Tiktaalik rosea

Here we go again. Our friends, the evolutionists can't identify this reptile/fish thing they say they've found. It's probably one or the other or something like the platypus God designed to help our fleshbound scientists make fools of themselves. Notice the big-time authority appeal! These souls have credentials from some of the most famous Godless institutions. How could they be wrong?

I like the part about them fulfilling their dreams. Their fondest dream is for intelligent design to disappear, along with the designer and the accountability He requires from the chief creation of His Hands.

God is not mocked; the Tiktaalik rosea doesn't surprise Him. Only a very few thousand years ago, He created the thing some scientists date at three-hundred and seventy-five million years. What a nice ballpark number, rounded to the nearest five million years! Five or ten million is nothing to an evolutionist--just pocket change.

So look at what the big boys and girls discovered for us to debunk during show and tell time! A science museum in South Kensington, England will house a plaster cast of it. Hopefully we won't have any creative sculpting going on.

Tiktaalik (I'll call him a "Tik-tak" for short since the other word is too hard to spell and too hard to swallow)supposedly looks like a fish and an alligator. It lifts its head above the water to breathe. The evolutionists go bonkers over that. Why? The lowly crocodile does the same thing, but nobody makes a big deal out of it. I can't see why this is such a big evolutionary breakthrough, unless this lifting-the-head trick made the denizen of the scum pond start thinking it might become a man. I can imagine another reason why Mr. Tik-tak rubbernecked. Mrs. Tik-tak couldn't tolerate it, either. Those other "sheilas" on the bank may have had that "come hither look" in their crocodilian eyes.

We know the coelecanth went down the tube as the water-to-land missing link. People still catch and eat him. Tik-tak seems like a suitable replacement fossil. If one big lie doesn't reel in the gullible, then change the bait. Tik-tak could play or prey upon the popular imagination for decades if the God haters do it right. They could make sure newspapers all over the world carry the "news" about Tik-tak. They've already done that. Check. Now they will persuade book publishers to put it in our public school science books. That should be easy. No matter if we easily debunk the thing for the fraud it certainly is, the damage will have been done. College texts will also perpetuate the myth. Religion does not go away so easily.

Interestingly, archaeopteryx, "the famous fossil which bridged the gap between reptiles and birds" is cited as an icon of evolution. Evolutionists insist Tik-tak is another such icon. It is a dream come true because they must realize they have no other verifiable transition forms. Archaeopteryx is a famous fraud. They shouldn't even mention it in the same breath with their new toy unless they want sensible people to wake up and smell their latest con.



Sin Again


Here they go again;
Ideas full of bull again;
Tik-tak a delusional sin,
An offense against God.

They flubbed on archaeopteryx,
Coelecanth and other tricks.
They think we're a bunch of hicks?
Methinks I smell a fraud.

Tik-tak is what it is,
Fish or reptile schiz,
Tadpole or big liz--
All anyone can say.

Real bones or plaster cast,
Still alive or didn't last,
Won't we have one big laugh,
To find Tic-tac's DNA?

Piltdown man, and Heidelburg,
Neanderthal, and more absurd,
Will they find a hummingbird,
Becoming an ornithopter?

Evolutionism is a religion
Holding God in derision,
Apoplexed by our decision,
To take all God can offer.

Created to do what it did do well--
No progeny to think,compute or spell,
Or choose the path to Heaven or Hell--
Christ with a word made flesh and bone.


Tik-tak knew to mind its place,
No way akin to the human race.
It won't have to hide its face
In shame before God's throne.



Speculation and imagination aside, what do the evolutionist's have? It doesn't move. It doesn't tell a story. The continuum of other transitional forms are nowhere in sight. Tik-tak requires these if he's to ever stand on his own two feet and be a man. It never happened! Scientists will find many generations of his offspring looking just like him, give or take tiny differences due to natural selection (We can even acknowledge "micro-evolution.")

Intelligent design? Obviously.

Similar design for different creatures? Of course; same Designer.

How long did it take to make everything we see? Six earth days.

Can real scientists really believe this, given all the discoveries of paleontologists and anthropologists? Sure. Thousands of them do and do it strongly.

