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Which is all the more amusing when one considers this from their web site:
The observations of genetic change over time provide some of the best evidence for common descent. Francis Collins is a committed Christian, a scientist, and former head of the human genome project, and he explains the incontrovertible evidence of common descent in genetic observations in many of his works, including 'The Language of God' (2006).
In addition, you may want to close your eyes lest you accidentally observe even more unobservable evidence of common descent:
Here's a fun science problem (40 points): (1) (a) identify the modern human skull; (b) identify the modern chimpanzee skull; (c) put the fossils in chronological order according to the geological record; finally, (d) explain the magical appearance and sudden disappearance of the other hominid species in the fossil record, since we know they couldn't be related to each other.
Solution:The modern human skull is at the end, labeled 'N'. The modern chimp skull is at the beginning, labeled 'A'. Except for the chimp skull, the fossils are already in chronological order from 'B' - 'N'. Since we know that common descent is imaginary, B could not have evolved into C, C into D, and so on until skull N. Otherwise, we would have to admit that humans (N) could have evolved from earlier ancestors (B) which share a common ancestor with chimps (A). To avoid this absurd conclusion, it follows that B must have magically appeared and then magically and suddenly disappeared, and their disappearance happened to coincide with the appearance of the separate species labeled by C. Then C disappeared and D magically appeared, and so on, until humans supernaturally came into existence when all the creatures labeled by M disappeared.
Fair enough but we don't have to prove which fossils are direct ancestors/descendants, rather than close cousins. To obtain evidence that evolution with common descent occurs we don't need to reconstruct the exact family tree. It's sufficient to observe that a variety of species appear and disappear in the fossil record, and there is a progression in time and in physical traits. The only way to explain these facts, without evolution, is to assume that each species disappeared suddenly and then a new species, with slightly modified traits, magically replaced the one before.
These guys don't do their homework. They're still blurbing out the Galaxy NGC 4319/"quasar" luminous bridge thing.
This is old news creationists. Yet again creationist material that was solved in the 80's: Markarian was violently ejected from NGC 4319. Of course they have different red shifts. I'm sure you'd find a bullet has a different red shift from a gun, too.
Why is it that, overwhelmingly, almost all creationist objections link back to the 80's? It's like they're stuck in a time warp. It's weird. Seriously, almost none of the creationist objections you see in literature trace back to answers presented before or after the 80's with some exceptions (Behe, Dembski).
The galaxy-quasar connection - NGC 4319 and Markarian 205. I - Direct imagery. I
