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Evolution Theory - please show the proofs
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs
(August 25, 2010 at 8:12 am)Zen Badger Wrote: A question if I may......
From whence do you derive your understanding of Evolution?
Re precambrian fossils....
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source...51X37e1KxQ

(Dawkins, Richard [zoologist and Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University], "The Blind Watchmaker," [1986], Penguin: London, 1991, reprint, p.229).
Quote:"Eldredge and Gould certainly would agree that some very important gaps really are due to imperfections in the fossil record. Very big gaps, too. 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. Needless to say, this appearance of sudden planting has delighted creationists."


(Romer Alfred S. [late Professor of Zoology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University], "The Procession of Life," The World Publishing Co: Cleveland OH, 1968, pp.19-20)
Quote:"A record of pre-Cambrian animal life, it appears, simply does not exist. Why this lamentable blank? Various theories have been proposed; none is too satisfactory. It has been suggested, for example, that all the Pre-Cambrian sediments were deposited on continental areas, and the absence of fossils in them is due to the fact that all the older animals were seadwellers. But that all these older sediments were continental is a theory which opposes, without proof, everything we know of deposition in later times. Again, it is suggested that the Pre-Cambrian seas were poor in calcium carbonate, necessary for the production of preservable skeletons; but this is not supported by geochemical evidence. Yet again, it is argued that even though conditions were amenable to the formation of fossilizable skeletal parts, the various phyla only began to use these possibilities at the dawn of the Cambrian. But it is, a priori, hard to believe that the varied types present in the early Cambrian would all have, so to speak, decided to put on armour simultaneously. And, once again, it has been argued that the whole evolution of multicellular animals took place with great rapidity in late Pre-Cambrian times, so that a relatively short gap in rock deposition would account for the absence of any record of their rise. Perhaps; but the known evolutionary rate in most groups from the Cambrian on is a relatively leisurely one, and it is hard to convince oneself that a sudden major burst of evolutionary advance would be so promptly followed by a marked 'slowdown'. All in all, there is no satisfactory answer to the Pre-Cambrian riddle."







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Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by NoGodaloud ? - August 23, 2010 at 11:24 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by theVOID - August 23, 2010 at 11:51 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Entropist - August 24, 2010 at 12:27 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Shell B - August 24, 2010 at 1:02 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Shell B - August 24, 2010 at 1:29 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by lrh9 - August 24, 2010 at 12:30 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Entropist - August 24, 2010 at 12:35 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by padraic - August 24, 2010 at 1:39 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Thor - August 24, 2010 at 3:11 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by leo-rcc - August 24, 2010 at 7:02 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Tiberius - August 24, 2010 at 10:34 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Entropist - August 24, 2010 at 10:50 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by leo-rcc - August 24, 2010 at 11:25 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Entropist - August 24, 2010 at 11:37 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by LastPoet - August 24, 2010 at 12:09 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Thor - August 24, 2010 at 12:36 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Thor - August 24, 2010 at 5:02 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Shell B - August 24, 2010 at 9:01 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Shell B - August 24, 2010 at 10:07 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Shell B - August 24, 2010 at 10:54 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Thor - August 24, 2010 at 5:46 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by AnunZi - August 25, 2010 at 5:21 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Shell B - August 25, 2010 at 4:47 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Shell B - August 25, 2010 at 6:16 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by NoGodaloud ? - August 25, 2010 at 11:18 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Thor - August 25, 2010 at 1:02 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Shell B - August 25, 2010 at 3:57 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Thor - August 25, 2010 at 4:22 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by padraic - August 25, 2010 at 7:32 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by DiRNiS - August 25, 2010 at 8:32 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by HeyItsZeus - September 10, 2010 at 10:07 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Thor - August 27, 2010 at 10:48 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Skipper - September 9, 2010 at 12:12 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Ashendant - September 9, 2010 at 5:32 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Skipper - September 9, 2010 at 12:37 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Skipper - September 10, 2010 at 9:02 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Skipper - September 10, 2010 at 3:58 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Watson - September 10, 2010 at 12:05 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by theVOID - September 13, 2010 at 10:29 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Minimalist - September 10, 2010 at 12:39 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Watson - September 10, 2010 at 7:08 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Minimalist - September 13, 2010 at 1:44 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by padraic - September 10, 2010 at 7:56 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Skipper - September 11, 2010 at 5:33 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Minimalist - September 13, 2010 at 3:44 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by krazedkat - September 13, 2010 at 9:32 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Watson - September 13, 2010 at 10:49 pm
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Thor - September 14, 2010 at 9:47 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by downbeatplumb - September 14, 2010 at 11:31 am
RE: Evolution Theory - please show the proofs - by Minimalist - September 14, 2010 at 3:59 am

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