A fossil lamprey shows they haven't changed much.
Lampreys haven't changed much since their creation
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A well-preserved fossil lamprey, supposedly 360 million years old,
shows that lampreys have hardly changed since the Creator first
made them.
If
you'd asked a creationist at any time in the past what the first
lamprey looked like, he would have said it probably looked much
like today's lampreys.
That's the pattern — the oldest fossil anything seems to look little different from today's creatures. That seems to be the way the Creator made them.
So the announcement in the journal Nature in October 2006, and in the media, that a PhD student had discovered a “360-million-year-old” fossil lamprey in a South African lagoon caused no surprise to creationists. It looked much like today's lampreys.
Evolutionists surprised
Evolutionists, on the other hand, were surprised. Nature said scientists (meaning evolutionist scientists) had once thought that lampreys evolved from armoured jawless vertebrates. But this new discovery, dating “from the twilight age of their supposed ancestors,” looks “surprisingly modern.”
“This shows that lamprey morphology has been astonishingly stable for 360 Myr …” Nature said. Yet during that time, evolutionists believe, all the reptiles, mammals, birds, and land plants supposedly originated and evolved through countless changes.
Now we should point out that most evolutionists pooh-pooh anyone who suggests that God created the first creatures pretty much as we find them today. So we know we are stepping in the pooh-pooh by admitting that's what we believe. Evolutionists believe everything has evolved through massive changes from simple life forms many millions of years ago.
So which side has the stronger evidence: The pooh-pooers or the pooh-poohed?
Many examples
Well, the lamprey is merely one example of a creature that shows little change. That's one for the creationists. The coelacanth fish is another. That's 2 for the creationists. The oldest known shark was clearly a shark. That's 3 for the creationists.
The oldest fossil bat looks like today's bats. The oldest spider, flea, kangaroo, panda, giraffe, crustaceans, stingray, tuatara, bee, frog, dinosaur, trilobite … whatever kind of creature you want to name, seems to have no clearly proven evolutionary line through different kinds of creatures. The first one looks essentially like the last one.
Evolutionists have drawn elaborate evolutionary trees that try to show how one creature evolved from another. The fact that the branches on these trees are usually separate and joined by imaginary lines rather than by indisputable findings of “link” creatures, suggests that pooh-poohing is not the best evidence that you are right.
Creatures can change
Yes, creationists believe that creatures can change. You can breed many different types of dogs from dogs, but there is a limit to what dog genes can produce. Fish won't produce dogs no matter how long you give them, because they don't have the genetic information for it to happen.
That's one reason we believe the “oldest” fossil creatures look similar to today's creatures (at least those that haven't become extinct).
We are not tampering with the evidence. Rather, with important discoveries like this fossil lamprey, we see the evidence supporting our belief.
Related topics:
- Tuataras of New Zealand: Why haven't these reptiles evolved?
- Sharks and rays — why won't they evolve?
- Has the “missing link” been found?
- Why evolution breeds tyrants.
- Is the coelacanth the world's oldest fish?
- How could your legs and feet evolve?
- The secret anti-evolution life of Robber Crabs.
- The last pterodactyl: Was it all a great hoax?
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