Creation Moment 6/24/2019 - Toppling the Evolutionary Tree

The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.
Psalm 2:4 NIV

"Towards the end of the 21st century’s first decade, scientists began to evaluate the newly emerging biomolecular data to review the

potential implications. Molecular biology was expected to overcome the theories long-lasting scientific issues.

Stephen Jay Gould, an evolution paleontologist at Harvard University and a long-time critic of Darwin’s tree, wrote –

“The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.”

 

By the end of the first decade, since integrating the emerging molecular evidence into the standard theory [known as Neo-Darwinism or Modern Synthesis] was becoming increasingly problematic, The Royal Society invited internationally recognized evolution scientists to a 3-day meeting in November 2016, stating –

“Developments in evolutionary biology and adjacent fields have produced calls for revision of the standard theory of evolution, although the issues involved remain hotly contested.”

 

At the conclusion of the contentious meeting, the attendees could not develop a consensus on any revisions. Huffington Post journalist, Suzan Mazur, asked –

“Why is it so difficult to pull together the most compelling ideas in evolutionary biology and come up with an approximate understanding of how it all works?”

Eugene Koonin,  head of the Evolutionary Genomics Group, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institute of Health, noted –

“The public is already extremely skeptical about the value and the scientific nature of evolutionary biology… The genomic revolution… effectively overturned the central metaphor of evolutionary biology, the Tree of Life.”

RichardNelson