Unrequited Love: Millions of Years Cheat Evolutionists
Secular scientists love Ma,
but Ma doesn’t love them back
They call her Ma. “Ma” is an abbreviation of mega-annum, or a million years. Evolutionists thought all their problems would be solved by postulating as many Ma as they needed for stuff to happen, but physical processes do their own thing, oblivious to the needs of secular scientists.
How long can the Darwinians and moyboy physical scientists rescue their timeline by speeding up and slowing down rates between rapid events? The slow-and-gradual world picture of Charlie & Charlie* no longer fits.
*Lyell and Darwin
Dating Rules
One point should be emphasized up front: carbon dating doesn’t love Ma either. Bénédicte Rey at Phys.org agreed in a post today that radiocarbon can only potentially date things back 50,000 years. With its rapid half-life of 5,730 years, “After 50,000 years, nothing is left—making this the limit on how far back carbon dating can probe.” Notice it is an upper limit, not a measurement of anything actually being that old.
For evidence that coal, dinosaur bones and diamonds contain measurable amounts of carbon-14, see this presentation by Dr Brian Thomas of the Institute for Creation Research as interviewed this week by Associates for Biblical Research (ABR). This evidence shows that objects evolutionary moyboys consider to be millions or billions of years old by other dating methods cannot be older than 50,000 years or 100,000 years maximum, and probably are much younger, fitting into a Genesis time frame.
Additionally, fossils cannot be dated by radiometric methods. The standard methods that use radioactive decay don’t work for sedimentary rocks, but only for igneous rocks. That means that inferences must be drawn for dating fossils based on (1) surrounding igneous rock, which may not have been deposited concurrently, and on (2) evolutionary expectations about what kinds of creatures were living at a given time. The use of index fossils for assigning dates commits circular reasoning (see cartoon below).
Now, the news to see how whether Ma loves secular scientists like they love her.
Geology
Earth’s core is ‘leaking’ gold, study finds (Live Science, 28 May 2025). Volcanoes, we know from the current eruptions in Hawaii (Kilauea) and Italy (Mt Etna), are rapid and sudden events. Can they be sending gold out onto the crust from deep within earth’s core? This article raises the possibility, without giving dates, that some of our gold deposits began at the core-mantle boundary, far below the surface. How long did that take? They already know that diamonds can rise rapidly from the mantle in sudden, explosive kimberlite eruptions (see 7 May 2007). See also the discovery of pristine wood in a kimberlite crater, indicating it is not as old as claimed (19 Sept 2012). Volcanoes are agents of rapid change. It seems a stretch to claim slow-and-gradual migration of material under the earth, then all of a sudden, kablooey!
Learning from the ‘proto–Great Barrier Reef’ (University of Sydney, 3 June 2025). Coral reefs do not succumb to sea level rise alone; that’s the theme of this news item. It’s more complicated than that. “Reefs buckle under combined environmental stressors,” the press release says. If they have not been sure about how reefs were affected by climate and sea level after the Ice Age, how confident can they be about dates and processes millions of Darwin years ago?
Cave records show that US’s deepest river gorge Hells Canyon is only 2.1 million years old (Phys.org, 2 June 2025). The word “only” is instructive; it suggests scientists were surprised. Indeed they were.
North America’s deepest gorge, Hells Canyon, which slithers along the border of Idaho and Oregon, is a surprisingly new addition to the Earth’s ancient landscape. A recent study suggests that a monumental shift in Snake river drainage around 2.1 million years ago reshaped the topography, carving out Hells Canyon, which plunges an astonishing 2,400 m, significantly deeper than the Grand Canyon.
All dating methods require making assumptions about the unobserved past. In this article, scientists used cosmogenic nuclide dating, but that requires assumptions about exposure and whether incoming nuclides are in steady state. The fact that this deep canyon formed “only” much more recently than they thought should raise questions about what they know about canyon formation in general. It doesn’t take long if the forces are big enough (21 June 2010). Remember the case of the Niagara-class waterfall in Iceland that formed in days? (11 Feb 2015).
Cowboy John sings a lament about unrequited love: “Ma don’t love me back.” Watch our Short Reel about this article!
Paleontology
Dinosaur age tsunami revealed from tiny chunks of Japanese amber, study finds (Live Science, 15 May 2025). Tsunamis are also sudden, violent, catastrophic events. To keep Ma happy, moyboys sometimes insert rapid events to overcome her bad moods.
