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 == Definition ==
-By "the evolutionary paradigm" I mean more than the [[theory of evolution]]. After all, evolution, properly understood, means change over time. And such change ''does'' occur, even to the development of new species. Creation [[biology]] takes the position (which I share) that the ancestors of life were not one, but many&mdash;at least one species per [[taxonomy|taxonomic]] family and possibly one species per taxonomic genus. But the evolutionary paradigm insists that [[natural selection]] and speciation are all that was required to create the astounding diversity of [[life]] from ''one'' common ancestor, a position known as "common descent."
+By "the evolutionary paradigm" I mean more than the [[theory of evolution]]. After all, evolution, properly understood, means change over time. And such change ''does'' occur, even to the development of new species. Creation [[biology]] takes the position (which I share) that the ancestors of life were not one, but many&mdash;at least one species per [[taxonomy|taxonomic]] family and possibly one species per taxonomic genus. But the evolutionary paradigm insists that [[natural selection]] and speciation are all that was required to create the astounding diversity of [[life]] from ''one'' common ancestor, a doctrine known as "common descent."
 Now to assert, as [[Charles Darwin]] did, that all of life derives from a single ancestor, necessarily requires a great deal of time&mdash;[[deep time]], to be specific. Enter Sir [[Charles Lyell]], a [[geology|geologist]] and a [[law]]yer who used his considerable skill as a [[rhetoric]]ian, more than any true [[science|scientific]] insight, to argue that ''the same processes in operation today for the formation and laying down of rock have always operated for all eternity.'' This is the classic position of [[uniformitarianism]]. Technically, uniformitarianism is a concept unique to geology. But [[astronomy]] largely copied Lyell's ideas and came up with uniformitarian ideas of their own.

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 == Definition ==
-By "the evolutionary paradigm" I mean more than the [[theory of evolution]]. After all, evolution, properly understood, means change over time. And such change ''does'' occur, even to the development of new species. Creation [[biology]] takes the position (which I share) that the ancestors of life were not one, but many&mdash;at least one species per [[taxonomy|taxonomic]] family and possibly one species per taxonomic genus. But the evolutionary paradigm insists that [[natural selection]] and speciation are all that was required to create the astounding diversity of [[life]] from ''one'' common ancestor, a doctrine known as "common descent."
+By "the evolutionary paradigm" I mean more than the [[theory of evolution]]. After all, evolution, properly understood, means change over time. And such change ''does'' occur, even to the development of new species. Creation [[biology]] takes the position (which I share) that the ancestors of life were not one, but many&mdash;at least one species per [[taxonomy|taxonomic]] family and possibly one species per taxonomic genus. But the evolutionary paradigm insists that [[natural selection]] and speciation are all that was required to create the astounding diversity of [[life]] from ''one'' common ancestor, a position known as "common descent."
 Now to assert, as [[Charles Darwin]] did, that all of life derives from a single ancestor, necessarily requires a great deal of time&mdash;[[deep time]], to be specific. Enter Sir [[Charles Lyell]], a [[geology|geologist]] and a [[law]]yer who used his considerable skill as a [[rhetoric]]ian, more than any true [[science|scientific]] insight, to argue that ''the same processes in operation today for the formation and laying down of rock have always operated for all eternity.'' This is the classic position of [[uniformitarianism]]. Technically, uniformitarianism is a concept unique to geology. But [[astronomy]] largely copied Lyell's ideas and came up with uniformitarian ideas of their own.

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 == Postscript ==
-About five minutes ago, a certain user, who shall remain nameless, read an earlier version of this essay in which I suggested the following:{{cquote|It [might] actually [be] an antediluvian laboratory [[chimera]] and hence an [[out-of-place artifact]] of a society already known to have been inordinately cruel.}}
+About five minutes ago, a certain user, who shall remain nameless, read an earlier version of this essay in which I suggested the following concerning ''Tiktaalik'':{{cquote|It [might] actually [be] an antediluvian laboratory [[chimera]] and hence an [[out-of-place artifact]] of a society already known to have been inordinately cruel.}}
 After perusing some of the actual, as opposed to the widely touted, evidence about ''Tiktaalik'', I abandoned that interpretation in favor of the simpler one that ''Tiktaalik'' is still a fish, with lobate pectoral and pelvic fins. But evidently this other user couldn't wait to make a snarky remark, in which he called me{{cquote|the only human being on earth more willing to believe a transitional form is genetically engineered by an unrecorded era of human history, than the scientific evidence at his fingertips.}}

