[ClearCase_guy]

"and something we don't know, but you can imagine it to be anything you like, happens here."

Yeah, that whole "Cambrian explosion" thing always bothered me. Punctuated equilibrium just seems like something people dreamed up to explain why life seemed to spring out of nowhere with tremendous diversity. They don't understand it, but they call it science.

[Soliton]

The cambrian explosion has been explained. It happened more slowly than originally thought.

Of course creationism doesn’t explain anything in the fossil record, so we’re stuck with the best answer, evolution.

[aruanan]

Yeah, that whole "Cambrian explosion" thing always bothered me.

Punctuated equilibrium just seems like something people dreamed up to explain why life seemed to spring out of nowhere with tremendous diversity. They don't understand it, but they call it science.

Punk eek and the Cambrian explosion are not the same thing. Read Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen J. Gould.

[Radix]

"If things are always improving, then where are all the new 400 hitters in baseball?"

Paraphrased

Steven J. Gould. Inventor of the "puntuated equilibrium" nonsense.