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Thursday, November 18, 2021

Darwinism and the Fossil Record

The latest video in the Science Uprising series tackles the question of whether the fossil record actually supports Darwinian evolution.

Darwinian evolution, or more properly, Neo-Darwinian evolution, posits that all living things evolved into their present form through a long, gradual and purposeless process of random genetic mutations, natural selection and genetic drift, a process that was completely unguided.

In other words, Neo-Darwinism is a materialistic and naturalistic explanation.

The following video, however, makes the point that there just wasn't enough time for this to have happened, at least not naturalistically. Nor does the fossil record, which is characterized by numerous sudden leaps, provide evidential support for any gradualistic theory of evolution.

So, if human beings and other species of living things did get here through an evolutionary process, that process was neither random nor unguided. And if that process was directed and guided then it must've been superintended by a Mind.

It's really hard to escape that conclusion, but watch this 9 1/2 minute video and decide for yourself: