Dinosaur Moth: An Evolutionary Enigma

Institute for Creation Research ^ | 3-30-15 | Jake Hebert, PhD

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Dinosaur Moth: An Evolutionary Enigma

by Jake Hebert, Ph.D. *

Scientists discovered a tiny moth on Australia's Kangaroo Island and gave it the name Enigmatinea glatzella. The name is quite descriptive, as Enigmatinea means "enigma moth" in Latin.1,2 But why is this moth an enigma to evolutionary scientists?

Today's living representatives of this moth have "basically the same features" as their ancestors, which evolutionists claim lived forty to fifty million years ago.3 Hence, virtually no evolution has occurred in all that supposed time! Ted Edwards, one of the scientists tasked with describing the new moth family said, "It's really quite remarkable because it means that the ancestral line has continued right through without changing a lot of its basic structures."1

For this reason, scientists are calling Enigmatinea glatzella a "dinosaur moth." Since, in evolutionary thinking, dinosaurs became extinct 65 million years ago, the discovery of living representatives of a creature that is at least forty million years old is as remarkable as discovering a living dinosaur.

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ICR article image.

[skinkinthegrass]

i presume, the hairy structures, on the wings were to catch the lightest of breezes.

[fishtank]

Why have I been posting creationist articles?

(1) To educate. That is, it’s important to keep current on creationist work and observations.

(2) To cast doubt on the falsehoods of evolutionary dogma. Our modern age has seen a similar false science of global warming. Darwinism corrupted the hearts of men, whilst warmism has corrupted our economies and further sickened our scientific integrity.

[DoodleDawg]

Of course, this lack of evolution is exactly what one would expect to find in nature since God created all flying creatures—including moths—to reproduce "according to its kind"

So is ICR claiming that there is no evidence of any evolutionary changes to any animal or insect?

[muir_redwoods]

Crocodilians existed before dinosaurs arose. Some exhibit only a few changes in 100 million years. If no evolutionary stresses act on a species, its food or its habitat, evolution will not occur. Evolution is preferential survival in response to stresses. There’s no mystery here.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Hence, virtually no evolution has occurred in all that supposed time!

Supposed time. LOL!

[qam1]

Darwinism corrupted the hearts of men,

Yeah, at one time there was never any hate, war, perversions and everyone lived in peace and harmony in a brotherhood of man, but then Charles Darwin came along and ruined it all

[SandRat]

[muir_redwoods]

Mr. Fishtank seems to have wandered off

[SevenofNine]

WHOA that going be new Godzilla move in 2017 Motha going make comeback well everybody is

Why they remake X-files and Coach

[JimSEA]

The dynamics of evolutionary stasis

Abstract.—The fossil record displays remarkable stasis in many species over long time periods, yet studies of extant populations often reveal rapid phenotypic evolution and genetic differentiation among populations. Recent advances in our understanding of the fossil record and in population genetics and evolutionary ecology point to the complex geographic structure of species being fun- damental to resolution of how taxa can commonly exhibit both short-term evolutionary dynamics and long-term stasis.

Since you now seem to be willing to discuss topics involving "millions and millions of years" can I conclude you have abandoned the young earth scenario of Ken Ham and Kent Hovin?

[DavidLSpud]

“Crocodilians existed before dinosaurs arose. Some exhibit only a few changes in 100 million years. If no evolutionary stresses act on a species, its food or its habitat, evolution will not occur. Evolution is preferential survival in response to stresses.”

“There’s no mystery here.”

So how many millions of years ago...and no evolutionary stresses...you mean like comets,... but since water is usually somewhere to be found...remnants remained...

...but few from the Permian Sea.

sort of like cockroaches of the marshes....

OK...I understant/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extinction_event

[Buttons12]

40 million years. No wonder it’s looking a little frayed at the edges.

[DungeonMaster]

(1) To educate. That is, it’s important to keep current on creationist work and observations.

(2) To cast doubt on the falsehoods of evolutionary dogma. Our modern age has seen a similar false science of global warming. Darwinism corrupted the hearts of men, whilst warmism has corrupted our economies and further sickened our scientific integrity.

I appreciate it. Here is a verse I found that shows how old this form of idolatry is.

Jer 2:27 saying to a stock, ‘Thou art my father,’ and to a stone, ‘Thou hast brought me forth.’ For they have turned their back unto Me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’

Note: a stock is a tree.

[Talisker]

i presume, the hairy structures, on the wings were to catch the lightest of breezes

Actually no - they're to minimize noise so it can fly silently. Owls have similar fringing on their feathers for the same reason. For an insect I would imagine they also help break up the visual edges to protect from predators. Fringing is energy-expensive, so most birds and insects rely on speed and ability instead. But fringing can't be best for stealth and silence.

[Talisker]

i presume, the hairy structures, on the wings were to catch the lightest of breezes

Actually no - they're to minimize noise so it can fly silently. Owls have similar fringing on their feathers for the same reason. For an insect I would imagine they also help break up the visual edges to protect from predators. Fringing is energy-expensive, so most birds and insects rely on speed and ability instead. But fringing can't be beat for stealth and silence.

[skinkinthegrass]

Thanks, Hadn't thought of that..

[muir_redwoods]

Ever seen a critter a gator wont eat or try to? Crocodilians are the great white sharks of land animals and like sharks they can easily adapt to change in their environments. They simply are well adapted to changing environment so no, very little environmental stress for crocs.