Molecular clock really goes tick tock?

There's much puffery spoken by people who should know better about the supposedly exact "molecular clock" which the darwinists pin their hopes on to explain how bears turned into whales. Or at least they use it to proclaim loftily and mightily about when bears turned into whales even if they always forget to explain how and change the subject if anyone dares ask them or else come out with a stream of gabble which makes this science journalist's head spin or just as often simply accuse the questioner of misunderstanding. Unsurprisingly it turns out again their "molecular clock" isn't as accurate as we've been told. This time someone's been digging up frozen penguin corpses in antarctica and comparing the "molecular clock" to the true age of the birds

Penguins that died 44,000 years ago in Antarctica have provided extraordinary frozen DNA samples that challenge the accuracy of traditional genetic aging measurements, and suggest those approaches have been routinely underestimating the age of many specimens by 200 to 600 percent.
In other words, a biological specimen determined by traditional DNA testing to be 100,000 years old may actually be 200,000 to 600,000 years old, researchers suggest in a new report in Trends in Genetics, a professional journal.
The findings raise doubts about the accuracy of many evolutionary rates based on conventional types of genetic analysis.

That's a really useful clock you've got there that gains a week every day. Expect this study to be slipped quietly down the memory hole and the "molecular clock" to remain on its pedestal. After all, too many people have got their nice tenure funded by the taxpayers to want to confuse the huddled masses with the truth.


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