1. Track the events in the creation account of Genesis and its amazing how closely the events conform to the current view of modern science. First, an explosion, light- the universe oceans/land - plants-
And next, in verse 20, we find:
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
a. Kind of unusual since the author of Genesis, and, if we are to believe that the first one to speak those words, Moses, didnt really live in a habitat that one might call sea side.
b. Would have been understandable if this space in the Bible had, instead, have focused on the numbers of land mammals, birds, or insects found in ancient Israel, wouldnt it? But, instead, marine organisms are specifically named: Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life,
2. Wouldnt it be interesting if science find lots and lots of marine organisms extant at this point? Imagine if Genesis actually parallels the history of life on earth as expounded by science. Be a heck of a coincidence.
3. A truly important development took place some 521 million years ago, in the geological period known as the Cambrian. The most abundant and diverse animals of Cambrian time were the trilobites. Trilobites had long antennae, compound eyes, many jointed legs, and a hard exoskeleton like many of their modern arthropod relatives, such as lobsters, crabs, and insects. The Cambrian is sometimes called the "Age of Trilobites" Cambrian: The "Age of Trilobites" and the Cambrian Fauna
a. No earlier fossils were found during Darwins lifetime: If the theory [evolution] be true it is indisputable that before the lowest Cambrian stratum was deposited ... the world swarmed with living creatures. [Yet] to the question why we do not find rich fossiliferous deposits belonging to these earliest periods. . . I can give no satisfactory answer. The case at present must remain inexplicable. http://www.paleosoc.org/Oldest_Fossil.pdf
4. In 1909, a century after the birth of Darwin, Charles Walcott discovered an amazing find in the Burgess Shale. There, he uncovered a huge array of fossils not found earlier. The Burgess Shale contains the best record we have of Cambrian animal fossils. The locality reveals the presence of creatures originating from the Cambrian explosion, an evolutionary burst of animal origins dating 545 to 525 million years ago. During this period, life was restricted to the world's oceans. The land was barren, uninhabited, The Burgess Shale
a. So ended Darwins idea of a gradual evolutionary history!
5. That Cambrian explosion? between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification occurred, with the eventual appearance of the lineages of almost all animals living today. This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in whose early part it occurred.
Evolution: Library: The Cambrian Explosion
6. Is there a possible explanation, sans the hand of God?
Sure....here's one:
The Cambrian Explosion is usually characterized as the sudden rapid appearance of complex multicellular organisms in the fossil record. In the strata below the Cambrian, one does not find such fossils, and then in a flash of geological time, large numbers of fossils, of many varieties, are to be found in the Cambrian strata .
In his thesis, "In the Blink of an Eye," Oxford zoologhist, Dr. Andrew Parker proposes that the acquisition of vision by trilobites was the root cause of the Cambrian Explosion . trilobites developed eyes that could produce good images of their surroundings. Suddenly, trilobites could now see all of these tiny bits of protein crawling around in worm-like bodies, providing the possibility for hearty meals . once the trilobites developed sophisticated eyes, a dramatic arms race developed. Suddenly, just remaining still when a predator approached no longer worked, because sunlight streams down upon everything and makes everything visible.
Under extreme selective pressures, Precambrian prey began to develop defensive armor in the form of hard exoskeletons with nasty spikes and spines to ward off potential attacks by the pesky trilobites . the arrival of active predation ... changed everything. With active predation, the 35 already existing phyla were under extreme selective pressures to adopt expensive defensive measures in the form of hard parts, and these expensive hard parts were not needed during the billions of years of passive predation in the Precambrian, so there were no selective pressures to form them. SoftwarePhysics: An IT Perspective of the Cambrian Explosion
7. So, it does appear that Genesis was precisely correct, and vast numbers of marine creatures appeared.
Gods call to bring forth abundantly or perhaps the development of eyes .your choice.
In either case, life at this stage, about 500 million years ago, was entirely marine.
How could the Genesis writer have gotten this right?
