Mollusk fossils push back evolution, ROM scientists say

The Globe and Mail ^ | 7/13/06 | UNNATI GANDHI

[Red Badger]

NO!.......

[Red Badger]

Looks like a OdorEater!.............Or a Gel Shoe Sole!.........

[Red Badger]

Well, now you can bet on the PRE-Cambrian Explosion! before anyone gets wind of it!.......

[Red Badger]

BTW, What is a ROM scientist? Read Only Mollusks?........

[freedumb2003]

Shirley you jest.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"THe criteria for being a real scientist in this group is swallowing any evolutionary theory hook line and sinker in lock step without a hint of debate."

No debate? You can't be serious.

[doc30]

ROM = Royal Ontario Museum. It's an internationally well regarded natural history museum in Toronto, Ontario. The place is huge and very interesting. Hard to see everything in a day.

[Junior]

THe criteria for being a real scientist in this group is swallowing any evolutionary theory hook line and sinker in lock step without a hint of debate.

Beep! Circle takes the square. Would you like to try again?

BTW, you've never given me your explanation of the Theory of Evolution. Would you care to rectify this oversight now?

[freedumb2003]

Looks like a OdorEater!.............Or a Gel Shoe Sole!.........

Are you gellin'?

[Red Badger]

I'm surprised that a Helen Thomas pic hasn't been posted .........yet........

[ASA Vet]

What are the criteria for being a "real scientist?"

One who uses scientific thinking, and the methods of science in the acquisition of reliable knowledge. (Click the link.)

[wbill]

Interesting, but not new news. Congress is filled with spineless mollusks.

Also, the extinction of this particular mollusk was likely due to global warming, which was Bush's fault.

[wbill]

Don't call me Shirley.

[AdmSmith]

Thanks for the informative link.

[Coyoteman]

NO Helen Thomas pic ===> Placemarker <===

[VRWCer]

"Congress is filled with spineless mollusks"

Yes, but the difference is that they aren't Pre-Cambrian! (Well, maybe some of them...)

[Red Badger]

Scientists find Michael Moore's old Shoe liners and claim they're tens of millions of years old fossils.............

[Red Badger]

[Seamoth]

"The Cambrian Period (543 million to 490 million years ago) marked the sudden appearance of complex multicellular macroscopic organisms."

Doesn't sound like evolution to me. Sounds more like GOD!.....

Don't bank on what you just said, because the article is saying that the "sudden appearance" increasingly looks like it's not sudden. Complex multicellular macroscopic organisms already existed, and that's what this fossil discovery shows; it just happens that they didn't have bodies that fossilized well.

I'd imagine that once hardshells starting appearing, it was such an incredible adaption that the mutation spread quickly, since the softbodied animals were now the equivalent of giant sea marshmallows. Looks like that's the secret of the "explosion".

[calex59]

This is a good thing. It shows that scientists know the limits of current knowledge and are capable of recognizing the importance new findings when they occur. When new facts emerge, existing theories are modified or discarded, depending on the nature of the new evidence. This finding of pre-Cambrian complex animal life fits very well with evolutionary theory.

What it really shows is that scientist will do anything to try to disprove the Cambrian explosion, they have been trying for years. I will wait until all the facts are in, the dating of these fosils may be off a tad, because some scientist(read most all of them) will fake, cheat, lie, steal and falsify findings in order to prove a theory.

I am NOT a creationists, but to jump on this as if it disproves the significance of the Cambrian is just idiotic.

That all fossils before the Cambrian were "soft" bodied is an old theory and unprovable, as so many postulations from evos are. It was put forth in order to "explain" the Cambrian and scientists have been looking for proof for many years, and now, suddenly, someone finds a "soft" body creature, a complicated one, that supposedly dates before the Cambrian, and all of you die hards jump on it as if there has never been a dating error made, or facts lied about, in the history of evolutionary theory.

Don't cry to hard if this proves to be just another fake, designed to fit a theory that so far has been unprovable!