PoliticalChic
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1. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is based a natural occurrence, the random alteration of organisms, the accumulations of which, eventually, lead to a new species. Proof of same was to be based on evidence found in the fossil record.
Such has not proven to be the case: the fossil record has not provided such proof.
2. But what about the time that would be necessary to account for the process?
I contend that if the time for the changes that Darwin proposed is simply not available...far more would be ncessary.
The time period from the Pre-Cambrian until we find all sorts of new organism, the Cambrian, is not one that allows both the creation of the specific DNA sequence by random mechanisms for each organ and body form,.....remember that these structures must occur in just the right order.
Based on the monumental changes in the life forms, there is just too limited a time frame for said changes to have occurred!
This fact would weigh heavily against the veracity of Darwin's thesis.
3. Here is the source of the problem:
'Before about 580 million years ago, most organisms were simple, composed of individual cells occasionally organized into colonies.... The Cambrian explosion, or Cambrian radiation, was the relatively rapid appearance, around 542 million years ago, of most major animal phyla, as demonstrated in the fossil record."
Cambrian explosion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Science admits to the mystery, the puzzle: less than 40 million years to produce the 'Cambrian explosion' is not possible.
a. The reason for the name 'explosion' is that during a short geological period at least 16 completely novel phyla and bout thirty classes first appeared in the fossil record.
4. Until the mid 90's, paleontologists assigned the dates of 570 million years ago until about 510 million years ago as the dates of the Cambrian, and the Cambrian explosion taking place within a 20 to 40 million year 'window' early in the period.
Worse news for Darwin fans:
a. Ratiometric analysis changed that:
"Currently, uranium-lead zircon geochronology is the most powerful method for dating rocks of Cambrian age. ... the Cambrian period began at approximately 544 million years ago ... The resulting compression of Early Cambrian time accentuates the rapidity of both the faunal diversification and subsequent Cambrian turnover.
Bowring, et. al., "Calibrating Rates of Early Cambrian Evolution." Calibrating rates of early Cambrian evolution
b. The explosion itself is now believed to be much shorter than thought, lasting no more than 10 million years, and the main "period of exponential increase of diversification" lasting only 5 to 6 million years. Bowring, Op. Cit.
5. One more time:
Damning evidence against Darwin's theory comes from the Burgess Shale discovery, which attests to an extraordinary profusion of new animal forms, including unique anatomical structures not seen before in earlier life forms, and new arrangements of body parts. But there is no evidence of gradual development!
a. In fact, the former 20 to 40 million year 'window' during this occurred was thought to be far too short a period for the natural, random changes into so many new structures and body organization to have occurred.....
....now, the period has been shortened to lasting only 5 to 6 million years!
Darwin has run out of time!
To review:
a. Darwin predicted that the fossil record would prove his theory.
It did not, and does not.
b. New dating techniques have narrowed the time during with vast changes in life forms have occurred....a time now considered far too short to have allowed for said changes....by Darwinian mechanisms.
c. Why is it so important to accept "Darwinian evolution" when evidence for same doesn't exist?
Such has not proven to be the case: the fossil record has not provided such proof.
2. But what about the time that would be necessary to account for the process?
I contend that if the time for the changes that Darwin proposed is simply not available...far more would be ncessary.
The time period from the Pre-Cambrian until we find all sorts of new organism, the Cambrian, is not one that allows both the creation of the specific DNA sequence by random mechanisms for each organ and body form,.....remember that these structures must occur in just the right order.
Based on the monumental changes in the life forms, there is just too limited a time frame for said changes to have occurred!
This fact would weigh heavily against the veracity of Darwin's thesis.
3. Here is the source of the problem:
'Before about 580 million years ago, most organisms were simple, composed of individual cells occasionally organized into colonies.... The Cambrian explosion, or Cambrian radiation, was the relatively rapid appearance, around 542 million years ago, of most major animal phyla, as demonstrated in the fossil record."
Cambrian explosion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Science admits to the mystery, the puzzle: less than 40 million years to produce the 'Cambrian explosion' is not possible.
a. The reason for the name 'explosion' is that during a short geological period at least 16 completely novel phyla and bout thirty classes first appeared in the fossil record.
4. Until the mid 90's, paleontologists assigned the dates of 570 million years ago until about 510 million years ago as the dates of the Cambrian, and the Cambrian explosion taking place within a 20 to 40 million year 'window' early in the period.
Worse news for Darwin fans:
a. Ratiometric analysis changed that:
"Currently, uranium-lead zircon geochronology is the most powerful method for dating rocks of Cambrian age. ... the Cambrian period began at approximately 544 million years ago ... The resulting compression of Early Cambrian time accentuates the rapidity of both the faunal diversification and subsequent Cambrian turnover.
Bowring, et. al., "Calibrating Rates of Early Cambrian Evolution." Calibrating rates of early Cambrian evolution
b. The explosion itself is now believed to be much shorter than thought, lasting no more than 10 million years, and the main "period of exponential increase of diversification" lasting only 5 to 6 million years. Bowring, Op. Cit.
5. One more time:
Damning evidence against Darwin's theory comes from the Burgess Shale discovery, which attests to an extraordinary profusion of new animal forms, including unique anatomical structures not seen before in earlier life forms, and new arrangements of body parts. But there is no evidence of gradual development!
a. In fact, the former 20 to 40 million year 'window' during this occurred was thought to be far too short a period for the natural, random changes into so many new structures and body organization to have occurred.....
....now, the period has been shortened to lasting only 5 to 6 million years!
Darwin has run out of time!
To review:
a. Darwin predicted that the fossil record would prove his theory.
It did not, and does not.
b. New dating techniques have narrowed the time during with vast changes in life forms have occurred....a time now considered far too short to have allowed for said changes....by Darwinian mechanisms.
c. Why is it so important to accept "Darwinian evolution" when evidence for same doesn't exist?