Scientists have discovered evidence of an ancient tsunami in Japan — which is hidden in tree amber that dates to the age of the dinosaurs. The amber samples are deformed in a particular way that suggests trees and plant debris were rapidly swept out to the ocean and sank to the seafloor around 115 million years ago, the researchers said, which the team interpreted as evidence of one or more tsunamis.
Uniformitarians should not engage in special pleading with Ma when they assert that the present is the key to the past. Has anyone in history seen tsunamis creating amber fossils? Dr Joseph Kezele, in his lecture on amber (15 May 2025), showed that non-uniformitarian processes, like the Genesis flood, are needed to explain its abundance and distribution.
Cheeky discovery: scientists identify previously unknown soft tissue structure in dinosaurs (Univ of Alberta, 27 May 2025). This article appears to indicate more soft tissue in a dinosaur has been discovered, but the language is slightly ambiguous about whether original primordial protein was found. If the collagen is primordial, this dinosaur, like many others, could not be millions of years old. If not, the article still shows that “there’s something here that is against the currently thought of model of dinosaur muscles,” a researcher said. Dinosaurs were not supposed to resemble mammals in the structure of their cheek muscles.
Nearly complete dinosaur skull reveals a new sauropod species from East Asia (Phys.org, 3 June 2025). This news item today shares a find published in Nature Scientific Reports (23 May 2025) about a new sauropod from China. This type of sauropod doesn’t fit the usual timeline for dinosaur evolution.
Recovered from the lower part of the Xinhe Formation in Jinchuan District, Gansu Province, the Jinchuanloong niedu holotype consists of a nearly complete skull with mandible, five articulated cervical vertebrae, and 29 articulated caudal vertebrae.
Finding a complete skull and intact caudal vertebrae in rock indicates that something special happened to bury this large creature. It didn’t just roll over and lie on the ground under the weather after it died. The researchers found evidence that the skeleton was compressed under pressure. That would suggest rapid deposition of tons of sediment on top of it.
The world’s best-preserved fossils are right outside Chicago: But there are no dinosaur bones at Mazon Creek (Phys.org, 27 May 2025). Here’s an example of how Ma doesn’t want to cooperate with Charlie & Charlie. Notice the extent of the time problem: Quote:
“But the thing is, if you go back into the fossil record, you basically see them maintaining the same body plan for about 250 million years. And before that, we have nothing,” said Cal So, a postdoctoral scientist at the museum who specializes in amphibians.
“This time period essentially provides a really good place to look for what some of these early relatives of amphibians looked like. That’s one of the biggest mysteries in paleontology—evolutionary biology in general.”
Evolution
Study Resolves Diatom Tree of Life, Could Offer Clues to Earth’s Puzzle (Univ of Arkansas, 3 June 2025). Special pleading is the favored strategy for these evolutionists who studied the “diatom tree of life.” Look at the team smiling as they confibulate to the public to keep Ma happy. ‘Look Ma: stuff happens!’
A new NSF-funded study led by researchers from the U of A found that diatoms evolved slowly for the first 100 million years of their existence. Then, 170 million years ago, they reached an inflection point characterized by a burst of rapid speciation orders of magnitude faster than anything that had preceded it. This included changes to their shape, size and mode of reproduction, as well as repeated movements from oceans into freshwater systems, a typically difficult barrier for aquatic species to cross.
NSF (National Science Foundation): your tax dollars at work. Creationists get no grants for their proposals of causally adequate mechanisms such as intelligence and judgment.
Planetary Science
Bedrock at site of putative lakebed, now completely dry.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS, Feb 6, 2017
NASA spacecraft finds solar ‘cannonballs’ may have stripped Mars of its water — proving decades-old theory (Live Science, 3 June 2025). The MAVEN spacecraft orbiting Mars has found direct evidence of sputtering high in the thin Martian atmosphere. Sputtering is the stripping of neutral atoms by the solar wind. Scientists think that large particles in the solar wind stripped away Mars’ atmosphere like “cannonballs” in a pool.
Scientists suspect this process was especially intense billions of years ago, when the sun was more active and Mars had already lost its protective magnetic field. Without that magnetic shield, the Martian atmosphere was left vulnerable to the full force of the solar wind, accelerating its erosion and pushing the planet past a tipping point where liquid water could no longer persist.
They don’t know how long it took, but how long would a thin atmosphere last unprotected from solar storms for a small planet without a magnetic field? Planetary scientists love their billions of years, but the billions of years don’t love them back (see also 31 July 2024).
Wisdom requires dropping the pursuit of relationships that are not mutual. If millions of years don’t love secular scientists, it’s time to move on.
by Brett Miller