Dragon
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Here, this will make a start. EVOLUTIONARY/GEOLOGICAL TIMELINE v1.0
Highlights from this timeline based on the fossil record:
3.5-2.8 billion years ago, first one-celled organisms appear
1.5 billion years ago, first multi-celled organisms appear
545 million years ago, the "Cambrian Explosion" sudden emergence of numerous aquatic animal species, including trilobytes
500 million years ago, first vertebrates (fish)
420 million years ago, first land animals (millipedes)
375 million years ago, first sharks
350-300 million years ago, first amphibians, first insects
300-200 million years ago, first reptiles
200 million years ago, first mammals
Now, this being the case, we have a time before 200 million years ago when there were no mammals living on Earth, and a time since then when there have been mammals. Same with all of the other groups mentioned. What's more, over time, we have different species of mammal in the world. None of the earliest species of mammal still live; no species of mammal now alive lived 200 million years ago. And more or less the same is true of all other groups, although there are a few species that have survived unchanged over all that time.
With a one-time creation, you would not see this. You would see all of the species emerging at once. You might see some go extinct over time, but you would not see any new ones emerge. Yet we do. The only explanation for this is evolution: that, over time, the descendants of the old species have taken on the characteristics of the new ones.
Or do you have another explanation? If so, let's hear it.
Highlights from this timeline based on the fossil record:
3.5-2.8 billion years ago, first one-celled organisms appear
1.5 billion years ago, first multi-celled organisms appear
545 million years ago, the "Cambrian Explosion" sudden emergence of numerous aquatic animal species, including trilobytes
500 million years ago, first vertebrates (fish)
420 million years ago, first land animals (millipedes)
375 million years ago, first sharks
350-300 million years ago, first amphibians, first insects
300-200 million years ago, first reptiles
200 million years ago, first mammals
Now, this being the case, we have a time before 200 million years ago when there were no mammals living on Earth, and a time since then when there have been mammals. Same with all of the other groups mentioned. What's more, over time, we have different species of mammal in the world. None of the earliest species of mammal still live; no species of mammal now alive lived 200 million years ago. And more or less the same is true of all other groups, although there are a few species that have survived unchanged over all that time.
With a one-time creation, you would not see this. You would see all of the species emerging at once. You might see some go extinct over time, but you would not see any new ones emerge. Yet we do. The only explanation for this is evolution: that, over time, the descendants of the old species have taken on the characteristics of the new ones.
Or do you have another explanation? If so, let's hear it.