He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh... Psalm 2:4
"Because Darwinism is built on philosophical naturalism, evidence can be moved around as needed.
Evolutionists never seem worried about out-of-place fossils.
Why is that?
The reason is that the philosophy of naturalism is the driving force that keeps Darwinism going.
Darwinians think like this:
(1) Naturalism must be our worldview.
(2) Darwinism seems to be the best theory within naturalism.
(3) If problems are found in Darwinism, there isn’t any competition, so we can just shuffle parts of the story around. This non-falsifiable strategy allows them to believe in the Popeye Theory of Evolution, the Cambrian explosion, and any other rearrangement as long as naturalism is preserved.
Even a Precambrian rabbit could probably be accommodated by a sufficiently talented just-so storyteller.
New fossil pushes back physical evidence of insect pollination to 99 million years ago (Indiana University at Bloomington). A fossil in amber has just doubled the evolutionary age of insect pollination.
Scientists find eternal Nile to be more ancient than previously thought (University of Texas at Austin).
Stretchable Darwin Years work just as well in geology as in biology. This is because both fields are wedded to naturalism, and Darwin needs lots of time. In this case, the moyboy age of the Nile River didn’t just double. It sextupled!
To Darwin himself, the Cambrian fossil record was the most serious evidence against his theory. He hoped more fossils would fill in the gap from the Precambrian to the explosion of complex forms at the base of the Cambrian. They haven’t.
The evidence is more problematic for evolution than ever. This huge gap was so powerful to Yale computer scientist David Gelernter, after he read Darwin’s Doubt, he abandoned Darwinism. But today’s evolutionists, wedded as they are to naturalism, can look at Cambrian fossils of exquisite preservation and yawn.
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"Because Darwinism is built on philosophical naturalism, evidence can be moved around as needed.
Evolutionists never seem worried about out-of-place fossils.
Why is that?
The reason is that the philosophy of naturalism is the driving force that keeps Darwinism going.
Darwinians think like this:
(1) Naturalism must be our worldview.
(2) Darwinism seems to be the best theory within naturalism.
(3) If problems are found in Darwinism, there isn’t any competition, so we can just shuffle parts of the story around. This non-falsifiable strategy allows them to believe in the Popeye Theory of Evolution, the Cambrian explosion, and any other rearrangement as long as naturalism is preserved.
Even a Precambrian rabbit could probably be accommodated by a sufficiently talented just-so storyteller.
New fossil pushes back physical evidence of insect pollination to 99 million years ago (Indiana University at Bloomington). A fossil in amber has just doubled the evolutionary age of insect pollination.
The newly reported fossil is described Nov. 11 in theThe paper, published in PNAS, is titled “Pollination of Cretaceous Flowers.” After stating that the oldest known insect pollinator previously dated from 42 million to 45 million Darwin Years, while the new one is twice that (99 million), they conclude, “Our finding thereby extends the known geological range of direct evidence of insect pollination of angiosperm by at least 50 million years.” Darwinian dating can stretch twice its length in an instant. The reaction seems to be, ‘Well, how about that? (yawn).’ The Darwin worship service continues without interruption.
journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The fossil, which contains both the beetle and pollen grains, pushes back the earliest documented instance of insect pollination to a time when pterodactyls still roamed the skies — or about 50 million years earlier than previously thought.
Scientists find eternal Nile to be more ancient than previously thought (University of Texas at Austin).
Stretchable Darwin Years work just as well in geology as in biology. This is because both fields are wedded to naturalism, and Darwin needs lots of time. In this case, the moyboy age of the Nile River didn’t just double. It sextupled!
The Nile’s unchanging path, however, has been a geologic mystery because long-lived rivers usually move over time.
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have cracked the case by linking the river’s flow to the movement of rock in the Earth’s deep mantle. In the course of their investigation, they found the eternal river to be much older than anyone realized, with the scientists estimating the age of the Nile to be 30 million years – about six times as long as previously thought.
Trilobite mass death display, Wyoming Dinosaur Center (DFC)
The Sirius Passet Lagerstätte of North Greenland: a remote window on the Cambrian Explosion (Journal of the Geological Society). To Darwin himself, the Cambrian fossil record was the most serious evidence against his theory. He hoped more fossils would fill in the gap from the Precambrian to the explosion of complex forms at the base of the Cambrian. They haven’t.
The evidence is more problematic for evolution than ever. This huge gap was so powerful to Yale computer scientist David Gelernter, after he read Darwin’s Doubt, he abandoned Darwinism. But today’s evolutionists, wedded as they are to naturalism, can look at Cambrian fossils of exquisite preservation and yawn.
The lower Cambrian Lagerstätte of Sirius Passet, Peary Land, North Greenland, is one of the oldest of the Phanerozoic exceptionally preserved biotas. The Lagerstätte evidences the escalation of numbers of new body plans and life modes that formed the basis for a modern, functionally tiered ecosystem. The fauna is dominated by predators, infaunal, benthic and pelagic, and the presence of abundant nekton, including large sweep-net feeders, suggests an ecosystem rich in nutrients. Recent discoveries have helped reconstruct digestive systems and their contents, muscle fibres, and visual and nervous systems for a number of taxa. New collections have confirmed the complex combination of taphonomic pathways associated with the biota and its potentially substantial biodiversity.Because naturalism is a given, the 7 authors of this paper do not feel threatened with falsification and shame. Their reaction seems to be, ‘Well, how about that? (yawn).’ Darwinism, the Stuff Happens Law, takes care of it. Digestive systems, muscles, eyes, nervous systems — what’s the problem? They just pop into existence."
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