In the field of Biology, evolutionary scientists are constantly looking for proofs that natural selection has shaped all living things over vast eons of time. They look to the fossil record for evidence that these changes have occurred. There is only one problem, the more they look at the fossil record the less they find supporting their model of origins. This was again shown to be true in the discovery of the best preserved examples of protozoans found in the fossil record to date.
This discovery, made in Schilersee, Germany, of micro-organisms including protozoans in tree resin or amber shows that very little, if any, change has occurred to these organisms during 220 million years of evolution. Quoting from an article about this discovery appearing in Science magazine (January 8, 1993), this “. . . confirms that some of the earth’s smallest land dwellers have remained in a state of evolutionary suspended animation since the dawn of the age of the dinosaurs” (emp. mine, DE). These microscopic organisms are so much like those we see today in pond water that the term “morphological stasis” is used to describe their condition since the only change that seems to have occurred is on the “genetic level.”
Also found in the amber along with the protozoa, were algae, bacterial colonies, pollen and fungal spores, all appearing like forms we know today. There is even recorded a “snapshot of protozoan behavior.” One well-preserved victim was engulfed in the middle of a meal. “A photograph of the bulbous little creature shows it sucking up a colony of bacteria joined end to end just like a strand of spaghetti” (Science, January 8, 1993). This is just how members of this group digest bacteria filament today.
Evolutionary scientists studying this discovery search for an explanation of how these organisms have avoided the affects of natural selection since their model says that up to a point the protozoa and multitudes of other organisms could not escape and evolved from lower forms into more complex forms. We as creationists predict that anytime we find records of life from the past they will be just like the ones we find today, because God created them–and this is exactly what is found!
