Joel Kontinen
Living creatures
often look much the same as their fossil counterparts supposedly living
millions of years ago, earning the label ‘living fossils’.
Some evolutionists
say the environment (and thus selection pressures) musts have stayed the same
for all that time. But the ‘environment’ also includes the predators and prey
supposedly evolving all around it.
Others conveniently
claim that if only we had the fossil’s DNA, we would realize it only looks the
same despite having evolved greatly.
A recent article
listing an array of Australian living fossils said, ‘Australia’s isolation has
allowed many such species to flourish, shielded from external pressures that influenced
global evolution. “I.e., they were spared many environmental changes.
Except that, one
sentence before, it has living fossils in general “often surviving
environmental changes that drove others to extinction.” So, on the one hand,
their geography shielded them from environmental change, On the other, they
survived huge environmental change. Evolution is clearly very flexible, capable
of explaining many an outcome. Only it helps not to have two contradictory explanations
in the one paragraph.
The biblical
creation/Flood/dispersion explanation is much more straightforward.
Source:
Weber,C., The living fossils of Australia: these ancient creatures defy evolution, msn.com, 8 Mar 2025
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