, a bone as well as bombard beam to a past - a hoary record.
The vicious subject is: Does a hoary jot down await Darwin’s light shift theory? What do you consider would occur if you put expansion to a vote, permitting a fossils themselves to confirm a outcome? Sounds fair, sounds reasonable; even sounds democratic, doesn’t it? Let’s give it a try. We can begin with a oldest hold up form of all . . .
Bacteria: Taken from rocks antiquated 3,600 million years old, a oldest single-celled prokaryote is radically a same as today’s variety. That is a in couple of instances prolonged duration of stability. They have not evolved. Bacteria opinion no to evolution.
Peripatopsis: The South African “walking worm” classification of a Onychophora family. This quadruped has remained unvaried given a commencement of a Cambrian period. That is over 500 million years of stability. Consequently a peripatopsis votes no to evolution.
Lingula: Commonly called a lampshell due to it’s surprising shape, a Lingula is a classification of brachiopod. No fossils lead up to or divided from a Lingula. This quadruped has remained unvaried given a Silurian period, 435 million years ago. The Lingula votes no to evolution.
Neopilina as well as Nucula: Two genera of sea animals both have defended a same forms their ancestors had over 400 million years ago. They as well opinion no to evolution.
Pyenogonum: A sea classification of fifty class which resemble spiders. They have not altered for 350 million years. These holdouts from a Devonian duration opinion no to evolution.
Hutchinsoniella: A sea bottom home classification of a cephocardia family has remained consistent for 340 million years. Another no opinion for evolution.
Liphistius: Trap doorway spiders. Their ancestors have been unknown. The initial hoary stays were found in a Permian duration 275 million years ago. Trapdoor spiders afterwards were really matching to trapdoor spiders now. A wolf spider recorded in amber from a Eocene period, 55 million years ago, is matching to a complicated day species. Again, you find creatures who crop up unexpected in full form as well as stay a same to a present. Along with a bacteria, lampshells, as well as sea animals, spiders opinion no to evolution.
Nautilus: A classification of mollusks which has defied expansion for 270 million years. One some-more no opinion for evolution.
Anaspides: a Segmented classification of H2O bugs as well as Limulus: Horseshoe crabs both have hoary annals fluctuating behind for 250 million years. Neither has altered over a centuries. Again, dual some-more votes opposite evolution.
Latimeria chalumnae: A coelacanth, a class of tassel-finned fish has remained a same for 200 million years. No fossils lead up to or divided from a Latimeria. This Triassic duration survivor votes no to evolution.
Entemnotrochus: Another classification of sea animals carrying no well well well well known ancestors. It has a hoary jot down fluctuating behind 180 million years ago. They have not changed. Entemnotrochus votes no to evolution.
Ornithorhynchus anatinus: Duckbill platypus have stayed a same for 160 million years. They opinion no to evolution.
Sphenodon punctatus: Usually called tuatara in English. This invertebrate has no well well well well known ancestors as well as no know descendants. And it has shown small shift for 140 million years given a late Jurassic. It as well votes no to evolution.
Leiopelma: An “archaic” frog classification in New Zealand. They have been deliberate vital fossils of a Cretaceous period. For 135 million years these frogs have resisted change. Once again, no evolution. Therefore, Leiopelma votes no to evolution.
Apteryx: Genus of kiwis, a flightless bird. Their fossils date behind to a Cretaceous duration 95 million years ago. The bird has not changed. Apteryx votes no to evolution.
Lepisosteus: Garfish; Lanthanotus boorneenish: A family of assuage sized lizards; as well as Didelphis: Opossums have been all represented in a hoary jot down 70 million years ago. They have not evolved. Garfish, lizards, as well as possums all opinion no to evolution.
Cheroptera: Bats. Once again, you see creatures have a conspicuous coming in a figure you know them today. The oldest well well well well known bat, 50 million years old. is uncelebrated from complicated bats. We have a successive hoary jot down for these animals given a early Eocene period. No signs of elaborating as well as their ancestors have been unknown. Bats opinion no to evolution.
Insects: Ants, mites, as well as plant lice were trapped together in oozing amber 35 million years ago. Their appearances have not changed. Insofar as expansion goes, all 3 insects have conspicuous time given then. Where have been a goods of mutations as well as healthy selection? For 35 million years those forces have someway bypassed ants, mites, as well as plant lice. instead of light change, you find 3 some-more undoubted examples of long-term stability. Ants, plant lice, as well as mites all opinion no to evolution.
Tupaia: Treeshrews; Crytoprocta ferox: Mongoose; as well as Dicerorhinus sumatrensis: Rhinoceros all have hoary annals for thirty million years. No conspicuous changes have occurred. All 3 opinion no to evolution.
Tipirus: Tapirs demeanour a same as their twenty-five million year aged ancestors. They as well opinion no to evolution.
