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To: Ichneumon
You want to play the numbers game? -me-

No, I'd rather you didn't "play games" of any sort.

You certainly are since I already backed up my statement about there being at least 40 new phyla in the Cambrian in the post you just responded to (post# 1489):

Described recently as "the most important evolutionary event during the entire history of the Metazoa," the Cambrian explosion established virtually all the major animal body forms -- Bauplane or phyla -- that would exist thereafter, including many that were 'weeded out' and became extinct. Compared with the 30 or so extant phyla, some people estimate that the Cambrian explosion may have generated as many as 100. The evolutionary innovation of the Precambrian/Cambrian boundary had clearly been extremely broad: "unprecedented and unsurpassed," as James Valentine of the University of California, Santa Barbara, recently put it (Lewin, 1988).

So in a sense you really are not playing games, you are just plain lying.

1,520 posted on 05/16/2003 8:26:16 PM PDT by gore3000
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To: gore3000
You certainly are since I already backed up my statement about there being at least 40 new phyla in the Cambrian in the post you just responded to

...and I already explained why the clear *speculation* in that quote was a very poor substitute for your claiming to have stated established *facts*.

Your reposting the quote all over again hardly gives it any more validity.

1,529 posted on 05/17/2003 1:06:18 AM PDT by Ichneumon
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