Cambrian Explosion - a Real Headache for Evolutionary Biologists

The Cambrian animals were by no means simple. A fossil of Marrella splendens (Marrellomorpha). Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.





Joel Kontinen

Hardly a day goes by without news of great difficulties for Darwinian evolution. Science Daily reports that the Cambrian Explosion, which used to be a dilemma for Charles Darwin, is still a real headache for evolutionists.

Matthew Wills, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Bath, acknowledges:

“The fossils from the Cambrian period can cause a real headache for evolutionary biologists. Instinct tells us to expect simple organisms evolving over time to become increasingly more complex. However during the Cambrian period there was an apparent explosion of different major groups of animals, all appearing simultaneously.”

This is definitely not that what we would expect of evolution.

Source:

Marine Worms Reveal the Deepest Evolutionary Patterns. Science Daily Oct. 9, 2012.

Cavemen in the Bible?

Joel Kontinen

This might come as a surprise to many people, but the Bible does speak about people living in caves.

They were not dim-witted brutes, however. One of them was Lot, who after escaping from Sodom, sought refuge in a cave. Later David and his men also lived in caves.

Biblical history shows that there never was a time called pre-history. Man was intelligent from the beginning of his sojourn on earth.

CMI has produced a brief video on cavemen:

Freud, Marx, the Berlin Wall and Darwin

The Berlin Wall was supposed to last forever. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.





Joel Kontinen


Some things were never supposed to tumble down. There was a time when Freudian psychotherapy was science. Not so long ago, when the Berlin Wall was still standing, some people adamantly promoted the Marxist view of history. They regarded it as fact.

Then the Wall came down.

Darwin might well be the next icon to follow the path of Humpty Dumpty, who, as we might remember, had a great fall.

Soft Tissue Found in Mammoth Bone

Charles R. Knight: Woolly mammoths near the Somme River, AMNH mural (1916). Image courtesy of Wikipedia.




Joel Kontinen

The recent discovery of a well-preserved mammoth in northern Siberia has brought an earlier discovery into the news.

According to The Guardian, “Russia's North-Eastern Federal University said in early September that an international team of researchers had discovered mammoth hair, soft tissues and bone marrow some 100 metres underground during a summer expedition in Yakutia.”

While finding soft tissue in mammoth fossils assumed to be some tens of thousands of years old is not as spectacular as finding it in a T. rex bone, it is nonetheless interesting.

Recent years have brought to light other intriguing details about mammoths. In 2007 the journal Science published a paper on DNA extracted from mammoth hair shafts. Some of the mammoths were assumed to be over 50,000 years old. This should cause us to use critical thinking skills: Does DNA really last that long, even in Siberia? If not, then there obviously is something amiss in the dates assigned to these fossils.

According to the creation model, woolly mammoths lived during the ice age following the Genesis Flood. We would not be surprised by the discovery of soft tissue and DNA in their fossils.


Sources:


Gilbert, M. Thomas P. & al. 2007. Whole-Genome Shotgun Sequencing of Mitochondria from Ancient Hair Shafts Science 317: 5846, 1927 – 1930.

Well-preserved mammoth found in northern Siberia The Guardian. 5 October 2012.

Ex-Atheist: Secularists Bend the Facts into Their Worldview

Secularists are bowing down to Darwin and see everything in the light of Darwinism. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.




Joel Kontinen

Ex-atheists are often more honest than practicing atheists. Recently, an American ex-atheist named Gary stated:

“Doesn't it strike you as odd that secularists are extremely creative in their interpretations and imaginations to bend the evidence into their worldview and paradigm, and then oddly enough insist that their conclusions are facts and everyone else is silly. It always amazes me.”

Gary was writing about the age of the earth on the Creation Ministries International website. He concluded:

“Sadly many Christians but [sic] into this madness [i.e., they accept evolution and millions of years of earth history] and are unable to see the folly and somehow think they are being scholarly and sophisticated.”

Source:

Creation Ministries International

G. K. Chesterton: “Why Are We Not Grateful to God for Filling our Stockings with Legs?”

G. K. Chesterton. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

Joel Kontinen


Many sceptics assume that eyeglasses are the result of intelligent design but the eyes behind the glasses came about through blind Darwinian processes.

It might perhaps be good to remember what English author G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), who is known as a great defender of Christianity, said:

“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?”

Source:

Brainy Quote.com.

Miracles Without God: The Naturalistic Origin of Life

Joel Kontinen

Even if man rejects the supernatural, he still has to believe in the miraculous. While he does not have a miracle-maker, he still needs miracles.

One of the biggest naturalistic dilemmas is the origin of life. Life simply does not come from non-life, so the evolutionist has to resort to a naturalistic miracle or blind luck, as some would say.

This brief video from CMI illustrates the problem: