DARWINISM IS DEAD

NEODARWINISM TOO.

IT"S OVER.

THEY REALLY 

DONT HAVE A LEG TO STAND ON ANYMORE.

"A false premises never leads to a truthful conclusion.

Never"

(I remember somebody saying a while back...yup...It comes into play here a good bit in to a rather lengthy piece but if you make it all the way through you'll see just how so...)

"Fossil Friday: Discontinuities in the Fossil Record — A Problem for Neo-Darwinism."

Günter Bechly is a German paleo-entomologist who specializes in the fossil history and systematics of insects (esp. dragonflies), the most diverse group of animals. He served as curator for amber and fossil insects in the department of paleontology at the State Museum of Natural History (SMNS) in Stuttgart, Germany. He is also a Senior Fellow with Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Dr. Bechly earned his Ph.D. in geosciences from Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen, Germany.

"The fossil record generally documents a discontinuous history of life with sudden appearances of new body plans and new forms of life in saltational events of abrupt origins that have been called explosions, revolutions, and Big Bangs even by mainstream evolutionary biologists, who would hardly have given such names to slow and gradual transitions (Bechly & Meyer 2017, Bechly 2021e, 2023d). This fact was readily admitted by eminent evolutionary biologists such as Ernst Mayr, who said that “Wherever we look at the living biota … discontinuities are overwhelmingly frequent … The discontinuities are even more striking in the fossil record” (Mayr 2001: 189) or Hickman et al. (1988), who noted that “most major groups of animals appear abruptly in the fossil record, fully formed, and with no fossils yet discovered that form a transition from their parent group.” Famous biologist and bestseller author Stephen Jay Gould called this phenomenon “the trade secret of paleontology” (Gould 1977), which eerily suggests that there is something to hide."

"The pattern of abrupt origins of biological novelties is the general rule in all periods of Earth History, in all geographical regions, and in all groups of organisms from protists, to plants, to invertebrates and vertebrate animals. Such a consistent pattern in the fossil record cries out for an adequate explanation of the empirical data."

"Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution necessarily predicts a gradual development of life. Therefore he insisted on gradualism, against the advice of his good friend Thomas Huxley. Darwin quoted in his magnum opus The Origin of Species (Darwin 1859) not less that six times the Latin dictum “natura non facit saltus”, nature does not make jumps, because he wanted to present a fully naturalistic explanation for the history of life on our planet, knowing perfectly well that saltations (abrupt evolutionary change; sudden large-scale mutation.) would have tacitly implied miracle-like intelligent interventions."

"In another book titled Climbing Mount Improbable (Dawkins 1996) he explained the reasons with a beautiful metaphor: Imagine the task to reach the top of a steep and tall cliff from the sea shore. It would be an improbable (or rather impossible) miracle to achieve this task with a single big jump. However, if there was a gentle slope on the backside of the cliff, you could easily and effortlessly climb the mountain with a lot of small successive steps. This is the way evolution must operate according to Darwin and Dawkins: not by sudden miraculous jumps, but many small steps, that are each not unlikely to happen accidentally without intelligent intervention, and which accumulate over long periods of time to add up to big biological differences."

"Of course, Charles Darwin was quite aware that the fossil record does not support this prediction of gradualism and admitted: “Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.” (Darwin 1859)."

(Translation, I'm not wrong the fossil record we have in front of us at this time is "imperfect". Apparently just flat out ignoring the observable evidence so obviously right in front of you goes back a good ways with certain "scientist" (their words not mine) types)

"...the renowned Harvard paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson, who is widely considered to be the most influential paleontologist of the 20th century and co-founder of the modern evolutionary synthesis (= neo-Darwinism). He wrote about 100 years after Darwin (Simpson 1960): “It is a feature of the known fossil record that most taxa appear abruptly. They are not, as a rule, led up to by a sequence of almost imperceptibly changing forerunners such as Darwin believed should be usual in evolution. … These peculiarities of the fossil record pose one of the most important theoretical problems in the whole history of life.”

"...Darwin still appealed to the incompleteness of the fossil record and our insufficient knowledge of it as explanation of the conflicting evidence. This ad hoc explanation is still quite popular and it has been said by vertebrate paleontologist Philip Gingerich that “Gaps of evidence are gaps of evidence and not evidence of gaps” (alluding to Carl Sagan’s famous dictum that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence). But is this really true? Actually, we can use statistical tests of the data to find out...On the higher taxonomic levels, which are relevant for macroevolution, the fossil record is very complete (Kalmar & Currie 2009: “Collector’s curves of the number of described families over the past 200 years suggest that the … the family-level continental fossil record is reasonably representative”). For example, 80 percent of all families of living land vertebrates are represented in the fossil record (Denton 1985), which can be readily extrapolated to most other groups and time horizons."

