Wednesday, September 3, 2008

The Crab That Forgot To Evolve

A recent survey in the diary Paleontology includes a paper on the find of a horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) dodo said to day of the month from the Upper Berth Ordovician Period time period or some 445 million old age ago. The study, conducted by Saint David M. Rudkin of Royal Lake Ontario Museum and co-workers reported on a recent happen in Manitoba, Canada. The crab is "strikingly similar" to other horseshoe crabs, including those that are still establish alive today.

The oldest horseshoe crab dodo is practically identical from its present-day descendants, showing no development at all. Some species look to defy alteration at all costs. Darwinian development desperately necessitates grounds of change, especially transitional word word forms or dodoes that would associate different species, but the dodo record shows a very different sort of story.

The late Harvard University zoological science and geology professor Sir Leslie Stephen John Jay Stephen Jay Gould wrote in Natural History in 1977, "The utmost rareness of transitional forms in the dodo record prevails as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that decorate our texts have got information only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the remainder is inference, however reasonable, not the grounds of fossils." Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge proposed the punctuated chemical equilibrium position of evolution, i.e. that development dwells of stasis or long time periods of no alteration at all and then sudden alterations happening too quickly to go forth any dodo evidence. However, it is a stance that reasons not from grounds but from silence.

The horseshoe crab is just one illustration of numerous life dodoes or animate beings that have got not changed for aeons of time. The most celebrated life dodo is the Coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) that was thought to be a nexus between fish and amphibians. Unlike "ordinary" fish, the Coelacanth gives birth to dwell offspring. Yet, the Coelacanth, dubbed the dino fish, is clearly a fish and not a one-half mammal. Evolutionists believed it used its flipper to walk on the ocean floor but observations have got shown this to be false. Scientists suspected that it became nonextant some 65 million old age ago, but in 1938 a life specimen was caught off the seashore of Republic Of Madagascar and since then respective others have got also been sighted living.

Other life dodoes include the Wollemi Pine and the salamander. The blue-green algae or cyanobacteriae have got resisted any alteration for 3.5 billion old age on an evolutionary clip scale. While dating methods affect many premises and possible beginnings of error, the absence of alteration in some of the most "primitive" life word forms is a strong lawsuit against the Darwinian "just-so" narrative of molecules-to man-evolution.

The horseshoe crab also states a story that differs entirely from the Darwinian version.

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