Oldest Animal on Earth
Oldest Animal on Earth
Once again we have evolutionists claiming to have found man’s earliest ancestor.
Otavia antiqua as it has been named is a microscopic sponge-like organism that was recently discovered in rocks from Namibia. Supposedly, these rocks date back to about 760 million years ago, making it the oldest living metazoan animal ever discovered.
The article states:
The small organisms, known as Otavia antiqua, were found inside of a 760-million-year-old rock in Namibia and could very well have been the first multicellular animals to emerge on the planet, researchers say. That means all animal life–from the precursors to the dinosaurs to the dinosaurs themselves to modern humans–could potentially draw a line straight back to Otavia. It also means that animal life likely emerged tens of millions of years earlier than we previously thought it did.
An interesting comment in the article stated that it appears that Otavia did not evolve much if at all for at least 200 million years.
Isn’t it interesting to hear that the supposed ancestor to every animal on earth including man, failed to evolve for such a long time. They even admit that it may not have even needed to evolve any further, but wouldn’t that be a problem if it was supposed to be the ancestor to so many different animals?
If I do my math right, evolutionists have a huge problem to overcome. Otavia lived from 760 million years ago to 560 million years ago without evolving at all. If you do a little Internet searching, you will discover that the first vertebrates supposedly date back to 510 million years ago. That means that Otavia had to have suddenly ignited the evolutionary afterburners to have evolved from the microscopic organism to the first known vertebrates in only 50 million years, which in evolutionary terms is would be an absolute miracle.
Biblically speaking, I can’t tell you exactly what the oldest known animal is, but I can tell you that it was either something that swam in the ocean or flew in the air. What I can tell you is that it wasn’t 760 million years ago, but only about 6000 years ago. The reason I say all that is because I have the eyewitness account of the only One present who created the first animal life and that eyewitness account can be found in Genesis 1.
Reference
Dillow, Clay. Found: The Oldest Animal Ever on Planet Earth, Popular Science, Feb 10, 2012.
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I thought the oldest animal on earth was Ron Paul…
The evolution theory is an irrational falsehood, zealously embraced by atheists, that is a phony conclusion of the 600+ million year fossil record. There is no “valid supporting data” for evolution. In a court of law, or in a public forum, the same evidence that evolutionists would use to try to “prove” the validity of that theory, I would utilize to reveal the truth of Genesis. In order to believe in evolution, you have to purposely ignore certain facts of reality. For example, when you see illustrations of primates being pictured as evolving into humans, it can be shown in a court of law that such a premise is impossible, because certain human and primate traits are different, and could not have ever been shared. The only “common ancestor” that humans and primates share is God Himself.
Current Creationism has refused to teach the truth of the Genesis text, and either teaches foolishness (young Earth), or false doctrines (non-literal reading of the text). Creationists thoughtlessly try to prove “Creationism”, rather than seeking and teaching the truth of Genesis. How can an untruth, ever prove another lie, to be in error? You can’t do it. That is why Creationism fails. It essentially is also a lie, and should be discarded, even by Bible believers.
The correct opposing view to evolution is the “Observations of Moses”, which conveys the truth of Genesis chapter one. It is the ONLY true rendition of the Hebrew text. Everything else, unfortunately,
are false and foolish interpretations of scripture.
Those that imply that God used evolution are infidels at worse, or clowns at best, that refuse to learn the truth of Genesis. The truth has been available for more than 18 years. Such a discussion is currently silly, and shows stubbornness against learning the truth of God’s Word.
There are no “creation stories” in Genesis. In fact, about all of theology and creationism have no idea what Moses was writing about. You can’t simply take an advanced book of math or science, and try to read from it on your own without personal instruction.
For example, Genesis declares that mankind has been on this Earth, in his present likeness, for more than 60 million years. The “male and female” in Genesis chapter one was not “Adam & Eve”. Has modern science discovered that yet?
Herman Cummings
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