of course they did not assume that God did it, but they still called it special - a special event.
A special event that ocurred over 20-25 million years and decided to take along primates for most of the ride? Despite the wording nobody in the paper contends that the changes ocurred due to a single event.
Even from an evolution point of view, there is a lot to see here. How did such rapid change take place in such a short time?
25 million years is a short time? That's 4166 and 2/3 times longer than YEC's think the earth has existed. Why some folks are saying we did all this evolutionizing and more just since Noah.
And with the current experimentation with lab rats, its quite obvious that they have not been able to artificially create rats that are significantly more intellegent than their counterparts.
Well if 25 million years is such a short time to achieve these results why would you expect to see similar results in less time? By the way, the timing is closer to 80 million years if you're going to talk about relating rats and humans. Would you mind referencing the findings of the experiments where they tried to genetically engineer hyper-intelligent rats? I'm sorry, episodes of Pinky and The Brain are not acceptable since Warner Brothers declined to present them for peer review. If you're going to claim we have failed you'd better be able to prove someone has tried.
The whole process seems incredible even to the evolutionist - so there must be something groundbreaking about this story...
You are mistaking incredible for unexplainable. Scientists see the evidence and they posit reasonable explanations...they are excited and delighted by their findings which give them greater insight. Nowhere do the authors even hint that they have shaken the foundations of the ToE or brought credible evidence to light for goddunitism. You're clutching at imaginary straws.
When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.- Henry Morris, Head of Institute for Creation Research
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