The Grand Dicynodont Defies Evolution

Part of the fun of doing this is learning new things, such as dicynodonts, but these herbivores are extinct now. It was called this because of "two dog teeth". Most were considerably smaller than the giant that was recently discovered in Poland.

Credit: Wikimedia Commons / Nobu Tamura (CC BY-SA 4.0)

This fossil caused a stir among particles-to-paleontologist evolutionists, and some claim that it exciting because of the problems it causes in their belief system. (Sort of like a delivery driver whose vehicle was repossessed and could call the loss of livelihood "exciting". That'll be the day!) It is not only in the "wrong place", but was mixed in with a passel of other critters, which supports creationist views of rapid burial by the Genesis Flood.

Once again, evolutionists have to change their stories because the facts are uncooperative. Biblical creationists are untroubled, and we do not have to tinker with the truth with every new bit of data.

This issue of how gigantism arose in dicynodonts, just like in dinosaurs, is a puzzle for evolutionists. For smaller animals to become so large would require changing their centre of mass and skeletal muscle structure.

The discovery also overturns the long-held story that the only giant herbivores in the late Triassic were sauropod dinosaurs. The reason it puts a fly in the ointment is as follows: dicynodonts are part of a larger group called therapsids, which includes both mammals (including humans) and their alleged ancestors. During this imagined period, the earlier part of the so-called ‘age of dinosaurs’, therapsids were supposed to be decreasing in size and eventually evolving into small shrew-sized mammals. Lisowicia bojani is a huge problem as it bucks this trend, going ‘gigantically’ in the opposite direction.

To read the article in its entirety, see "The giant that shouldn’t be".