With about 70 billion stars and as many as 100 million life forms (at least here on Earth), the universe is a stunningly complex place. Did all of this matter evolve independently, or was it guided by a larger force – as proponents of intelligent design believe? With the debate raging in living rooms, classrooms and courtrooms, the stakes are high when it comes to determining intelligent design’s merit.
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Intelligent Design Has Scientific Merit in Paleontology
please explain
"In fact, the history of life shows a pattern of explosions where new fossil forms come into existence without any clear evolutionary precursors, concurring with design theory that predicts that species might appear abruptly."
Can someone that believes in ID please explain this "abrupt" design of species. When the design happens does a herd of the new species miraculously materialize into existence? Are they born to mothers of a completely different species?
I'll consider that ID is more than smoke and mirrors if someone can give me good answers to how these designed species come into existence.
- reckoner
September 10, 2008 11:29AM
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Cambrian 'Explosion'
"In fact, the history of life shows a pattern of explosions where new fossil forms come into existence without any clear evolutionary precursors, concurring with design theory that predicts that species might appear abruptly."
This is a good example of how ID creationists describe the scientific data of the Cambrian explosion. They even extensively quote mine expert Valentine who recently has argued that based on the evidence, he believes that Darwinian processes are quite sufficient to explain this so called 'explosion' which was neither an explosion nor without evolutionary precursors.
Weird stuff, but anyone familiar with the vast research in this area has to reject these simplistic and even erroneous representations of the Cambrian 'explosion'.
So why do we still hear about them?
- PvM
September 10, 2008 11:46AM
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