Well, I guess all that genetic evidence was wrong. Red wolves really are an ancient species after all!
And not only does it destroy all that genetic evidence that clearly shows the red wolf to be a coyote with some wolf ancestry, it also destroys evolution.
Never mind that any paleontologist will tell you that the earliest dog family fossils date to around 40 million years ago in what is now Saskatchewan.
And never mind that any paleontologist worth his or her salt will tell you that there were no modern Carnivorans (as in the order Carnivora) at this time. They were only miacids at this time.
Harun Yahya figured all of this out!
Those sophisticated deniers of Allah’s divine creation would tell you that this skull is probably a Mesonychid or a Creodont, which are actually not ancestral to anything living today. And Mesonychids are more closely related to whales and cows than they are to wolves. Related to whales and cows? What are they smoking? I can be buried ten feet above a hamster; it doesn’t prove we’re related.
What poppycock!
Any fool can see that’s a bona fide red wolf! It just happened to be found in China, 51 million years before those infidels in the West claimed the last wolves of East Texas and Louisiana mated with coyotes and formed the basis modern red wolf.
What liars!
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For those of you who don’t know who Harun Yahya is. Here’s his photo:
His real name is Adnan Oktar, and he is Turkish Islamic creationist. Unlike Kent Hovind and Ken Ham, he is an Old Earth Creationist. That means he thinks the earth is as old as science says it is.
But evolution didn’t happen.
Fossils are his evidence.
He wrote this book called The Atlas of Creation in which he shows all of these purported ancient fossils of modern species. The above “red wolf” is just one of many dubious claims he’s made.
The best one is this living caddis fly, which Allah created with an interesting adaptation:
I’ve never seen a live caddis fly with one of those. If you look closely, you can see a hook.
I can’t figure out what the purpose of that hook is. Is it a strange ovipositor?
I just can’t see it.
However, if it were going to use that fly as a fishing lure, it would come in handy.
Wait.
Um.
That is a fishing lure!
So if this guy is trying to promote lures of living flies, does that mean he’s dumber that trout?
And if he’s that dumb, how do we know that this “red wolf” is actually 51 million years old?
It may be.
But the whole thing is just so dubious and bizarre that one would worry about its validity right away.
Of course, not everyone is so skeptical.
If you want to see what his followers do with his work, just check out the youtube videos that are based upon The Atlas of Creation. The production quality is just so campy.
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Harun Yahya is somewhat scandal prone. He’s been in prison in Turkey a few times, and he got Richard Dawkins’s website banned in Turkey a few years ago– and then sued Richard Dawkins.
I can’t keep up with all of Harun Yahya’s scandals, but when he sued Richard Dawkins, he got taken down a peg:
http://www.harunyahya.com/books/darwinism/skulls_demolish_darwin/skulls_darwin06.php
Look at what he thinks an antelope is!
Pronghorns aren’t antelopes.
And I don’t know how he knows what color that wolf is just from the skull alone. “Black wolf” fossil? WTF?
That web-site is the strangest thing I have ever seen.
Is that insane, stupid, or deliberately misleading?
All of the above.
Most of the successful creationists are.
Does that guy look like a movie villain or what?
Yes. Mustafa on Austin Powers.
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You sir are the STUPIDIST human being alive. My god.
It is well known that the first dog didn’t evolve in Sask… you redneck country hick.
If they evolved anywhere it is the middle east – and the first dog skeleton connected with humans was found in either germany or russia.
I advise you, stupid, to just do away with yourself. If you procreate then the world will be plagued with humans of your 50 point IQ.
You have poor reading comprehension. When I said the first dog evolved in Saskatchewan, I am referring to Hesperocyon, which was found in Saskatchewan around 40 million year ago. I should have said “canid,” but I thought most people knew that I was referring to canid, rather than domestic dog.
Domestic dogs that exist today do derive from Middle Eastern wolves (primarily), but there are also earlier domestications European and Central Asian wolves that show domestication features from around 30,000 years ago.
Use the search function on this blog to see where I’ve written about all of these issues.
Harun Yahya is an idiot of the worst sort.
Someone needs some reading comprehension and anger management classes.
Even more ridiculous, look at what Yahya claims is a golden monkey skull:
http://harunyahya.com/image/Atlas_of_creation_v4/74_75_goldenmonkey.jpg
Not only is that NOT the skull of any monkey, but it doesn’t even match the shape of the animal’s face. Looks like Yahya flunked kindergarten level shape identification lessons.