"When we call appearances of new body plans within windows of time of 5-10 million years abrupt, an obvious objection might be that this still sounds like a lot of time, where a lot of stuff could happen. This is certainly true in terms of human history, but geologically and biologically speaking, such windows of time really are just a blink of an eye. How short are they? A good approximation to grasp the brevity of these time spans is the fact that according to standard text book wisdom the average longevity of an animal species is 5-10 million years for marine invertebrates (May et al. 1995: table 1.1, Levinton 2001: table 7.2), 3-10 million years for insects (Hörnschemeyer et al. 2010, Penney & Jepson 2014: 198-199), and only 2.3-4.43 million years for vertebrates like mammals (Prothero 2014). Thus, a window of time of 5 million years is roughly equivalent to a succession of just 1-2 ancestor-descendant species with only minor differences to each other, so that this can hardly explain the massive re-engineering of body plans within the same time. There is simply too much change in too short time to be reasonably explained with an unguided mechanism!"

(So the fossil record is complete enough, 

and there is simply to much change to quickly, 

like I was saying:

DARWINISM IS DEAD

NEODARWINISM TOO.)

"Now let’s have a look at some examples from different periods of Earth history:

The Origin of Life (3.8 bya) 

(Billion years ago)

"The latest indirect evidence from biogenic carbon in zircon crystals suggests that life was already present 4.1 billion years ago in the Hadean era, even before the Late Heavy Bombardment, when life could only survive in subterranean niches (Sleep 2010, Bell et al. 2015). Either way, life seems to have arisen abruptly about as soon as it possibly could, given conditions on the early Earth, and not after billions of years of chemical evolution. Time is not the hero of the plot."

"The Origin of Photosynthesis (3.8 bya)

Because the mentioned Late Heavy (meteorite) Bombardment (4.1-3.8 billion years ago), “repeatedly boiled away the existing oceans into steam atmospheres” (Marchi et al. 2014) and only left subterranean environmental niches (Sleep 2010, Bell et al. 2015), photosynthesis was only possible in the Earth’s oceans after the bombardment ceased. That implies that photosynthesis with all its integrated biochemical complexity originated abruptly as soon as the Earth first offered a stable and suitable environment for the process to occur, and yet again not after long periods of gradual evolution."

(One is an accident, two is a trend.)

"The Avalon Explosion (575-565 mya) 

(Million years ago)

"Before the Ediacaran organisms appeared, the only living forms documented in the fossil record for over 3 billion years were single-celled organisms, colonial algae, and maybe sponges. Although the humble Ediacaran biota look simple beside most of the later Cambrian animals, they exhibit a much higher degree of complex organization than the single-celled organisms and colonial algae that preceded them. No series of intermediate forms documents any such transition happened in a gradual Darwinian way."

"The Cambrian Explosion (537-508 mya)

The Cambrian Explosion refers to a dramatic period in the history of life when many new and anatomically sophisticated animals appeared suddenly in the sedimentary layers of the geologic column without any discernible evidence of simpler ancestral forms in the earlier layers below. Fossil discoveries during this period attest to the first appearance of animals representing more than twenty phyla (the largest division of animal classification) as well as many more subphyla and classes, each manifesting distinctive body plans, where a body plan represents a unique arrangement of body parts and tissues. Indeed, animals representing most of the body plans that have ever existed on Earth first appear during this explosive event...Several unexpected features of the Cambrian explosion from a Darwinian point of view are: (1) the sudden appearance of a startling array of completely novel animal forms with novel body plans; (2) an absence of transitional intermediate fossils connecting the Cambrian animals to simpler Precambrian forms; and (3) a pattern in which radical differences in form in the fossil record arise before more minor, small-scale diversification and variations. This latter pattern turns on its head the Darwinian expectation of small incremental change only gradually resulting in larger and larger differences in form. The abruptness of the explosion is also dramatic from both a geological and evolutionary standpoint...In any case, most Cambrian experts agree that the majority of Cambrian animal phyla lack any putative fossil ancestors within the preceding Ediacaran biota (Conway Morris 2000, 2006). For this very reason, the Cambrian Explosion has been variously called “Evolution’s Big Bang” (Time 1995) and “Darwin’s Dilemma” (Conway Morris 2006)."

