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 Is the theory of evolution evolving? Some evolutionists are taking another look a Charles Darwin's theory of evolution suggesting the evidence does not support the theory.
Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz, a respected anthropologist from the University of Pittsburgh, still believes in evolution, but his views on Darwinism have evolved over the years, due to a lack of evidence in the fossil record.
Schwartz, for example, no longer believes in "gradualism." According to theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin, species evolved gradually over millions of years through minute incremental changes.
Schwartz argues that if these minute changes took place, evolutionists would find thousands examples of these species at different stages in their evolutionary development. Instead the fossil record has huge gaps.
Darwin claimed that the absence of these missing links was simply a matter of bad luck. Schwartz says - based on the evidence - the lack of transitional fossils says the transitions never existed in the first place.
Schwartz adds that some organs, such as the eye, are so complicated that the sheer number of changes required for its evolution "defies logic."
He also takes a shot at another foundation stone of evolution - natural selection. Natural selection says that as the climate or environment changed species evolved to better adapt to the changing conditions.
Schwartz does not believe that's true and points to the example of the mongoose lemurs living on two islands off the African coast.
On the island of Madagascar, these lemurs stay on the ground, are active during the day and eat leaves and fruit.
But on the island of Comoros the same species of lemur live in the trees, are active at night and hang from their hind legs to suck nectar out of flowers.
"These lemurs have the same teeth, the same feet, the same eyes, but if the environment changes they change their activities and their diet, not their anatomy," he said.
Instead Schwartz proposes massive genetic alterations that created new features in species almost over night. He is not alone in this thinking. Other modern evolutionists are proposing similar rapid genetic mutation to explain the lack of fossil evidence.
Editor's note: Now where have we heard that before? Creationists have claimed for years that the huge gap in the fossil records is evidence of creation. According to Genesis account God Created vegetation on the second day (Gen 1:12 and on the fourth day (v 20) fish and birds and on the fifth day animals (v 24). That is a pretty rapid formation of species wouldn't you agree.
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