@Leadfoot,
Quote: Cripes, the denial of facts here is too much
Yes it is and , once again, its you doing the denying. Izzy Ramirez did a compusearch to see when and by whom the use of the "Cambrian Explosion"[CE] began. It wasnt a scientist at all (even though some, had credited Steve Gould with it and he accepted the responsibility and blamed it on not understanding how fraudulent the MO of Creationists was)
Actually Izzy found that FRITZ RIDENOUR, a Creationist non- science writer of Biblical apologetics coined the phrase in hi Book "WHO SAYS"(dated 1967). FACTS:
The" CE" lasted anywhere between 25 and 70 my years _from the late Cryoginian as a beginning)
The CE can validly claim the beginnings of about 11 of the known 32 phyla of animalia and NONE of the terrestrial plants. 8 phyla appeared during the rest of the Paleozoic and 12 have NO FOSSIL RECORD till after the Paleozoic. THESE ARE PHYLLA not "kinds"
The claims of the CE for a "Sudden appearance of all life forms occurred during the CE" is a line by HENRY MORRIS from his 1985 "Scientific Creationism " (A book tht was soundly debunked in the Louisiana case of EDWARDS v AGUILLARD
Also, JONATHAN WELLS in his 2000 book "Icons of Evolution" Fraudulently stated that ALL animals appeared together in the CE"
These guys were merely trying to redefine the Biblical "7 days of Creation" into a new "DAY/DATE' time clock for Creationists and Fundamentalist Christians to celebrate.
SO ere I you, Id learn a bit more of your history and stop trying to turn the argument about as if you know of what you're speaking.
AND, even if you were right about the first stuff (Which you are NOT), whats wrong with 10 to 50 MY years in duration??.
Think about evolution in terms of COMPOUND INTEREST. (My only reference to Malthus-like thinking).
