The Origin of Species- A Tale of Hoaxes, Lies, Fraud, and Illogic.

It's a Smithsonian Thing- You Wouldn't Understand

The vast majority of the Sheeple still adhere to the "Theory of Evolution".  Charles Lyell's "Principles of Geology", published in three volumes between 1830 and 1833, and Charles Darwin's fateful voyage to the Galapagos Islands on the HMS Beagle (1831 to 1836) were the two salients of the Grand Convergence of Evolutionary Thought which coalesced with the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859.  The Fundamental Tenet of the Theory of Evolution was born: Over millions and millions of years- eventually billions of years- life gradually underwent mutations from "single-celled organisms" to the vast diversity we see today.

Let us zero in on the evolution of the horse.  The first claimed horse is eohippus, er, hyracotherium, an ungulate, found in the Florissant formation in Colorado.  Then we have mesohippus, epihippus, with its grinding teeth, orohippus, protorohippus, merychippus (The head of a jackass, the rear of a deer), and, finally, the modern horse.  Problem is, these are mostly all found in North America.  But there were no horses in North America until the Spanish brought them over in the 16th Century.  So why did all their descendants decide to emigrate to Eurasia, and how did they get there?  (It's an Ice Age thing.  You wouldn't understand.)

But, of course, the fans are clamoring for human evolution.  We shall start with Piltdown Man, a conspiracy hatched by Charles Dawson, Arthur Smith Woodward, keeper of the geological department at the British Museum, and "geologist" Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (the plot thickens for those of you familiar with this name).  At a meeting of the Geological Society of London on December 18th 1912, Charles Dawson presented a fragment of what Piltdown Quarry workers had thought was a fossilized coconut. Woodward and Dawson eventually "recovered" more fragments and a complete lower jawbone.  From this, an imaginative artist sketched the complete "Missing Link" from toe to head.  (This Wolf supposes the same artist, given just an ear and a tail, could sketch a prehistoric timber wolf.)  But although Industrialist Otto Schoetensack, who had discovered the Heidelberg fossils (which apparently instantaneously made him an expert) blessed the find, hailing it as an epochal advance, the skeptics were unconvinced. In 1950 they were finally vindicated, when the jawbone was discovered to be that of an ape, and not fossilized at all.

Our Hero, "geologist" Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, would next be spotted halfway around the world at a site funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, Zhoukoudian China.  This time, his accomplices were Swedish archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson, teaching Austrian palaeontologist Otto Zdansky, and American archaeologist Walter Granger.  The resultant finds, from 1921 to 1941, filled two crates which vanished without a trace after being transported to the American Marine Base of Camp Holcomb in Qinhuangdao, China.  Nevertheless, "Peking Man" is still accepted by many as being legitimate.  (One must admit that vanished fossils are much harder to expose as frauds.)

We next travel to South Africa, where Robert Broom and John Robinson in Sterkfontein, would find a partial skeleton discovered in 1947.  This would be the beginnings of the famous "Lucy", also known as "Australopithecus", formerly known as Paranthropus aethiopicus, the earliest of the so-called robust australopiths.  (One must give these people their due.  What they lack in logic, they certainly make up for with five-dollar words derived from Latin and Greek.)  Now, the skeletal remains, housed in the Human Origins Laboratory, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, are merely a plaster cast of the "Lucy" skeleton.  But hey, we can trust the science, right?

Just as Sir Issac Newton would have us believe that all the heavenly bodies are whizzing around well-defined centers of gravity- the moon about the earth, the planets about the sun, the stars around the blob in the middle of the Milky Way Galaxy- Charles Lyell would have us believe that the sedimentary rocks were laid down slowly over countless eons of millions of years in the bottom of ancient seas, and then gradually uplifted to form the great mountains.  Of course, Charles never explained why Devonian fish fossils and rocks routinely lie atop those of  the allegedly later Triassic, Jurassic- as in the Park- and Cretaceous periods of the Morrison formation.

But wait, Madame Curie gave us the answer for all that.  We know the "half-lives" of a lot of radioactive elements.  (How we know the "half life" of the champion Rubidium isotope 87 is 49 billion years this Wolf has no idea, as he doubts somebody has stood by a lump of it that long and then recorded that half of it was gone.  On the other hand, this Wolf used to be scolded in science lab for "extrapolating beyond two orders of magnitude".  If the length of time to measure the rock decay was two centuries, the extrapolation would be eight to ten orders of magnitude.)

But dating rocks is a pesky business.  Using Uranium as an example, how does the scientist know that all the lead in the rock came from decay of uranium?  Answer, he does not.  Moreover, over the life of the rock, no uranium must have been added by intrusion, nor subtracted by leaching.  But uranium is fairly readily soluble.  Hey, how about the fact that Potassium Isotope 40 decays into Argon, which is a gas.  We can assume that when the rock formed, all the argon initially present was squeezed out, right.  And since Argon is a Noble Gas, it stays put.  

Well, not exactly.  Newly formed rocks from Hawaiin volcanoes were dated to be millions of years old due to "excess  Argon". Scratch that.  Next up- use multiple dating suits on the same rock: Samarium–neodymium, Rubidium–strontium, Potassium–argon, Uranium–lead...  Well, they did, and a funny thing happened.  The longer the half life of the element, the older the rock turned out to be.  And finally, those pesky Carbon isotope 14 atoms must be dealt with.  Having a half life of a measly six thousand years, Carbon 14 should be nowhere to be found in those old fossils since, if the whole world was carbon 14, it would all have disappeared after a scant million years.  But those pesky Carbon 14 atoms are everywhere, even in diamonds claimed to be billions of years old.

