Positively Vetting Atheism #3-The Cambrian Explosion

This third installment of the Positively Vetting Atheist series,
answers the tired Theistic canard that the Cambrian Explosion was evolutionarily impossible, and requires a supernatural explanation.

Credit and thanks must be given
to Mikhail Fedonkin for giving the
answer and explanation, that shows
The Cambrian Explosion was no
mysterious, improbable event, that
can't be explained by natural causations.

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[5thcenturyad]

Way down on Swanee Riwa.

[QuinnBook]

So wheres the transitional forms to get from simple life to the complexity of the animals found in the Cambrian explosion?

[jouc12]

This was a good 2:49 waste of my time. What you did was give years of supposed life progress that leads to nothing more than bacterias. Then you throw in plants in the middle as if plants had anything to do with the Cambrian animals sudden appearance. Since the animals didn't evolved from plants it renders them pointless to the sudden appearance. When its all set and done your video says bacterias turned to animals out of nowhere. This is an illusion of an explanation. But explains nothing.

[billytistrak]

WHAT IS TOTALLY UNNECESSARY IS YOUR VIDEO THAT STRIDE OVER GALAXIES OF ASSUMPTIONS

[rawssremix]

@bheadh It's the fact that multicellular life appeared relatively close (compared to the previous billions of years) to the time that the Cambrian explosion occurred. At that point, genes evolved the ability to link up more than one cell into one organism. The evolutionary path is a relatively easy one from there to linking up many cells - into tissues, then organs, organ systems, etc. The Cambrian explosion was the exploitation of this newfound branch in evolution.

[bheadh]

How do you go from "bacteria" at 650 million years ago and then at 500 million years ago the cambrian explosion of ALL KINDS of FULLY FORMED ANIMALS appear seemingly out of nowhere? Especially with nothing in between..no evidence no fossils..nothing. The fossil record itself makes your whole premise moot. You are articulate but your lack of belief says alot about you. You sound smart but as it says in scripture.."anyone that says there is no God is a fool".

[PsychLion]

Aliens put us are.

[Raymulv]

@tomblack2112 So if species go extinct then evolution isn't possible? No that is not what I said. The cambrian shows the sudden and abrupt appearance of ALL modern phyla some highly advanced and some not. Many became extinct, others survived. The only myth applied is that of evolution. The evidence from the fossil record exposes this fallacy. All phyla appear abruptly & fully formed. Later they simply disapear from the record. No evolution ever occured!

[tomblack2112]

@Raymulv So if species go extinct then evolution isn't possible? I'm sorry your fear of the unknown has driven you to cling so tightly to your mythology. It's unfortunate that as new technologies shed an ever increasing light on the mysteries of the universe that some people can't let go of that fear and accept that individual life is not eternal but that life as a process may go on and has gone for a very long time. Can't you just accept that "man in God's image" just means we gained awareness?

[dusktreader13]

@Raymulv So, 0.25% of fossils in the Cambrian SHOULD be vertebrates. And, some percentage of those vertebrates SHOULD be mammals. And some percentage of those mammals SHOULD be modern forms of mammals. Unfortunately, this is absolutely not the case. Your claim of "over 50 phyla" seems completely unsubstantiated beside the fact that phylum partitions are hotly contested among *real* biologists. If I had more characters, I'd explain why your claim of a decrease in diversity is also false.