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To: Ichneumon
Since new phyla have arisen on Earth only about 35 times in several billion years

Or essentially none in the last 530 million years if you look at a standard uniformitarian time scale.

Before you start waving your hands, remember that there are fossil sequences which, when arranged chronologically, clearly map out small stepwise changes which, when comparing the final part of the sequence with the first part, add up to the rise of whole new groups of animals which did not previously exist.

And those would be? I'm not aware of any transitional sequence of fossils which map out small step-wise changes documenting a process of evolution.

92 posted on 02/20/2003 4:27:25 PM PST by CalConservative
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To: CalConservative
[Since new phyla have arisen on Earth only about 35 times in several billion years]

Or essentially none in the last 530 million years if you look at a standard uniformitarian time scale.

Yes, exactly -- which is why I said it was disingenuous of you to hold out for "seeing" a phylum spring forth in your lifetime.

And those would be? I'm not aware of any transitional sequence of fossils which map out small step-wise changes documenting a process of evolution.

Odd, they've been pointed out to you on other threads, how soon you forget... But to refresh your memory, here's a quick overview of some of the transitional fossils

176 posted on 02/21/2003 12:42:44 AM PST by Ichneumon
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