"Of course, Darwinists are deeply concerned by this conflicting evidence and tried to explain it away: A very popular objection to the problem of the Cambrian Explosion has been the claim that in the Late Precambrian there maybe existed no suitable geological deposits that could preserve the potentially small and soft-bodied ancestors of the Cambrian animal phyla. This so-called artefact hypothesis has been addressed and refuted by Stephen C. Meyer (2013)...even mainstream scientists concluded that fossil animals are not absent because they have not been preserved or found but because they did not yet exist (Daley et al. 2018). We can conclude with Derek Briggs (2015), who is one of the world leading experts on Cambrian fossils: “We now know that the sudden appearance of fossils in the Cambrian … is real and not an artefact of an imperfect fossil record.”

"Finally, it is a common trope among critics to claim that the Cambrian Explosion was a much longer and more gradual event (e.g., Anonymous 2018), even though most actual experts on Cambrian fossils have strongly affirmed the reality and abruptness of this event (see references in Luskin 2013a,b and Bechly 2018a, 2021d, 2022j-l, 2023j)...This means that within the average longevity of just 1-2 successive marine invertebrate species a transition was made from a jelly-like pre-animal to a genuine arthropod with its complete set of complex features (i.e., exoskeleton, segmented legs, chewing mouth parts, compound eyes, nervous system with brain, and gut system). This strongly confirms the biological abruptness of the Cambrian Explosion rather than refuting it. This example also shows how important it is to compare the bold claims in press releases and popular science media headlines with the actual data of the concerning scientific studies, which often do not support these claims that are rather driven by world view agenda than by good science.

(That last sentence is so important. The world view agenda being pushed is satanic whether any "scientist" admits it or not, to push world views/agendas that are directly contradicted by the observable evidence simply isn't science any more but an ideology.)

"Last but not least, there have recently been claims by proponents of the modern field of evo-devo research that the Cambrian Explosion did not require any significant 

novel biological information 

(Information is always a sign of a conscious intellect)

in terms of new genes and new proteins to account for the origin of the different animal body plans. Instead a simple rewiring of the so-called gene regulatory networks (GRNs) and of a lego-brick-like set of Hox genes should be sufficient as explanation. Such claims have been decisively refuted (see Bechly 2018c, 2022m) by recent genomic studies (e.g., Paps & Holland 2018), which demonstrated that all major transitions in the history of life, such as the origin of animal phyla in the Cambrian Explosion, correlated with novel genes and new proteins that account for new cell types, new tissues, and new organs. The inconvenient truth of the Cambrian Explosion stubbornly refuses to be explained away."

(Funny thing about the truth, it dont give a fuck about the world view/agenda that you are pushing.)

"The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event / GOBE (485-460 mya)

"While general animal body plans representing distinct phyla, subphyla and classes first appeared in the Cambrian Explosion, these marine invertebrate groups greatly diversified on lower taxonomic levels (e.g., about 300 new families) during a relatively short period of time in an event known as the Great Ordovician Biodiversification about 485-460 million years ago (Servais et al. 2010, Harper et al. 2015). This explosive diversification of marine life has been called “Life’s second Big Bang” by O’Donoghue (2008), who mentions “that the ‘Ordovician explosion’ was every bit as momentous for animal evolution as the Cambrian one.” 

"Top-Down vs Bottom-Up

"The clear “top-down” pattern of fossil appearance raises an additional difficulty for the theory of universal common descent and the Darwinian picture of the history of life.

According to the theory of universal common descent and current understanding of how the mutation/natural selection mechanism works, the differences in form, or “morphological distance,” between evolving organisms should increase gradually over time as small-scale mutations accumulate by natural selection to produce increasingly complex forms and structures (including, eventually, new body plans). In other words, one would expect small-scale differences or diversity among species to precede large-scale morphological disparity among phyla. As the former Oxford University Neo-Darwinian biologist Richard Dawkins has put it, “What had been distinct species within one genus become, in the fullness of time, distinct genera within one family. Later, families will be found to have diverged to the point where taxonomists (specialists in classification) prefer to call them orders, then classes, then phyla.” (Dawkins 1998: 201).

Darwin (1859: 120–125) himself made this point in his Origin of Species. In explaining his famous branching-tree diagram, he noted how higher taxa should emerge from lower taxa by the accumulation of numerous slight variations.

