New evolutionary chapter found in the Grand Canyon

[Seymour Flops]

From your link:

A stunning fossil discovery in the Grand Canyon has opened a new window into one of the most fascinating chapters in Earth’s history. Buried in rocks that are over 505 million years old, scientists uncovered more than 1,500 tiny fossils that date back to the time just after the Cambrian explosion, a period when life on Earth was not just growing more complex, but getting more creative, too.


The study, led by a team from the University of Cambridge, the fossils were found in the Bright Angel Formation, a rock layer that used to be the floor of a shallow sea. What makes this discovery so exciting is how clearly it captures a time when evolution was trying out strange new ideas. Researchers are calling it evolution’s “experimental second album”, a phase of rapid change, rising competition, and some pretty weird anatomy.

I love that life was getting creative, and that evolution was capable of experiments.

Life and evolution are very intelligent, indeed!

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

You are really not much of a scientist.

Maybe that's how religious nutters think things work, since they believe things because a guy in a goofy dress says they are true.

But that isn't how science works. My state of mind has no bearing on the fact that what you posted is embarrassing nonsense and would get you laughed out of any science classroom.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Life and evolution are very intelligent, indeed!

"And then he managed to fail the science quiz anyway."

 

[Mushroom]

Ah, only your science is allowed. Sorry, science is not settled

I never said it was. And I am old enough to remember when much of what I discuss about geology today was often laughed at just a few decades ago.

But that still does not allow for the insertions of fairy tales and the like into what is supposed to be a serious discussion of science. What you are discussing is primarily religious at best, quack pseudo-science at worst. Neither of which belongs in a serious discussion about science.

No more than the insertion of the ramblings of somebody like Adolph Hitler and his crazy beliefs about human races belongs in any serious discussion about anthropology. Or the nutcases like Graham Hancock and his nonsense about an advanced telepathic civilization that was wiped out by a comet that caused the Younger Dryas.

If you want to discuss garbage like that, please have consideration of us that do take subjects like this seriously.

 

[Mushroom]

"And then he managed to fail the science quiz anyway."

The thing is, there actually is a segment that both believes in Religion, and also accepts things like geology and evolution happening as they are known to have happened. That is the segment that believes in "Intelligent Design".

And that is not what Cougarbear is. He is very clearly a Young Earth Creationist, suddenly trying to pretend that he is not. But the hallmarks are very obvious, I realized that as soon as he started dragging in "deluge". One key feature of Young Earth Creationists is that their fairytale always has in it a Global Deluge and Flood that created the planet that we know today.

And to be honest, I find it hilarious that a YEC is trying to play off at being a believer in ID. It's almost as nonsensical as when "truthers" who believe in two different conspiracies suddenly join sides against everybody else.