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To: Junior
The youngest of your quotes is 12 years old.

Those quotes all came after the discoveries of the Ediacaran fauna, long after. Therefore the effects of it on the theory of evolution had had plenty of time for researching if those discoveries solved the problem (for evolution) of the Cambrian explosion. They did not. Also the long passage at the start is quite recent, only a few years old and it shows again that the problems have not been solved.

As I stated a in my post, the problem of the Cambrian is insoluble for evolutionists. They cannot possibly show the descent of all those vastly different phyla from what came before. Worse of all, the Cambrian fauna appear fully formed. There is nothing like an intermediate to be found to anything that came before it. This is very strong proof against evolution. If that were not enough, there has not been a single new animal phyla that arose since the Cambrian. If evolution were to be true one would expect that in so many millions of years at least a few would have arisen.

Now it's time for the evolutionists here to show how this vast diversity arose from so little that preceded it, how the few predecessor species gradually transformed themselves into the vast multiplicity we see in the Cambrian. Evolutionists have been trying to do so for 150 years without success.

340 posted on 10/03/2002 4:51:59 AM PDT by gore3000
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To: gore3000
Those quotes all came after the discoveries of the Ediacaran fauna, long after.

Yes, but there have been even more discoveries since those words were written, or haven't you figured that out? The book I used for the "quilted animals" dates from the mid-90s. The website I gave you on modern animals that can trace their ancestry back to the Vendian is current. The fact that you have to dredge up decades-old quotes to make your point speaks poorly of your point.

342 posted on 10/03/2002 5:42:03 AM PDT by Junior
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To: gore3000
FYI, here is something even more recent which puts the kabosh on your claims

For some years a number of authors (e.g. Seilacher 1984, McMenamin 1986) were able to argue, convincingly, that the Ediacarans were unrelated to any living group of organisms; that they represented a new kingdom (Vendobionta Seilacher 1992) which was wiped out by a mass extinction event at the Vendian-Cambrian boundary. However, much of the ‘evidence’ supporting this view has been over-turned by the discovery of Edicaran assemblages persisting into the Cambrian and of morphologically similar forms which clearly are animals. This view has now lost most of its support.  (Emphasis mine)

Note the quote postdates 1992, which means it's more up-to-date than the material you quoted.  And, it appears to contradict your assertion that Cambrian life sprang full-blown from nothing and thus obviated evolution.

343 posted on 10/03/2002 6:23:16 AM PDT by Junior
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To: gore3000
From Ediacaran Survivors:

For many years, Ediacarans were believed to have been confined to the Vendian. Indeed, there was speculation (e.g. Seilacher 1984) that a mass extinction had terminated the Vendian and eliminated the Ediacaran biota. Since about 1990, however, there has been a steadily accumulating body of Cambrian age discoveries, and a belief that a number of Cambrian forms are, in fact, the direct descendants of Ediacarans.

I hate to keep hitting you between the eyes with stuff you should have been able to find in five minutes using a google search, but you keep making the wildest claims and backing those claims up with outdated or misquoted sources.  Do yourself a favor and simply do a web search before posting.

344 posted on 10/03/2002 6:56:26 AM PDT by Junior
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To: gore3000
Ape-ancestry rejectionism? Tough! That's the way it happened.

Outed by heartlander...'vape'retro!

453 posted on 10/03/2002 9:54:58 PM PDT by f.Christian
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