(May 19, 2009 at 11:05 pm)icthus Wrote: In the earth's crust are many layers of strata,the lowest level of strata that scientists have found with fossil remains is the Cambrian Strata. The fossil remains in this strata compare to todays animals. If evolution is genuine-where are their ancestors???
Actually the oldest fossils are over a billion years old (over twice as old as the oldest Cambrian fossils) and the fossil remains in the Cambrian strata do not compare well as you claim. There are no butterflies, ferns, or roses, no fullky developed modern style fish. in Cambrian fossils; as far as fish go, there are primitive invertebrate jawless creatures that one might class as "fish", such as Haikouichthys, but no "fully develped" modern fish. To quote SkepticWiki, "The Cambrian fauna is not "fully developed" by modern standards: we have given the example of chelicerates without chelicerae, brachiopods lacking hinges, cephalopods with poor buoyancy, etc."
SkepticWiki also points out the following:
- The evolution of hard-bodied creatures is "sudden" only in geological terms --- that is, it took a mere thirty-five million years, or, to put it another way, about five thousand times longer than most creationists will admit that the Earth has existed.
- There are indeed, as we have seen, links between Precambrian and Cambrian fauna, with many good candidates for soft-bodied ancestors of the hard-bodied fauna of the Cambrian.
If you're going to claim these things please quote from reliable sources instead of dumbass creationist ones ... creationists do not know anything about science, they never have and I doubt they ever will!
Kyu
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