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US scientists may have resolved 'Darwin's dilemma'
Fox News ^ | 11/15/2014 | By Matt Cantor

Posted on 11/16/2014 8:04:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Charles Darwin worried about a possible hole in his theory of evolution, but some American scientists may just have plugged it. For about a billion years after the dawn of life on Earth, organisms didn't evolve all that much.

Then about 600 million years ago came the "Cambrian explosion." Everything changed relatively quickly, with all kinds of plants and animals emerging—which doesn't quite seem to fit with Darwin's theory of slow change, hence "Darwin's dilemma." Now, within a few days of each other, two new studies have appeared that could explain the shift, ABC News reports.

One, by scientists at Yale and the Georgia Institute of Technology, suggests that oxygen levels may have been far less plentiful in the atmosphere prior to the Cambrian explosion than experts had thought.

The air may only have been .1% oxygen, which couldn't sustain today's complex organisms, indicating a shift had to happen before the "explosion" could take place.

In a separate study, a University of Texas professor explains where that oxygen burst may have come from: a major tectonic shift. Based on geological evidence, Ian Dalziel believes what is now North America remained attached to the supercontinent Gondwanaland until the early Cambrian period, in contrast with current belief, which has the separation occurring earlier.

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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: cambrianexplosion; darwin; darwinsdilemma; dilemma; dmanisi; evolution; fauxiantrolls; godsgravesglyphs; greatflood; homoerectus; origin; origins; oxygen; paleontology
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To: SeekAndFind

The dilemma is the fact that evolution would appear to be way faster during the Cambrian explosion than Darwin’s theory would allow. They haven’t explained that away - only the minimal evolution before that.


41 posted on 11/16/2014 8:36:37 AM PST by expat2
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To: SeekAndFind
Ah, settled science and the certainty of belief!

"Charles Darwin worried about a possible hole in his theory of evolution, but some American scientists may just have plugged it. For about a billion years after the dawn of life on Earth, organisms didn't evolve all that much.

Then about 600 million years ago came the "Cambrian explosion." Everything changed relatively quickly, with all kinds of plants and animals emerging—which doesn't quite seem to fit with Darwin's theory of slow change, hence "Darwin's dilemma." Now, within a few days of each other, two new studies have appeared that could explain the shift, ABC News reports.

[Did these studies appear suddenly, or slowly?]

One, by scientists at Yale and the Georgia Institute of Technology, suggests that oxygen levels may have been far less plentiful in the atmosphere prior to the Cambrian explosion than experts had thought.

[Why did it happen? Darwin is still "worried", but they're working on it.]

The air may only have been .1% oxygen, which couldn't sustain today's complex organisms, indicating a shift had to happen before the "explosion" could take place.

[Shift Happens!]

In a separate study, a University of Texas professor explains where that oxygen burst may have come from: a major tectonic shift. Based on geological evidence [very old duct tape], Ian Dalziel believes what is now North America remained attached [co-dependent] to the supercontinent Gondwanaland until the early Cambrian period, in contrast with current belief, which has the separation occurring earlier.


42 posted on 11/16/2014 8:37:30 AM PST by aMorePerfectUnion ( "I didn't leave the Central Oligarchy Party. It left me." - Ronaldus Maximus)
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To: Moonman62

By “negative stereotypes of Conservatives”, is liberal propaganda actually meant?

Now try to convince a Muslim that Allah did not create the world as the Koran stated. Between US conservatives and Muslims, which one is (far) more likely to slay you?


43 posted on 11/16/2014 8:37:35 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Cowboy Bob

Global warming??? Seems that’s the default reasoning for everything these days ....


44 posted on 11/16/2014 8:39:07 AM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Moonman62
From the link you posted:

Currently, the scientific community does not recognize "historical" and "observational" as being valid descriptions of the scientific process.

Thanks. That helps.

45 posted on 11/16/2014 8:39:46 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Global warming??? Seems that’s the default reasoning for everything these days ....


46 posted on 11/16/2014 8:40:15 AM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: ClearCase_guy

In other words, the “scientific community” admits that it has thrown away the scientific method.


47 posted on 11/16/2014 8:41:43 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The scientific method was apparently getting in the way of the agenda.


48 posted on 11/16/2014 8:45:58 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: aimhigh

You called it!! Science no longer requires evidential rigor to the conclusion.


49 posted on 11/16/2014 8:50:25 AM PST by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, wasn't there!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Science and religion only find argument due to the errors of both. These errors are due to the participation of man, who is imperfect.

As creation and its laws becomes better understood, there will be less argument between the two as in the end they both have the same goal.

But since both institutions are run by man, there will always be some error.

Only God is without error, and our attempts to understand God will always be fraught with error due to our imperfection. If religion had achieved the perfect explanation of God’s universal laws, there would only be one religion in the world. Instead, even Christians for example have hundreds of competing sects, including those run by complete charlatans who are followed assiduously by mistaken adherents (Not that Christianity is alone in this).

This is why it is dangerous to put extra men between a soul and God. The more men you put in between yourself and God, the more error will be introduced.

We aren’t expected to reach perfection on this plane, we are charged with only with moving toward it. And there is no requirement that other men are the only way to lead a soul toward God. The communication lines are open directly, use them.


50 posted on 11/16/2014 8:51:45 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Even IF Darwin was absolutely correct about evolution, then what, or WHO created the conditions for the whole evolutionary process to fall into place like it did, and supposedly still doing?
51 posted on 11/16/2014 8:53:56 AM PST by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: SkyDancer

LOL! They just jumped out of the water and waited for lungs to magically appear. Same as if we stayed under water long enough, we would evolve gills. These “professors” should demonstrate. LOL


52 posted on 11/16/2014 8:57:54 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: SgtHooper
Science no longer requires evidential rigor to the conclusion.

Real science does. "Political" science seeks to configure evidence to support a desired conclusion.

53 posted on 11/16/2014 8:59:53 AM PST by Tonytitan
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To: ClearCase_guy

The invasion of the land was initiated by plants. Next, after millions of years, came the insects. The scorpion fossils show a creature very similar in appearance to the ocean dwelling ancestor as well as the modern scorpion. The Chordata that came later have left many fossils of early amphibians, amphibian like fish and lung fish.


54 posted on 11/16/2014 9:00:55 AM PST by JimSEA
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To: SkyDancer

Tyrannical local governments.


55 posted on 11/16/2014 9:01:27 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: ClearCase_guy

Good question


56 posted on 11/16/2014 9:05:56 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Paradox

Well they may have monkey blood flowing through their veins, I don’t. So to me it is irrelevant science.


57 posted on 11/16/2014 9:11:43 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: Olog-hai

Ok now that solves the mystery. The tectonic plates under the ocean do cause earthquakes, which create tsunamis.


58 posted on 11/16/2014 9:13:48 AM PST by Kackikat
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s silly we all know that UFO’s landed in Gondwanaland and left new critters.
Just ask any anti Godless person.


59 posted on 11/16/2014 9:14:08 AM PST by Vaduz
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To: SeekAndFind
Conjecture upon conjecture upon theory upon pure nonsense. There, it's settled.
60 posted on 11/16/2014 9:20:15 AM PST by Fungi
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