The Problems with Evolution - Cambrian Explosion

Wrong. Plants need oxygen in order to perform aerobic respiration. They don't get their energy directly from the sun.

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Rusty, You asked for a reason for the Cambrian explosion, & I gave you one. You asked to be educated, you now are.But for the record, there are reasons the eye hadn't evolved before the Cambrian, there didn't exist enough light to provide the critical selective impetus for vision to evolve. In fact there is evidence of increased sunlight/luminosity at the end of the Precambrian, increased levels of Be10 are preserved in those rocks precisely where expected, the C/Pc boundary. Be10 is formed in the upper atmosphere & directly correlates to solar luminosity. What a coincidence!You asked what caused the CE from an evolutionary perspective, presumably because you felt the CE was a particular problem to evolution. You now have a plausible evolutionary explanation supported by evidence. Job done. If you wish to make a separate argument of design, please take it to an appropriate thread. If all you were going to do was make an argument by design, why didn't you just open an ID thread?MarkThis message has been edited by mark24, 11-07-2004 05:10 AM

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Rusty, Multicellularity existed in the Precambrian to the tune of at least 400 million years before the CE.MarkThis message has been edited by mark24, 11-07-2004 08:06 PM

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You really haven't gotten the hang of the geological timescale. 50,000,000 years is a significant amount of time. Even a tenth of it is far more than a geological "instant".