Dr. Robert Carter
It is fascinating to study the relationships between seabirds, and there has been some interesting new information about how to classify them in recent years. Now, that we’ve sequenced DNA from seabirds, some of the old stories of who’s related to whom had to change.
Boobies, cormorants, and gannets are large seabirds that can be nearly indistinguishable in the fossil record. While the evolutionists are content to combine all organisms into one branching family, creationists recognize there are limits to shared genetics.
The old school method of taking a bunch of fossilized bones and measuring his beak and his height and those sorts of things, then trying to classify them according to shape? All that was thrown out recently because of genetics. In fact, the geneticist and the morphologist were at war for a good long while before the morphologist finally gave in and said, okay, genetics will tell us who’s related to whom in general.
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