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“Living Fossils”—Evolution’s Innate Circular Reasoning
| by | Dave Miller, Ph.D. |
Another
earthshaking find within the evolutionary community only spotlights
once again the inherent irrationality of the faltering, fallacious
theory. During a Southeast Asian expedition, retired Florida State
University science professor, David Redfield, captured the first photos
of the Laotian rock rat, once believed to have gone extinct more than 11
million years ago. The fossilized remains, collected previously from
sites in Pakistan, India, Thailand, China, and Japan, were thought to
verify this last known relative of a long-extinct family of rodents
known as Diatomyidae (“Retired Professor Captures...,” 2006). Surprise,
surprise—another alleged “ancestor” eliminated from the tattered
evolutionary tree.Observe the two contrasting, conflicting, mutually exclusive approaches to the created realm:
1. Evolution: All animals we see today are advanced forms of primitive precursors, and descendants of a single ancestor. As more advanced forms have evolved by means of adaptation, natural selection, survival of the fittest, and genetic mutation, the earlier forms were naturally displaced and disappeared. Fossils, millions of years old, represent life forms that were the evolutionary predecessors of present life forms, but which went extinct long ago.
2. Creation: God created a spectrum of animals during the six-day week of Creation. While reproducing only after their own “kind” (an ambiguous Hebrew term that likely parallels the modern taxonomic classification “family”), these animals were created with the genetic potential for producing a variety of other species, giving rise to the diversity of animal life presently on the planet. Along the way, due mostly to environmental factors, many animals have become extinct. However, other species have escaped detection by humans for centuries, only to be rediscovered in some remote area.
Which of these two viewpoints fits the actual physical facts? Obviously, the latter. Evolutionists repeatedly find themselves in the embarrassing position of discovering that the alleged evolutionary ancestors of current life forms, that supposedly went extinct millions of years ago, are in fact still living. They are forced to cover their tracks by inventing a self-contradictory, nonsensical term to identify these anomalies—in this case, “living fossils.” But that’s like a round square. Philosophers and logicians refer to such duplicitous posturing as irrational and “logical contradiction.” Evolutionists call it “science.”