[AntiGuv]

Ping!

[Semper Paratus]

Too many events had to happen in just the right circumstance, time and sequence.

[Question_Assumptions]

Wow! The author managed to write that article without mentioning Global Warming even once.

[pgyanke]

The timing of such events has implications for the search for intelligent life in space, he says.

I submit that they wouldn't know intelligent life if it came up and bit them in glutes. Why is it so much more plausible to believe that life is just a cosmic boo boo than to believe that we actually have a purpose ordained by our Creator?

[Bigh4u2]

"He also adds that there is an intriguing implication from his research which suggests that had the conditions been only slightly different, the Cambrian Explosion could have occurred two billion years earlier."

Or life could have started 6000 years ago as the bible indicates.


Sure is a lot of 'guess work' in 'tried and true' science.

[asformeandformyhouse]

"We believe that there was a change in the environment - a slow cooling of the system - that caused positive feedback that allowed the conditions for complex life," Dr von Bloh told BBC News Online.

Sounds like religion to me. Consider the number of times this article has the words "may be", "might have" or "could" in it( 7 ). But if one happens to 'believe' differently than this esteemed Doctor, they'd be considered an ignorant, backward fundamentalist.

[woofie]

Life did not really start until Hostess developed the twinkie

[dirtboy]

But what actually caused the Cambrian Explosion is unknown.

Personally, I think it's rather simple. I believe that all the oxygen sinks present on Earth were finally filled, allowing sufficient atmospheric oxygen for larger animals to form.

[HalfFull]

New research suggests it may have occurred because....

Scientists say the life explosion might just have easily occurred two billion years earlier - or not at all.....

They suggest ...

We believe that there was a change...

It might have been a continental break-up, or even an asteroid impact....

If so, then the Earth would have been ....

early explosion would have meant that by now the Earth could have developed..

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++

No religious beliefs required...yes evolution is pure science... Of course, I MAY be wrong...

[Old Professer]

An early explosion would have meant that by now the Earth could have developed far more advanced intelligent creatures than humans.

Still looking for gods, I see.

[gore3000]

"We believe that there was a change in the environment - a slow cooling of the system - that caused positive feedback that allowed the conditions for complex life," Dr von Bloh told BBC News Online.

Using a computer model....

Some more evo 'fact free science'. They do not know what the earth was like before, during or after, so that's good, because it makes any nonsense they say possible.

Jeech, can't these people get a real job?

[Hank Rearden]

So, what horribly-mutated branch of this Tree of Life resulted in the creation of government parasites?