I can't keep up with all the new reports coming out that would indicate to an open mind that whatever "evolution" occurred on this earth, a Divine Hand was doing all but the most mundane aspects of it.
I've already written about how the Great Ordovician Diversification Event rivals the Cambrian Explosion as a problem for philosophical naturalists. There is too much directional change in too little time compared to what the known naturalistic mechanisms we see are able to produce. A few weeks ago I reported on the dizzying speed which occurred in the divergence of reptiles. Just two weeks ago I linked to a report on a study marveling at how quick the leap was between jawed and jawless fishes.
But that study thought the change happened suddenly around 380 million years ago. Turns out they got it half right. The new study says it happened suddenly 40 million years before that- that would be in the Ordovician and make the first problem I mentioned above that much worse for naturalists.
They showed a brave face in the article, labeling the new find "the oldest jawed human ancestor", but the evidence compelled them to say things hinting as the unnatural speed at which these changes occurred.
These findings present tangible evidence of a diversification of major vertebrate groups tens of millions of years before the beginning of the so called "Age of Fishes" some 420 million years ago.......
"The new discovery puts into question existing models of vertebrate evolution by significantly condensing the timeframe for the emergence of jawed fish from their closest jawless ancestors. This will have profound impact on how we assess evolutionary rates in early vertebrates and the relationship between morphological and molecular change in these groups," said Dr. Ivan J. Sansom from the University of Birmingham.
Just don't question the naturalistic premises Dr. Sansom. You would not want to lose your funding.
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