Cambrian

[NotReady]

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My God, at least get your terms correct and use them properly


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How bout this from Wiki?

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The Cambrian explosion has generated extensive scientific debate. Darwin saw it as one of the principal objections that could be lodged against his theory of evolution by natural selection,[2] as have modern-day Creationists.

Scientists have also long been puzzled by its abruptness, and the apparent lack of obvious predecessors to the Cambrian fauna.


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why Zeus throws lighting bolts


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I think he was programmed that way by evolution. No real choice about it.

[MidGe]

Zeno is correct,

NotReady has made many posts that ate patently false as I explained in my first reply above to NR supposedly Cambrian dilemma for evolution to which he didn't bother to reply, as usual when the argument doesn't suit his prejudices.

It is not a dilemma at all. There have been numerous discoveries since Darwin that do very scientifically and factually address what was a so called problem withy evolution.



Here is a paper published in 2000, that makes mincemeat of the dilemma! There are plenty more.

Extract from the paper:

"One final comment. As we have seen above, the diversification of animals began in the late Precambrian and continued into the Cambrian. The entire period of this diversification took over 50 million years. It is true that the most rapid part of the diversification took around 10 million years, but that ten million years was part of a longer period of diversification. It is inconsistent for Christians to pay attention to one part of this period as if it is the creation event, when, in fact, species were appearing over a much longer period of time. It is also time for Christian apologists to catch up with the new information."

[MidGe]

Here is another paper.

Extract from the conclusion:

"A clearer picture of the Cambrian radiation is beginning
to emerge. Although high rates of evolution
may have prevailed during the Cambrian radiation,
they were not phenomenally high nor high enough to
merit the formulation of new rules of evolution relating
to the tempo of speciation."

[NotReady]

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Extract from the conclusion:


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I skimmed the whole conclusion and it appears to me most of it is speculation attempting to explain why the fossils aren't there, which pretty much admits, well, that the fossils aren't there.

As to Morton, I researched him, and may read the paper later, but he only has a B.S. in geology, I think, or physics, he was a YEC, and is now a theistic evolutionist, once again proving evolution makes for strange bedfellows.

[MidGe]

Thanks for your reply, NotReady.

The point I am making with my posts, is that the Cambrian has been proven a source of, exclusively, supporting evolution theory new discoveries. These like all hundred of thousand discoveries since Darwin, in many fields of scientific investigation, with tools that Darwin would not have dreamed of, and all of these have confirmed evolution. Not a single amount of evidence has been found in favor of a god's existence. I don't know if a believer would ever be, or could be convinced. I guess not, the hypnotical power of mantra repeating is too much for those poor minds. Well as long as some of use keep an open mind progress will happen. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[NotReady]

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Well as long as some of use keep an open mind progress will happen.


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I'll do my best to keep out of your way. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[Bill Haywood]

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If the journalist wants to do a follow up, he should contact not ready.


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Dang. You just unmasked a millenia old conspiracy - since Augustine we've managed to keep this secret.

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You're not a member of the conspiracy. You're the target.