Evolutionists Lose Billions

Materialists play fast and loose
with billions of years as if
playing dice in a game of chance

Is it science when you can tweak parameters by many orders of magnitude with no consequences?

Let us introduce two characters in the Evolution Theater. One is called Ma. The other is called Ga. Ma says she is a million Darwin Years old (Mega-Annum). Ga claims he is a billion Darwin Years old (Giga-Annum). These characters are like marionettes in the Evolution Theater. They can be made to play whatever role the Darwin Party needs to keep the audience mesmerized.

Evolution Theater: The Smithsonian Natural History Museum pushes “deep time” saying your body is the result of “3.7 billion years of evolution.” (DFC)

When you see how nonchalantly the directors of the theater alter the script, you may feel like shouting his name (Ga-a-ah!). Maybe it’s time to leave the Evolution Theater and watch a production with more empirical responsibility.

by Brett Miller

A billion-year shift in the formation of Earth’s largest ore deposits (23 July 2024, Courtney-Davies et al., PNAS). The materialists were wrong—way wrong. “The Earth’s largest and most economically significant iron deposits (Pilbara Craton, Western Australia) have been directly dated, revealing that they are up to a billion years younger than previously estimated.” So after an error as large as nine orders of magnitude, will anybody in Big Science get fired for incompetence? Nope. The show just goes on, and the public marvels at how smart the materialists are to have figured this out.

Were the ores directly dated, as claimed? Of course not. No scientists were around “1.4 to 1.1 Ga” ago. Dates older than all of human history are calculated by proxy: decay rates of uranium-238 to lead as measured today. Since humans have only been measuring that rate for about 100 years, the authors of this paper are guilty of extrapolating what is actually measured by 7 orders of magnitude! But that’s not the only fallacy. In papers like this, materialist scientists never refer to anomalous dates that toss the assumptions of the method into severe doubt (e.g., here).

Ga obediently plays whatever role he was assigned to keep the materialists in power. No one is allowed to question the new date. Besides, everyone will forget about the date in a future performance when another group of storytellers rewrites this story and moves Ma and Ga around again. This is how Evolution Theater survives. The playwrights and cast are free to alter details of the story line, as long as the plot (molecules to man by unguided natural processes) is never questioned.

“Thinking about Deep Time” – this Smithsonian display shows all of recorded human history as a tiny sliver at the right end of the timeline. But how can they know everything left of that sliver without making assumptions about deep time?

Earth’s plate tectonics fired up hundreds of millions of years earlier than we thought, ancient crystals reveal (29 July 2024, Space.com). A few million here, a few hundred million there; pretty soon you’re talking real funny. Stephanie Pappas doesn’t mind. She can’t hear the booing behind the sound-proof barrier. She introduces the new plot, now that the old plot has been rewritten. Plates began moving a lot earlier than “we thought,” she says Tontologically. This Darwin-loving reporter at Lie Science never saw a performance by Ma and Ga she didn’t like. In this tale, nobody knows empirically when plate tectonics started on the Darwin timeline. But aha! She has a secret tool: crystal power to use for divination.

Scientists have struggled to determine exactly when plate tectonics began because there are no surviving rocks that are more than 4 billion years old, so the only direct window into the Hadean comes from tiny, tough crystals known as zircons — the oldest of which date back 4.4 billion years. A subset of those, known as S-type zircons, can reveal the presence of plate tectonics.

Ooo. Aah. The Hadean. The audience visualizes demons dancing around the fires of Hades. Good thing Ga tells them that the crystals “reveal” that the scary apparition last appeared billions of years ago. Most people, if they looked at a zircon crystal, wouldn’t hear it reveal anything. But of course not; they just don’t have the magic power of evolutionary understanding. That comes through the laying on of hands at the University.

Complex life on Earth began around 1.5 billion years earlier than previously thought, new study claims (29 July 2024, Cardiff University). To prove how versatile Ma and Ga are in their roles, this story makes them play “older” characters rather than younger ones.

Until now, scientists broadly accepted animals first emerged on Earth 635 million years [Ma] ago.

But a team, led by Cardiff University, has discovered evidence of a much earlier ecosystem in the Franceville Basin near Gabon on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa over 1.5 billion years [Ga] earlier.

Their study, presented in Precambrian Research, describes an episode of unique underwater volcanic activity following the collision of two continents, which created a nutrient-rich ‘laboratory’ for the earliest experiments in complex biological evolution.

They say “scientists broadly accepted” the younger date. At least they didn’t use the Tontological “we” this time. But what scientists accepted this? Evolutionists!—you know, those illogical ones impersonating scientists who think their brains arose from monkey hoots. Creation scientists never accepted that. But due to the censorship rules of methodological naturalism, you can’t hear them complaining behind the soundproof one-way glass.

And so the Darwin Theater presents Ma and Ga doing the Two-Step. What magicians these evolutionists are! Volcanoes create laboratories that ‘Nobody’ uses to run experiments in evolution. Evolution is fast except when it is slow, the narrator explains. Ma and Ga practice their moves until ready for showtime. Ma and Ga take a deep breath:

Their study suggests that these observations may point to a two-step evolution of complex life on Earth.

Step one followed the first major rise in atmospheric oxygen content 2.1 billion years ago and step two followed a second rise in atmospheric oxygen levels some 1.5 billion years later.

As Ma and Ga dance their pas de deux, visions of complex organisms appear on the video screen behind them, like magic. It’s a dazzling spectacle. Lead storyteller Dr Ernest Chi Fru comes out after the curtain falls, giving the final line, “While the first attempt failed to spread, the second went on to create the animal biodiversity we see on Earth today” (including you, he adds with a wink). The audience hums the catchy theme song as they walk out the theater, “Just add oxygen, Get complex life!”

The viewers, titillated by the images, don’t realize that the ticket price went for funding imaginary fairy tales pretending to be scientific by impersonators who long ago abandoned epistemic responsibility.

Backstage, Ma and Ga change costumes for the next show in the Evolution Theater for a new gullible audience.

Only some of us know how the scam works. Learn to be one. Demand accountability.

Homework: Read why the Just Add Oxygen Theory is full of hot air.