Creation Revolution

Category: Transitional Forms

• ‘Transitional form’ in mammal ear evolution—more cacophony

  by Shaun Doyle A new fossil mammal, Liaoconodon hui, was found in Liaoning and ‘dated’ at 120 Ma (million years) old. It has been hailed as a transitional form between reptiles and modern mammals because of its unique ear bone morphology. However, … Continue reading →

  

• California Whale Fossils: Transitional Forms?

  Several fossil whale parts found in a southern California canyon are being called transitional forms in whale evolution. The article on Science NOW doesn’t say “transitional” in the headline or first half of the story, but the RSS feed subtitle says, “Road project reveals transitional … Continue reading →

  

• Divining Darwin’s Tree Is a Never-Ending Task

  Some scientific papers brag that Darwin’s universal tree of life is coming into sharper focus, but as the data increase, so do the problems. Evolutionary Topiary Case in point: Maximilan Telford in Science Magazine presumed to write about “The Animal Tree of … Continue reading →

  

• Evolution of Flight: A Story Looking for Evidence

  An evolutionary dogma is that land dinosaurs evolved into flying birds.  When the claims are acid-washed with critical analysis, what evidence remains? 1. Early bird tryouts:  One claim going around now is that Archaeopteryx and other “early birds” were poor flyers, implying … Continue reading →

  

• Rodhocetus and Other Stories of Whale Evolution

  Asked for a good example of transitional fossils showing evolution, many evolutionists put forward whales. Museums and textbooks show pictures of creatures that supposedly show the evolution of whales from a land animal. Key to this story is a fossil … Continue reading →

  

• Richard B. Goldschmidt on Lack of Transitional Forms

  “The facts of greatest general importance are the following.  When a new phylum, class, or order appears, there follows a quick, explosive (in terms of geological time) diversification so that practically all orders or families known appear suddenly and without … Continue reading →

  

• Evolutionists Claim Dinosaurs Evolved Feathers for Courting

  Evolutionists are convinced that some dinosaurs had feathers, and I’m not saying they are wrong.  Maybe they did and maybe that didn’t, but it doesn’t mean they evolved into birds any more than saying a duck evolved into a platypus … Continue reading →

  

• North American ‘feathered’ dinosaurs a flight of fancy

  by Tas Walker The science news has been abuzz with astounding claims that the first ‘feathered dinosaur’ has been found in North America (See Dinosaurs looking for love grew alluring feathers). Science Daily announced, “Fossils of first feathered dinosaurs from North America discovered: Clues … Continue reading →

  

• Primitive Birds and Flying Dinosaurs For Dinner

  It never ceases to amaze me how so many scientists can conduct a very good study into something, but when they report their findings, they go beyond their facts and extrapolate their beliefs, often times causing the facts to be … Continue reading →

  

• Rudolfensis and the Red-Nosed Paleoanthropologist

  Add Leakey to Homo skulls and what do you get?  Headlines! — with fine print that undermines the celebration. The news media were full of headlines this week about our latest ape-like ancestors.  New Scientist announced, “Fossils confirm three early humans roamed Africa.”  Pallab Ghosh … Continue reading →

  

• ‘Feathered’ Dinos: No Feathers After All!

  by Dr Jonathan D Sarfati Ever since Darwin, evolutionists have had a huge difficulty: the fossil record lacks the innumerable ‘missing links’ predicted by them and required by their theory. Instead, all evolutionists can produce are a handful of debatable examples … Continue reading →

  

• Egg Shape Does Not Prove Dinosaur Bird Relationship

  Once again the fossilized eggs of a dinosaur, Sankofa pyrenaica are being touted as evidence of the evolution of dinosaurs to birds.  While I wrote about this several months ago – Dinosaurs, Birds and Easter Eggs – I wanted to … Continue reading →

  

• Eats Shoots and Leaves

  This is not a crime story, but a story nonetheless. The latest human evolution star, Australopithecus sediba, ate leaves, according to its publicist, Lee Berger.  In Nature News on July 5 (Margaret J. Schoeninger entertained the idea, giving credit to the star behind … Continue reading →

  

• Human’s and Shark’s Common Ancestor

  The basic premise of evolution is that all life developed from one single cell that created itself in the primordial ooze.  That one cell kept evolving into more complex organisms until one day it hatched from an egg and became … Continue reading →

  

• Missing Links Are Still Missing

  The very foundation of evolution is the idea that one kind of animal evolved into a different kind of animal.  If indeed this happened, then one would expect to see the transitional forms from one kind of animal to the … Continue reading →

  

• Tales Rescue Evolution from Unexpected Data

  Observations don’t always fit what evolutionists expect.  Darwin’s theory always wins anyway. When you wish upon a bone:  Roger Close of Monash University looked at fossil wishbones and tried to find an evolutionary pattern.  There wasn’t any.  The furcula (wishbones) … Continue reading →

  

• Evolutionists Claim Drastic Change Caused Dinosaur-to-Bird Evolution

  Regardless of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, evolutionists still cling to the theory that dinosaurs evolved into birds.  They ignore the fact that according to their own dating methods that some birds predate the dinosaurs they supposedly evolved from.  … Continue reading →

  

• The Evolutionary Parade of ‘Missing Links’

  Unqualified sound bites such as ‘no missing links have been found’ are unhelpful statements that we recommend people do not use. However, many do use them, and they are taken by skeptics as a standard creationist argument. Dr Carl Wieland shows how the … Continue reading →

  

• Gregor Mendel

  The story of Gregor Mendel is aggravating.  It makes you wonder what might have been, had this Austrian monk encountered Charles Darwin, and had his discoveries become known to the disciples (and opponents) of Darwinism early on (see 10/14/2003 headline).  Though the … Continue reading →

  

• Questioning the Dino-Bird Hypothesis

  The scientific consensus has pretty much declared it a fact of natural history that birds evolved from dinosaurs.  One evolutionary professor remains a gadfly, though.  He contests the evidence on which the hypothesis is based, and also believes his maverick … Continue reading →