The actual pattern in the fossil record, however, contradicts this expectation. Instead of more and more species eventually leading to more genera, leading to more families, orders, classes and phyla, the fossil record shows representatives of separate phyla appearing first followed by lower-level diversification on those basic themes."

"The Silurio-Devonian Terrestrial Revolution (427-393 mya)

The sudden origin and diversification of vascular land plants (Tracheophyta) in the Late Silurian and Early Devonian is one of the great mysteries in the history of life. One of the two oldest known vascular land plants, Baraghwanatia, already belongs to the modern subgroup of clubmosses. Bateman et al. (1998) concluded that “the Siluro-Devonian primary radiation of land biotas is the terrestrial equivalent of the much-debated Cambrian ‘explosion’ of marine faunas.”

"The Devonian Nekton Revolution (410-400 mya)

Klug et al. (2010) described a radical change in the composition of the marine fauna of the Early Devonian, which he named the Devonian Nekton Revolution (also see Bechly 2023g for a critical discussion). While previously the marine ecosystems were dominated by planktonic (drifting) and demersal (near sea bottom) taxa, between 410-400 million years ago a very sudden and enormous expansion of marine nektonic (actively swimming) animals occurred, in which groups such as ammonoid cephalopods and jawed fish make their first appearance. Within just 10 million years such active swimmers increased from only 5% to about 75% of the marine fauna."

(Only about 13 more to go, so 

at what point do you say to yourself:

"This (Darwinism, Neo-darwinism)

 is all bunch of fucking Bull Shit."?)

"The Odontode Explosion (425-415 mya)

The term “odontode explosion” was coined by Fraser et al. (2010) for the sudden appearance of vertebrate dentition. Within 10 million years (425-415 mya) between the Late Silurian and Early Devonian all major groups of jawed fish with teeth and tooth-like structures (odontodes) appear abruptly in the fossil record."

"The Devonian Terrestrial Revolution (395 mya)

This crucial event in the history of land-based life includes the appearance of land vegetation, of terrestrial arthropods, and of quadrupedal vertebrates. The latter appeared suddenly in the fossil record about 375-365 million years ago with animals like the iconic Ichthyostega and Acanthostega. There still more fish-like assumed precursors appeared 385-375 million years ago with Elpistostegalia such as Panderichthys and the famous Tiktaalik. So far so good, but in 2010 the tracks of a quadrupedal animal with toes were described from the Zachelmie limestone quarry in Poland (Niedźwiedzki et al. 2010), which is dated to an age of about 395 million years (Dalton 2010). These tetrapod tracks are 10 million years older than any of their assumed fish-like ancestors (elpistostegalians) among the lobe-finned-fish (Ahlberg 2019), and even 3-5 million years older than the oldest Tetrapodomorpha with salmon-like fish such as Eusthenopteron. This implies a temporal paradox of the assumed descendants being older than the assumed ancestors, so that evolutionists have to postulate a so-called ghost lineage of undocumented existence as an ad hoc explanation of the conflicting evidence."

"The Carboniferous Insect Explosion (325-314/307 mya)

In the Pennsylvanian (Upper Carboniferous) era between 318-300 million years ago, when the world was dominated by vast tropical swamp forests, a large diversity of different winged insect groups appeared suddenly without any known transitional forms in the older Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) or Devonian strata (Strahler 1999, Labandeira 2005, Grimaldi & Engel 2005, Nicholson 2015, Wang et al. 2016, Bechly 2023b). According to leading experts, “an insect equivalent of an Archaeopteryx remains elusive” (Grimaldi & Engel 2005: 160)." 

"The Triassic Explosions

In the Triassic period we find a kind of carpet bombing of explosive origins of biological novelty after the end-Permian mass extinction (about 252 million years ago). It was also called the Early Triassic metazoan radiation or post-Permian radiation. No new phyla and classes, but many new orders and families originated abruptly among marine invertebrates (e.g., bivalves and ceratites), insects (e.g., Coleoptera and Diptera), and tetrapods (see below). Famous paleontologist Peter Ward (2006: 160), who is an ardent critic of intelligent design, explained that “the diversity of Triassic animal plans is analogous to the diversity of marine body plans that resulted from the Cambrian Explosion. It also occurred for nearly the same reasons and, as will be shown, was as important for animal life on land as the Cambrian Explosion was for marine animal life.”

