Fossils Older Than Dinosaurs Reveal Pattern Of Early Animal Evolution On Earth (Darwin wrong again)

Science Daily ^ | July 26, 2007

[GodGunsGuts]

...His findings: Overall, approximately 35 percent of the 982 trilobite species exhibited some variation in some aspect of their appearance that was evolving. But more than 70 percent of early and middle Cambrian species exhibited variation, while only 13 percent of later trilobite species did so.

"There's hardly any variation in the post-Cambrian," he said. "Even the presence or absence or the kind of ornamentation on the head shield varies within these Cambrian trilobites and doesn't vary in the post-Cambrian trilobites."...

[GodGunsGuts]

Creationist response (excerpt):

Darwin predicted that life would become more diverse over time, like the branches on a tree. The pattern of trilobites in the fossil record is just the opposite: more diversity appears in the lower layers, and less diversity in the upper layers. Surprisingly, evolutionary paleontologists are turning this into evidence for Darwin’s theory...

...When the media, museums and universities are able to propound these magical fairy tales without any critical scrutiny, creationism doesn’t stand a chance being heard above the din. Anything goes in ev-illusion (07/27/2007 commentary), including cartoons like Popeye (05/31/2005 commentary). How can this multiply-discredited theory ever get falsified? The evidence can be 180° opposite Darwin’s prediction, and yet they turn it into a great victory. Nobody asks any hard questions. Nobody calls foul. Nobody sees the intellectual crime being committed. They get away with it, time and time again. Doesn’t anyone in the scientific and media establishments have any sense any more? For a detailed look at the Cambrian explosion and a prominent evolutionist’s attempts to explain it, read our entry “Cambrian Explosion Damage Control” from 04/23/2006...

For full response, see:

http://creationsafaris.com/crev200707.htm#20070728a

[GodGunsGuts]

ping

[P-40]

Darwin predicted that life would become more diverse over time, like the branches on a tree.

Looks like he was right.

[Red Badger]

The Trouble with Trilobites.......

[Phantom Lord]

6,000 year old earth my butt.

[Porterville]

Thank God and the bible for giving us Evolutionary Science!!!

Praise Jesus that Darwinian theory is correct!!!

Praise the Holy Ghost for sharing with us the secrets of God through evolutionary science!!

Praise Mary for enlightening the true age of the Earth being 4.5 billion years!!!

[aruanan]

Darwin predicted that life would become more diverse over time, like the branches on a tree.

No, a better way of stating this is, "Increasingly subtle variations on increasingly dominant themes."

[theFIRMbss]

>Fossils Older Than Dinosaurs Reveal Pattern Of Early Animal Evolution On Earth (Darwin wrong again)

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[Porterville]

She is one cute golfing primate!!

[xcamel]

Another fact is that as trilobites became “perfected” in their environment, diversity slowed down, also, there were a few million years of a relatively “quiet” astronomical period - then Boom! 5 well recorded supernovas within the “local group” and diversity took off like a runaway freight train....

[cripplecreek]

Exactly. Life diversifies to fill niches in the environment. Once a species reaches it’s most efficient form in an environment, further mutations are weeded out by the law of the jungle.

[GodGunsGuts]

Food for thought:

Cambrian Explosion Damage Control

http://creationsafaris.com/crev200604.htm#20060423a

[Bladerunnuh]

if memory serves, trilobites confused Darwin himself. Their complex compound eyes were very advanced for something so “primitive”. Nothing on earth that is alive is or has ever been “primitive”. ha

[warpsmith]

once a niche is found and successfully occupied, evolution slows down in deference to the successful life form. e.g. the shark and the octopus have essentially not changed for hundreds of millions of years.

the ecstasy any time new data is added to our evolutionary history by the creationists on this site is certainly... interesting.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[js1138]

Darwin predicted that life would become more diverse over time, like the branches on a tree.

Perhaps you will bless us with some references for this assertion.

Considering that all trilobites are extinct, it would be rather interesting to find someone who expects their diversity to increase without limit.

Within recorded history, the diversity of large animals has decreased. What makes you think diversity should increase continuously?

[ari-freedom]

in other words: heads I win, tails you lose

[GodGunsGuts]

==once a niche is found and successfully occupied, evolution slows down in deference to the successful life form.

Indeed, it was so successful it went extinct.

[GodGunsGuts]

In rare moments of candor, even the evolutionists themselves admit this obvious fact:

Darwin’s prediction of rampant, albeit gradual, change affecting all lineages through time is refuted. The record is there, and the record speaks for tremendous anatomical conservatism. Change in the manner Darwin expected is just not found in the fossil record.

Eldredge, N. and Tattersall, I. (1982)
The Myths of Human Evolution
Columbia University Press, p. 48

[samtheman]

Darwin laid down the basic groundwork of a theory that has proved remarkably capable of describing what we see in biology. It doesn’t mean he personally predicted every single aspect of that theory in advance.

Newton didn’t predict quantum mechanics or relativity. Doesn’t make him “wrong”.