Darwinism is a religion rather than a science. More evidence for you!
The attitude of Darwin's brother, Erasmus, reflects the Darwinist mindset today:
"In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why, 'so much the worse for the facts' is my feeling."
- Erasmus Darwin, In a letter to his brother Charles, after reading his new book, "The Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life" in Darwin, F., ed., "The Life of Charles Darwin," [1902], Senate: London, 1995, reprint, p215
There will be some great quotes after the first article...but frankly the attitude of Erasmus then is similar to that of scientists now. They ignore the evidence and cling to their Darwinism like a toddler to his favorite blanky. But eventually children grow up. Time for Darwinists to follow suit!Piltdown Superman of the Question Evolution Project made a good catch on a recent Institute for Creation Research article. In fact evidence found in Texas supports the Flood scenario and nothing else. Will Darwinists ignore it or lie about it? Hmm. Anyway, here is the ICR article:
Chewed Dinosaur Bones Fit Flood
by Brian Thomas, M.S. *
A new cache of fossils found in Arlington, Texas, contains plenty of clues that are best explained by Noah's Flood.More specifically, the circumstances surrounding these remains match a hypothesis proposed by creation scientist Michael Oard that describes how swamp plants and land creatures could have mixed with sea creatures several months into the year-long Flood.
According to Scripture, five months passed after the Flood began before its waters had completely covered the earth (Genesis 7:24). By then, all air-breathing, land-dwelling creatures not on board the Ark were dead or dying. According to Oard, the interiors of continents may have been the last land areas to be submerged after being repeatedly washed by successive wave-like surges. Water and land levels fluctuated, and desperate, starving creatures made their last stands on temporary barren mud flats.
Oard first described his hypothesis in 1997: "It is more reasonable that dinosaurs found a linear strip of land (or a series of shoals separated by shallow water) during the Flood while the sea level was oscillating and sediments were being deposited."1 He gave an updated description in his 2011 book Dinosaur Challenges and Mysteries, where he wrote, "Patches of newly laid sediments briefly emerged from the water during the Flood due to a local fall in relative sea level."2
University of Texas at Arlington adjunct instructor Derek Main co-authored a description of the Arlington fossil site in the journal Palaois that provides clues that seem to fit Oard's hypothesis.3 First, the creatures were deposited by sediment-carrying flood waters that travelled long distances. The Arlington remains include bones of dinosaur, turtle, and now-extinct crocodile forms. They also include many fish, including shark fossils. The Palaois authors noted that since all these did not normally live in the same place, they must have been washed in from far away.
Second, at the time when these fossils were formed, "more than half of Texas was under water," according to the UT Arlington Magazine.4 It would all have been under water, and at times only half submerged, during the Flood year.
Also, the rapid fossilization of the assembled creatures fits a catastrophic flood capable of combining and burying land, swamp, and sea animals. The Palaois study authors wrote, "Most bones were likely buried within a few years of deposition as indicated by the minimal amounts of weathering and breakage." Some dinosaur bones exhibited "tooth marks consistent with predation" by a large crocodile-like animal. Supposedly, "estimating the time of formation for a fossil assemblage is difficult." But because "all bones are well-preserved and lacked any pitting or etching that would indicate they had passed through a crocodile's digestive system," it is certain that very little time elapsed between when the crocodiles began eating and when all of the remains commenced fossilization.3
Bones usually rot within months on dry land, even without oxygen. And they decay even faster in watery environments like those of the ancient Arlington creatures. Because "the time of formation" was obviously very short, it is difficult to reconcile with evolution's vast ages.
"The data as a whole indicates a coastal, possibly seasonal, marsh that was periodically influenced by marine incursions [sea flooding onto continents]," according to the study authors.3 They assumed the remains represent scenes from everyday life, but the data do not support that story. For example, the assemblage includes charred remains of large branches. If this represents a normal daily scene, then why were the branches ripped off of trees and the animal bones torn apart? The clues indicate catastrophic, not seasonal, processes.
Floods form fossils fast. And it makes sense that a catastrophic worldwide flood, like the one recorded in Genesis, would have deposited these fossils quickly.
References
- Oard, M. J. 1997. The extinction of the dinosaurs. Journal of Creation. 11 (2):137-154.
- Oard, M. J. 2011. Dinosaur Challenges and Mysteries. Atlanta, GA: Creation Book Publishers.
- Noto, C. R., D. J. Main and S. K. Drumheller. 2012. Feeding Traces and Paleobiology of a Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Crocodyliform: Example from the Woodbine Formation of Texas. Palaois. 27 (2): 105-115.
