The Cambrian explosion is the geologically sudden appearance in the fossil record of the ancestors of familiar animals, starting about 542 million years ago.
Now, they are correct insofar that we have not yet fully explained what caused the 'explosion'. Three questions in particular are of importance currently: I) is the “explosion” real?; II) what does it tell us about the origin and possible evolution of animals? and III) what were its causes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion#Significance_of_the_data
BUT: the explosion completely destroys the literal Bible interpretation! If the Genesis account was correct and everything was created around the same time, we would expect to see fossils of every living thing on this planet. Puppy fossils. Man fossils. Bird fossils. We don't. It's all trilobites and such.
So, you can accept the cambrian explosion or have a literal interpretation of the bible, but you can't have have it both. Choose.
2007-03-19 05:14:13 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well there aren't any logical arguments for creationism, so often their strategy is to focus on the shortcomings of evolution. The idea of a smear campaign against a scientific theory is pretty disgusting, but there you go.
I had a couple of Mormons using the Cambrian Explosion to try to convert me the other day. And, amazingly, they then claimed that fossil dating methods don't work and there is no proof that anything is more than 6000 years old.
2007-03-19 05:19:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Cambrian explosion, even if it happened which isn't certain, doesn't pose any unanswersable questions for evolutionary biologists it just raises a bit of conjecture about evolutionary processes but I'm happy to see creationists using it. It happened hundreds of millions of years ago so effectively they are conceding that young earth creationism is a myth.
2007-03-19 12:29:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
BIBLICAL Literalism's problems:
The problem of taking the bible as the ‘word of god’, is that there are some strange sounding passages. Even most literalists don’t want a society based ideas contained in the following:
---Menstruating women are considered unclean and all they touch while menstruating becomes unclean. (Leviticus 15:19—32)
---The blind, lame or those with mutilated faces, those who are hunchbacks and those with itching diseases, or crushed testicles can’t become priests. (Leviticus 21:17—21)
---Jews, are the children of the devil, the father of lies. (John 8:39—44)
Here’s the contradiction: the bible is either the ‘reveled word of god’, hence absolutely true from cover to cover, or it’s just a book with good and bad parts. As any other book has good and pad parts to it. Biblical literalists cherry pick passages and ignore or downplay the rest. Literalists can’t have it both ways!
2007-03-19 12:27:44 · answer #3 · answered by robert2020 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you not supposed to hammer on rocks? I thoughts that what all geologists use as a tool - a rock hammer!!
Just kidding...
I think you answered it yourself - THEY hammer on the Cambrian Explosion becuase it so much conflicts with their ideaology (it doesnt deserve to be called a theory.) WE need to rally in support of a new name for people who support Intelligent Design and Creationism....since we tend to abbreviate everything nowadays, I say we call them all "IDiots!"
2007-03-19 12:22:10 · answer #4 · answered by ? 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't take away their lies -- it's all they have.
The Cambrian explosion is probably the result of developmental genes (e.g, homeobox) arising which allowed rapid development of traits, coupled with a sharp increase in biomass after the Cryogenian.
2007-03-19 13:26:55 · answer #5 · answered by novangelis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand how people couldn't pick the Cambrian Explosion.
2007-03-19 12:20:23 · answer #6 · answered by S K 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible does not say every creature was made at the same time, It just says God made them all. God living forever time has no meaning, so what may have been seven days to God, may hay been 10,000,000 years to man. He may have made and destroyed several species making the Earth as he wanted it, which to us would have been thousands of years. As for as a explosion goes I don't know either I wasn't there when God snapped his fingers.
2007-03-19 12:46:19 · answer #7 · answered by James B 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Nevermind another prophet would come down to edit the current bible...
2007-03-19 12:19:50 · answer #8 · answered by Nesh 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You forgot to read the part that he said "am the alpha & the omega"...seven days to HIM can be seven trillion years to US...have you considered the possibilities?
2007-03-22 08:03:45 · answer #9 · answered by Urban Hermit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who says I have to choose....you? who made you the boss? You're not the bossa me!
2007-03-19 12:17:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