granted but are wrong? Not long ago, it seemed impossible to expect DNA to be found in cave dirt or ice, because DNA was thought to degrade too quickly. In recent years, scientists have been able to recover DNA fragments that are lengthy enough to learn things about animals and humans that once lived in those environments. They’re having to rethink old ideas all right, but should be rethinking them even deeper than they are willing to dig.
Ancient DNA suggests woolly mammoths roamed the Earth more recently than previously thought (Tyler J. Murchie, The Conversation, 23 Jan 2022). That tell-tale phrase “than previously thought” begs the question, “WHO thought that?” The Tontological sentence structure usually implies, “WE scientists thought that, but incorrectly,” although they almost never come out and say so, much less apologize for misleading the public. Watch below for two other terms evolutionists overuse that mislead.
Dr. Murchie works on ancient DNA recovered from permafrost cores in Arctic regions. What he and his colleagues have found is shaking up assumptions about when large Pleistocene mammals, like woolly mammoths, went extinct.
For my doctoral research, I was part of a team that developed a a new technique to extract, isolate, sequence and identify tiny fragments of ancient DNA from sediment.
We analyzed these DNA fragments to track the shifting cast of plants and animals that lived in central Yukon over the past 30,000 years. We found evidence for the late survival of woolly mammoths and horses in the Klondike region, some 3,000 years later than expected.
That’s not the only rethink being rethought. Like all evolutionists, Murchie takes reckless drafts on the bank of time, but the consensus dates of when these creatures lived are more ideological than empirical. They must fit the Darwin Years deep-time timeline. He doesn’t mention radiocarbon, but the accuracy of C14 dates declines beyond a few millennia that can be corroborated by historical evidence. It becomes vulnerable to assumptions about production rates of C14 in atmospheric conditions that cannot be observed. Suffice it to say that even within his own timeline, he has found surprising results.
Until recently, there was no evidence of mammoth survival
into the mid-Holocene*. But studies have now shown that mammoths survived until 5,500 and 4,000 years ago on Arctic islands.Researchers at the Centre for GeoGenetics in Copenhagen found evidence for the late survival of horses and mammoths in Alaska until as recently as as 7,900 years ago. They also found evidence of mammoths surviving as recently as 3,900 years ago in Siberia, alongside woolly rhinoceros to at least 9,800 years ago.
*[Holocene is the name given by evolutionists to the last 11,700 Darwin Years of the Earth’s history since the “last ice age.”]
Then there’s the real shocker:
Steppe bison, which were thought to have disappeared and been replaced by the American bison during the Pleistocene, have likewise been found to have survived even as recently as perhaps just 400 years ago.
