Is there hard evidence for macro-evolution?

[WilliamDJ (William DeJong)]

My latest post (nr. 58, Jan 17) received a number of comments, which I did not answer yet.

@MarkD

Evidence of “a single catastrophic event”? Don’t mudslides, tsunamis, earthquakes and other catastrophes happen fairly routinely on this planet? Is there any reason they wouldn’t have happened many times over in the course of the earth’s history?

Indeed, tsunamis and mudslides routinely happen on this planet. But they do not produce fossils, because the covered dead organisms are digested quickly by micro organisms and disappear. See further the Biologos scientific evidence thread: ‘Do 100 or 1000 years old fossils exist?’

@Bill_II

Every calculation of the age of a piece of rock is based on presuppositions.

Which have been cross checked and verified to be correct.

Also the cross checks and the decisions which measurements are correct and which are not, are based on presuppositions.

@Bill_II

I am sorry but when you cannot accurately describe what the theory of evolution actually says that tells me you don’t know, or care to know, what you are talking about.

Please read the peer-reviewed paper: The Evolutionary Dynamics of Digital and Nucleotide Codes: A Mutation Protection Perspective. After spending 30 minutes you will know the basic scientific facts on how living nature adapts to changing circumstances.

@Bill_II

Plain old dirt actually makes a radiation barrier. Consult any of the Civil Defense manuals from the 60’s that described how to make a fall out shelter in your home. Then consider how much shielding there is between the surface and core of the earth.

Underneath the thin crust of our Earth, there is no gigantic nuclear powerplant present which is keeping the rocks fluid for 4,532 billion years yet. The horrendous melt down in Tsjernobyl and recently in Fukushima did not make the solid rock underneath fluid. There are many areas on earth (for instance on the Canary Islands) where the earth crust is no more than 10 meters thick and meat can be roasted above the fluid red rocks that can be seen below. Tourist are allowed to walk there, without protective clothing against nuclear radiation.

@gbrooks9

Your thinking, @WilliamDJ, seems quite mystical. You see formal barriers of “type” and “category” where there really aren’t any.

The difference between change of a (biological) system in its parameters : (a1, b1) –> (a2, b2) , and the change of a (biological) system in its dimensions : (a1, b1) –> (a2, b2, c2) can be seen by anyone who has followed an elementary course in mathematics. Nothing mystical about this! Please accept the mathematical fact that changing the parameters of a system billions of times for billions of years, cannot change its dimensions.

@Seeking_Harmony

What do mutations have to do with the legnth of DNA?

You keep thinking that living nature adapts to changing circumstance by mutations. Please read the scientific basic facts in the peer-reviewed paper: The Evolutionary Dynamics of Digital and Nucleotide Codes: A Mutation Protection Perspective.

Mutations are continually repaired by mutation repair systems, for the discovery of which the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in 2015. If they are not repaired, they cause cancer and hereditary diseases and severe selective disadvantage.