Posted on 10/30/2003 5:04:39 PM PST by Dales
The article is still garbage. It shows absolutely no evidence for evolution and the tremendous climactic change claimed in it is very doubtful. If it was correct there would be tremendous amounts of evidence for it and such a claim would have been made decades ago. There is no evidence for these claims that is why they use 'computer models'. You can model whatever you like on a computer and make it come out any way you wish. Sometimes I think that more lies are told with spreadsheets than with tongues.
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Not a dumb question to a fellow tree-hugger.-g-
Seriously, I've planted dozens of trees and have hundreds on my property - if you asked me what kind of tree I'd like to be, I'd have an answer (red maple). And I'd be interested in the answer of anybody who loved trees. Those of you who aren't tree-huggers, I won't be offended if you gag. ;^)
Whoa, that's a new one on me! Where did Gould & Eldredge ever claim that the Cambrian explosion "completely destroys the theory of evolution"?
Gould and Eldredge completely rejected Darwinian evolution because the Cambrian showed that organisms appeared suddenly and could not have evolved over time. For this reason they took up and formulated what they themselves called punk-eek, a totally silly theory similar to claiming that ghosts exist but have never been photographed because they are too shy to have their picture taken. They said that new species arise suddenly and leave no trace of what happened.
But then you knew that already did you not?
Sounds tempting, but I have to answer a $50 ordained minister named Eschoir. He's having a little trouble understanding what he paid the $50 dollars for.
AND GOD DID...
The article is from Januay 2000, so they were going wherever almost four years ago now. It deals extensively with the freezing and killing effects of the glaciation, of course.
These extreme glaciations occurred just before a rapid diversification of multicellular life, culminating in the so-called Cambrian explosion between 575 and 525 million years ago. Ironically, the long periods of isolation and extreme environments on a snowball earth would most likely have spurred on genetic change and could help account for this evolutionary burst.It also mentions an apparent extreme genetic bottleneck just before the otherwise unexpectedly late Cambrian blossoming of diversity.
Image: HEIDI NOLAND ALL ANIMALS descended from the first eukaryotes, cells with a membrane-bound nucleus, which appeared about two billion years ago. By the time of the first snowball earth episode more than one billion years later, eukaryotes had not developed beyond unicellular protozoa and filamentous algae. But despite the extreme climate, which may have "pruned" the eukaryote tree (dashed lines), all 11 animal phyla ever to inhabit the earth emerged within a narrow window of time in the aftermath of the last snowball event. The prolonged genetic isolation and selective pressure intrinsic to a snowball earth could be responsible for this explosion of new life-forms.
No fair Jim! I once told this joke here on FR and nobody laughed...you must have better delivery than me!
Where is the other thread, link? name' would like to check it out.
However, I am afraid you gave yourself away again. Creationism and creationist are words made up by evolutionists to attack the opponents of evolution. Those opponents most often call themselves Christians or ID'ers or just non-believers in evolution than creationists. If I were quickly looking for a thread opposing evolution for example I would look under intelligent design. This is just to show that it is quite hard to hide one's position. There are tell tale signs in most things one says.
Very much so. Coke adds life.
check this out Phylun-level evolution by former creationist Glenn Morton
I promised myself I wouldn't post to you again, gore, but I just got done laughing and decided to break that.
You have just proven, beyond any reasonable doubt, that you are in complete denial. f.christian has not stopped, ever, calling everyone he disagrees with a nazi, socialist, athiest, liberal, etc. He is the epitome of libel and, given his name, hypocrisy. You are perfectly aware of this, however, you feel his actions are justified.
Is he the only flamer? No. But to somehow reach the conclusion that people are unfairly vitriolic to him, when he clearly holds the Crypto-Libel THRONE, is much more incomprehensible to me than your creationist posts.
P.S. If you feel I am insulting f.christian, I will happily cite every other post of his rife with libel.
Hard to imagine the dead changing...
Embalming hadn't been invented yet.
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