Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 64 (9163 total)
6 online now:
Newest Member: ChatGPT
Post Volume: Total: 916,418 Year: 3,675/9,624 Month: 546/974 Week: 159/276 Day: 33/23 Hour: 0/3


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   Transitional fossils not proof of evolution?
Archer Opteryx
Member (Idle past 3619 days)
Posts: 1811
From: East Asia
Joined: 08-16-2006


Message 201 of 223 (341101)
08-18-2006 2:27 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by mr_matrix
05-27-2006 6:58 PM


Re: Speculations
mr matrix writes:
The Camberian explosion has established more than 60 different phyla. This means tens of thousands of species that exploded into life fully formed.[....]
Your entire post makes a bit much of the word 'explosion.' The word only applies in the context of geologic time. In this event a variety of new species appear in the fossil record in the relatively short time span, geologicaly speaking, of around 40 million years. That's still 40 times the amount of time the human species has been on this earth--and unspeakably vast, please note, compared to the amount of time Young Earth Creationism allows for anything. The event is not an instantaneous, miraculous Ta-da! It just happens to be an extremely fertile moment--all multiple million years of it--in earth history.

Archer

This message is a reply to:
 Message 12 by mr_matrix, posted 05-27-2006 6:58 PM mr_matrix has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024