500 Vertebrate Fish Found in Early Cambrian

Creation-Evolution Headlines ^ | 1/30/2003 | Creation-Evolution Headlines

[CalConservative]

Too late - the creationists have already found out!

[Jimmyclyde]

Time to change Evolution.......

AGAIN!!

[Taliesan]

I predict this will be viewed as further confirmation of both evolution and creation. As would the absence of any such fish.

[the_doc]

Thanks for the article.

[Taliesan]

It's just a punk in the eek. We knew it all along.

[dirtboy]

Kewl. They found additional fossils that alter the timetables regarding evolution. However, I have yet to see accounts of land plants, amphibians, reptiles, sauropods, birds or mammals existing in the Cambrian. So I don't think this gives creationism quite the boost that they envision. Until they find an early homonid of limited cranial capacity and intelligence (i.e., a Democrat) in Cambrian sediments, they have a hard case to make.

[HamiltonJay]

These fish are a lie, everyone knows the earth is only 3,000 years old... the fundamentalists tell me so...

[The_Reader_David]

Very astute. Among those who actively debate the issue on both sides, the two views have become functionally closed systems of thought, inseceptible to refutation.

[68skylark]

What is the time period for the Cambrian period?

[John H K]

It's pretty sad when the only evidence the creationidiots can pretend to come up with these days is work done by evolutionists to flesh out the story of evolution.

The creationidiots can't even muster the energy to go out and fake some Paluxy man-tracks or anything anymore. Sad.

[Jimmyclyde]

It's 6,000 years old.

If your going to goof on YEC get it right.

[dirtboy]

What is the time period for the Cambrian period?

From about 540 million years ago to 490 million years ago. When I was in college, they thought the Cambrian started about 580 million years ago, but they have steadily been refining the dates. The time period in question regarding the fossil fish was about 530 million years ago.

[doodad]

And please don't explain to anyone that the conditions for fossilization are very rare. Almost always, the best conditions are in catastrophic inundation with soft sediments. Preferably sediments with plenty of water soluble minerals. Floods and ash falls/flows are the most common.

[Junior]

Ping.

[MoGalahad]

An even sadder thing is a man who believes a lie and calls everyone who doesn't share his viewpoint ignorant!

[Blood of Tyrants]

Try this link. It really gives the evolutionists something to ignore. http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3920929567c4.htm

[CalConservative]

It's pretty sad when the only evidence the creationidiots can pretend to come up with these days is work done by evolutionists to flesh out the story of evolution.

Which is an interesting statement in light of the fact that much of modern science is based on the works of Bacon, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mendel, van Leeuwenhoek, Boyle, Pascal, Harvey, Pasteur, etc., etc. who were all creationists. If they were just "creationidiots" and their work was all faked, then science is in real trouble, I would say!

[Calvin Coolidge]

If 'evolutionism' is such a closed system of thought, then how does this article, in which evolutionists discuss the results of their research and its implications for their theories, even exist?

Just above, someone is complaining that those durn evolutionists keep changing their story. That is what happens when you pursue science. You do research, you state the results of that research, and you update your theory to match the available evidence.

[balrog666]

It's 6,000 years old.

That's not the doctine of Last Thursdayism!

[Dimensio]

Yep. What kind of scientific theory rewrites itself when new evidence shows up?

Oh, wait. That would be 'a good one'.