(April 17, 2017 at 6:08 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:Well, it looks like someone got up on the wrong-side-of-the-bed. The Avalon and Cambrian era is the 5'th day of Creation, another 'day' in preparation for the purpose of the universe: mankind. Thru mankind, God's works His plan-of-redemption. Angels have freewill and no redemption plan; whereas, humans have freewill and a redemption plan. This is why God rested on the 7'th day ( a period of time wherein people are deciding their eternal destiny: connection or separation with or without God (infinite, eternal, tri-personal).(April 17, 2017 at 2:22 am)snowtracks 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"
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
Tell me snowtracks, why the fuck should I listen to you on evolutionary theory when it is well established both hitherto and in this very post that you don't have the first fucking clue what you're talking about?
The passage you've quoted has done nothing to either disprove evolution (which is, I must stress again, a proven fact, we have seen it both in the lab and in the wild) nor advance your beloved creatardism. Furthermore, the fossil record is the least important and conclusive evidence in favour of evolution and evolutionary theory, we can point to genetic markers present in all living things, mitochondrial DNA and other markers which show our ancestry. We can also point out that all life on this planet shares the one single system for developing new flesh and bones, something that also shows common ancestry. Before you come on here bullshitting me, snowtracks, at least do yourself the favour of learning about what you are dismissing out of hand and without evidence, you little shit.
Atheist Credo: An universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.