An argument against long ages

One of the biggest problems with textbook evolutionary theory is the widespread phenomenon of stasis.

Quotes and comments;

In responding to a critique of evolutionary theory that featured an argument from stasis, an evolutionist stated;

1. "There is no written rule that says a lineage has to die out just because an offspring develops a beneficial mutation. The theory of evolution explains how species change over time, it doesn’t say that all species must change over time.'' [1.]

- Textbook theory tells us all organisms suffer mutations on a regular basis; how can that not lead to change if this goes on for millions of years! How many mutations would there be over 10 million, or 50 million years? Just one mutation a year would mean millions of mutations; and what if there were dozens (or more) a generation? Stasis over millions of years seems clearly impossible given all the mutations involved. To me, stasis disproves long ages (i.e. millions of years.)

2. "As long as a species can survive in its environment and pass on its genetic information to its offspring, it can survive indefinitely. It doesn’t mean that the “living fossil” didn’t speciate, it just means those possible splits died out while the original lineage was able to always successfully reproduce even into today." [1.]

- Some Darwinists like to define evolution simply as change; so change is obviously at the heart of the theory, and this makes stasis a huge challenge, whether some people want to admit it or not. According to the reader above, evolution theory not only explains change it explains lack of change. Is any theory that flexible a scientific theory at all? How could one disprove such a self-contradictory theory? [3.]

- This evolutionist wants us to believe the superior version died out and in the inferior original surived! That is Not what evolution textbooks teach. For a mutation to survive it has to have an advantage.

- Evolutionary theory as I was taught it states that as conditions change animals must change; that the ones best adapted to changing conditions will survive. According to the textbooks conditions on earth have changed radically, not only once but many times over the history of life forms on the planet. How then can there be stasis for millions of years? [6.]

- M. Johnson

Notes;
1. Living fossils and evolution, and does it matter if ‘junk DNA’ has functions? [Q+A]
Don Batten
2. People who favor creation like to point to 'living fossils' as evidence against evolutioary theory, and evidence for creation.
3. "Yes [says the evolutionist] I believe that animals have changed greatly over time (evolution), but some animals and plants were so well adapted to the environment that they did not need to change. So I am not bothered at all by living fossils."
'This added hypothesis says that some animals did not evolve. But if a theory can be so flexible, adding hypotheses that predict the opposite of your main theory, one could never disprove the theory.' - Werner
4. 'All organisms undergo mutations. There is no special mechanism that prevents mutations such that many organisms can remain the same for supposedly hundreds of millions of years.
5. 'Remarkable stasis of a fossil ostracode with soft parts'
'This article remarks on an example of 425 million years of stasis: In that time-frame, evolution by mutations and natural selection has supposedly changed some (unidentified) worm into all the species of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals (including elephants and mice, and of course, us). At the same time all the land plants have supposedly evolved. Such is the claimed power of evolution to change things, and yet these ostracodes remained unchanged (and many others ‘dated’ even older).
6. 'Note also that according to the evolutionary story, the predators for organisms have supposedly evolved and this means that the environment for virtually every organism changes. Furthermore, even the idea that the physical environment has remained stable contradicts evolutionary notions of global mass extinction events such as the Permian extinction (supposedly at 225 Ma) and the Cretaceous extinction (65 Ma), through both of which the ostracodes and many other examples of ‘living fossils’ remained unchanged.'