Fig. 1. The basic anatomy of an individual bryozoan called a zooid (Wikimedia Commons). This little creature that lives in tiny holes in bryozoan colonies (Figs. 2-5) has baffled biologists since the 16th Century. Yet biologists like to refer to bryozoans as “simple.” If, after 150 years of Darwinism and $500,000 grants to study them one doesn’t have an explanation for the simplest organisms (sponges, corals, bryozoans, brachiopods, molluscs, echinoderms, etc.), then how can one imagine to explain human origins?
The date ranges in this article are from Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database, Macquarie Univ. Dept. of Biological Sciences, Sydney, Australia—assembled by hndreds of paleontologists internationally; and Fossiilid.info, Baltic University, Paleobiodiversity in Baltoscandia; and several other sources.
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“Bryozoa is one of the most puzzling phyla in the animal kingdom and little is known about their evolutionary history.” –Fuchs, J., M. et al. 2009. The first comprehensive molecular phylogeny of Bryozoa (Ectoprocta) based on combined analyses of nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 52 (1): 225. The title of the above paper might make readers imagine that science is on its way to explaining bryozoans in evolutionary terms; but such is not the case. Although paleontology and biology consider bryozoans—or moss animals as they are popularly known (Figs. 1-5)—to be primitive, simple organisms that evolved like everything else in the Darwinist worldview, the actual real-time physical facts of the fossil record tell a very different story. What the record actually shows is that after nearly 500 million years bryozoans are still bryozoans—just like when they first appeared. They didn’t evolve from anything else and they didn’t evolve into anything else. The quote itself may seem innocuous but it uses two standard diversions that prevent readers from considering bryozoans objectively: 1.) Not “little is known,” but truly nothing is known about the so-called evolutionary history of bryozoans. The |
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