Have you ever read a headline that says something like, “New Fossils Forces Scientists to Redraw the Evolutionary Tree of Life”? If you are interested in evolution or creation at all, you've probably read that headline dozens of times. I know I have. Evolutionists love to talk about their much loved nested hierarchy and often trumpet it as though it's “proof” of their theory. It's funny (I mean downright hilarious) that seemingly every day, some new discovery pops up which forces them to redraw the so-called “Tree of Life.”
Just this month, National Geographic reported, “Oldest Human Fossil Found, Redrawing Family Tree.” It seems a jawbone found in Ethiopia has been dated by evolutionists as 500,000 years older than the date previously assigned to the genus Homo. A caption from the article says, “[The jawbone], spotted by Arizona State University grad student Chalachew Seyoum, puts the first members of the human genus Homo in the Afar region of Ethiopia half a million years earlier than previously thought.”
Isn't that interesting? It's especially interesting in light of the lie frequently spoken by evolutionists – Richard Dawkins in particular – which says, "Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours." Just one fossil, huh? Flying colors, huh? Well here you go! Consider your theory disproved! Alas, they really don't mean it when they say a single, out-of-date-order fossil would disprove their theory thus I correctly identify it as a lie. When a fossil is discovered that upsets their theory of when or where some species evolved, then evolutionists simply redraw their nested hierarchy.
Now, in the fairness of full disclosure, the article goes on to say that this new find supposedly helps fill some gaps in their theory. Homo habilis had long been considered the ancestor of all Homo species. However, there was yet another jaw bone (labeled, AL 666-I), found some years earlier, that “suggests that an even more primitive "ghost lineage" of Homo must have existed.” Ah. I guess that even before this new fossil was found, the evolutionists' precious “nested hierarchy” was already in need of a tuning. It's never the neat package evolutionists tout it as being, is it?
Keep in mind, too, that this new find prompts a need to tweak the tree of life only after a parade of previous finds that were also introduced to us with similar fanfare. Here are a couple more headlines that demonstrate how scientists' previous theories about human evolution also turned out to be very wrong:
“New Fossils May Redraw Human Ancestry,” NY Times, 9/8/2011
[I]f accepted, [this discovery] would radically redraw the present version of the human family tree, placing the new fossils in the center.
“Fossils challenge old evolution theory,” USA Today, 8/9/2007
The discovery by Meave Leakey... shows that two species of early human ancestors lived at the same time in Kenya. That pokes holes in the chief theory of man's early evolution -- that one of those species evolved from the other.
After more than a century since Darwin said we evolved from apes, the fossil record still hasn't shown us any “clear progression” of such a thing happening. Remember too that these headlines are only dealing with alleged human ancestors – the most desirable of fossil finds. Every fossil primate skull that has ever been found for the last several decades is evaluated for a potential place in the ancestral tree of humans. Yet in spite of all their efforts, no clear lines can be drawn. Scientists only continuously rearrange broken branches that may not even belong on the same bush.
But besides human evolution, evolutionists' theories about the evolution of other species are continuously being upset by new discoveries. Here are a few more headlines for your amusement:
“Genetics Redraws Marsupial Family Tree,” US News
“Fossil May Redraw Fish Family Tree,” Star Tribune
“Flock of geneticists redraws bird family tree,” Science News Daily
It doesn't sound like they're sure how anything evolved. I guess it's a good thing evolution really has no impact on science.
Are evolutionists never embarrassed by news like this? I've been told ad nauseum that the so called “tree of life” is evidence of common descent. It's one of the 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution, often cited by evolutionists while defending their theory. But how can it be evidence for anything if it has to be redrawn every other day? I understand that sometimes people exaggerate headlines in order to attract readers but when you read many of these type articles, you'll see that in most of these stories, some new find indeed does change the previous understanding of how something allegedly evolved. So how many times do they have to be wrong about the theory before people begin to question the theory itself? How many times are they allowed to redraw the tree until people begin to realize there is no tree?!