In a February 1, 1871, letter to his best friend, botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, Charles Darwin suggested a warm little pond was the site where primitive life first arose.1 But the place, time, and conditions of such a pond remain unknown.
Recently, another strange idea has surfaced in evolution’s fruitless search to explain how organic life randomly sprung from inorganic nonlife.
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The phylum Mollusca (molluscs) is an amazing1 and diverse assemblage of invertebrates. It includes squids, clams, tusk shells, octopuses, snails, and chitons.
What was the origin of this large and amazing group? According to evolutionism, “The first molluscs probably arose during Precambrian times because fossils attributed to Mollusca appear in geological strata as old as the early Cambrian period [emphas... More...
Genesis claims that people in the pre-Flood world routinely attained 900-year lifespans. The best-known example is Methuselah, who had the longest recorded lifespan of 969 years (Genesis 5:27). Skeptics dismiss these great ages as fanciful legends, but recent fossil data are providing unexpected, albeit indirect, corroboration of the Bible’s testimony. Science Advances reports tha... More...
There is nothing simple about an animal group called the euarthropods (phylum Euarthropoda), which includes insects, crustaceans, and extinct trilobites.
Evolutionists stated in a recent issue of Nature how complex these alleged early creatures were: “Sophisticated brains and specialized feeding appendages, which are elaborations of serially repeated organ systems and jointed appendages, underpin the dominance of Eua... More...
Perhaps no other fossil discoveries have rocked the world of paleontology more than original organics like proteins in old bones. ICR helps curate a list of mainstream science publications that describe what’s inside these fossils: hemoglobin, chromosomes, whole cells, tissue scraps, and bone collagen. The number exceeds 120, making the presence of proteins and similar finds an increasingly common occurrence.1 So what&rsquo... More...
Evolutionists utilize a theoretical tree of life that takes people, plants, and animals back into deep evolutionary time to an unobserved, unknown, hypothetical last universal common ancestor (LUCA). Whatever this organism was, they maintain, it was the ancestor of all life and evolved in turn from nonliving chemicals.
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