'Totally Strange' Hurdia a Hurdle for Evolution

ICR ^ | September 9, 2009 | Brian Thomas, M.S.

[GodGunsGuts]

Cambrian rock layers contain fossils that represent almost every modern phylum of animal, plus many that are now extinct. One animal fossil in particular would win the weird prize, if there were one. Paleontologists have been piecing together this strange creature’s body parts, which look as though they were taken from an array of totally different sea animals. This variety of features eludes an evolutionary explanation.

The parts of this particular fossilized animal had previously been described separately and given different names, as though they belonged to different creatures. But a recent study revealed that all these parts came from just one “totally strange” sea creature...

[GodGunsGuts]

Ping!

[Tax Government]

God is great. God can evolve anything.

[humblegunner]

A lot of strange things can happen in 4.5 billion years.

[colorado tanker]

Ping. Interesting article, although the thread appears headed toward a food fight.

[Buck W.]

Here’s the last line from the article:

“See? Just like it says in Genesis! The end!”

Creation “science” is a fraud to which Christians of weak faith cling desperately. I say that as a Christian who suffers from no such delusions.

[RobbyS]

Given that there are billions of pieces of the geological crossword puzzle, the problem is that many different partial pictures can be made out of the same ones.

[SJSAMPLE]

LOL.
It’s only been a few thousand.
Jesus planted those bones to TRICK YOU.

He succeeded, sinner ;)

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I’m guessing a lot of the problem is simply error and wishful thinking on the part of the palaeontologists involved. Not exactly an, ahem, exact science, this show of piecing bones together.

I’m still trying to figure out how they reconstructed an entire proto-human skeleton out of three knuckle bones from an extinct species of peccary.

[SJSAMPLE]

Good luck buddy.
Even the guys at South Park had a smarter take on this.

“Why no rely on science to tell us “how”, and religion to tell us “why”?”

[humblegunner]

Dang!

He is such a merry prankster.

[dirtboy]

Cambrian rock layers contain fossils that represent almost every modern phylum of animal, plus many that are now extinct.

Well, then, if your creationist theories are correct, we should see in the Cambrian all classes under the Phylum chordata represented - you know, anything with a spinal chord - and that includes fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Instead, this is what representatives of chordata look like in the Cambrian:

Nice lying through omission, by failing to mention that most classes of the apex phyla chordata are NOT present in the Cambrian. But I've come to expect that from creationist Young Earth charlatans.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”This variety of features eludes an evolutionary explanation. “

Wow! What a creationist breakthrough! This proves all the worlds animals lived on Noah’s Ark together for sure. Rewrite the textbooks!

[Sergio]

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[Aevery_Freeman]

Cambrian period began just over one-half billion years ago and is characterized by the explosion of life forms.

[humblegunner]

Cambrian period began just over one-half billion years ago

No way!

I've recently learned on thesee threads that the Earth is only about 6000 years old!

Regardless of blatant evidence everywhere.

< /sarc>

[Aevery_Freeman]

Funny, I heard that it was Satan.

[Buck W.]

One expects this kind of blatant deception from Brian Thomas MS* and his ilk. It is sad that he is able to hold an unbalanced segment of the population enraptured (pun intended) with his outright fabrication and distortion. In that regard and others, YECs are the equivalent of the most vile political leftists in society today.

[Aevery_Freeman]

There are those you simply don't argue with: Obamabots, truthers, flat-earthers,...

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!