An article from May 13, 2009 reporting an important find in the NWT. (Northwest Territories of northern Canada)
The primitive sponge-like creature, traces of which were discovered by paleontologist Elizabeth Turner and two other scientists, may well push back the earliest geological signs of animals by more than 200 million years.
"We're not looking at things that are as complicated as worms or even as complicated as sponges," Turner, of Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont., told CBC News.
"We're looking at something that's simpler than that. And that's at the very junction between the earlier life forms that preceded animals and the lineage that became animals."
The trio's discovery has been documented in this month's issue of the journal Geology.
Only a few months earlier, evidence from the Arabian Peninsula pushed back the origins of animal life to 635 million years ago.
The new find by Turner and her colleagues dates those origins even further in the past, by another 200 million years.
"It is a big deal because, I mean, there's a huge community out there of people who are trying to understand the early evolution of animals and the early evolution of Earth ecosystems," she said.
Alasdair Veitch, a biologist in Norman Wells, N.W.T., said the discovery of the sponge-like body is an example of the rapid progress scientists have made in mapping human evolution.
"These little sponges that were on the sea floor out in the Mackenzie Mountains 850 million years ago - those are the precursors to all the caribou and sheep and moose and even ourselves that [are] what we have today," he said.
What goes through your mind when you read this? For me, at every turn there are questions to be asked. Where do I start? I am reading Lee Strobel's "The Case for a Creator". As he peels back the so called evidences for Darwinism, there unravels a trail of deceit, smoke, and mirrors. One thing is very evident among evolutionary scientists and that is the almost desperate attempt to convince themselves and others that there is indeed enough evidence to support their belief system. Time and time again the missing links unravel and are proved to be something other than what they were presented to be. In this article, the 635 million mark has been trumped! Really? Who can say this with certainty? Who can say they found a relic of organic living tissue dating another 200 million years farther back in time. And what a preposterous and outrageous claim to say that it is the precursor to caribou, sheep, and yes, even us humans. There is not a stitch of evidence, despite incredible efforts, to give us a shred of evidence that this is true, and yet it gets published and many say, "Oh my, we are getting closer to understanding our origins!"
I say, "Hogwash."
The primitive sponge-like creature, traces of which were discovered by paleontologist Elizabeth Turner and two other scientists, may well push back the earliest geological signs of animals by more than 200 million years.
"We're not looking at things that are as complicated as worms or even as complicated as sponges," Turner, of Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ont., told CBC News.
"We're looking at something that's simpler than that. And that's at the very junction between the earlier life forms that preceded animals and the lineage that became animals."
The trio's discovery has been documented in this month's issue of the journal Geology.
Only a few months earlier, evidence from the Arabian Peninsula pushed back the origins of animal life to 635 million years ago.
The new find by Turner and her colleagues dates those origins even further in the past, by another 200 million years.
"It is a big deal because, I mean, there's a huge community out there of people who are trying to understand the early evolution of animals and the early evolution of Earth ecosystems," she said.
Alasdair Veitch, a biologist in Norman Wells, N.W.T., said the discovery of the sponge-like body is an example of the rapid progress scientists have made in mapping human evolution.
"These little sponges that were on the sea floor out in the Mackenzie Mountains 850 million years ago - those are the precursors to all the caribou and sheep and moose and even ourselves that [are] what we have today," he said.
What goes through your mind when you read this? For me, at every turn there are questions to be asked. Where do I start? I am reading Lee Strobel's "The Case for a Creator". As he peels back the so called evidences for Darwinism, there unravels a trail of deceit, smoke, and mirrors. One thing is very evident among evolutionary scientists and that is the almost desperate attempt to convince themselves and others that there is indeed enough evidence to support their belief system. Time and time again the missing links unravel and are proved to be something other than what they were presented to be. In this article, the 635 million mark has been trumped! Really? Who can say this with certainty? Who can say they found a relic of organic living tissue dating another 200 million years farther back in time. And what a preposterous and outrageous claim to say that it is the precursor to caribou, sheep, and yes, even us humans. There is not a stitch of evidence, despite incredible efforts, to give us a shred of evidence that this is true, and yet it gets published and many say, "Oh my, we are getting closer to understanding our origins!"
I say, "Hogwash."
PS I have been very remiss in regards to the post of a few days ago regarding our garage sale. I failed to give credit to Linda Baxter and her mom who came out from Chilliwack to help us. They have been faithful, or at least Linda has, with all three sales so far. She is a great asset to our team and I only left her out (quite by accident) because she is not part of our church care group. Sorry Linda and Trudy. Please accept my humble apologies.
