Living Fossils
Evolutionists explain that we do not observe evolution today because it happens gradually and painstakingly over millions of years. Unfortunately, this explanation is not supported by the fossil record. Here is just a very short list of the hundreds of remarkable examples of what evolutionists call living fossils, or species that have remained unchanged since their supposedly ancient appearance in the fossil record, and still live today:
Ants todays ants demonstrate a complete lack of change from those found in amber from the Jurassic (contemporaneous with the dinosaur)
Nautilusthe basic squid family has not evolved since it first appeared, complete with eyes, in the Cambrian explosionthe first level of evolution after single-celled organisms (along with numerous other species still existing from that era, like starfish, and jellyfish, and clams, and coral . . .)
Spiderappears complete 400 million years ago when things were supposedly just getting out of the water. Wonder what they caught in those fancy webs.
Dragonflyand numerous plants and trees from the carboniferous period, 100 million years before dinosaurs
Frog275 million years ago
Cockroach250 million years ago
Horseshoe CrabJurassic
Shark400 million years ago
Tuataralizard-like reptiles that live in New Zealand. They first appeared during the dinosaur age, but no fossil of them has ever been found younger than 80 million years clearly the fossil record is unreliable for accurately recording the span of an organisms existence.
Coelacanthappears in strata 200 million years before dinosaurs, yet modern specimens show no evolution. Amazingly, according to evolutionists own interpretation, this fish was deemed extinct for hundreds of millions years based on their lack of appearance in the fossil record above that geologic age. This is one of dozens of species not traceable for millions of years of strata. Clearly this animal succeeded throughout this supposedly tremendous gap. Evolutionists view the fossil record completely through the interpretive lens of evolution for advocating what and when things have lived, no matter how unreliable this proves to be.
If such a distinct creature can live without leaving a trace for hundreds of millions of years, then what is the record reliable for? If it cant testify to the lifespan of a species, how can it accurately record when species first appeared? Fossils, do tell a story, but they do not tell the whole story. Creationism completely explains such anomalies, since all the creatures were only buried in one catastrophic flood event. The preserved remnant are but a representation of the original diversity.
There are hundreds of examples of species, from bacteria to crocodiles (140 million years ago) that have not changed for supposedly millions of years from the fossil record to the present. Despite its abundant confirmation of stasis, the fossil record cannot offer any evidence of evolutionary development. It is as if each species came into being in an instant, fully formed. In reality, when we look at all the thousands of species of plants, animals, arthropods, and more, we must acknowledge that all these unique species would have been in a constant state of change in order to make these millions of micro-steps in all their different directions.
It is simply not biologically possible, or even logical, that the past was a state of constant unending flow of transitions which miraculously resulted not only in the species we still have, but the species already lost to extinction. It is unimaginable that all this happened for hundreds of millions of years in all these thousands of species, and not one true transition is recorded in the fossil record. How is it that the supposed turbulent past of constant change that we cannot witness, does not in any way resemble the present that we can observe. Moreover, the record itself provides evidence, species after species, of stability for hundreds of millions of years, up until the present.
The true facts, as presented by the fossil record, validate the Creation model to the complete exclusion of the theory of evolution. It demonstrates that the Cambrian System was instantly crowded with fully developed and familiar species when they first appear. Even though this is the first opportunity for evolution to show off, there are no fossils to demonstrate how dozens of new body types emerged from the single-celled organisms.
The change from invertebrates to vertebrates is just as mysterious. The fossils manage to clearly record the instantaneous wide variety of fish, but no developmental stages. The fossil record continues to point to stasis, and does not offer evidence of how a fish turned into such a variety of amphibians, straining our imaginations. All the way through the rise of mammals, birds, and humans, the abundant fossils faithfully preserve only the terminal, or final species, omitting the millions of transitional species.
All species are found utterly complete in every way when they are uncovered from the sand and mud and limestone that entombed them. We will never know how evolution could haphazardly produce such marvels as an eye, or wings, or flowers, or any complex feature because their fossils just appear again with no recorded developmental history in spite of all the suitable layers of sediments. All the uniqueness of life, from birds, to marsupials, and hundreds of unusual specialized traits, are captured in these rocks as if they just materialized, already fashioned, without any ancestry. In fact, a much greater variety, even giant forms, of species evidently lived in the past, attesting to the dominant value of extinction and entropy, not evolution.
Creationists are not surprised that the fossil record testifies against the gradual transitions of evolution, because Special Creation would leave a record of stasis in all species because they were created at the same time. These were the forms buried in one sudden cataclysm as a testimony of this flood, and left for our examination.
Clearly the world is winding down, not elaborating. According to the fossil record, there are less species now than ever, and species have not grown more complex. Nothing in the fossil record substantiates evolution. That scientists continue to imply that there is solid evidence in the rocks is deceptive to both the public, and themselves. The fossil record offers no more evidentiary basis for evolution than a cemetery does. In fact, evolution has no more basis in reality than that Zeus sits atop Mt. Olympus with his band of gods.
Ronald R. West wrote, and many evolutionists concur, in the May, 1968 edition of Compass:
Contrary to what most scientists write, the fossil record does not support the Darwinian theory of evolution because it is this theory which we use to interpret the fossil record. By doing so, we are guilty of circular reasoning if we then say the fossil record supports this theory.
Scientists see evolution in the fossils because the fossils are essential to evolution.
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