RE: Bible contradictions?
March 16, 2012 at 2:41 pm
(This post was last modified: March 16, 2012 at 2:44 pm by Undeceived.)
(March 16, 2012 at 5:53 am)NoMoreFaith Wrote: Anybody who had read even one thing would realise that "wolf-like" in appearance, does not equate to being a wolf.The point is, the mesonychids evolve almost directly into wolves (with no transitional fossils between) and also happen to be the supposed closest ancestor of dolphins/whales (with no transitional fossils). The blue whale arose within 40 million years, a small time by any evolutionary standard, while the mesonychids remained virtually unchanged in the same time period, as did most other species. I bring up whales because they are an example of uncanny accelerated evolution, and also a digression--organisms arose from the ocean, and then they inexplicably return. The question is why.
Why it's unlikely: http://www.trueauthority.com/cvse/whale.htm
Quote:Of course its prone to mistakes, when was the last time you worked out the eating habits of something that died out millions of years ago and only leaves remains in very very special circumstances?If fossils are so rare, why do we often have dozens or hundreds of a given species... punctuated by blankness? Was there a cataclysmic event in the time of their existence but not one single event while the alleged 100 transitionary species lived? Fossils are records of when the animal died, not when it lived. It's hypocritical for a scientist to date confidently based on deaths when 99% of organisms in history aren't even on record. The Cambrian Explosion is not an explosion of mutations and development. It's when they all died, when their functions intended for survival failed them. Why did they die all around the same time? The Flood is a logical answer.