NYcarbineer
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Your statement "-rarely a very significant mutation
survives and thus A NEW SPECIES seems to come
out of nowhere.."
....is absurd. If the evidence is not there because the recipient of the mutation died, it died before it could pass on genes. <<< here is where you go wrong------
you are assuming every mutation of a large number
of base pairs is LETHAL--------or makes an organism
that cannot reproduce------you may be wrong. Rather than the usual slow ----one at a time base pair mutation
-----over long periods of time preducing speciation by
aggregation of mutations-----RARELY a bit bang
mutation might survive and reproduce making a
new species -----seemingly SUDDENLY
1. The huge majority are lethal....and every macromutation is.
2. Twice I've explained to you even if any such mutations on the road to speciation produced replications that could continue toward a new species......
.....they would be found in the fossil record.
They are not.
Pick up a book on the Cambrian Explosion.
"The Cambrian explosion, or less commonly Cambrian radiation, was the relatively short evolutionary event, beginning around 542 million years ago in the Cambrian Period, during which most major animal phyla appeared, as indicated by the fossil record."
- Cambrian explosion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia View attachment 41637
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First off, those mutations don't work like power ups in video games. You aren't going to go from small beak to large beak in one generation. It's slightly this and slightly that for multiple generations.
Secondly, you are using human perceptions of time to evaluate geologic time scales.. We're talking millions of years of geology as "suddenly" appearing. If it takes 500,000 generations to develop a new trait in a species and a new generation every two years, we only have a million years before that trait not being in the fossil record and then being in the fossil record. That million years is nothing in geologic time. Given how hard it is to create a fossil in the first place and how short of a time that million year blip it, it isn't surprising at all that all kinds of new and unprecedented just show up.
This post is just silly.
Suddenly you can explain timelines that remain a puzzle to those who recognize the mystery of the Cambrian Explosion.
It was covered in my Biology 102 class. It can't be too much of a mystery if it's in a freshman text.
So you never progressed beyond Biology 102?
An excellent explanation of your post.
You're still stuck in Genesis.