Creation Moment 3/22/2026 - Foolishness of “evolutionary creativity”

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 

Romans 1:22

"Fewer Darwinian papers would get published if peer reviewers would do their job. You can’t make up a word or phrase to cover ignorance.

Paleontology: A diverse biota in the shadow of a mass extinction?

(Douglas Erwin, Current Biology, 9 March 2026). Douglas Erwin is a leading expert on the Cambrian explosion. In this Dispatch, he comments on the spectacular new fossil site in China called the Huayuan Biota, which rivals the famous Burgess Shale in species richness and the detail of fossil preservation.

Dr Erwin knows that the Cambrian explosion has been a major embarrassment to evolutionary theory since Darwin’s day. Instead of slow, gradual progress, the first layers of the Cambrian show spectacular diversity and disparity of animal body plans. Some two dozen new phyla appear abruptly in the Cambrian strata, without the evolutionary precursors Darwin said should be there.

Erwin undoubtedly knows that intelligent design advocates have been making hay of this fact in books, videos, and debates. But could he acknowledge this controversy in 2026? Never! Emperor Charlie does have new clothes! Where is your faith?

Watch Erwin follow the example of Molière’s doctor:

"The explosion of skeletonized animals in the early Cambrian (about 530 million years ago), known as the Cambrian radiation, was evident in the 19th Century, but only the discovery of fossil assemblages exhibiting extraordinary preservation of soft parts with fine anatomical detail in the Chengjiang and Burgess Sale faunas revealed the degree of evolutionary creativity at the base of animal evolution."

There is no such thing as “evolutionary creativity” because creativity requires a mind, foresight and talent.

When comparing deep-water and shallow-water abundances of Cambrian fossils, Erwin throws in additional magic words:

"Moreover, these similarities support the notion that deeper water environments may have facilitated evolutionary novelty. Morphological innovation often occurred after mass extinctions linked to shallow-water anoxic events. It is possible that evolutionary novelties arose in deep waters and then spread into shallow waters during post-extinction recoveries. In many cases, soft-bodied clades from deep waters acquired skeletons in the shallows."

Professor Erwin is not alone. With shameless frequency, other Darwinists commit this fallacy of making up empty phrases in pretense of explaining the origins of things. Regarding “notions” in science." CEH