Wired: Oldest Animal Fossils Discovered
The animals' remains don't look like traditional fossils. They're more like fossil echoes: chemical traces of a compound only produced — at least in modern times — by demosponges, descendants of what some scientists consider to be the last common ancestor of all animals. …
I am frustrated with these theorists who under the umbrella of “science” claim to prove that life has evolved over millions of years. This recent “finding” they claim “proves” certain dating
“Love’s team identified the fossils while analyzing sedimentary deposits mined by Oman’s national oil company. The sediments date to the last stages of the the aptly-named Cryogenian period after a deep freeze referred to by scientists as Snowball Earth.”
By definition science requires observation:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/science
And the experiments that they use to prove their theories again are flawed, as they are developed not to find truth but to prove their theories.
Thanks for your views, Don.
There is no way to observe or replicate events that take millions of years to unfold. Scientists do make observations in pursuit of facts that enable them to from theories. But then they use those theories to make predictions about what they would expect to find with further research if the theory is valid.
“Observing” evolution is like working a giant jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing. There are enough pieces there to get the gist of the picture but the picture is incomplete. Yet by looking at the puzzle you can get of sense of what the missing pieces might look like. New piece that are found can bring more clarity and precision in the overall picture.
The evolutionary model predicts fossils of type X will be found in certain geological areas and not type Y, which came earlier, or type Z, which came later. The model is has profound predictive capabilities. The same puzzle is coming together in DNA analysis as well.
Theories make predictions. Observations invalidate a theory or give more evidence for it. The evidence stacks up extraordinarily well for evolution.
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