Does Chen's work pose a problem for ToE?

This is but yet another of the exciting discoveries that are pushing our knowledge of the pre-cambrian era.Here are a few other interesting findings that I've come across recently. "Small Bilaterian Fossils from 40 to 55 Million Years Before the Cambrian" by Chen et alMost major lineages of deuterostomes arose prior to the Cambrian ExplosionDaily we are gaining insight into how early life really began and yet more support for the wonders of the evolutionary process and increased likelyhood of not only the beginnings of life, but that life itself might well be a ubiquitous process.AbE:Add a link to a pdf of the Scientific American Article where Chen discusses early evidence for bilateral symmetry. SciAm article itselfThis message has been edited by jar, 02-24-2006 01:39 PM

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

No problem of trying to compress things into 2-3 Million years and several of the points raised in the article were already falsified, and falsified by Chen himself. In fact, just two years after the interview in the OP Chen himself discovered examples of bilateral life forms which shoved the complexity appearance back about 50 Million yeaars earlier than anyone expected. That's why the other links have been included.The information in the OP is interesting but certainly no threat to the TOE, and also Old News.Hopefully, there will be many more such findings, but there is nothing in anything presented so far to imply ID or to challenge the TOE.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Exactly. That was one of the reasons I included the link to the pdf article that refers to some of Chen's own work from just two years after the interview referenced in the OP. IMHO it was importnat to actually see some of the pictures and the descriptions of just what they had to go through to even find some of the critters. Here it is again for any that might have missed it.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Old news randman. A lot has been learned since the interview you link to in the OP and Chen and Chia-Wei Li have been right there leading the way.To repeat, "Absolutely no big deal."BUT:as China opens up and we get to examine more of the shales from Yunnan and Guizhou Provences we may be able to push things back even further.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

You gotta ask them. But Chen, in his later discoveries HAS provided the evidence that shows evolutionary theory can explain what is seen in the Cambrian. He found evidence for bilaterality going back atleast 50 Million Years earlier than we had seen so far.Sorry, but gotta repeat.Absolutely no big deal.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

That is not what ANY of the papers referenced so far have said. What was said is that under some very unusual conditions soft bodied creatures may be well preserved.Guess what, that's been known for a long time, at least a decade or more. But the particular environment where this happens is also pretty rare and we haven't found all that many of the resulting shale deposits.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion