Evolution contradictions
There are some established 'contradictions' to the theory of evolution
'Natural selection' is the process by which favorable heritable traits become more common in successive generations of a population of reproducing organisms, and unfavorable heritable traits become less common, due to differential reproduction of genotypes. Really!
So how does a wing develop using natural selection? There must be many generations before the wing is sufficiently developed by random chance. Unless 'Natural selection' is an intelligent process which can anticipate the future, then any partially formed, unusable wing vestiges would be the enemy of 'Natural selection'.
And it is not just the wing. There are feathers (brilliantly designed for the intended purpose) and hollow bones (to make them lighter), blood vessels, muscles and nerves which transfer and receive signals to and from the brain and the brain is able to interpret these signals and transmit back instructions 'on the wing'.
Until all of these parts are fully developed and working the bird cannot fly! In the case of flight, I would also question how any process could develop by chance when there was no concept of what flight was!
There is not enough mud on the ocean floor if the world really was billions of years old. Every year 25 billion tons of dust and mud are dumped in the ocean by water and wind. The average depth is less than 400 meters of mud on the ocean floor. After several billion years there should be many kilometers of mud on the ocean floor.
Also there is not enough salt in the oceans if you consider the age of the oceans if they were millions of years old.
There are too many species which have remained unchanged for millions of years!
For example, coelacanths were supposed to be extinct millions of years go. Then one was caught in the Indian Ocean in 1938 and we now know there are many thriving groups of coelacanths. Strangely enough they are unchanged from their 70 million year old ancestors.
Butterflies have three distinct stages in their lifecycle. Caterpillars develop from the eggs, and then they become chrysalises where their entire body disintigrates into a liquid mass. This liquid somehow reforms into the butterfly which breaks out of the chrysalis, and the process repeats itself. Is this the product of random chance everytime a caterpiller turns itself into a butterfly? Or is this a designed process? Is it written into the dna for a caterpiller to melt into a liquid mass and then reform into a beautiful butterfly?
It is unbelievable that this process could develop by chance!
These complex stages all needed to be present at the same time for the first butterfly egg to hatch into another butterfly. Whichever stage was the first ever it was programmed(!) to produce it's young with the whole process already defined and fully working!
Polystrate trees are fossilised trees that are found upright in rock strata. The bark has generally turned into coal. The tree itself is petrified. The interesting point is that these trees often go through multiple strata which would be impossible if the strata took a long time to form.
T-Rex flesh found inside the fossilised thigh bone of a T-Rex. The discovery was made in a 1000 cubic metres of Sandstone in Montana USA in 2005.
Can flesh really avoid decay for 70 million years? Or is it simply that the 'millions of years' dating system is vastly over estimating the age of rocks and fossils?
The recent publicity (May 2009) of the 47 million year old fossil of a lemur-like creature declares it as the 'missing link' between today's higher primates (monkeys, apes and humans) and more distant relatives. I saw David Attenborough calling it the 'missing link'! I suspect when all the publicity and hype dies down that this fossil will turn out to be exactly what it looks like - a fossil of a Lemur!
In the 1980s there was an attempt to explain evolution occurring through 'beneficial mutations' which produced a new species. One major problem with this idea is that the same, supposedly random, mutation would have to happen to both a male and a female who are both living near each other and produce offsring to produce the new species! Then there are difficulties with the newly produced animal finding a similar mate for themselves!
In April 1977 a large creature was caught in fishing nets off the east coast of New Zealand. A qualified zoologist was on board and photographed and examined it carefully and confirmed that, indeed, it was a plesiosaur, a sea-dwelling dinosaur which supposedly had been dead for 100 million years!