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Immense Cambrian fossil bed discovered "rivals the famous Burgess Shale"

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Immense Cambrian fossil bed discovered "rivals the famous Burgess Shale"
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RE: Immense Cambrian fossil bed discovered "rivals the famous Burgess Shale"
February 12, 2014 at 10:32 am
(February 11, 2014 at 5:03 pm)FreeTony Wrote: Luckily without even looking at them we know that none will be transistional fossils, so we can all keep our faith in Creation science.

Creationist response: "15 new species? That means there are an additional 30 missing links now!!!"
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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RE: Immense Cambrian fossil bed discovered "rivals the famous Burgess Shale"
February 12, 2014 at 10:44 am
(February 12, 2014 at 10:32 am)Tonus Wrote: Creationist response: "15 new species? That means there are an additional 30 missing links now!!!"

They do have to classify them into "kinds", which they all tend to disagree about, so they'll have something to do this week other than promote their DVDs.

What I love about this is that they are then forced to believe in some sort of hyper evolution that happened after the flood to account for the variety of life observed.
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RE: Immense Cambrian fossil bed discovered "rivals the famous Burgess Shale"
February 12, 2014 at 10:59 am
(February 11, 2014 at 4:34 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I started reading that but got distracted by the link to transparent bikinis.

How'd you get transparent bikinis when I got prostate cancer? Angry
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