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Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
(February 8, 2015 at 12:41 pm)Esquilax Wrote:
(February 7, 2015 at 2:37 am)snowtracks Wrote: Darwin had hoped later fossil discoveries would eventually eliminate what he regarded as the one outstanding anomaly associated with theory. Ref: Origin of Species, page 307 (I have it on E-book as that). The anomaly he was referring to was the Cambrian Period - (ref. Burgess Shale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess_Shale) - wherein appeared in the fossil records was ’disparity’ (major differences in form, phyla level) without prior ’diversity’ (minor diff. among organisms, species level ).
The future fossil evidence he had hope was never realized. Been 150 years old man, time to call it a day.

Except that we have plenty of explanation of the Cambrian period, both in fossils, and in other areas. They're here, though I doubt you'll even bother to click the link. For example, oxygen levels- which have a positive correlation with diversity in Eukaryotic life- rose just prior to, and during the Cambrian period, due to reaching a saturation point that allowed it to exist as a gas. Additionally, sufficient ozone to protect against incoming UV light formed around that time too; you don't think that those two factors, both of which are correlated with increased diversity among biological organisms, might have contributed toward the increased diversity among biological organisms in the Cambrian period? Thinking

Just pretending there's no explanation for this is lying, Snowy. Not that this is a surprise from you, at this point; unthinking scrabbling to defend the indefensible via arguments from ignorance is your stock in trade.
Oxygen level - This is one of 3 main factors to explain why the Cambrian event (& Avalon which brought about the ediacara [sponges & jellyfish] ) couldn’t have occurred earlier. Only through billion of years of photosynthetic activity could the earth’s atmosphere and oceans build up sufficient oxygen to support life which transpired in day 4 (biblical Hebrew contains only about 3000 words, consequently, most nouns possess multiple ‘literal definitions’. ‘Day’ has 4 one of which is ‘a long but finite time period’.)
Day 5 - Sea animals & specialized land animals. Explosive speciation. For the first approx. 85% of life’s history on earth, there were no creatures we would refer to as animals. Then suddenly swarms of diverse sea animals emerged with for the first time sporting appendeges, limbs, skeltons, specialized organs, none related to the ediacaras. This sudden appearance is acknowledge as a challenge to the macro-evolutionary model. Ref: Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, http://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/The_Bli...hmaker.pdf - "For example the Cambrian strata of rocks, vintage about 600 million years, are the oldest ones in which we find most of the major invertebrate groups. And we find many of them already in an advanced state of evolution, the very first time they appear. It is as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history".
Since then, in the last ½ billion years, only five or six new phyla have appeared which is not what would be expected from a naturalistic perspective.
Next, day 7 - the final act for now.
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The snowball event before Cambrian would have been deleterious to the evolutionary modeling.
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.
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RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer. - by snowtracks - February 10, 2015 at 3:25 am

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