A new study was just published in the Journal Human Evolution that has shocked many in evolutionary science.
“This conclusion is very surprising,.. I fought against it as hard as I could.”
said co-author of the study David Thaler of the University of Basel. What was the surprise? Something that challenges very foundations of evolutionary theory.
The study’s most startling result, perhaps, is that nine out of 10 species on Earth today, including humans, came into being 100,000 to 200,000 years ago… That reaction is understandable: How does one explain the fact that 90 percent of animal life, genetically speaking, is roughly the same age?
[Physics.org]
Thaler says that either humans and animals showed up together 200,000 years ago, or there was a catastrophic event occurred that reset biology. In a July 2, 2014 paper published in PLOS|one, these same authors found other evidence supporting a global species population crash. Thaler described as
almost a Noah’s Ark hypothesis–although perhaps long-term climate cycles might cause widespread periodic bottlenecks
Another Discovery Shakes Evolutionary Dogma
There was another startling result that stands in stark opposition to current evolutionary theory. Lead author Mark Stoeckle of Rockefeller University in New York, and Thaler have found that species have distinct genetic boundary lines, which is in stark contrast to core of evolutionary theory. This is also supported by the lack of any transitional forms in the fossil record.
And yet—another unexpected finding from the study—species have very clear genetic boundaries, and there’s nothing much in between.
“If individuals are stars, then species are galaxies,” said Thaler. “They are compact clusters in the vastness of empty sequence space.”
The absence of “in-between” species is something that also perplexed Darwin, he said. [Physics.org]
Genesis 1:25;God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the cattle according to their kinds, and all the creatures that creep along the ground according to their kinds.
Makes you wonder why Thaler was fighting so hard to find some other conclusion for the data? I thought scientists followed the evidence not tried to make the evidence follow the theory.
No one is disputing that evolution occurs on a species level with variations, this is abundantly attested to. Even in Darwin’s day, animal husbandry was widely practices to breed the best plants and livestock. Where the theory falls apart is in the claim that it is an unguided process, with the creative power to change fish into birds, deer into whales, and monkeys into people. The call for a new theory is ringing loud even among evolution supporters themselves, according to Dr. Stephen Meyer in his book “Darwin’s Dilemma”
The technical literature in biology is now replete with world-class biologists routinely expressing doubts about various aspects of neo-Darwinian theory, and especially about its central tenet, namely the alleged creative power of the natural selection and mutation mechanism.
Nevertheless, popular defenses of the theory continue apace, rarely if ever acknowledging the growing body of critical scientific opinion about the standing of the theory. Rarely has there been such a great disparity between the popular perception of a theory and its actual standing in the relevant peer-reviewed science literature.
Stoeckle and Thaler’s study’s only support what the fossil record has been saying for over one hundred years.
If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case. [Darwin online]
Consequently, if the theory be true, it is indisputable that, before the lowest Silurian or Cambrian stratum was deposited long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably far longer than, the whole interval from the Cambrian age to the present day; and that during these vast periods the world swarmed with living creatures… The case at present must remain inexplicable; and may be truly urged as a valid argument against the views here entertained.¹
Even back in 2009 biologists were grappling with the contradictions new studies were revealing. Remember Darwin’s “Tree of Life”? New discoveries have harvested any remaining ideas that such a thing exists.
Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life
was the headline in 2009 on the New Scientist Magazine.
We have no evidence at all that the tree of life is a reality,” [Eric Bapteste, an evolutionary biologist at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, New Scientist magazine.]
The tree of life is being politely buried,” … “What’s less accepted is that our whole fundamental view of biology needs to change.” [Michael Rose, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Irvine.]
Evolutionary theory has a long “tale wagging the dog” history. What I mean is that data is made to fit the theory. Stoeckle and Thaler have put another nail in an evolutionary ad Hoc theory called “Punctuated Equilibrium“. This explanatory masterpiece was invented because species in the fossil record appeared suddenly [punctuated], and with distinct boundaries, then remained in stasis [equilibrium] for millions of years.
Evolution is the new “God of the gaps” theory as genetics, biology, cosmology continue to build the case for design.
This study of course doesn’t prove anything, but it is another example of how science is supporting belief in God, not distancing us from it.
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Robert J.
References
- Chapter IX, “On the Imperfection of the Geological Record,” On the Origin of Species, fifth edition (1869), pp. 378-381.
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