schaef21: "Science Magazine and Nature Magazine...they play on your team I think:
“It is commonly believed that complex organisms arose from simple ones. Yet analyses of genomes and of their transcribed genes in various organisms reveal that, as far as protein-coding genes are concerned, the repertoire of a sea anmone - a rather simple, evolutionarily basal animal-is almost as complex as that of a human.”
U. Technau, “Evolutionary Biology: Small regualatory RNAs Pitch In” Nature 455 (2008) 1184-1185"
Did you even notice what you did here? You are comparing modern man to modern sea anemonies.
But I said the geological column shows evolution from primitive to more advanced. In other posts, I've explained that we never find elephants mixed in with dinosaurs, or dinosaurs in Precambrian rocks.
DNA analysis shows that virtually all species share much in common with every other species genetically. And evolution tells us that the more similar the DNAs, the more recent was the split in species.
Humans and sea anemones share much DNA in common, but: both large differences in DNA, and the fossil record suggest, the split between the line which leads to MODERN sea anemones and that leading to us happened around 500 million years ago. This importantly implies that much basic structure of our DNA was in place back before life began the Precambrian "explosion." To me, that is an awesome thought.
****But I said the geological column shows evolution from primitive to more advanced. In other posts, I’ve explained that we never find elephants mixed in with dinosaurs, or dinosaurs in Precambrian rocks.****
The only place the geological column actually exists is in textbooks. Rock layers that are said to be “millions” of years old sometimes have polystrate fossils that immediately prove that to be bunk. Tree trunks, as an example, have been found going through multiples of rock layers that supposedly took thousands/millions of years to lay down.
Wouldn’t the trees have rotted away first? Just askin’.
Geology is stuck with their Uniformitarianism philosophy that will not allow that Catastrophies are the best explanation for what we see. As an example, we observed, at Mt. St. Helens in 1980, nature doing in a few days what science has been telling us takes millions of years....canyons, rock layers....it’s extremely interesting...and we observed it, you know, like in real time where nobody could put their spin on it to make it say what they think it ought to say.
****DNA analysis shows that virtually all species share much in common with every other species genetically. And evolution tells us that the more similar the DNAs, the more recent was the split in species.****
DNA similarity is not an argument either way...I’ve made this point before. Similar DNA would indicate design just as it could common ancestry.
****This importantly implies that much basic structure of our DNA was in place back before life began the Precambrian “explosion.” To me, that is an awesome thought.****
It wasn’t a “Precambrian explosion” it was the Cambrian Explosion...and since you brought it up, here’s what it was:
From Zoologist Ariel Roth:
“The Cambrian explosion is not just a case of all the major animal phyla appearing at about the same place in the geologic column. It is also a situation of no ancestors to suggest how they might have evolved.”
Huh? No Ancestors?
From Time Magazine article, “When Life Exploded”, Dec. 1995:
“In a bust of creativity like nothing seen before or since, nature appears to have sketched out the blueprints for virtually the whole of the animal kingdom………..Since 1987, discoveries of major fossil beds in Greenland, in China, in Siberia, and now in Namibia have shown that the period of biological innovation occurred at virtually the same instant in geologic time all around the world. What could possibly have powered such a radical advance?”
From David Berlinski’s book “A Tour of Calculus”:
“There is no question that such gaps exist. A big gap appears at the beginning of the Cambrian explosion, over 500 million years ago, when great numbers of new species suddenly appeared in the fossil record.”
Suddenly appeared? What happened to that Simple to Complex deal you were talking about?
Look, BroJoe...do yourself a favor and instead of taking the word of a monolithic science cabal unwilling to go against the orthodoxy...check some of these things out for yourself.
You may indeed still come down on the same side of the fence...in fact you probably will...but you’ll be a whole lot more savvy and it might even poke a few holes in your belief system.