Half a Billion Years, Five Mass Extinctions, and . . . No Evolution?

Well, these fossils are from some of the lowest rock layers, making them, in the evolutionary story, older than half a billion years old—half a billion years (during which five mass extinctions are believed to have taken place!) and no “evolution” occurred!

How many times have we heard that evolutionists have had to change many of their ideas? Almost on a daily basis!

Such a find, for evolutionists, means that “plants [may have] originated earlier than previously believed” since green algae are members of the plant kingdom. And by “earlier,” the authors of the research mean up to 100 million years earlier! And if plants evolved earlier, than “it's likely that the entire evolutionary process started earlier than scientists thought, too.” In other words, the whole evolutionary timeline may be off (and by a lot!). Now, how many times have we heard that evolutionists have had to change many of their ideas? Almost on a daily basis!

Now, in a biblical worldview these fossils are an amazing find—fossils are rarely preserved in 3D and in such “exquisite detail, down to the bumpy tubular structures that line their outer layers and the masses of delicate filaments that make up their core.” But these fossils don’t tell us anything about the origin of plants or anything else. They are part of the “kinds” God created on day 3 of creation week and have continued to reproduce, according to their kind, since then. And that explains why they haven’t changed since they were fossilized—algae continue to produce algae!

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