Milk Drinking by Fossils

Johannes Vermeer: The Milkmaid, public domain.



Joel Kontinen

Science reports the following:

“One trait that is unique to mammals is milk suckling. Suckling requires the presence of stability and motion in the throat, both of which require a complex hyoid apparatus. Zhou et al. describe a mammaliform docodontan fossil from the Jurassic that was preserved with a nearly intact hyoid.”

The abstract of the reports says this:

“ We report a new Jurassic docodontan mammaliaform found in China that is preserved with the hyoid bones. Its basihyal, ceratohyal, epihyal, and thyrohyal bones have mobile joints and are arranged in a saddle-shaped configuration, as in the mobile linkage of the hyoid apparatus of extant mammals.”

It is different from cynodonts, that are not mammals, so according to evolutionists it must have been surprise, leading to mammal’s ancestors.

This is just a Darwinian story, devoid of all true evidence.

Source:

Zhou, Chang-Fu et. al 2019. New Jurassic mammaliaform sheds light on early evolution of mammal-like hyoid bones. Science 365, 6450, 276-279. (19 July).

Why Did Darwin Drink Milk?

Charles Darwin probably suffered from lactose intolerance. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.



Joel Kontinen


Old monkey fossils have not made headlines since the Ida fiasco. Perhaps for this reason Aamulehti, the second largest daily in Finland, recently reminded its readers that Darwinian evolution is still a model that explains everything, including lactose tolerance.

Weakening lactose tolerance in adults is due to evolution, says geneticist Irma Järvelä in an article in Aamulehti. She explained that when a child is weaned the mother becomes free to get more offspring. In other words, evolution acts in a teleological way, making the child dislike milk.

The explanation is a typical example of Darwinian storytelling of the evolution did it or Darwin of the gaps type just so stories that can never be verified empirically.

Lactose tolerance is due to a mutation that does not have anything to do with goo-to-you evolution. Darwinian evolution desperately needs mutations that would increase genetic information.

However, according to biophysicist Lee Spetner science does not know of a single case in which a point mutation would have increased genetic information.

Adults were originally unable to drink milk, but due to a genetic mutation 82 per cent of Finns are now able to digest milk. Such “mutants” are rare among the nations of eastern Asia.

Explanations of lactose tolerance are probably important for evolutionists because their founding father Charles Darwin suffered from diarrhea, bloating and flatulence that are typical symptoms of lactose intolerance.



Sources:

Catchpoole, David. 2009. Can’t drink milk? You’re “normal”! How mutations cause lactose tolerance in adults. http://creation.com/lactose-intolerance.

Hyvärinen, Hanna. 2009. Maito pörisyttää aikuista, koska sen kuuluu tehdä niin. Aamulehti 29 July, B19.

Spetner, Lee. 1997. Not By Change! Shattering the Modern Theory of Evolution. New York: The Judaica Press.