Science, Creation & EvolutionCreation vs. Evolution, general discussionIf I say "arthropod", can you think of any organisms that are questionable as to whether or not they belong in that phylum? These have been in place a very long time. I took my first science class about that time, and that's how we did it then. We are less certain these days, mostly because we've defined phyla as they were in the Cambrian, and we find a lot of Precambrian and early Cambrian organisms that don't quite fit. I guess we could talk about some examples like Wiwaxia or Anomalocarus or even Spriggina. [quoteThis regular absence of transitional forms is not confined to mammals, but is an almost universal phenomenon, as has long been noted by paleontologists. It is true of almost all classes of animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate...it is true of the classes, and of the major animal phyla, and it is apparently also true of analogous categories of plants. · Simpson, G. G. (1944) Tempo and Mode in Evolution Columbia University Press, New York, p. 105, 107 http://id-www.ucsb.edu/fscf/library/ori ... brian.html [/quote] Most phyla were in place at the end of the Cambrian. But earlier, they weren't so well differentiated. Even the scientific creationists have backed away from that one. "Measurements of the speed of light have been made for the past three hundred years which could potentially provide the required empirical basis. Norman and Setterfield tabulate the results of 163 speed of light determinations in The Atomic Constants, Light, and Time, and claim clear support for the decay of c hypothesis from this data set. My inability to verify this claim when this data set was subjected to appropriate, objective analyses is the motivation for this article, which is intended to caution creationists against a wholesale, uncritical acceptance of the Norman and Setterfield hypothesis. At the present time, it appears that general support by the creationist community of the decay of the speed of light hypothesis is not warranted by the data upon which the hypothesis rests." HAS THE SPEED OF LIGHT DECAYED? - IMPACT No. 179 May 1988 by Gerald A. Aardsma http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-179.htm Copyright 2004 Published by the Institute for Creation Research, the largest and most influential Creationist organization. |
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