[Picture of Tiktaalik roseae derived from original National Science Foundation public domain image]
Well, well, who'd have thought it?!
Tiktaalik roseae, it seems, is not all it was cracked up to be. It was thought, in the Naturalistic fable of Evolution, to be the first out of the water, but it is now being asked to hand back the 'First Place' rossette it had won in the 'Gotta Get Outta The Water' section. Yup, turns out Evolutionsts now think something else broke free of the water before it!
I remember when I read about the Tiktaalik roseae fossils in the New Scientist issue of September 2006, I was struck that really it was yet another fine example of how remarkably easily Evolutionists weave a speculative web as fact. And although the fossils' historic Evolutionistic stature was founded firmly on speculation, Evolutionists at the time of course, as is their way, felt confident they were pretty sure they knew exactly what the significance of the Tiktaalik roseae was.
Now, though - Whoops! Not so sure.
The recent discovery of what are believed to be fossilised 'footprint' tracks made by a walking animal have been aged as older than Tiktaalik roseae.
The Creation Ministries International article linked to below quotes Evolutionists as saying things like-
Tiktaalik roseae, it seems, is not all it was cracked up to be. It was thought, in the Naturalistic fable of Evolution, to be the first out of the water, but it is now being asked to hand back the 'First Place' rossette it had won in the 'Gotta Get Outta The Water' section. Yup, turns out Evolutionsts now think something else broke free of the water before it!
I remember when I read about the Tiktaalik roseae fossils in the New Scientist issue of September 2006, I was struck that really it was yet another fine example of how remarkably easily Evolutionists weave a speculative web as fact. And although the fossils' historic Evolutionistic stature was founded firmly on speculation, Evolutionists at the time of course, as is their way, felt confident they were pretty sure they knew exactly what the significance of the Tiktaalik roseae was.
Now, though - Whoops! Not so sure.
The recent discovery of what are believed to be fossilised 'footprint' tracks made by a walking animal have been aged as older than Tiktaalik roseae.
The Creation Ministries International article linked to below quotes Evolutionists as saying things like-
“They force a radical reassessment of the timing, ecology and environmental setting of the fish-tetrapod transition, as well as the completeness of the body fossil record.”
And -
“These results force us to reconsider our whole picture of the transition from fish to land animals.”
Evolutionists will, of course, be able to comfort themselves with the knowledge that nothing is as flexible as the ever nebulous fable of Evolution. They'll just do their ususal jiggling-everything-about-a-bit trick until they feel confident enough again to tell everyone they know what happened. Just one of the benefits available to those whose philosophy promotes opinion and assumption as fact.
Reports about the recently discovered fossilised tracks-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8443879.stm
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2010/106/2
The article over at Creation Ministries International -
http://creation.com/polish-tetrapod-footprints-trample-tiktaalik
Some other Biblical Creationist articles of interest concerning Tiktaalik roseae -
http://creation.com/tiktaalik-roseae-a-fishy-missing-link
http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/aid/v2/n1/tiktaalik-fishy-fish
And an interesting article from the Discovery Institute (which promotes Intelligent Design theory rather than Biblical Creationism) -
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2010/01/tiktaalik_blown_out_of_the_wat.html
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