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To: atlaw

The cambrian explosion was basically the earliest period ever found where species 'began' en mass- before that period, you have basically nothing, and certainly no transitional species- there's plenty on the net explaining the explosion-

Sure- the protections are built in to the cells- they prevent foreign info from tainting the species info- there are several layers of these protections which ensure that species will always remain within their own kind- this is what prevents breeders from breeding cats and dogs together- or anyhting outside of it's own kind- we find htese celular protections going all the way back to the cambrian age-


222 posted on 01/15/2007 9:46:23 AM PST by CottShop
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To: CottShop
The cambrian explosion was basically the earliest period ever found where species 'began' en mass-

Putting aside quibbles about the accuracy of this statement, I take it you accept that the Cambrian period commenced approximately 542 million years ago and ended approximately 488 million years ago, and that you are therefore not a young earth creationist. Correct?

before that period, you have basically nothing, and certainly no transitional species

Again, putting aside your notion of "basically nothing" pre-Cambrian, I take it from this statement that you accept the existence of transitionals in the fossil record from at least the Cambrian period forward. Correct?

there's plenty on the net explaining the explosion

And you accept the explanations on the "net" that the duration of the "explosion" was approximately 30 million years (a kind of a slow motion explosion, if you will). Correct?

As for your "built in protection levels" that prevent speciation, you seem to be contradicting yourself. It certainly appears that you accept the existence of "transitionals", yet you state:

the protections are built in to the cells- they prevent foreign info from tainting the species info- there are several layers of these protections which ensure that species will always remain within their own kind

Are you contending that speciation does not occur, but that the fossil record nevertheless contains transitionals?

And with respect to your "protections", what, precisely, are these "protections"? Invisible force fields of some sort? Or maybe armor plating? Or some kind of "DNA-acide"? Since this is the first I've ever heard about "built in protections," perhaps you could be a tad more specific, or at least direct me to some kind of literature on the subject.

we find htese celular protections going all the way back to the cambrian age

We have Cambrian cells to study?

360 posted on 01/16/2007 8:27:42 AM PST by atlaw
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