Evolution and the BIG LIE

Uh, it really doesn't. The so-called "explosion" refers to the emergence of no more than about 8000 different species over a period of around 50 million years.Not much of an explosion, really. It doesn't really "defy explanation"; random mutation and natural selection account for the origin of those species just as well as they account for the species we see evolving today. The fact that most of these 8000 species appear in the fossil record with relatively few known precursors is easily explained by the fact that those 8000 species were largely hard-shelled organisms whose ancestors had no hard body parts to speak of, and therefore nothing to fossilize.Edited by crashfrog, : No reason given.

8000 known species over 30-80 million years? That's a pretty sedate explosion, don't you think? The problem is that Wells - who is not a biologist - explains it wrong. You've been lied to about the Cambrian explosion, Beretta, by Wells himself and by others. Who says they're not plausible? You? Soft-bodied fossils are quite rare. That we're lucky enough to have a few examples doesn't change that. Your argument is like saying that, because one guy won the lottery once, we all must have a million dollars in our wallets. It doesn't make any sense.

I thought he was the lawyer. Who am I thinking of that's the lawyer? Is that Phillip Johnson?I can't keep my creationists straight sometimes. They should make Creationist Cards with their faces and backgrounds and, I don't know, turn-ons and turn-offs or something.