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I thought fossilization had to occur rather quickly in order to preserve details?
Do you have a source for your last two sentences?
Kurt Wise said that fossils showed a stasis throughout the column.
Evolution has been observed directly, but it does not depend on any particular age of the Earth.
It should be noted that Darwin won an argument on the age of the Earth (with Lord Kelvin) based on his observation that many millions of years would be necessary for evolution to have produced common descent. At the time, Kelvin's calculations of the heat flux of the Earth and Sun indicated perhaps 10 million years at most.
Later on, when radioactivity was discovered, Darwin's view won out.
It is, although some particular interpretations of the Bible haven't fared very well.
The fact that the human genome is just a difference of 2 between a human and a monkey does not prove that the monkey is a common ancestor. What it does prove is that the have a common creator/designer.
No, that's wrong. Monkeys are quite different than humans. Other apes are rather closely related to humans. In fact, chimpanzees and humans are more closely related to each other than either is related to any other ape.
Pakicetus fossils, shown below, looks nothing like those of a whale:
But don't expect evolutionists to give up the silly whale evolution icons without a fight. Evolutionism icons are extremely hard to find (or, invent), and therefore they Die Hard!
Dan
For example, humans have hands, lower backs, hips, knees, and feet that don't work so well, precisely because they are modified from quadrupedal apes. A designer would have done things very differently, if we were designed from scratch. On the other hand, if we evolved from apes, it makes perfect sense.
Designers are starting to realize that evolution works better than design for many complex problems. This is why engineers are going with genetic algorithms that mimic evolutionary processes for many things that have been resistant to design.
Turns out, God was right, as usual.
Humans were created no more than about 7,500 years ago.
Dan
A more accurate statement would, "AIG routinely contradicts the pseudo-science of evolutionism and therefore cannot be used as a source, under penalty of law".
Dan
The evolutionary model of the geological column is based on unsound hydraulic and sedimentary principles.
Dan
What we learn from His creation is that it's elegant; it works by relatively few rules. Indeed, that's why engineers are now mimicking evolution; it works better than design.
A Creator Who makes all living things by natural processes is far more powerful than one who would have to do it all a bit at a time. I think one reason creationists deny Him that kind of power is that it makes them uneasy to think of a God that great.
You don't listen well. Move to the 32:30 mark and listen to what he had to say:
He concludes with:
"The 5% (of the fossil record) that does seem to correspond (to the evolution model) happens to be in groups where evolution says, 'this group evolved from sea to land' . . . which is what I would expect with a flood."
Dan
The evidence He left for us, shows he used evolution to create the diversity of life we see today.
This is why engineers have found that complicated problems may be solved very simply by copying evolutionary processes.
As St. Augustine noted, He did it in an instant, from which everything else came to be as a result of His creation.
There are an unlimited amount of things, since "evolution" means "change." Anything that changes, can be said to have "evolved." Many creationists try to obfuscate with it. So we'll use DWM for this discussion, then.
Descent with modification has been directly observed. Even macroevolutionary events have been observed.
You say that nobody was around millions of years ago to see things like evolution or the formation of the earth or continents. But really, we don't need to be present in the past to see what has happened.
When it comes to dating of the earth, really there are a few simple points to keep in mind.
1. Relative dating methods (cross cutting relations, inclusions, superposition, faunal succession alone are easily enough to demonstrate a planet that is millions of years old, at minimum.
2. Radioactive methods are cross-checked with one another. Things like the K-T boundary have been dating using varying methods, which yield the same result.
3. Radioactive ages can also be confirmed through a common sense approach of comparing ages with rates of continental drift.
For example, and I will do this right now because I enjoy it,
I open google earth.
I measured the distance between Africa and South America, parallel to fractures that are perpendicular to the mid-oceanic ridge.
The distance measured is 254,460,435 centimeters (see the google earth image below).
A quick google search identifies rough estimates for continental drift. About the rate at which our fingernails grow, 2.5 cm per year.
So, we take 254,460,435, divided by 2.5 cm per year, and we get an age of... 101 million years.
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