“Revolutionary Rethink”: Did the Permian Extinction Really Happen?

This new study reportedly shows that life on land, plants in particular, was thriving just “75,000 years” (“a blink of the geological eye”) after the supposed Permian extinction. It shores up several other studies suggesting insects and tetrapods also fared fine, while marine life supposedly died off. The article states:

This revolutionary rethink could rewrite the history of life on earth. It would upend the idea that the continents have witnessed five mass extinctions.

So evolution is being rewritten . . . again! Yes, this seems to happen every week with some aspect of evolution or big bang cosmology.

Now, as the article notes, “this conclusion is controversial” and will probably be highly debated in the evolutionary community. But it highlights how evolutionary ideas are always in flux. What was “settled science” in every textbook one day is questioned the next day because of yet another find that doesn’t fit with evolutionary assumptions. But it rarely affects scientists’ faith in evolution—they just mold the model yet again to fit with the new evidence.

Evolution isn’t science. It’s a worldview-based interpretation of the evidence that’s wrong over and over again.

It’s wrong because evolutionists have the wrong starting point. Instead of starting with man’s fallible ideas, our starting point must be the perfect account of history from the eyewitness Creator who knows all things, has always been there, and never makes mistakes. We use that history—specifically the global flood of Noah’s day, in this instance—as the lens through which we interpret the evidence.

When we do that, we understand that the rock layers don’t represent eons of time and many mass extinctions punctuated by millions of years of evolution. Rather, they show the floodwaters of Noah’s flood burying ocean floor environments before rising to bury terrestrial environments.

We aren’t observing mass extinctions in the fossil record—we’re observing the ebbs and flows of the floodwaters and the sorting of organisms for burial during a global flood. Sadly, many creatures did go extinct because of the flood and its aftermath—but not nearly as many as evolutionists like to imagine (numbers like 75% or 90% of life on earth are entirely based on evolutionary assumptions, not on the fossil data).

Evolution will continue to be rewritten because it’s the wrong starting point for our thinking! Stay tuned for the next time evolutionists change their story—probably in a few days.

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This item was written with the assistance of AiG’s research team.