These “living fossils” obviously denote a elemental smirch in naturalist theory. If impersonal, fatalistic evolutionary forces arbitrarily holder out a certain turn for any 500 million or so individuals, afterwards because have so many creatures in a hoary jot down remained unblushing by this routine for such a really prolonged time? Even some-more to a point, where have been those creatures who do uncover a successive array of certain mutations?
In his book, Adam as well as Evolution, Michael Pitman says which a stock of rodents, birds, reptiles, sheep, dogs, cats, cows, horses, sea cows, marsupials, sea lions, elephants, giraffes, whales, monkeys, apes, as well as male is uncertain. Consequently, they contingency refrain from choosing by casting votes upon evolution.
Animal phyla, classes, orders, family groups as well as even many genera as well as class come in a hoary jot down similar to a shaft out of a blue. We see no viewable ancestors in underlying stone levels. Once established, they turn fast as well as tarry with small or no shift for millions of generations. They do not adapt; they do not evolve. Many turn singular as well as eventually disappear. Others have been still with us currently in many a same unaltered form as when they initial surfaced. This method is a rule, not a exception.
Plants as well as Paleontologists
Does a hoary jot down uncover light shift over time in plants? Petrified plants do uncover opposite class during opposite times. Many have been varieties of plants you have today. We see brand brand new class popping up as well as many starting in to extinction. But from their initial appearances you can identify: algae, ferns, flowering plants, mosses, as well as pines in a hoary record. Furthermore, fungi, algae, mosses, ferns, peilopsids, horsetails, tree horsetails, bar mosses, progymnosperms, seed ferns, ginkgo, cycads, conifers, as well as flowering plants any open up with no well well well well known ancestor.
Angiopteris: A classification of Old World ferns has been found in a hoary jot down dating 180 million years old. They haven’t altered over this period.
Ginkgo biloba: The maidenhair tree has been in a benefaction form for during slightest 160 million years.
Dipteris: A family of 8 class of eastern Asian ferns have remained in a same form for 140 million years.
Matonia: A classification of human ferns has been found in a hoary jot down dating 140 million years. They as well haven’t changed.
Araucaria: Tall evergreen tree classification local to a Southern Hemisphere which has been in a benefaction form for 136 million years.
Cycas: Evergreen tree with pennate leaves which dates behind 135 million years. Its a same currently as it was in a Cretaceous period.
Sequoia: Tall deciduous evergreen classification local to North America. It hasn’t altered for 65 million years.
Stylites: Quillwort genus, an nautical plant which has additionally persisted in a same form for 65 million years.
The plant dominion similar to a animal kingdom, offers small or no await for Darwin’s theory.
Charles Darwin was wakeful of a problem. In a Origin of a Species, he wrote: “. . . middle links? Geology confidently does not exhibit any such finely graduated organic chain; as well as this, perhaps, is a many viewable as well as critical conflict which can be urged opposite a speculation [of healthy selection].”
David M Raup, former curator of a Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, wrote in a Jan 1979 book of Field Museum Natural History Bulletin:
“Well, you have been right divided about 120 years after Darwin as well as a believe of a hoary jot down has been severely expanded. We right divided have a entertain of a million hoary class though a incident hasn’t altered much. The jot down of expansion is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, you have even fewer examples of evolutionary passing from a singular to an additional than you had in Darwin’s time. By this we meant which a small of a classical cases of darwinian [sic] shift in a hoary record, such as a expansion of a equine in North America had to be rejected or mutated as a outcome of some-more minute report - what appeared to be a good elementary course when comparatively couple of interpretation were accessible right divided appears to be many some-more formidable as well as many reduction gradualistic.”
Speaking during Hobart as well as Wilson Smith College in 1980, Stephen J. Gould, conspicuous evolutionist bard as well as lecturer, remarked:
“Every paleontologist knows which many class do not change. They get a small bigger or bumpier though they sojourn a same class as well as which is stasis. And nonetheless this conspicuous stasis has in all been abandoned as no data. If they do not shift it is not expansion so do not speak about it.”
Professor Niles Eldridge of a Museum of Natural History additionally questions Darwinian evolution. In theory, healthy preference produces a array of incremental changes solemnly transforming a singular sort of hold up in to another. The complaint has regularly been a hoary record. Intermediate fossils have been missing. In a past, evolutionists simply discharged a jot down observant it’s incomplete. That, points out Eldridge, is no longer a case.
Geologists have right divided complicated stone layers representing a final 5 hundred million years, as well as a fossils sojourn a same. Those prolonged sought transitory creatures have been as illusory as ever. If a hoary jot down is not during fault, afterwards it contingency be a theory.
Anyone can pull up an evolutionary chart; any a singular can explain a singular hold up form developed from another. But such stories have been not science. There is no approach to exam or infer it. If fossils were authorised to vote, expansion would lose. Darwin could not equate upon a singular vote.
Question to Consider: Scientists have right divided carefully thought about 100,000 citation from around a universe covering fauna from a past 3,500,000,000 years. Does this hoary jot down denote evolution, or a fortitude of species?