It is certainly true, that the apocalyptic end-Permian mass extinction opened up a lot of vacant ecological niches, but this is at best a necessary condition but not a sufficient condition for the very quick origin of biological novelty, which required complex new genetic information that does not pop into being only because of new ecological opportunities.

(And it has already been established where INFORMATION has to come from.)

"The Triassic Tetrapod Radiation (251-240 mya)

Directly after the great Permo-Triassic mass extinction the first representatives of modern tetrapod taxa appear suddenly within a short window of time between 251-240 million years ago (Ezcurra 2010, Ezcurra et al. 2014). These include the first dinosaurs (Nyasasaurus), the alleged first turtles (Pappochelys; but see Bechly 2022b), the first lizard-relatives or Lepidosauromorpha (Paliguana), the first croc-relatives or Crurotarsi (Ctenodiscosaurus), and the first mammal-like animals or Mammaliaformes (Haramiyida; see Abdala et al. 2007). Except for the latter two groups, they all appear virtually out of thin air without discernible connections to any known ancestors (Ward 2006).

"The Early Triassic Marine Reptile Radiation (248-240 mya)

After the great end-Permian mass extinction 15 different families of marine reptiles appear abruptly between 248-240 million years ago in the Early Triassic (Twitchett & Foster 2012: fig. 5, Bechly 2023c). They include for example ichthyosaurs, plesiosaur-like pistosaurids, hupehsuchians, nothosaurs, thalattosaurs, pachypleurosaurs, tanystropheids, placodontians, and the enigmatic Aptodentatus. A vertebrate paleontologist, who is an agnostic and a renowned scientist specializing in ichthyosaurs, and who must remain anonymous to protect his career, told me that the sudden appearance of viviparous fully formed fish-like ichthyosaurs within 4 million years after the Permo-Triassic mass extinction (Bechly 2023a) made him doubt the neo-Darwinian story."

"The Mid Triassic Gliding / Flying Reptile Radiation (230-210 mya)

Within only few million years of the Mid-Triassic there is a sudden appearance of gliding and flying reptiles, like Sharovipteryx (with wings on the legs), Mecistotrachelos and the unrelated Kuehneosauridae (with gliding membrane across lateral rib-like projections), Longisquama (with long feather-like scales on the back), and the earliest pterosaurs like Preondactylus (Dalla Veccia 2013, Kellner 2015, Bechly 2022g, 2023h, 2023l) that were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight with bat-like wings supported by a single enlarged finger. The only gliding vertebrates prior to the Triassic were a group of small Permian reptiles called coelurosauravids. They were the first-ever gliding reptiles and appeared without any transition either. They strongly resembled the living common flying dragon (Draco volans) from the South East Asian rainforests, on which McGuire & Dudley (2011) commented that they “envision a rapid evolutionary transition from unspecialized parachutist to specialized glider in their common ancestor. This conclusion is based on the absence of intermediate forms …”.

"Upper Triassic Dinosaur Explosion (234-232 mya)

A recent study on Triassic dinosaur diversification by Bernardi et al. (2018) found an “explosive increase in dinosaurian abundance” and the lead author commented in a press release (University of Bristol 2018) that “it’s amazing how clear cut the change from ‘no dinosaurs’ to ‘all dinosaurs’ was.“ Of course, the authors did not consider design as valid explanation and instead pondered a remarkable naturalistic alternative for the explosive origin of dinosaurs: it rained a lot during this period, which therefore has been called the Carnian Pluvial Episode. Heavy rain hardly explains the origin of biological novelty. Apparently, the common trope that correlation does not mean causation does not apply to evolutionary biology, where explanatory adequacy of a supposed cause seems to be irrelevant as well as the distinction between necessary and sufficient causes."

(Translation, Its not scientific.)

"Upper Cretaceous Mosasaur Radiation (89-66 mya)

Sudden discontinuous origins are not only found in the history of higher taxa but also within subordinate groups. A good example, among countless others, is the abrupt origin and diversification of mosasaurs in the last 25 million years of the Upper Cretaceous (Everhart 2005, Bechly 2023f), when they are said to have evolved from one meter long shore-dwelling lizards (Aigialosauridae) into fully marine snake-like giants of up to 17 meters length (Mosasauridae). They quickly diversified into numerous species in 42 genera around the world, filling different ecological niches. Putative ancestors of mosasauroids prior to the Late Cretaceous are not known. Moreover, even its proposed sister taxon Coniasaurus is of Late Cretaceous age and thus not a plausible ancestral precursor (Caldwell 2008). Any evolutionary relationship to recent monitor lizards and/or snakes is also contested and a matter of considerable debate among specialists (Caldwell 2008, Conrad 2008, Gauthier et al. 2012). The transition from monitor-lizard-like terrestrial ancestors to marine sea-serpent-like mega-predators did not just involve a simple reduction of limbs to flippers and allometric growth in size, but also the de novo origin of a tail fluke and parallel instead of split bronchi as an adaptation to marine life similar to modern whales (Lindgren et al. 2010)."

