”If Darwin is right, Agassiz argued, then we should find not just one or a few missing links, but innumerable links shading almost imperceptibly from alleged ancestors to presumed descendants. Geologists, however, had found no such myriad of transitional forms leading to the Cambrian fauna. Instead, the stratigraphic column seemed to document the abrupt appearance of the earliest animals.”
as explained before,either you are ignorant, or you lie. you lose either way.
somehow I feel that you are not ignorant, but just dishonest.
The Ediacaran Period (ca. 635-542 Mya) had diverse and large biota. and life forms had at least 40 million years to evolve into bigger and more complex forms. Just like Darwin argued, and you Stephen claim they did not.Or do you think that 1 million years is just too short time for any evolution? how long did dogs take to form scores of different breeds?
but let´s give Agazzis a break. there were not any Ediecaran fossils then. so even if he did not believe Darwin´s theory, what is your excuse Stephen?
on page 42)on my ebook, paper version propably has different numbering...) we can see a picture of different geological eras, and there the ediacan era is. so stephen, you are not ignorant, but cherry picking.
figure 1.8 shows fossil record that might have been ok in1970 but now scientists know a lot more, so that picture is so outdated you cannot call it scientific, you can call it dishonest, you use it to prove a point you propably do not believe yourself. You just know your target audience.
but wait, soon you start to sound reasolable, you speak like a true evolutionist:
”The term “Cambrian explosion” was to become common coin, because Walcott’s site suggested the geologically abrupt appearance of a menagerie of animals as various as any found in the gaudiest science fiction. During this explosion of fauna, representatives of about twenty of the roughly twenty-six total phyla present in the known fossil record made their first appearance on earth (see Fig. 2.5).5
The term “phyla” (singular: “phylum”) refers to divisions in the biological classification system. The phyla constitute the highest (or widest) categories of biological classification in the animal kingdom, with each exhibiting a unique architecture, organizational blueprint, or structural body plan. Familiar examples of phyla are cnidarians (corals and jellyfish), mollusks (squid and clams), echinoderms (sea stars and sea urchins), arthropods (trilobites and insects), and the chordates, to which all vertebrates including humans belong.”
great. no longer you are debunking evolution, but explaining it. you came to your senses! finally!
but then you remember the title again...
”According to Darwinian theory, differences in biological form should increase gradually, steadily increasing the number of distinct body plans and phyla, over time.”
Exactly! that´s why the time scale is in millions years. that slow it is. and evolution explosions and genosides are not against Darwin´s theory, but within it. Any development that takes place only few years... not so Darwinian, more in Moore´s law.
figure2.6 is a hand drawn picture where all the cambrian species appear exactly at the same time.
Really? ofcourse they appear because the size of each animal is the size of 100 million years because you scale them so big in that time scale. I guess you draw that picture to make your point again...
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