NEW YORK - Maybe you learned this in school: The big dinosaur die-off 65 million years ago was a liberation for mammals, and they quickly produced a bunch of new species that included ancestors of humans and other modern-day creatures.
A new study says, forget it.
Scientists who constructed a massive evolutionary family tree for mammals found no sign of such a burst of new species at that time among the ancestors of present-day animals. Only dead-ender mammals, with no modern-day descendants, showed that effect.
“I was flabbergasted,” said study co-author Ross MacPhee, curator of vertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
How does this work? I thought if it was being taught in schools we had evidence of what was being taught. It wasn't taught as a theory, it was taught as fact. What exactly were those "facts" based on? And is this an admission that scientist were wrong? Is that possible?
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There is very little science involved within the evolution teaching. It's all made up from a number of theories that people now hold as scientific proof. They always attack the Bible for not having proof to support what the Bible says but they act as if evolution is scientific fact. Scientific facts and discoveries at this point in time point more to the Biblical account than they do to the evolution theory. The Bible story is consistent and never changing and has yet to be disproved but the evolution teachings are always changing because they find facts that don’t match up with their so called truth.
Well, it depends on who is interpreting the Bible "truth" on science. I've heard some really crappy biblically based "science".
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