"The Abominable Mystery of the Origin of Flowering Plants (130-115 mya)

Charles Darwin called the abrupt origin of flowering plants during the Cretaceous period an “abominable mystery.” Indeed, nearly all early fossils of modern angiosperms first appeared abruptly in the Cretaceous and then rapidly diversify between 130-115 million years ago. Oskin (2015) commented that “Then, about 125 million years ago, angiosperms and their flowers sprang forth during the Cretaceous period, as fully formed as Aphrodite.” Darwin was deeply bothered by the pattern of their origin because “the seemingly sudden appearance of so many angiosperm species in the Upper Chalk conflicted strongly with his gradualist perspective on evolutionary change.” (Friedman 2009). 

"Indeed, none of these mid-Jurassic period plants can be unambiguously attributed to any subgroup of modern angiosperms, all of which did first appear in the Early Cretaceous. Therefore, the enigmatic rise of angiosperms still represents an “inextricable knot” —an unresolved puzzle for those who assume the common ancestry of all forms of life (Augusto et al. 2014). Darwins abominable mystery is still alive and kicking (Bechly 2021f-i, 2022f, 2022h-i,m, 2023m), and this also strongly suggests that it not based on an artefact of an incomplete fossil record. Otherwise, the problem should have become at least a bit smaller in 160 years of paleobotanical research with an exponential increase of knowledge, instead of becoming even more acute (Buggs 2017a,b, 2021, 2023)."

"The Paleogene Butterfly Radiation (55-25 mya)

Large nocturnal and diurnal butterflies (“Macrolepidoptera”) are not known prior to the Paleogene period (Sohn et al. 2012, 2015), when modern families like Hesperiidae (Jong 2016), Pieridae, Papillionidae, and Nymphalidae appear abruptly in the fossil record of the Eocene / Oligocene of North America and Europe, without any precursors that would document a gradual development from moth-like Cretaceous forms (Bechly 2023e). This also contradicts evolutionist estimates, which placed their diversification in the Early Cretaceous (Wahlberg 2006, Heikkilä et al. 2012, Jong 2017). This phenomenon could rightfully be called a Tertiary Butterfly Explosion (Bechly 2023e) analogous to the Cambrian Explosion of animal phyla."

"The Paleogene Big Bang of Modern Birds (65-55 mya)

"The lineages of 95 percent of modern bird species also originated abruptly during the Paleocene epoch of the Paleogene period (previously known as Early Teriary) as did most of the mammalian orders (Feduccia 1995). Just like the placental mammalian radiation, the abrupt appearance of modern birds has been dated to a similarly narrow window of time from 65-55 million years ago. 

This avian radiation, has been appropriately called the “explosive evolution of avian orders,” (Poe & Chubb 2004), an “avian explosion” (Thomas 2015), and even a “Big bang for Tertiary birds” (Feduccia 2003). 

"Even the very origin of the first birds in the Jurassic creates a famous temporal paradox (Feduccia 1995), because the oldest known birds like Archaeopteryx are millions of years older than the oldest fossil record of their assumed theropod dinosaur ancestors (Bechly 2022d, also see Bechly 2023o). This temporal paradox exists independently of any possible ambiguity of definition of birds vs dinosaurs as systematic groups."

"The Paleogene Explosive Radiation of Placental Mammals (62-49 mya)

The first orders of placental mammals, and actually most orders of living mammals, appear abruptly in the fossil record during the Paleogene epoch between 62-49 million years ago, without known precursors (O’Leary et al. 2013)...

According to Archibald (2012) “within approximately 15 million years of dinosaur extinction most of the 20 extant orders of placentals had appeared along with some 16 other orders that are now extinct. This was a truly explosive radiation and diversification.” Not only do many (probably about 15 of the extant) mammalian orders appear suddenly, but when they appear they are already separated into their distinctive forms. For example, the orders Carnivora (which include cats and dogs), Chiroptera (which include bats), and Perissodactyla (which include horses and rhinos) all first appear and are clearly differentiated from each other by their distinctive forms and features."

