Since evolution posits that changes are acquired and passed on to offspring, only changes in the germ line DNA, i.e. sperm and ova, have any significance. Changes to somatic cells are irrelevant to the theory. Thus, the unit of significance is not time, but generations.(The only problem with this last quoted paragraph is, as I understand it, the dating of the rocks is based upon an evolutionary timescale, so that if "evolution" is not correct then the geologic timescale based upon it would have no basis.)It is stated by scientists today, that either humans "evolved" from previous, different animals by random mutations in DNA, or we were made by a God. It is never considered that both may be wrong, and there could be other explanations for speciation, a different explanation for the "fossil record." This is due as much to the blind virtually religious fervor of evolutionists as to the same religious dogmatism of the creationists. If one does not accept that something is possible, one does not, after all, go looking for it.
There is no genetic evidence which demonstrates the final skeletal form is purely and solely genetically driven. And the skeletal form is the basis of all of paleontology. The evolutionists are in fact basing their entire "theory" on a mistaken link—that of genetics with skeletal form.
And fossil remains have been found in strata dated at millions of years old; they are identical to Homo sapiens sapiens. That is, us. Hundreds of examples exist. Mary Leakey, of Olduvai Gorge fame, claimed to have found a footprint identical in every respect to that of modern man, in strata identified as being 3.6 million years old. A huge variety of human artefacts, flint tools and bones identical to homo sapiens sapiens have been found in strata confidendently dated to the mid-Pliocene - 3.5 million years ago. A Professor of Geology found, in the lower Pliocene strata of Castelnodolo, near Brescia, a complete human skeleton indistinguishable from that of a modern woman. The staining in the bones, the depth and number of different strata above the skeleton and its position made it very highly unlikely it could have been a more recent burial. The inescapable conclusion is that this speciment of homo sapiens sapiens was walking around 3.5 million years ago.
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“The only problem with this last quoted paragraph is, as I understand it, the dating of the rocks is based upon an evolutionary timescale, so that if “evolution” is not correct then the geologic timescale based upon it would have no basis.”
It’s true that the geological time scale is based on the discovery of the differentiation of fossils in different geological layers, but the argument remains the same. Whatever “explanation” is given for the different fossil layers, if human fossils are found in the same layers as fossils claimed to be prehuman, that is evidence that contradicts the theory. Maybe there is an explanation, but the present method of dealing with contradictory evidence is—well—just ignore it.
Hank