But what about all the fossil evidence? Creationists and evolutionists have the same evidence to test with their instruments and their senses. Tik-tak belongs to all of us, not just to evolutionists. God created Tik-tak for our use and we will use his bones to glorify the Creator, not to rebel against Him.



The old, old, old story in the same old evolutionist style:



Scientists have made one of the most important fossil finds in history: a missing link between fish and land animals, showing how creatures first walked out of the water and on to dry land more than 375m years ago.

Palaeontologists have said that the find, a crocodile-like animal called the Tiktaalik roseae and described today in the journal Nature, could become an icon of evolution in action - like Archaeopteryx, the famous fossil that bridged the gap between reptiles and birds.

As such, it will be a blow to proponents of intelligent design, who claim that the many gaps in the fossil record show evidence of some higher power. Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist, said: "Our emergence on to the land is one of the more significant rites of passage in our evolutionary history, and Tiktaalik is an important link in the story."

Tiktaalik - the name means "a large, shallow-water fish" in the Inuit language Inuktikuk - shows that the evolution of animals from living in water to living on land happened gradually, with fish first living in shallow water. The animal lived in the Devonian era lasting from 417m to 354m years ago, and had a skull, neck, and ribs similar to early limbed animals (known as tetrapods), as well as a more primitive jaw, fins, and scales akin to fish. The scientists who discovered it say the animal was a predator with sharp teeth, a crocodile-like head, and a body that grew up to 2.75 metres (9ft) long.

"It's very important for a number of reasons, one of which is simply the fact that it's so well-preserved and complete," said Jennifer Clack, a paleontologist at Cambridge University and author of an accompanying article in Nature. Scientists have previously been able to trace the transition of fish into limbed animals only crudely over the millions of years they anticipate the process took place. They suspected that an animal which bridged the gap between fish and land-based tetrapods must have existed - but, until now, there had been scant evidence of one.

"Tiktaalik blurs the boundary between fish and land-living animal both in terms of its anatomy and its way of life," said Neil Shubin, a biologist at the University of Chicago, and a leader of the expedition which found Tiktaalik. The near-pristine fossil was found on Ellesmere Island, Canada, which is 600 miles from the north pole in the Arctic Circle. Scientists from the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, the University of Chicago, and Harvard University led several expeditions into the inhospitable icy desert to search for the fossils.
The find is the first complete evidence of an animal that was on the verge of the transition from water to land. "The find is a dream come true," said Ted Daeschler of the Academy of Natural Sciences. "We knew that the rocks on Ellesmere Island offered a glimpse into the right time period and were formed in the right kinds of environments to provide the potential for finding fossils documenting this important evolutionary transition."

When Tiktaalik lived, the Canadian Arctic region was part of a land mass which straddled the equator. Like the Amazon basin today, it had a subtropical climate and the animal lived in small streams. The skeleton indicates that it could support its body under the force of gravity.

Farish Jenkins, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University said: "This represents a critical early phase in the evolution of all limbed animals, including humans - albeit a very ancient step." Tiktaalik also gives biologists a new understanding of how fins turned into limbs. Its fin contains bones that compare to the upper arm, forearm and primitive parts of the hand of land-living animals.
"Most of the major joints of the fin are functional in this fish," Professor Shubin said. "The shoulder, elbow and even parts of the wrist are already there and working in ways similar to the earliest land-living animals."

Dr Clack said that, judging from the fossil, the first evolutionary transition from sea to land probably involved learning how to breathe air. "Tiktaalik has lost a series of bones that, in fishes, covers the gill region and helps to operate the gill-breathing mechanism," she said. "The air-breathing mechanism it had would have been elaborated and having lost the series of bones that lies between the head and the shoulder girdle means it's got a neck, it can raise its head more easily in order to gulp the air. "The flexible robust limbs appear to be connected with pushing the head out of the water to breathe the air."

H. Richard Lane, director of sedimentary geology and palaeobiology at the US National Science Foundation, said: "These exciting discoveries are providing fossil Rosetta stones for a deeper understanding of this evolutionary milestone - fish to land-roaming tetrapods."

A cast of the fossil goes on display at the Science Museum in South Kensington central London today.