cambrian death cause

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There is no evidence that Abraham lived that long....

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Or even that he lived at all.

Good point, NosyNed. If the Cambrian "explosion" is evidence of some sort of creation event, it surely is not the creation event described in Genesis.

Because the Cambrian doesn't show even one single species that is alive today. If the Cambrian "explosion" indicates a creation event, it is a dfferent creation event than described in Genesis.That is why most Christians before Darwin were Old Earth Creationists. They felt that the geologic record showed multiple creation events over a very long time. Young Earth Creationism really didn't get started until after Darwin published his theories -- in fact, I think that YEC was a sudden reaction against the proposal that humans evolved from "lower" animals.

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You are the one speculating. You claim that mammals were concentrated WITHOUT EVIDENCE. I claim that mammals were not around during the cambrian, sighting no modern mammal or non-mammalian species in the cambrian layers.

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I'll also point out that Loudmouth's hypothesis, that there were no mammals in the Cambrian, can be falsified: find the remains of a mammal that date to the Cambrian. That is (in part) what makes it science. How would one falsify the notion that mammals existed but were "concentrated"?

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Is there a catch-all term for prehistoric aquatic reptiles contemporary with dinosaurs?

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Yes: "prehistoric aquatic reptiles contemporary with dinosaurs".(Ooh, bad bat!)Actually, there isn't a single term. There are several lineages of aquatic reptile, even ignoring the "boring" ones like turtles.Edited to add: Bah! 1.6 beat me to the lame joke!This message has been edited by Chiroptera, 07-14-2004 03:32 PM

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That "deep" is pretty plainly the "ocean" that the disk-shaped earth floats on (or is supported by pillars in) in the Hebrew cosmology.

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And the whole thing lying underneath the solid dome-like "firmament", which held out the waters in the heavens (except when God opens some of the windows to let it rain).-

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Why do I even read this drivel?

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There is something irrestible about it, though, isn't there?