Ediacaran fossils

”The Ediacaran fossils themselves provide evidence of a puzzling leap in biological complexity, though not one nearly great enough (or of the right kind) to account for the Cambrian explosion. Before organisms like Kimberella, Dickinsonia, and sponges appeared, the only living forms documented in the fossil record for over 3 billion years were single-celled organisms and colonial algae. Producing sponges, worms, and mollusks from single-celled organisms is a little like transforming a spinning top into a bicycle. The bicycle isn’t remotely as complex as the automobile sitting beside it, but it represents an enormous leap in technological sophistication over the spinning top. Likewise, although the humble Ediacaran biota look simple beside most of the Cambrian animals, they represent an enormous leap in functional complexity over the single-celled organisms and colonial algae that preceded them.”

What wait what? this is basically the same what I said before to debunk your claims!!

Do you realize you contradict yourself? of is this deliberate pun to the people who hired you to cast doubt on Darwin??

”This leap in complexity, in a relatively short span of geological time, may well exceed the explanatory resources of natural selection working on random mutations.”

Yes it just may! I agree with you, even Darwin agrees with you!

definition of evolution

"Evolution is the change in the inherited characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins."

It says nothing on random mutations. My kids are a little different from me without any mutations. Evolution is more about variations than MUTATIONS!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080506195605.htm

”the total time encompassed by the Ediacaran and Cambrian radiations still remains exceedingly brief relative to the expectations and requirements of a modern neo-Darwinian view of the history of life”

What the hell do you mean?

expectations perhaps, but in no-way does it exceed any requirements. do I find that quote again from a real paleontologist? I hate when people mispresent opponents position.

Okay, here:

"Now, a million years is certainly a long period of time by some standards, but it is an eyeblink in geologic history. Events occurring within less than a million years' time can create patterns of abrupt change in the fossil record" - (Eldredge, N. and Tattersall, I., The Myths of Human Evolution Columbia University Press, 1982, p. 57)

(I think I have to return to that quote a lot with this book...)

Ediecaran lifeforms were simple and short lived, one generation was not long! Miracles can happen in just one million years!

It is totally possible, even plausible that during ediacaran period one specie started to eat other animals, evolved jaws and hard shell thus making it invincible, devastating all competition! Competition never seen before forced rapid evolution. Do or die. This is what paleontologist thing, not what you claim they think.

gees! Where is the reference to that bullshit??

”As I will explain in more detail in Chapter 8, neo-Darwinism is the modern version of Darwin’s theory that invokes random genetic changes called mutations as the source of much of the new variation upon which natural selection acts.” Stephen Meyer

Now wikipedia:

"Neo-Darwinism is the 'modern synthesis' of Darwinian evolution through natural selection with Mendelian genetics, the latter being a set of primary tenets specifying that evolution involves the transmission of characteristics from parent to child through the mechanism ofgenetic transfer, rather than the 'blending process' of pre-Mendelian evolutionary science. Neo-Darwinism can also designate Darwin's ideas of natural selection separated from his hypothesis of Pangenesis as a Lamarckian source of variation involving blending inheritance."

THEY ARE NOT THE SAME! As far as I understand, Mutations are the cause of sudden and unexpected evolution, while natural variation is the driving force, the "normal" cause of evolution. I have heard several (I know this sounds crazy) creationist molecular biologist saying that mutations are so rare that they just cannot be responsible for the speed of evolution evidence shows.

THEY ARE RIGHT, IT´S NOT THE MUTATIONS!!

gees. Strawman I think...

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com

Strawman

ø Misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack.

But ”Like classical Darwinism, the neo-Darwinian mechanism requires great stretches of time to produce novel biological form and structure.”

is not a strawman, IT´S A LIE!