[QUOTE]In fact, investigations done in the Yunnan province now reduces the period of time taken for the appearance of organisms to 2 YEARS!! QUOTE
2 years? Really? That's pretty good resolution for radiometric dates...
nic
PS: Even if you meant 2
million years, as I expect, this is:
(a) not true and
(b) even if it were 2 million years, this is a gob-smacking lot of time
See:
http://www.talkorigins.org/...default.htm#cambrian-explosion
...especially the links provided therein. E.g., paleontologist and evangelical Keith Miller:
quote:
There is much confusion in the popularized literature about the evidence for macroevolutionary change in the fossil record. Unfortunately, the discussion of evolution within the Christian community has been greatly influenced by inaccurate presentations of the fossil data and of the methods of classification. Widely read critiques of evolution, such as Evolution: A Theory in Crisis by Denton, and Darwin on Trial by Johnson, contain serious misrepresentations of the available fossil evidence for macroevolutionary transitions and of the science of evolutionary paleontology. [...] The implication of much of the evangelical Christian commentary on macroevolution is that the major taxonomic groups of living things remain clearly distinct entities throughout their history, and were as morphologically distinct from each other at their first appearance as they are today. There is a clear interest in showing the history of life as discontinuous, and any suggestion of transition in the fossil record is met with great skepticism. The purpose of this short communication is to dispel some of these misconceptions about the nature and interpretation of the fossil record.
Link: http://www.asa3.org/...topics/evolution/PSCF12-97Miller.html
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