To: doc30
The 189 well-preserved fossil specimens of Odontogriphus omalus have been interpreted as the world's oldest known soft-bodied mollusk, and were found in British Columbia's mountains in the Burgess Shale, one of the most important fossil sites in the world. Something is not right here. The article says the organisms were 560 million years old - or basically late Precambrian. But the Burgess is Middle Cambrian (505 million years old).
51 posted on
07/13/2006 8:07:37 AM PDT by
dirtboy
(When Bush is on the same side as Ted the Swimmer on an issue, you know he's up to no good...)
To: dirtboy
Something is not right here. The article says the organisms were 560 million years old - or basically late Precambrian. But the Burgess is Middle Cambrian (505 million years old). Most articles mention 530 mya.
The Burgess shale is the accumulated silt from a reef that runs some 13 miles under four mountains.
I don't think anyone could factually say that the entire layer is 530 (or 505) million years old.
96 posted on
07/13/2006 12:28:31 PM PDT by
dread78645
(Evolution. A doomed theory since 1859.)
To: dirtboy
See post 115. It will explain the "dating". It's just another "just-so" story.
117 posted on
07/13/2006 8:52:27 PM PDT by
AndrewC
(Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so.)
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