It is impossible for us to know if animals evolve over time because every few thousand years most of them are wiped out by some catastrophic event. And the ones that survive are mutated usually in extreme ways by radiation and other powerful electromagnetic forces.
Why do find fossils of millions of different species, but very rarely if ever find species that look like a cross between two other species?
Sudden biological changes in animals
Where are all the missing links?
The so-called K-T (Cretaceous-Tertiary) boundary layer near Trinidad, Colorado.
Credit: Mark Ryan
Darwin, DNA, and Dogma
May 06, 2011
Mind breaking new thoughts are that DNA (our species blueprint) changes dramatically and immediately given extreme provocation.
Darwin was a genius in his time. Young inquisitive years were spent, short bed cramped, on the salty survey barque H.M.S. Beagle. This allowed him hero status on his return to foggy London in 1836. Darwin's exciting observations of mysterious jungles and misty Brazilian mountain ranges lent glamour to his jolting conclusions.
Against this rallied Bishop Usher's crusty thoughts on a "creation" confined to a five thousand year history of the world. Usher's viewpoint became the subject of jokes amongst the cynical, sherry sipping Victorians. All creationism was swept before the Darwin wunderkind and the so-called "age of reason".
Together with Hutton and Lyle, Darwin revolutionized existing ideas, such as the age of the world, and set in concrete what is now called Uniformitarianism. Adding extensive amounts of time, with slow inexorable changes and snail-like progress, genteelly now explained all change in geology and biology. Suddenly the world was millions of years old.
Darwin got it wrong, though. Today, the Holy Grail of most school and university education 'rocks in' as Darwin. In the annals of modern science he has the same impeccable status as the Bible held before we became a computer driven, science worshipping society. Like most graspings for certainty that humans cling to, his once bold and unique concepts have been shown to be not just dubious, but very dubious to badly wrong.
Like most dogma driven investments, they lurch on until their advocates have departed old and grey, replete in their delusions.
Hang on. Everyone knows the Theory of Evolution is proven science. I've heard that saying somewhere before. A favourite line from our dogmatic Welsh leader. Of course, if you collect a gang of peer reviewed papers, who necessarily have the same viewpoint, they will all agree. However, what did Darwin postulate that was unique? It was the theory of evolution by Natural Selection that was his distinguishing brainchild.
Survival of the fittest. You know, the one left standing after a brawl at the local footy club. All very well, but blind Freddy knows what a polyglot of personalities we 'survivors' are. Not many aspiring fit bodies seen down at the Mornington yacht club.
Somehow, this paradigm has become twisted into a conundrum where the living organism persistently adapts to circumstances and steadily works its way up the evolutionary ladder. It specifically claims genetic changes occur from a bit by bit competitive process. Darwin dogma had the high five.
Not only organisms, but organizations grandly aspire towards this evolutionary excellence. We thus have bacteria seeking to become superbugs, humans reaching out for sharper athletic records and corporations relentlessly seeking perfection in human relationships. The more highly evolved team leader rather than the brutal boss. Somehow they believe that Natural selection has chosen their favourite child to become great by a competitive, subtle genius.
So amidst our blind acceptance of Darwin's theory laden belief what does change species? It is not slow methodical evolution. New York University Geologist Michael Rampino concludes: 'Charles Darwin's theory of gradual evolution is not supported by geological history'.
The science of polyploidy, with its same sex division, allows rapid changes. Animal species such as Salmon and some plants and insects (e.g. drosophila) form new species when subjected to radical chemical (e.g. colchicine) and radiation insults (X-rays, ultraviolet, alpha, and beta rays). This curiously personifies cosmic synchrotron radiation.
Extinction is a chaotic, radical and catastrophic process that DNA intelligently and instantaneously adapts to in genetic mega leaps. What provokes the DNA to intelligently leap? DNA surprisingly has an inbuilt intuitive but 'intelligent brain' that reacts to sudden assaults on its existing electromagnetic harmony. For a few thousand years this may remain relatively static. Then an invading electromagnetic pulse in the shape of a comet, coronal mass ejection (CME), supernova or planet in disturbed motion, reduces the environment to chaos. Synchrotron radiation in the form of X-rays, ultraviolet light, and positive and negative ions pours down and infiltrates the DNA structure.
An electromagnetic variant locks in. A new harmonic Lamor frequency is established. The DNA sees, reads and immediately creates new species under this defining electromagnetic spectrum. The old is wiped out, the genetically modified survivors reappear with their optimized DNA embracing an entirely new animal or plant species. Voila! The DNA evolves, not by natural selection but by genetic adaptive mega leaps.
Just as DNA can repair itself so it 'knows' the correct formula for the new electromagnetic environment. It is not a mutation but an intelligent creation. DNA is no headless dummy. Without exception there has never been a new species without a preceding mass extinction. As Harvard paleontologist S.J. Gould notes: 'Fossil records demonstrate that a species remains unchanged for millions of years before abruptly disappearing. Gradualism is not a fact of nature. Most new species appear with a bang. Nature does take leaps'.
There are no intermediate species. Paleontologists know this and talk of the 'K-T' and other defining extinction boundaries. Berkeley nuclear scientist, Rick Firestone, talks of the black mat that separates the demise of the mammoths and Clovis Indians from the next generation of species. The skulls of extinct mammoths and numerous other life forms are pitted with radioactive iridium and carbon spherules. Theirs was a catastrophic demise.
This is not necessarily a worldwide but always a widespread extinction. Sometimes enclaves, such as in Australia, survive with their own unique species. Occasionally the changes are momentous as from lizard to dinosaur. Sometimes they are mild as in mammoth to elephant. Always they are extraordinary genetic leaps. DNA is an incredible, intelligent and mysterious adaptive life force.
Note: On a filming expedition to county Kent in England I thoughtfully absorbed his pristine country manor. It was like an iconic national shrine. The local ale swilling villagers would not hear a word against him. And rightly so. He was a man for his time.
Peter Mungo Jupp