Oldest horseshoe crab fossil discovered

28 January 2008

 Researchers from the Manitoba Museum have discovered a fossil in 445 million year old rock. How do they know how old the rock is? From the fossils of course. How do you get the age of the fossils you ask? From the rock it is in. Any good evolutionist knows the benefits of circular reasoning, that is, being able to date a fossil exactly how you want it without any actual science. A find of a nearly half billion year old fossilized crab is quite remarkable considering it is almost exactly similar to living crabs and it also already has compound eyes.

 Less than a month ago there was an article on the evolution of the eye that said our eyes evolved from fish eyes 400 million years ago. Having compound eyes 445 million years ago would indicate that they evolved independently. Not only that but the eye characteristics and wiring are so different that it is impossible for the one to evolve into the other. How could something as complex as the eye evolve at all, let alone twice in a row?

 "We do not know if the fossils were small because they were simply young animals or because Lunataspis just didn't grow any bigger," said researcher David Rudkin of the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada.

 My guess would be that the reason they are so similar to crabs today is because they are the same as crabs today. The reason there is fossils of sea creatures at the bottom of the geologic column is because they live at the bottom. The reason we find birds and humans on the top is because we live on the top.

1. Finding a crab on a bottom layer does not prove it evolved first, It just supports that they lived at the bottom and get buried first in a flood.
2. Finding humans in top layers does not prove it evolved last, it just supports that they can survive the longest in a flood.

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