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 It also explains the continued funding of various projects seeking to gather evidence in ''support'' of the evolutionary paradigm. Some of these projects, like Project [[SETI]], are complete wastes of time. Others, like the Hadron Supercollider, stand a remote chance of finding something useful, but are not likely to find anything that is, as lawyers like to say, dispositive. Happily, some other projects, like [[NASA]]'s ongoing program of robotic deep-space exploration, hold great promise to yield a wealth of data&mdash;but these data are likely to militate for creation and ''not'' for the evolutionary paradigm.
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 Now to assert, as [[Charles Darwin]] did, that all of life derives from a single ancestor, necessarily requires a great deal of time&mdash;[[deep time]], to be specific. Enter Sir [[Charles Lyell]], a [[geology|geologist]] and a [[law]]yer who used his considerable skill as a [[rhetoric]]ian, more than any true [[science|scientific]] insight, to argue that ''the same processes in operation today for the formation and laying down of rock have always operated for all eternity.'' This is the classic position of [[uniformitarianism]]. Technically, uniformitarianism is a concept unique to geology. But [[astronomy]] largely copied Lyell's ideas and came up with uniformitarian ideas of their own.
-Near the beginning of the twentieth century, the notion that the [[earth]] and the [[universe]] were infinitely old became untenable. So uniformitarianism no longer holds to that idea. But it ''does'' hold to the basic idea of deep time, in space and on the earth, with ages for the universe and the earth measured in the billions of years. Astronomers invented a new [[cosmology]] called the [[Big Bang]] to explain the universe, and the [[nebula hypothesis]] to explain the [[sun]], the [[earth]], the [[moon]], and all the [[planets]] (to paraphrase [[Harry Truman]]). But in fact, the only reason why astronomers date the [[solar system]] at 4.6 billion years old is that the geologists date the earth at 4.5 billion years old.
+Near the beginning of the twentieth century, the notion that the [[earth]] and the [[universe]] were infinitely old became untenable. So uniformitarianism no longer holds to that idea. But it ''does'' hold to the basic idea of deep time, in space and on the earth, with ages for the universe and the earth measured in the billions of years. Astronomers invented a new [[cosmology]] called the [[Big Bang]] to explain the universe, and the [[nebula hypothesis]] to explain the [[sun]], the [[earth]], the [[moon]], and all the [[planet]]s (to paraphrase [[Harry Truman]]). But in fact, the only reason why astronomers date the [[solar system]] at 4.6 billion years old is that the geologists date the earth at 4.5 billion years old.
 Finally, neither Darwin nor any of his contemporaries bothered to assert how life began to begin with. But modern proponents of the paradigm now boldly assert that life began from non-life, a principle that they call [[abiogenesis]]. (Others have flirted briefly with concepts like [[panspermia]] and even [[Panspermia#Directed panspermia|directed panspermia]], but they are in the minority, and many of them, like [[Francis Crick]], have since abandoned such ideas as untenable, or perhaps unsaleable.)

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-TerryH: the only human being on earth more willing to believe a transitional form is genetically engineered by an unrecorded era of human history, than the scientific evidence at his fingertips.
+{{essay}}{{Essay By|TerryH}}
-But don't stop now, kids, he's about to tell you about the miraculously spinning 1,000,000 year old batteries that... curiously... no real scientist has ever seen!
+The recent (April 18, 2008) release of [[Ben Stein]]'s new documentary, ''[[Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed]]'', has brought the [[evolution]]/[[creation]] debate to a fever pitch&mdash;possibly the highest fever pitch since [[Scopes Trial|Tennessee vs. John Scopes]]. Indeed, the recent move of the [[Institute for Creation Research]] and its [[ICR Graduate School|graduate school]] from [[California]] to [[Texas]] has actually prompted the higher-education authorities in that State to take the unusual step of inviting [[ICR Graduate School#Texas Relocation|public comment]] on an application for accreditation&mdash;almost a "Scopes Trial in reverse."
-But wait!  He has a source!  ...the National Enquirer.
+All this extra attention can mean only one thing: the evolutionary paradigm is more vulnerable to abandonment than it has been since [[Charles Darwin]] first proposed it.
-Win, Terry.  Win.
+Now to assert, as [[Charles Darwin]] did, that all of life derives from a single ancestor, necessarily requires a great deal of time&mdash;[[deep time]], to be specific. Enter Sir [[Charles Lyell]], a [[geology|geologist]] and a [[law]]yer who used his considerable skill as a [[rhetoric]]ian, more than any true [[science|scientific]] insight, to argue that ''the same processes in operation today for the formation and laying down of rock have always operated for all eternity.'' This is the classic position of [[uniformitarianism]]. Technically, uniformitarianism is a concept unique to geology. But [[astronomy]] largely copied Lyell's ideas and came up with uniformitarian ideas of their own.

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 # The "youngest" rocks in the records of the United States Geological Survey have an apparent age of 700,000 years. Geologists therefore would not be able to date the eruption of, say, [[Mount Vesuvius]] did not ample historical evidence exist to date it independently.
-More to the point, the ''RATE (Radioactivity and the Age of The Earth) group'' at the [[Institute for Creation Research]] has developed an ever-growing body of evidence that the earth is in fact much younger than uniformitarianism insists it to be.
+More to the point, the ''RATE (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) group'' at the [[Institute for Creation Research]] has developed an ever-growing body of evidence that the earth is in fact much younger than uniformitarianism insists it to be.
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