On Sun, 11 May 2008 19:28:06 -0500, Antares 531
<gordonlrDELETE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On Sun, 11 May 2008 15:00:21 -0700, Ben Goren <ben@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>wrote:
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>>Antares 531 wrote:
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>> > Free Lunch wrote:
>> >> Antares 531 wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> The Cambrian Explosion occurred about 540 million years ago
>> >>> and lasted for about 10 - 20 million years, during which time
>> >>> all phyla that exist today came into being. I'm talking
>> >>> macro-evolution here, not micro-evolution.
>> >>
>> >> Please define macro-evolution and micro-evolution. Scientists
>> >> don't generally use those words, so I don't know exactly what
>> >> you are stating.
>> >
>> > Macro-evolution entails developing a new species or a variant of
>> > a species that can no longer cross-breed with the original
>> > members of the source species.
>>
>>According to this definition, your ``macro-evolution'' is
>>something that's even been demonstrated in high school biology
>>labs, right across the hallway from where they calculate absolute
>>zero or determine the proper titration for buffer systems.
>>
>Ben, thanks for the site links below. There is a lot of interesting
>material in those links, but using a modernized definition of
>"species" doesn't resolve the questions that led to this thread.
>According to the information in the second link you provided, below,
>we should identify Holstein and Guernsey cattle as separate species.
Not so.
>Please explain in a bit more detail how macro-evolution has been
>demonstrated in your high school biology labs.
>
>Even if we go along with these definitions of species, this still
>doesn't answer the original set of questions. To reiterate;
>
>1) Why was there such a burst of new life forms during the 10 - 20
>million year long Cambrian Explosion, then no new phyla in the 520 -
>530 million years since that time?
>
>2) What explains the apparent congruency between the Biblical Genesis
>story and the available paleontologic/geologic information? In the
>beginning, God created....and when He had completed His creation he
>rested...stopped creating new phyla, etc.
>
>3) How did the eye develop in so many species, separately, and quite
>different, physiologically, even though the evolutionary process would
>have been very long and complex with no tangible benefits that would
>have promoted natural selection until this evolutionary process was
>nearly complete?
>
>4) How did other complex organs such as the heart, kidneys, etc.,
>evolve in so many different species, yet in such strikingly similar
>physical configurations?
>
>5) Was all the DNA for these and many other animal traits
>pre-programmed into the predecessors of all the complex phyla that
>popped into existence during the Cambrian Explosion? If so, what
>pre-programmed this DNA?
>
>Gordon
>
>
>>
>>Now, one of two things are going to happen. Either you're going to
>>spend some serious quality time here:
>>
>> http://talkorigins.org/
>>
>>especially starting here:
>>
>> http://talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
>>
>>and begin to realize the profound depths of the lies your handlers
>>have been feeding you, or you'll start doing a pathetically
>>transparent song-and-dance like Gabriel's ``there are no [rat]s.''
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>b&
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