Creation: Question Evolution Campaign — 9 of 15

A Sunday guest post by my brilliant husband, Gregg.

Every Sunday, my clever husband offers me a “day of rest” by taking over the homemaker duties here. His primary topic, the Biblical Truth of Creation vs. Darwinism, is a subject that has broad reaching scientific, social, and metaphysical implications and is gaining more and more attention in our modern culture. For believers and non-believers alike, the primary purpose is to present scientific, historical, logical, and/or sociological data in an empirical and defensible fashion, as much as possible written in layman’s terms, and in a format suitable for supplementing any homeschool curriculum whether you choose to believe the Biblical account — or secular guesses — about the origins of human life on earth.

Transitional Forms

Question number 9 in the creation.com Question Evolution campaign is, “Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing?”

Why are the (expected) countless millions of transitional fossils missing? Charles Darwin noted the problem and it still remains more than 2 centuries later. The evolutionary family trees in textbooks are based on PURE imagination, not fossil evidence, or any other evidence for that matter.

The late famous Harvard paleontologist (and fervent Darwinist), Stephen Jay Gould, wrote, “The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology”.

The fact is that the average Darwinist cladogram has as much in common with factual scientific evidence and observation as the Santa cladogram pictured here.  Note that there are actual examples of living things with lines connecting them to “inferred” and utterly imaginary things.

This is essentially the philosophy of Darwin when it comes to the fossil record.  It goes back to Larmarkism when Jean Baptiste Lamark invented pictures of a deer on one end of the spectrum and a giraffe on the other and filled in the inferred intermediate space with utterly imaginary things that have never existed — explaining that they must have existed to transform deer into giraffe.  (The three rightmost creatures are completely imaginary.)

In modern “evolutionary” biology, there is an assumption of imaginary living things that span the gaps and “link” all of the gaping chasms in the fossil record and in observed biological processes.  While there should be hundreds of thousands of transitional forms that “transition” every single living thing on the planet from the mythical “simple” single celled “original” ancestor into current complex multi-cellular living things, the fact is that there simply aren’t more than a few very questionable examples.

In the human fossil record, there is an assumption of monkey to man transformation.  However, an objective study reveals only a collection of monkey bones (fully ape) an man bones (fully human).

Other Darwinist fossil experts also acknowledge the problem at an intellectual level, though like Gould, they completely ignore it at a philosophical level.  Charles Darwin famously predicted that “future discoveries” in the fossil record would validate his theory.  In more than 2 centuries, the actual fossil record has done nothing more than disprove his theory again and again.

For more information about question number 9 in this searies, visit creation.com/pattquote.

The Truth

The truth is that a rational human being without a philosphical bias has to conclude that the evidence does not support the assumption.  In fact, it contradicts it.  The more consistent answer to this very large question is that we were designed by an intelligent agent and we bear the tool marks of that design effort.

I commit to you that I will publish every single comment that meets this blog’s commenting criteria. You may want to review that criteria before adding your opinion here.

God Bless you and yours.

Gregg

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