(March 20, 2017 at 6:05 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:Nice try with the out-of-context response but doesn't fly. Here's the paragraph - "To the question why we do not find rich fossiliferous deposits belonging to these assumed earliest periods prior to the Cambrian system, I can give no satisfactory answer. Several eminent geologists, with Sir R. Murchison at their head, were until recently convinced that we beheld in the organic remains of the lowest Silurian stratum the first dawn of life. Other highly competent judges, as Lyell and E. Forbes, have disputed this conclusion. We should not forget that only a small portion of the world is known with accuracy"(March 19, 2017 at 2:15 pm)snowtracks Wrote: -------------------------------------
Poor Darwin he's been slander by his own words. Well, read and wept for yourself.
To the question why we do not find rich fossiliferous deposits belonging to these assumed earliest periods prior to the Cambrian system, I can give no satisfactory answer.
On the Origin… Charles Darwin, Page 286,
http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/fram...wtype=side
And here's the context of the quoted passage from Darwin http://www.bartleby.com/11/1006.html, which is clear that Darwin is talking about a debate regarding the origins of the Earth for which he felt he wasn't knowledgeable enough to give an answer for. Amazing isn't it that Darwin, a gifted and preeminent geologist and biologist, knows less about his two chosen fields than snowtracks, a knowledgless idiot.
Darwin was thinking that future discoveries would supply the fossil evidence. Recent science models show that out of 182 mathematically possible skeletal designs conceivable for physical life 146 showed up in the fossil record of the Cambrian explosion event per this study - paragraph from it:
"The set of viable design elements available for animals to use in building skeletons has been fully exploited. Analysis of animal skeletons in relation to the multivariate, theoretical “Skeleton Space” has shown that a large proportion of these options are used in each phylum. Here, we show that structural elements deployed in the skeletons of Burgess Shale animals (Middle Cambrian) incorporate 146 of 182 character pairs defined in this morphospace. Within 15 million years of the appearance of crown groups of phyla with substantial hard parts, at least 80 percent of skeletal design elements recognized among living and extinct marine metazoans were exploited".*
Suddenly, in shallow seas and on continental shelves life forms manifesting nearly every conceivable body plan appeared. - for the first time in Earth's history creatures sported appendages, limbs, skeletons and specialized organs.
*Evolutionary Exploitation of Design Options by the First Animals with Hard Skeletons R. D. K. Thomas*, Rebecca M. Shearman†, Graham W. Stewart‡ + See all authors and affiliations Science 19 May 2000:Vol. 288, Issue 5...
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/288/5469/1239.full
Atheist Credo: An universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.