"The Big Bang of the Genus Homo (2 mya)

Many people think that our own species is connected to apes by a gradual transitional series of apeman fossils from East and South Africa. However, in reality there is a distinct anatomical gap between the ape-like australopithecines and the first representatives of our own human genus Homo. Hawks et al. (2000) suggested that the genus Homo originated abruptly 2 million years ago with sudden interrelated anatomical changes. They concluded that “In sum, the earliest Homo sapiens remains differ significantly from australopithecines in both size and anatomical details. Insofar as we can tell, the changes were sudden and not gradual.” This inspired a press release with the headline “New study suggests big bang theory of human evolution” (Swanbrow 2000). Hawks et al. also emphasized “that no gradual series of changes in earlier australopithecine populations clearly leads to the new species, and no australopithecine species is obviously transitional. This may seem unexpected because for 3 decades habiline species have been interpreted as being just such transitional taxa, linking Australopithecus through the habilines to later Homo species. But with a few exceptions, the known habiline specimens are now recognized to be less than 2 Myr old (Feibel et al. 1989) and therefore are too recent to be transitional forms leading to H. sapiens.”

"The Upper Paleolithic Human Revolution (65-35 kya)

Abrupt origins are not just restricted to the anatomy of humans but also extend to human thinking, language, and culture...During the so-called Upper Paleolithic Human Revolution (Bar-Yosef 2002, 2007) we find a sudden increase in evidence for symbolic thinking such as cave paintings, ivory carvings, beads as jewellery and bone flutes. Therefore, this event has also been called the Creativity Explosion (Pfeiffer 1982, Mithen 1998, Price 2013) or even a “Big Bang of human creativity” (Gabora & DiPaola 2012). Symbolic culture emerged some 50,000 years ago, caused by a genetic mutation that re-wired the brain.” (Knight 2010). There is even strong evidence for a “Sudden Appearance” model for the saltational origin of human cognition and language (Lanyon 2005, 2010). And of course this was later followed by the Neolithic agricultural revolution and the industrial revolution. Revolutions clearly are a hallmark of intelligent agency, not of unguided natural mechanisms. As we have seen above, the whole history of life is a history of revolutions that suggest design as best explanation."

Apart, from the ubiquitous abrupt origins in the major transitions of life, there is also a conspicuous lack of evidence for gradualism even on the low taxonomic level of species-to-species transitions. Actually, there were only three examples mentioned in the textbooks, which have all been refuted by modern research...

The third and final example was the assumed transition between the East African ape-man species Australopithecus anamensis and A. afarensis. The latter is the species of the famous Lucy fossil. This transition has been called “one of the strongest cases for anagenesis in the fossil record” (anagenesis = gradual morphing of one species into another). This fancy story ended with the sensational discovery of the first skull of Australopithecus anamensis, which could be dated very precisely with radiometric methods. The result was published in Nature and proved that both species overlapped in their existence, which “contradicts the widely accepted hypothesis of anagenesis” (Haile-Selassie et al. 2019)."

"In the Darwin-year Hunt (2010) re-evaluated the fossil evidence for species level transformations in the light of 150 years of paleontological research since Darwin and summarized his findings as follows: “The meandering and fluctuating trajectories captured in the fossil record are not inconsistent with the centrality of natural selection as an evolutionary mechanism, but they probably would not have been predicted without the benefit of an empirical fossil record.” In other words: the fossil record does not conform with Darwinian expectations and shows no evidence for a directional evolution from ancestor to descendant species.'

(I want to be explicitly clear:

"natural selection 

as an evolutionary mechanism,"

I got no problem with, I mean that is pretty obvious.

But this one cell to the life we now see linear progression is just a bunch of nonsense and its just not supported by the evidence we have had for some time now.) 

"The abrupt appearances of biological novelty in the history of life create a fatal problem for the feasibility of the Darwinian mechanism as adequate explanation for the major transitions. This problem originates from the combination of two disciplines that are usually considered to provide good support for Darwinian evolution: one discipline is paleontology...The other discipline is population genetics...if we really combine the results from both disciplines the synthesis refutes rather than supports Neo-Darwinism, i.e. an unguided process of natural selection acting on random genetic variation. While the fossil record provides well-established windows of time that were geologically available for major transitions to unfold, standard textbook population genetic provides a theoretical framework and formula toolkit to actually do the math. When such calculations and/or simulations are run with reasonable estimates of all parameters the unambiguous result is always that the geologically available windows of time are orders of magnitude too short to accommodate the required genetic changes to arise and spread in the ancestral populations. This is called the waiting times problem and it basically shows that Neo-Darwinism is mathematically not a feasible process (Hössjer et al. 2021), which is elaborated in a separate article (Bechly 2024d) including responses to potential objections (also see Bechly 2022e, 2022n).

