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8. Transitionals |
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If life has always been
in a state of continual transmutation from one species to another, as
evolutionists insist, ... |
Untrue - evolutionary
biologists don't insist on 'a state of continual transmutation' |
FALSE |
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...then we would expect
to find many fossil intermediates between all the species. |
In spite of the untrue
premise, the fact remains that we do find many 'transitional forms'. The
suggestion that we don't is false. |
FALSE |
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However evolutionists
must explain the following gaps: |
Why? I am treating each
of these cases as a statement that these gaps can't be explained. |
Irrelevant |
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non-living matter to
protozoan, |
This is a big step!
Various theories on biogenesis exist. |
FALSE |
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- The Protozoan-Metazoan Boundary |
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For an honest discussion
of theories of progenesis, I suggest the second chapter of Richard
Fortey's excellent book "Life - An Unauthorised Biography"
(Flamingo, 1998; ISBN: 0 00 638420 X) |
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protozoan to metazoan,
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There are several
theories. However, we are dealing with organisms which by their nature
leave little fossil evidence. |
FALSE |
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metazoan to
invertebrates, |
Invertebrates are
Metazoans! |
Irrelevant |
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invertebrates to fish,
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Conodonts, Pikea and many
others |
FALSE |
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fish to amphibians,
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Pederpes, Eusthenopteron,
Cheirolepis, Osteolepis , Panderichthys etc.,
etc. etc. |
FALSE |
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amphibians to reptiles,
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Proterogyrinus,
Limnoscelis, Tseajaia, Solenodonsaurus, Hylonomus, Paleothyris |
FALSE |
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reptiles to birds, |
Archaeopteryx! |
FALSE |
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reptiles to fur-bearing
quadrupeds, |
This is the
best-documented transition between vertebrate classes. Paleothyris,
Protoclepsydrops, Clepsydrops, Archaeothyris, Varanops, Haptodus,
Dimetrodon, Sphenacodon, Biarmosuchia, etc. etc. etc. Do a bit of
reading! |
FALSE |
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Link
- Transition from synapsid reptiles to mammals |
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quadrupeds to apes |
Apes are quadrupeds - or
they were last time I went to the zoo. |
Irrelevant |
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and apes to man. |
Numerous transitional
forms as well as genetic and other forms of evidence, all covered on
previous pages. |
FALSE |
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9. Petrified trees
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This represents an
enormous enigma to evolutionists |
Untrue - it doesn't.
Perfectly good explanations have been around for 200 years |
FALSE |
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They speak of a
different kind of burial than is going on today. |
No they don't. What about
peat bogs? |
FALSE |
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They also point to a
catastrophic event, rather than slow burial. |
Not necessarily, but even
if that were to be the case, so what? |
FALSE |
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Their bark remains
intact, indicating a very different method of deposition than we now
currently know. |
Trees in peat bog retain
their bark. |
FALSE |
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This speaks of an event
of enormous power. |
It doesn't, and even if
it did, so what? |
irrelevant |
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plants |
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These are fossilized
plants or trees that extend through several layers of rock, oftentimes
through as many as 20 feet of rock, representing many, many years of
deposition according to evolutionists. |
"Polystratic" is a
term used only in creationist literature to describe fossils extending through
several sedimentary layers. They present no problems for geologists, and
have not done so since the middle of the 19th century. This is a straw man
argument. |
Irrelevant |
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Link
- "Polystrate" Tree Fossils |
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However, there is 1 even
more amazing specimen. It is a club moss extending 120 feet through
several different rock layers, representing 300-400 million years in the
evolution model. |
I can find no reference to this
specimen. Even so, the assertion that it represents 300-400 million years
in the 'evolution model' is untrue. |
FALSE |
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Evolutionists have often
passed this of as a reburial event |
This is not passed off by geologists
as a reburial event - this is in fact the creationist 'flood geologist'
explanation. |
FALSE |
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but this can hardly be
the case if the rock comes right up against the trunk of the tree. |
The fact that rock 'comes
right up to the tree' supports the standard geological explanation |
FALSE |
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There is another example
of this at Spirit Lake in Washington state. Check it out. |
So what? |
irrelevant |
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Evolutionists will point
to the coal and peat deposits in Nova Scotia. These examples are no more
than 5 feet tall and are in a moderately young layer of rock. |
So what? The reference above
gives a geological explanation of these deposits written in 1868! |
irrelevant |
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Ask them to explain the
club moss in Texas over 120 feet tall! |
See my comments above. I
know of no evidence for this assertion. |
I don't know |
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11. Ephemeral
markings |
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These are marks such as
ripple-marks, rain imprints,worm trails and animal tracks. In fact one
of the most amazing specimens was found by Dr. Carl Baugh at Glen Rose,
Tx. A whole worm fossilized half in and half out of the rock. When you
put water on it, it even turns pink. |
So what if the Baugh worm
turns pink? Is the suggestion that because it turns pink when wet it is
living skin? I have an ammonite on my mantelpiece that turns pink when
you wet it. Is the implication that this is living skin? |
Irrelevant |
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This hard evidence flies
in the face of what evolutionists would have you believe about
deposition and soft skin!! |
It does nothing of the
sort, and reveals the almost complete lack of knowledge of the author on
the subject. Even an elementary geological text will show that this is a
false assertion. |
FALSE |
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It should be totally
impossible to find such a fossil, let alone the thousands of animal
tracks, rain drop patterns,etc. |
See my comment above. |
FALSE |
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12. Soil layers |
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This is another huge
area of concern for evolutionists... |
No it isn't. |
FALSE |
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... - the lack of
extensive soil layers in the fossil record. |
Untrue - there are numerous
examples of palaeosols. It should be noted however that the circumstances
in which soils are formed give a relatively low chance of fossilisation.
There is an extensive literature on the subject. |
FALSE |
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With all these layers
exposed for millions of years, you would expect to find numerous soil
layers. |
We do. |
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Even in extreme desert
environments these should build up. |
They do - we have many
aeolian sand deposits built up in desert conditions. |
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Yet in the fossil record
there is very scant evidence of any build-up. |
Do you mean the geological record?
And there is a plenty of evidence. Any basic geology text will enumerate
instances. |
FALSE |
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Selected areas of soil
layers is exactly what you would expect for the geology of a world-wide
flood. |
It isn't. You'd expect to find
evidence for a world-wide large-scale flood deposit - something conspicuously
lacking in the geological record. |
FALSE |
