[Kalam]

Well, well I took one more look and guess who’s back. I have been waiting with baited breath for a reponse to how the term fittest is really any different than your wording least inadequate. Not supposing to get any answer to this, but; How do you suppose your geological friends come up with a time-line for Cambrian or pre-Cambrian? After you answer that one then explain how you in in the realm of biology put any age to your microbial artifacts? Lastly, if you cannot see any inconsistencies yet why is it that pre-cambrian equals small while any post-cambrian got big, if not just based on assumptions/presuppositions?

[Kalam]

Yeah, yeah I know I’m hell bent for leather to get you to answer my questions in my order. It lends itself to having you reach conclusions that might just be a tad uncomfortable. But, I don’t think you are above doing something similar if it aids or gives merit to your position. So I do not apologize for doing it.

[bray]

Ax and it will be given unto you. Now stormer quit dodging like a little girl!

[stormer]

Don’t worry - I’ll be back after football...

[stormer]

Geologic dating and the identification of various eras was done through the nature of the fossils commonly found in various strata. In the 17th century Cardinal Nicolaus Steno developed his Principles of Superposition that allowed for the relative dating of strata. As geology became more developed as a science, it was recognized that the processes of orogeny and erosion played a role in forming landscape, and by calculating the degree of of change, the Earth’s age was estimated. Even in the 19th century is was accepted that the Earth was well over a billion years old. With the development of various radiometic dating methods, more accurate and precise measurements were achieved.

[stormer]

As far as my statement about the least inadequate - one of the fundamentals of life is death. It is what recylces nutirents and is essential to the existance of other life. The fact is, a vast majority of organisms that have ever lived, are living now, or will ever live, will not live long enough to reproduce, and in many cases that outcome is based on nothing other than dumb luck. Life is a constant struggle, red by tooth and claw, and since the clearly inadequate are removed early from the gene pool and that the ecomnomy of nature only allows organisms to gain slight advantage, I stand by my statement.