Evolution: Fossils, Genes, and Mousetraps (4-9)

September 27, 2006 lecture by Kenneth R. Miller, Ph.D. at HHMI headquarters for an audience of high school students from Loudon County, VA

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[ABriefHistoryOfTime]

@LoricaLady I've done nothing but ask you questions without personal attacks. I've asked you how it was a strawman and I've asked you were there any terrestrial organisms in the Cambrian. You have done nothing but dodge and then actually commit the same ad homs you accuse me of by implying that I've insulted you without discourse.

Can you answer the questions?

[LoricaLady]

@ABriefHistoryOfTime If you can find such a person, get someone to ask me your same Qs w/o personal insults and I'll happily answer them. Also tell them to avoid not only ad hominems but the strawman logical fallacy of religion since neither this vid nor I ever said anything about it and since evolution stands or falls on science & logic alone. Finis.

[ABriefHistoryOfTime]

@LoricaLady Can you answer the question or can you pretend that you've been personally attacked to try to dodge them?

How many terrestrial organisms were present in the Cambrian?

[ABriefHistoryOfTime]

@LoricaLady Hahaha, you accuse them of question dodging while referring to a post of four questions that you blatantly dodged

see; merriam-webster(.)com/dictiona­ry/hypocrisy

[LoricaLady]

ANYONE: If you see no reply to posters below they know they are on ignore for things like personal insults, name calling & general refusal to actually debate by evading Qs I posed. If you would like to make the same points I will be happy to respond with what I feel is "the rest of the story."  However I debate only where true debate is possible, with those who are civil & objective and actually...debate.

[TheJaredJommer]

@LoricaLady Do you even known what the Cambrian showed?

Do you even known what a phyla is?

How many terrestrial organisms appeared in the Cambrian?

How many that are still alive today?

[LoricaLady]

Cont. Further every major phyla is represented in the "Cambrian" period. Supposedly millions & millions of years of evolution have passed and yet no new phyla has "evolved" in all that time. Again, what the fossil record is actually showing is abrupt appearance and stasis.

The critigue of this presentation will continue on vid 5/9 - again, if I do not get Expelled as has happened before on vids supporting evolutionary theory.

[LoricaLady]

9:06 "The way of all species is emergence through evolution & extinction." Actually, even if one believes evo theory, that is not borne out by the data.  There The so called Cambrian fossil period is considered to be the first appearance of life (except for some "precambrian" simpled celled life forms which are debatable in just about every way) of life forms. Some of them exist today virtually identifical to what we see in the rocks, for ex. starfish, nautiloids, jelly fish. Cont.

[LoricaLady]

Cont. We are told things like "Diamonds are millions of years old." Yet carbon 14 cannot last a fraction of such time and it is found in those jewels. Evolution gives us many theories based on what is untestable, unobservable and unrepeatable to say such & such IS the case. Theoretical assumptions presented as scientific data are not science, but pseudo scienice. Cont.

[LoricaLady]

8:36 "The average duration for a mammalian species in the fossil record./..is 2.6 million years." What is the meaning of the word "is." When used here it is meant to imply a defnite fact. The truth is that is pure speculation. There is no way to date fossils to such a time period as even evolutionists say the DNA will not last past 100,000 years. You cannot really adequately date rocks. There is no geologic column, that is a myth from the 19th century, never found on the planet. Cont.