The solution?  The rocks are only thousands of years old.  Meanwhile, sometime in the past, rates of radioactive decay were vastly accelerated.  And the longer the half-life, the greater the acceleration.  And rates of radioactive decay are still slowing down.  Known chronometers in archeology and corresponding "datings" with carbon 14 have shown a divergence in "dates" that is very noticeable in artifacts about one thousand years before the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ.  Meanwhile, radiohalos in rocks have been squished while new spherical haloes have been superimposed in different layers of sediment.  According to Lyell, the squishing of the rocks would have been millions of years apart.  But according to radiometric dating, the squishings were all contemporaneous.  The logical deduction is that all these coal sequences were laid down very rapidly.

Another pest for the Evolutionists is those darned Polystrate Trees.  Polystrate is a five-dollar word meaning a petrified log jutting vertically through multiple rock layers for tens of feet.  Since no submarine commander has ever come across a  partially buried tree trunk standing on the bottom of the sea waiting to be completely buried over the next ten million years or so, these artifacts are quite annoying.  They again suggest catastrophe, rather than the associated coal seams that surround them being the result of thousands and thousands of years of peat accumulation in bogs.

For that matter, nobody has ever come across partially buried organisms that are partially fossilized, which evolutionists assure us is what happens slowly over millions of years.  Nor has anyone come across a buried animal that is partially fossilized, or a tree partially petrified.  But what people have come across is fossilized Bowler Hats from Te Wairoa after Mt Tarawera erupted and buried the village in 1886.  Also found were petrified hams and bags of flour.  Nor is this unique.  Across Australia, many examples of petrified fence posts exist.

But wait, the Evolutionist has a question: "Okay, what about Australia?  We all know fossilized kangaroos are only found in Australia.  Are you going to tell me those kangaroos just leaped off Noah's Ark and hopped all the way back to Australia?"  The Wolf will concede this is a valid question.  Some "Creation Scientists" try and answer it by positing that the kangaroo fossils were formed after the flood.  But they are left with a dilemma.  Just what type of catastrophe could have fossilized thousands of kangaroos after the flood?  This Wolf asserts that nearly all fossils are a result of the flood, and has no explanation as to how the modern kangaroos ended atop their ancestors.

But one good question deserves another.  If the earth is millions and billions of years old, why are not all the oceans a briny hell, like the Dead Sea?  Why are they not so supersaturated that the beaches are covered with salt, and the waters devoid of all life.  After all, at present rates of erosion, the continents would be eroded to sea level in a mere ten million years or so.  So where are all those salts?

What about stalactites and stalagmites?  Do not these speleothems take hundreds of thousands of years to form?   Actually, no.  In fact, many highway bridges around the world are sporting stalactites.  Moreover, numerous examples of bottles being placed on top of stalagmites and quickly being incorporated into the structure by dripping water with dissolved minerals exist.  In the same way, the caves themselves could have been carved by flowing waters in months and years, not centuries and millennia. 

Of course, people want this Wolf's worldview.  Well, in the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth, pure and perfect.  No death or decay, disease, predation, or suffering existed anywhere.  All of that would be introduced by the sin of Adam.  A thousand years after his banishment from Eden, men had become so corrupt that God resolved to wipe them out in a Global Flood.  The heavens were torn asunder, traces of which we can still see today which are called the Milky Way.  The Great Civilization of man sunk like a brick into the earth's "mantle" and into hell.  (Sonar images of the deep earth suggest slabs of "colder", "denser" material are resting atop the earth's "core" at the bottom of the "mantle".)  (In some places, a very cold layer of snow or dry ice fell first, flash freezing animals and preserving them in the subsequent icebergs which floated until they finally settled in mud and debris.)   After the flood, the ravages of death and decay became even worse, as evidenced by Noah getting drunk and passing out after having imbibed the fruits of his vinyard, as he was unaware of the increased fermentation rates.  In fact, so dire had the situation become, that for the first time God advised men that flesh should be a part of their diet.

The world as it was then known was completely destroyed.  What was left of various biomes- a temperate forest surrounding human civilization, a lush tropical forest at a lower elevation, and a vast, steamy quaking bog extending out to sea- were either suspended in the waters or reduced to large floating mats.  Very few, if any, pre-flood rocks exist, even below the Precambrian strata.  Rather, volcanic activity was responsible for laying down new basalts and granites and on top of these vast layers of sediments suspended in the agitated waters and precipitates as huge bodies of water containing varying quantities of dissolved salts in varying degrees of acidity interacted with each other like modern weather fronts.  Rapidly deposited sediments quickly lithified while the organisms buried in them were fossilized or coalified or petrified depending on environmental conditions.

Volcanic activity and the tremendous collisions of vast areas of the earth's crust caused dramatic thrusts along faults thousands of miles long, creating the great mountain chains toward the end of the deluge.  While the rains had stopped after 40 days and the waters subsided some months later, ongoing blizzards in the north fueled by ejections of volcanic vapors high into the cryosphere created the massive glaciers of the "ice age", which almost immediately began to retreat to the present locations of icecaps and snowcaps.  Meanwhile, huge bodies of water trapped by the uplifting mountains drained across the continents to form the massive modern canyon systems, and the rock formations we see today.

This Wolf, of course, does not have all the answers.  But the rocks themselves shout that Lyell was a crock, while the Fossils have stubbornly refused to provide all those "missing links".  Evolutionists talk of the "Cambrian Explosion" of about half a billion years ago, when all those trilobites just suddenly appeared.  And then the "sudden" transitions from the age of fish to that of amphibians to the days of the dinosaurs has been described as "punctuated equilibrium", a $50 phrase for "the dinosaur laid an egg, and out popped a chicken".  Ernst Haeckel, known for doctoring sketches he did during "embryonic research", said that  "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny".  Not even Woodrow Wilson ever came up with a prettier synonym for pure Bovine Excrement.

(To be continued)

Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.  You are our only hope!