May 31, 2018
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4 scientific articles
Four interesting recent scientific articles:
1. A group of 33 scientists admit evolutionary theories cannot explain the origin of life on earth, and published a paper arguing that life must have been seeded on earth from outer space.
https://evolutionnews.org/2018/05/with-new-theory-of-the-cambrian-explosion-scientists-reach-literally-for-the-stars/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610718300798
The scientists did not try to explain how life evolved in outer space.2. A survey of mitochondrial DNA barcoding showed that most species on earth are all about the same age, less than 200,000 years (despite their ancestors supposedly being on earth for hundreds of millions of years)
"For the planet's 7.6 billion people, 500 million house sparrows, or 100,000 sandpipers, genetic diversity "is about the same... This conclusion is very surprising, and I fought against it as hard as I could" one author said.
"Another unexpected finding from the study—species have very clear genetic boundaries, and there's nothing much in between. 'If individuals are stars, then species are galaxies,' said Thaler. 'They are compact clusters in the vastness of empty sequence space.' The absence of "in-between" species is something that also perplexed Darwin, he said."
https://phys.org/news/2018-05-gene-survey-reveals-facets-evolution.html
https://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Stoeckle-Thaler-Final-reduced.pdf
These results would be expected based on what the Bible says about the created 'kinds' of animals and the population bottleneck at Noah's flood. The 200,000 year statistical estimate is different than what the Bible says (~4300 years ago), but the paper's dating cited old evolutionary papers (pre-genome-project) and assumptions. With different starting assumptions, this data would fit well with the Bible.3. A recent Nature paper ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04375-6 ) proposes wars as a hypothesis for the unexpected “abrupt population bottleneck” among human males’ Y-chromosome between 5000-7000 years ago (date inferred from statistical modeling). The bottleneck might also be explained in terms of Noah and Babel (with timescale adjustments using different starting assumptions)... https://creation.com/noah-and-genetics
4. A recent PNAS paper shows that radiocarbon dates from different parts of the world do not match each other.. https://crev.info/2018/05/radiocarbon-dating-not-globally-uniform/
Radiocarbon dates calibrated by tree-ring dating from Europe does not match dates from the Middle East... the results are off by several years up to several decades, in an unpredictable fluctuating manner.
As CREV's commentary article says,
"If radiocarbon has this previously-unknown factor that is significant enough to change interpretation of recent material, how much more could other dating methods (the ones that yield millions or billions of years) be off by significant factors that could undermine evolutionary beliefs? Scientists cannot go back millions of years to check their dates with a stopwatch. They rely on radioactive decay as a kind of stopwatch, but what if the stopwatch fluctuates due to “unknown unknown” factors? They calibrate their dates with evolutionary assumptions, but what if those assumptions are invalid?"
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