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Much ado about nothing?

Forum: Theological Expressions
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Out Great(x1000) Grandad's were Africans !??? (CH)
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So Theory of Evolution must be false (Interested )
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Clarification (Seeker)
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Hi Seeker.... (edmund)
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Hi Edmund (Seeker)
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Hi Seeker more... (edmund)
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Believing and seeing (Seeker)
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Websites of the articles? (edmund)
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How about reptile to mammal evolution? (Seeker)
Date: 2001, May 29
From: Benjamin

This seems to be a case of making much out of little. For a start, let’s ask ourselves a simple question. What is it based upon? We have a skull about 1.2 cm long, and that’s all we’ve got. Then take a look at the picture. Nice drawing isn’t it? Was that what the folks in China dug up, a drawing? Obviously not. The picture is simply the imagination of an artist. It’s pretty creative, but other than the skull which is real, everything else is mere speculation and guesswork. Note that this is also what they did to all those alleged apemen. Bits of bones were found and artists simply drew imaginery humanlike apes complete with family tree to propagate the evolutionary fairy tale. And many have been found to be mere doctored evidence or misinterpretation caused by an evolutionary worldview that is desperate for transitional fossils. The ordinary folks might not be trained to question it but the discerning reader would ask the right questions. Now let’s ask more questions and think with me as we examine the article. Article: An animal the size of a paper clip with mammalian features lived 195 million years ago -- about 45 million years before the first true mammal had been believed to roam the Earth, researchers said on Thursday. Benjamin: How did they know when the animal live? What kind of tests were done and how reliable are they? Article” The discovery, reported in the journal Science, helps to bridge a gap in the understanding of the evolution of mammals, said Zhe-Xi Luo of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. Benjamin: In other words, mammals were once not mammals but something else. How did they know that? Article: "We were extremely puzzled by how advanced this mammal was in comparison to its contemporaries," Luo said. Then the researchers realized Hadrocodium represented an early branch of mammalian evolution. Benjamin: Maybe they ought to realise that such an animal is a fully functional living thing, designed to do what it did, and not on its way on some evolutionary ladder. Article: Hadrocodium's well-preserved skull has four key features that are characteristic of the transition from mammal-like reptiles to mammals. These include a powerful jaw hinge, matching upper and lower teeth, a large brain case and a three-bone middle ear completely separated from the jaw. Benjamin: Actually what we do know is that it had “a powerful jaw hinge, matching upper and lower teeth, a large brain case and a three-bone middle ear completely separated from the jaw.” But note the assumption that reptiles has evolved to mammals. Such an assumption has never been proven yet it is said as if it is a forgone conclusion. Article: Mammals developed more complex middle ears and more simple jaws, which enabled them to have more sensitive hearing and greater control over chewing. In reptiles, the lower jaw consists of several bones. In the transition to mammals, the lower jaw became just one bone and the three reptilian jaw elements lost their attachment to the jaw and became the three-bone middle ear. Benjamin: Such just-so arguments are a hallmark of evolutionists. They make these statements but fail to address the deeper issues. The key question is, how did they know that the lower jaw of the reptile became just one bone? How did they know there was a transition? Was anyone there to observe it? What’s the empirical and observable evidence? Article: Crompton said researchers have been looking for a fossil like Hadrocodium that would explain the evolution of a mammalian jaw. Benjamin: However, the point is, when you dig up a fossil, it doesn’t tell you anything about the animal other than that it is dead! Finding a fossil does not explain anything. But certainly one can cook up a story and derive an explanation. Article: The furry creature's tiny size may have enabled the change, he said. "When you get that small, it is possible to probably move those bones off the lower jaw on to the skull," Crompton said. "And that is the kind of step we were looking for." Benjamin: That’s pretty wishful thinking at work from a research scientist. Article: "People have been saying (this) for a long time," Crompton said. "In order to cross the Rubicon, so to speak, to a true mammal, you would probably have to go through a very small stage. So to a certain extent this bears that prediction out." Benjamin: More guesswork? Robert Etheridge, F.R.S., distinguished Fossiologist of the British Geological Survey and Assistant Curator of the Geological Department of the British Museum in South Kensington, says: “In all this great museum there is not a particle of evidence of the transmutation of species. Nine-tenths of the talk of Evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded upon observation, and wholly unsupported by facts. This museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views.” W. Bell Dawson, M.A., M.E., D.Sc., M-Inst.C.E., F.R.S.C., Laureate, Academy of Science, Paris, Gold Medalist in Geology and Natural Science, McGill University, says: “Evolution is a theory founded on ignorance.” Regards, Benjamin