Creation Moment 6/6/2025 - Ponder the magnitude of this error

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, ... Exodus 20:11

"Study finds birds nested in Arctic alongside dinosaurs (University of Alaska Fairbanks, 29 May 2025). Here’s another major upset to the timeline: modern-looking birds along dinosaurs in the Arctic, of

all places!
"Birds have existed for 150 million years,” said lead author Lauren Wilson, a doctoral student at Princeton University who earned her master’s degree at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “For half of the time they have existed, they have been nesting in the Arctic.”

The paper is the result of Wilson’s master’s thesis research at UAF. Using dozens of tiny fossilized bones and teeth from an Alaska excavation site, she and her colleagues identified multiple types of birds — diving birds that resembled loons, gull-like birds, and several kinds of birds similar to modern ducks and geese — that were breeding in the Arctic while dinosaurs roamed the same lands.

Reporter Sophia Quaglia at New Scientist put the surprise into her subtitle: “Tiny bone fragments from Alaska suggest birds started breeding and nesting in the Arctic 30 million years earlier than previously thought.” 

Ponder the magnitude of this error. The artwork shows modern-looking extinct birds flying around the heads of dinosaurs at latitudes within the Arctic Circle. They were not evolving from dinosaurs with feathers on them. They were already flying birds.

Arctic bird nesting traces back to the Cretaceous (Wilson et al., Science, 29 May 2025). This is the scientific paper for anyone wishing to examine the details of this surprising find.

If the trend continues, the Darwinians may have to admit the whole biosphere evolved “earlier than thought”— like, say, in six days at the beginning? “Perish the thought!” CEH