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To: MEGoody

You mentioned "The so called 'refutations' of Behe's book. It's all embraced by evols whether it makes sense or not."

This has nothing to do with the fossil record, Behe does not produce any fossil that contradicts the tree of evolution. Please stay on topic.

I stand by the facts. One fact is that a rabbit fossil found in the cambrian is an example of a find that would majorly contradict the established evolutionary tree of life. Another fact is that no such majorly contradicting find has ever been made.

I don't think you grasp how contradictory a modern mammal fossil in the cambrian would be. It would totally demolish evolution. The general pattern of the fossil record is known, and it is an observable fact that cannot be manipulated. A modern rabbit found in the cambrian cannot be moved, nor can it be explained by evolution.

We know that primitive life existed in the cambrian about 550 million years ago, with traces of even more primitive life existing beforehand. The origin of mammals from synapsid reptiles about 300 million years ago is also pinned down in the fossil record. These mammals are primitive and not like modern mammals.

Modern mammals appear quite a bit later. The fossil record indicates that rabbits for example appeared just 65 million years ago, and even then these were "primitive" rabbits and not like modern rabbits.

So to have a modern rabbit fossil found all the way back in the cambrian 550 million years ago would be totally irreconcilable with evolution.

Not only would it show a modern rabbit existed before primitive rabbits, but it would show a modern rabbit had existed before mammals, and existed even before the earliest known land vertebrates.

If you cannot see this would be irreconcilable with evolution then frankly you don't understand evolution.


774 posted on 08/22/2005 10:25:22 AM PDT by bobdsmith
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To: bobdsmith
This has nothing to do with the fossil record

You are the one limiting it to the 'fossil record.' I never did.

Please stay on topic.

You first.

I don't think you grasp how contradictory a modern mammal fossil in the cambrian would be.

I see you are still riding that merry go round. I state my point, you come back with your opinion of what might happen if some fictional thing were found.

When you get off the ride, let me know.

775 posted on 08/22/2005 10:28:20 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: bobdsmith
I don't think you grasp how contradictory a modern mammal fossil in the Cambrian would be.

Actually, the creationists do know this, which is why they bring up fossilized spark plugs and human/dino footprints when nobody is watching.

But I suppose you are referring to a genuine anachronism and not a hoax.

776 posted on 08/22/2005 10:32:13 AM PDT by js1138 (Science has it all: the fun of being still, paying attention, writing down numbers...)
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