Jerry Coyne, a dedicated defender of naturalism, and a skeptic of creationism and intelligent design declares in his book; “Why Evolution Is True”…
“The deepest (and oldest) layers of rock would contain the fossils of more primitive species, and some fossils should become more complex as the layers of rock become younger.”
The strongest evidence Jerry Coyne puts out there are fossils which in turn is supposed evidence that evolution indeed did predict specialized complexity that emerged from more primitive forms of life. Darwin himself argued that evolution of life came from a gradual sequence of simpler designs. It’s quite possible that Jerry also believes in evolution remaining the same as it wouldn’t skip a beat if we found an animal unchanged (which has been found) for supposedly millions of years.
Update: November 17, 2009…
Researchers try to study various speed levels in the story…
“A major conclusion of the work is that for some organisms, possibly including humans, continued evolution will not translate into ever-increasing fitness, Moreover, a population may accrue mutations at a constant rate — a pattern long considered the hallmark of ‘neutral’ or non-Darwinian evolution — even when the mutations experience Darwinian selection.” Remarkably, “In some of these [fitness] landscapes, the fitness eventually levels out and the organism ceases to adapt, even though mutations may continue to accrue.”
It just another component which adds on to the growing complexity concerning explanations of evolution because of failed predictions and observations not successful ones.
Keep in mind, evolution makes no prediction at all on specialized complexity emerging. When one digs deeper into the details (beyond the fossils) here is what evolutionists are finding as they search to prove their hypothesis…
“There is no doubt that the common ancestor possessed DNA, RNA and proteins, a universal genetic code, ribosomes (the protein-building factories), ATP and a proton-powered enzyme for making ATP. The detailed mechanisms for reading off DNA and converting genes into proteins were also in place. In short, then, the last common ancestor of all life looks pretty much like a modern cell.”
Evidence of more complexity than simplicity is showing up in the research which verifies the Bible rather than verifying the simple to complex story from evolutionary scientists.
Here is another admission, this coming from last year…
“It is commonly believed that complex organisms arose from simple ones. Yet analyses of genomes and of their transcribed genes in various organisms reveal that, as far as protein-coding genes are concerned, the repertoire of a sea anemone—a rather simple, evolutionarily basal animal—is almost as complex as that of a human.”
Where is the evidence for simplicity from primitive life forms? It’s certainly not found in the genomes, is it? It’s a failed major expectation for those who believe in the story of evolution. One can also question the fossil record as the way evolutionists see it because the data collected has to fit into a particular framework rather than allowing the evidence to speak for itself. If evolution was in fact a true hypothesis, the evidence would be showing up elsewhere as well.