"The crucial problems of neo-Darwinism are meanwhile well known and acknowledged in mainstream science, 

(So why aren't we hearing about it?)

which is why there is growing trend among theoretical biologists towards a so-called extended evolutionary synthesis."

(Translation, none of our bull shit is working the way we wanted it to anymore so lets just make up some more bull shit to suit our preferred world view/agenda.)

 "Alternative mechanisms suggested by the proponents of the extended evolutionary synthesis...cannot overcome the explanatory deficits either, because they either do not address the crucial problem of the origin of novel complex specified information (CSI), or require Neo-Darwinian mechanisms to explain their own origin (e.g., evolvability). If Neo-Darwinism fails on mathematical and empirical grounds, then these alternative mechanisms could never have originated and are dead in the water.

("the crucial problem 

OF THE ORIGIN

OF 

novel complex specified 

INFORMATION.

Its the problem they just can not 

work themselves around.

INFORAMTION

(Genetic Code)

ALWAYS COMES FROM AN INTELECT.

So where did it come from?)

"Conclusion

The gradualistic core predictions of any unguided evolutionary mechanisms such as neo-Darwinism are strongly contradicted by the empirical evidence. The cumulative conflicting evidence from molecular biology, genetics, population genetics, and the discontinuous fossil record can no longer be explained away as anomalies or as artifacts such as under-sampling of an incomplete fossil record. The total evidence is better explained with pulses of infusion of new information from outside of the system (top-down), rather than with a purely mechanistic stepwise bottom-up process. The only known cause in the universe that is able to produce significant amounts of new complex specified information is the activity of an intelligent conscious agent, so that intelligent design theory qualifies as superior alternative to unguided Darwinian evolution in an inference to the best explanation (abductive reasoning) among competing hypotheses. This is not an argument from ignorance (i.e., God of the gaps) as is often incorrectly claimed by critics, but is based on empirical data and our positive knowledge about the regular causal structure of the universe and the type of causes that exclusively are known to produce certain effects."

"If Darwinism fails on empirical grounds then it is game over for a naturalistic and materialist explanation of apparent design in nature, which may explain the fierce opposition to any notion of intelligent design theory in the natural sciences."

"As evolutionary biologist 

Richard Lewontin famously said:

Our willingness to accept scientific claims that are against common sense is the key to an understanding of the real struggle between science and the supernatural. We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced 

by our a priori 

(knowledge which proceeds from theoretical deduction 

rather than from observation or experience.)

adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

As I said in the beginning:

"A false premises 

(In this case naturalism/materialism)

never leads to a truthful conclusion.

Never."

These guys/gals, in spite of all the evidence to the contrary, just can not admit to themselves that their theoretical framework is faulty from the very get go. Much like the cosmologist etc, the more they try to prove their theoretical framework right?, the more evidence they uncover that they are incorrect.

Job 5:12-13

He thwarts the plans of the crafty,

    so that their hands achieve no success.

He catches the wise in their craftiness,

    and the schemes of the wily are swept away.

And?

You might wanna stop and think about:

WHY IS IT THAT 

"The cumulative conflicting evidence 

(Against Darwinism/Neo-Darwinism etc)

from molecular biology, genetics, population genetics, and the discontinuous fossil record can no longer be explained away."

?

AND?

Combine that with:

 Cosmologist/Astrophysicist/Astronomers and Particle Physicist no longer being able to explain away all the precise physical constants of the universe we see that allow for the creation of life as having been an accident, resulting in such a fanciful conjecture as the multiverse.

AND?

Combine both of those with the fact we are living in the post-truth age:

Matthew 24:3-4

As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

Jesus answered: 

“Watch out that no one deceives you.

 

AND YOU OUGHT TO BE ABLE TO REACH A LOGICAL CONCLUSION ABOUT WHAT TIME ITS GETTING READY TO BE.

AT A MINIMUM?
YOU MIGHT WANNA RECONSIDER SOME THINGS.

JUST SAYIN...