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To: IrishBrigade
The archaeological record has new species springing up in bursts. Of course, I don't say "automatically" because I believe God made them come to be as part of creation "days" 4, 5, and 6. (With the Hebrew word "yom" for day have as one of its literal definitions being an era of unspecified length).

Perhaps the most notable burst of new species is the Cambrian Explosion. About 500 million years ago, there was a brief 10 million year period in which 50% to 80% of all known phyla ever known to exist all of a sudden appeared in the archeological record. 10 million years seems like a long time. But if natural selection demands a gradual speciation to have occurred across billions of years, then half of it occurring within 10 million years makes the math of natural selection off by a factor of 1,000. Even Darwin himself wrote about it in his The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. However, he believed that future archeological discoveries would fill in the gaps and prove his theory correct. The opposite happened. It turns out that we learned after Darwin that the amount of speciation that occurred in the Cambrian Explosion (with less speciation occurring at other times) was even more profound than was known in Darwin's time.

The Bible was right. The anti-Christians are wrong.

49 posted on 12/31/2021 5:38:36 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Tell It Right

The root of “yom” refers to a period where it’s hot, i.e. the day. Certainly can be our 24-hour day.


53 posted on 12/31/2021 11:10:37 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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