- Wiley, J. Winter 2010. What lies beneath. UT Arlington Magazine. Accessed on uta.edu March 30, 2012.
Article posted on April 18, 2012.
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Now, to welcome the newest addition to my links list, Evolution is Dead!
The following are all quotes from that site:
"Any living being possesses an enormous amount of 'intelligence', very much more than is necessary to build the most magnificent of cathedrals. Today, this 'intelligence' is called 'information', but it is still the same thing. It is not programmed as in a computer, but rather it is condensed on a molecular scale in the chromosomal DNA or in that of any other organelle in each cell.
This 'intelligence' is the sine qua non of life. If absent, no living being is imaginable. Where does it come from?
This is a problem which concerns both biologists and philosophers and, at present, science seems incapable of solving it." - Pierre-P. Grasse, Editor of the 28-volume "Traite de Zoologie," former Chair of Evolution, Sorbonne University and ex-president of the French Academie des Sciences], "Evolution of Living Organisms: Evidence for a New Theory of Transformation," Academic Press: New York NY, 1977, p.2.
"Everyone
who is seriously interested in the pursuit of science becomes convinced
that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe—a spirit vastly
superior to man, and one in the face of which our modest powers must
feel humble." - Albert Einstein
"Now,
after over 120 years of the most extensive and painstaking geological
exploration of every continent and ocean bottom, the picture is
infinitely more vivid and complete than it was in 1859.
Formations have been discovered containing hundreds of billions of fossils and our museums are filled with over 100-million fossils of 250,000 different species.
The availability of this profusion of hard scientific data should permit objective investigators to determine if Darwin was on the right track. What is the picture which the fossils have given us? ... The gaps between major groups of organisms have been growing even wider and more undeniable. They can no longer be ignored or rationalized away with appeals to imperfection of the fossil record." - Luther D. Sunderland,
Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems, 4th edition, Master Books, p. 9
Formations have been discovered containing hundreds of billions of fossils and our museums are filled with over 100-million fossils of 250,000 different species.
The availability of this profusion of hard scientific data should permit objective investigators to determine if Darwin was on the right track. What is the picture which the fossils have given us? ... The gaps between major groups of organisms have been growing even wider and more undeniable. They can no longer be ignored or rationalized away with appeals to imperfection of the fossil record." - Luther D. Sunderland,
Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems, 4th edition, Master Books, p. 9
"The
complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is
impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together
suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an
occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle." - Michael Denton, Molecular Biologist. Evolution: A Theory in Crisis. Adler and Adler.
"My
attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more
than 40 years have completely failed. ... The fossil material is now so
complete that it has been possible to construct new classes, and the
lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the
scarcity of material.
The deficiencies are real, they will never be filled." - Prof N. Heribert Nilsson, Botanist and evolutionist, Lund University, Sweden
The deficiencies are real, they will never be filled." - Prof N. Heribert Nilsson, Botanist and evolutionist, Lund University, Sweden
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"A
growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the
evolutionist camp ... moreover, for the most part these 'experts' have
abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis of religious faith or biblical
persuasions, but on scientific grounds, and in some instances,
regretfully.
The evolutionist thesis has become more stringently unthinkable than ever before." - Wolfgang Smith, Ph.D. physicist and mathematician Oddly enough, Charles Darwin warned about the possibilities of his ideas being overturned. Charles Darwin said, "As by this theory, innumerable transition forms must have existed. Why do we not find them imbedded in the crust of the earth? Why is all nature not in confusion instead as we see them, well defined species? Geological research does not yield the infinity many fine gradations between past and present species required by the theory: and this is the most obvious of the many objections which may be argued against it. The explanation lies, however, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record." However, Darwin was wrong: "Darwin himself, ...prophesied that future generations of paleontologists would fill in these gaps by diligent search ... One hundred and twenty years of paleontological research later, it has become abundantly clear that the fossil record will not confirm this part of Darwin's predictions. Nor is the problem a miserably poor record. The fossil record simply shows that this prediction is wrong. The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's new clothes: everyone knew it but preferred to ignore it. Paleontologists, faced with a recalcitrant record obstinately refusing to yield Darwin's predicted pattern, simply looked the other way." - Niles Eldredge & I. Tattersall, "The Myths of Human Evolution", 1982, p. 45-46 The attitude of Darwin's brother, Erasmus, reflects the Darwinist mindset today: "In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why, 'so much the worse for the facts' is my feeling." - Erasmus Darwin, In a letter to his brother Charles, after reading his new book, "The Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life" in Darwin, F., ed., "The Life of Charles Darwin," [1902], Senate: London, 1995, reprint, p215 |