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Mixotrophs - An Evolutionary "Nice Try"

Publication by Hugh Ross ( January 1, 2010 )

… small-bodied, specialized phototrophs speedily evolve into complex, large-bodied phototrophs? How many tiny-bodied animal species could realistically survive a major extinction event? How could tiny-bodied survivors emerge from deep sleep (or cocoons) and rapidly evolve into complex ecosystems of small- and large-bodied animals?
Given what the fossil record reveals about the speed and diversity with which life proliferates after mass extinction events, researchers should be able to design real-time field experiments capable of answering these questions.
The team of British biologists deserves credit for taking up that challenge—and here are the preliminary results. Initial …

Evolution

Biodiversity Peaked Early

Publication by Fazale “Fuz” Rana ( October 1, 2001 )

… record as indicating that life’s diversity exploded after the Permian extinction, around 250 million years ago. Presumably, evolutionary innovation drove the exponential increase in biodiversity. Paleontologists argued that increased biodiversity resulted from “snowballing” evolutionary processes driven by expanded life activities and predatory modes.
However, analysis of the marine invertebrate fossil record reveals a much different picture. Instead of exploding after the Permian extinction, biodiversity peaked soon after the onset of the Cambrian explosion—the time that complex animals first appeared on Earth—and has remained constant since then. Biodiversity appears to have reached a ceiling level almost immediately after …

Design

The Shell Game of Evolution and Creation

Publication by Hugh Ross ( January 1, 1987 )

… increase in the amount of differentiation.
At the same time, as environmentalists point out, we are witnessing an extinction rate of multiple species per year. Even if the human activity factors are removed, wer are still left with an extinction rate of at least one species every year. Yet, the fossil record reveals millennia of both a high extinction rate and a high speciation rate. The Bible offers a solution to the enigma. We are now in God’s seventh day of rest; God has ceased from making new creatures. For six days (as seen in the fossil record) God …

Design

RTB Scholars’ Thoughts on Pope Francis and Evolution

Publication by Guest Writer ( November 14, 2014 )

… in-depth explanations of the old-earth view of creation and why we reject the evolutionary paradigm, we recommend the following resources:

Dissecting Evolution: A Closer Look at a Controversial Theory (audio CD or MP3) with Hugh Ross, Fazale Rana, and Kenneth Samples
The Cambrian Mystery (audio CD or MP3) with Fazale Rana and Hugh Ross
RTB Live! vol. 9: Who’s Your Daddy? (DVD) with Fazale Rana
RTB Live! vol. 8: A Revealing Fossil Record (DVD) with Hugh Ross
RTB Live! vol. 6: Made in the Image of God (DVD) with Kenneth Samples

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Creation Model

New Speciation Model Challenges Evolution, Supports Creation

Blog by Hugh Ross ( August 19, 2019 )

… cetacean fossil record indicate extinction has exceeded speciation over this same interval, and that the diversity of cetaceans was in fact much higher than it is today.”10

In other words, the naturalistic biological evolution model based on phylogenetics predicts that introduction of new species has exceeded extinctions, but the fossil record shows that the reverse is true. The research team did not address the fact that the discrepancies between phylogenetics and the fossil record appear to increase with the complexity and the adult body size of the genus. By contrast, such a correlation is predicted from a biblical creation …

Biochemistry

The Leap to Two Feet: The Sudden Appearance of Bipedalism

Publication by Fazale “Fuz” Rana ( October 1, 2001 )

… with different forms of bipedalism, as observed in the fossil record.
Conclusion
Recent scientific advances in the natural history of bipedalism provide a useful collection of observations that allow evaluation of both evolutionary and biblical scenarios for the origin of humanity. The sudden and early appearance of bipedalism in the fossil records allows insufficient time for bipedalism to emerge through natural process biological evolution. The fossil record also fails to reveal a pattern of gradual transformation from rudimentary bipedalism to a more sophisticated, efficient form. The absence of any significant evolutionary pressure to force these changes makes them even more …

Human Origins & Anthropology

The Leap to Two Feet: The Sudden Appearance of Bipedalism

Publication by Guest Writer ( October 1, 2001 )

Evolution

Does Psalm 104 Affirm Progressive Creation?

Blog by Guest Writer ( November 11, 2021 )

… in its description of our natural world. In contrast to evolutionary theory, the Scriptures describe the extinction/creation cycle of life-forms as Earth moved from its earliest environment and simplest life-forms to the conditions and life-forms we observe today. This match between the biblical accounts and the fossil record gives us confidence that the Bible reveals truth about the natural realm.

Endnotes

Derek Kidner, Psalms 73–150, Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1973), 368.Sandra Alters and Brian Alters, Biology: Understanding Life (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2006), 289.David Krogh, Biology: A …

Bible

Q&A: Do Extinctions in the Fossil Record Undermine Creation?

Blog by Fazale “Fuz” Rana ( January 31, 2024 )

… conditions on much of Earth so extreme that few life-forms could survive even if they were well-designed.

A Philosophical or Biblical View of the Creator?When considering challenges to God’s competence and goodness as a Creator, it’s necessary to engage with the concept of God as revealed in Scripture as opposed to a nonbiblical philosophical depiction of God—which is how Joshua (and Irven DeVore) view God.

Though it may be surprising to some, passages in the Bible such as Psalm 104 and Job 38 and 39 describe animal death as part of the good creation …

Fossil Record & Paleontology