Scientific Discoveries Continue to Erode Darwinism
by Frank Sherwin, M.A.*
The unobserved process of evolution

*Frank Sherwin is a zoologist and seminar speaker for ICR.

Scientific Discoveries Continue to Erode Darwinism

Scientific Discoveries Continue to Erode Darwinism
by Frank Sherwin, M.A.*

Scientific Discoveries Continue to Erode Darwinism
by Frank Sherwin, M.A.*
The unobserved process of evolution and its bizarre history has been
thoroughly entrenched in the minds of millions. For decades there were
facets of this theory that one was never to question, but irritating
scientific discoveries continue to unravel the Darwinian garment.

Scientific Discoveries Continue to Erode Darwinism by Frank Sherwin, M.A.*

*Frank Sherwin is a zoologist and seminar speaker for ICR.

Darwinism Eroding

Scientific Discoveries Continue to Erode Darwinism
by Frank Sherwin, M.A.*
The unobserved process of evolution and its bizarre history has been
thoroughly entrenched in the minds of millions. For decades there were
facets of this theory that one was never to question, but irritating
scientific discoveries continue to unravel the Darwinian garment.

For instance, decades ago it was routinely taught that vertebrates
arose long after the Cambrian period. Evolutionists maintained that
the Cambrian (beginning "542 million years ago") was when "simple"
life was first getting established. It would take many millions of
years to produce the first animals with backbones -- the fish. In
fact, two evolutionists stated in a well-known text, "Fish arose
during the Ordovician |beginning '488 mya'|. . . ."1 But in 1999
fossil fish were found in lower Cambrian sediments in south China.2

Several years back, this writer attended the International Conference
on Dinosaur/Bird Evolution. One afternoon, a number of us took a field
trip led by a recognized "expert." He asked us if the field in which
we were standing could have been a dinosaur-age environment. Several
said no, because there was grass present. Evolutionists maintain that
grasses were not present during the age of dinosaurs --

In my review |i.e., Eschberger, ed.| of Disney's new movie "Dinosaur,"
I mentioned that one of the few scientific inacurracies |sic| that I
found in the movie was the presence of grasses in the dinosaur nesting
grounds.3

However, in a 2005 report we read, "Plant-eating dinosaurs munched on
grass, say scientists who had thought the plants emerged after the
beasts died off."4

Students were taught that the only mammals during the "age of
dinosaurs" were small, and barely able to stay alive among the
terrible thunder lizards. Evolution theory said that the mammals were
nothing more than "shrew-like insectivores that hunted at night." That
radically changed with the recent discovery of large, dinosaur-hunting
mammals!5

One of the more spectacular discoveries that has done much to dispel
the myth of dinosaurs living many millions of years ago is the
unearthing of soft dinosaur tissue (see Acts & Facts Origins Column).6
How could dinosaur tissue remain soft for 70 million years?

These discoveries, while devastating Darwinism, clearly support the
creation model, with all things created within one week, not long
ago.

1. Ayala, F. J., and James W. Valentine. 1979. Evolving: The theory
and processes of organic evolution. Benjamin Cummings Publ., CA: 366.

2. Shu, D-G. et al. 1999. Lower Cambrian vertebrates. Nature 402 (Nov.
4): 42. (See also Colbert, Edwin H. et al. 2001. Colbert's evolution
of the vertebrates: A history of the backboned animals through time.
Wiley-Liss, Inc., NY: 5.)

3. Eschberger, Beverly. 2000. Grasses and grazers. Suite 101, July 7.http://www.suite101.com/print_article.cfm/paleontology/43299

4. CBC News. 2005. Grasses grew for dinosaur grazers. November 17.http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2005/11/17/dino-grasses05111...

5. Hecht, J. 2005. Large mammals once dined on dinosaurs. New
Scientist.com, January 15.http://www.newscientist.com/channel/life/dinosaursmg18524824.400

6. Sherwin, F. 2005. The devastating issue of dinosaur tissue. Origins
Column, ICR.org, June.http://www.icr.org/article/2033/

*Frank Sherwin is a zoologist and seminar speaker for ICR.