TWO BILLION YEARS OF NON-EVOLUTION FOUND, according to UCLA
news release 2 February 2015 and PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1419241112. A team of
researchers have found fossils of filamentous microbes in the Duck Creek
Formation in Western Australia, dated as 1,800-million-years old. According to
their summary in PNAS the microbes are “essentially identical both to a fossil
community 500 million years older and to modern microbial biotas discovered off
the coast of South America in 2007”. The news release begins with the following
paragraph: “An international team of scientists has discovered the greatest
absence of evolution ever reported — a type of deep-sea microorganism that
appears not to have evolved over more than 2 billion years. But the researchers
say that the organisms’ lack of evolution actually supports Charles
Darwin’s theory of evolution”. (emphasis in original) According to the
director
of UCLA’s Center for the Study of Evolution and the Origin of Life J. William
Schopf, “The rule of biology is not to evolve unless the physical or biological
environment changes, which is consistent with Darwin”. He went on to
explain: “These microorganisms
are well-adapted to their simple, very stable physical and biological
environment. If they were in an environment that did not change but they
nevertheless evolved, that would have shown that our understanding of Darwinian
evolution was seriously flawed”.
ED. COM.
The evolutionists certainly want to have things both ways – if living things
change, it’s proof of evolution; if they don’t change, it is still proof of
evolution. Schof’s comment exposes a fundamental flaw in Darwin’s theory, i.e.
the claim that changes in the environment cause living things to evolve into new
and different life forms. But let us speak plainly about what these fossil
microbes reveal. If fossil microbes are the same as other fossil microbes,
irrespective of what age they are claimed to be, and are the same as living
microbes, face up to it – they have not evolved in any way, regardless of what
theory of evolution you use! The only correct thing Darwin would have said about
these microbes is that they are “living fossils”. Darwin coined this term for
organisms whose living and fossil examples are the same. However, he didn’t
think this through. Living fossils are evidence against evolution, and are
positive evidence that living things multiply after their kind, just as Genesis
says. Creation Research. (Ref. microbiology, bacteria)