That writer hes landlocked, knows little of diversity .what are the odds that chance is the answer?
What are the odds?
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
a. Kind of unusual since the author of Genesis, and, if we are to believe that the first one to speak those words, Moses, didnt really live in a habitat that one might call sea side.
b. Would have been understandable if this space in the Bible had, instead, have focused on the numbers of land mammals, birds, or insects found in ancient Israel, wouldnt it? But, instead, marine organisms are specifically named: Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life,
2. Wouldnt it be interesting if science find lots and lots of marine organisms extant at this point? Imagine if Genesis actually parallels the history of life on earth as expounded by science. Be a heck of a coincidence.
3. A truly important development took place some 521 million years ago, in the geological period known as the Cambrian. The most abundant and diverse animals of Cambrian time were the trilobites. Trilobites had long antennae, compound eyes, many jointed legs, and a hard exoskeleton like many of their modern arthropod relatives, such as lobsters, crabs, and insects. The Cambrian is sometimes called the "Age of Trilobites" Cambrian: The "Age of Trilobites" and the Cambrian Fauna
a. No earlier fossils were found during Darwins lifetime: If the theory [evolution] be true it is indisputable that before the lowest Cambrian stratum was deposited ... the world swarmed with living creatures. [Yet] to the question why we do not find rich fossiliferous deposits belonging to these earliest periods. . . I can give no satisfactory answer. The case at present must remain inexplicable. http://www.paleosoc.org/Oldest_Fossil.pdf
4. In 1909, a century after the birth of Darwin, Charles Walcott discovered an amazing find in the Burgess Shale. There, he uncovered a huge array of fossils not found earlier. The Burgess Shale contains the best record we have of Cambrian animal fossils. The locality reveals the presence of creatures originating from the Cambrian explosion, an evolutionary burst of animal origins dating 545 to 525 million years ago. During this period, life was restricted to the world's oceans. The land was barren, uninhabited, The Burgess Shale
a. So ended Darwins idea of a gradual evolutionary history!
5. That Cambrian explosion? between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification occurred, with the eventual appearance of the lineages of almost all animals living today. This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in whose early part it occurred.
Evolution: Library: The Cambrian Explosion
6. Is there a possible explanation, sans the hand of God?
Sure....here's one:
The Cambrian Explosion is usually characterized as the sudden rapid appearance of complex multicellular organisms in the fossil record. In the strata below the Cambrian, one does not find such fossils, and then in a flash of geological time, large numbers of fossils, of many varieties, are to be found in the Cambrian strata .
In his thesis, "In the Blink of an Eye," Oxford zoologhist, Dr. Andrew Parker proposes that the acquisition of vision by trilobites was the root cause of the Cambrian Explosion . trilobites developed eyes that could produce good images of their surroundings. Suddenly, trilobites could now see all of these tiny bits of protein crawling around in worm-like bodies, providing the possibility for hearty meals . once the trilobites developed sophisticated eyes, a dramatic arms race developed. Suddenly, just remaining still when a predator approached no longer worked, because sunlight streams down upon everything and makes everything visible.
Under extreme selective pressures, Precambrian prey began to develop defensive armor in the form of hard exoskeletons with nasty spikes and spines to ward off potential attacks by the pesky trilobites . the arrival of active predation ... changed everything. With active predation, the 35 already existing phyla were under extreme selective pressures to adopt expensive defensive measures in the form of hard parts, and these expensive hard parts were not needed during the billions of years of passive predation in the Precambrian, so there were no selective pressures to form them. SoftwarePhysics: An IT Perspective of the Cambrian Explosion
7. So, it does appear that Genesis was precisely correct, and vast numbers of marine creatures appeared.
Gods call to bring forth abundantly or perhaps the development of eyes .your choice.
In either case, life at this stage, about 500 million years ago, was entirely marine.
How could the Genesis writer have gotten this right?
That writer hes landlocked, knows little of diversity .what are the odds that chance is the answer?
What are the odds?
