Naraoia
Apprentice Biologist
Small quibble: modern man most probably does not come from Neandertals.
I have serious issues with that video. I didn't stop it and take notes, so there are only two I can remember clearly enough to criticise:Hello Craig,
Good to see you want to learn more on the subject.
For starters, here's a good video explaining the ToE in just under 10 minutes.
(1) He says that after each mass extinction, life increased in complexity until the next. What measure of complexity is he talking about, because for the life of me I can't see that pattern. I don't think there was that much general increase in complexity after the Cambrian, and AFAICT if there was any (such as in land plants going from liverworts and mosses to seed plants between the Ordovician and the Devonian), it wasn't tied to the extinctions.
(Usual caveat: no palaeontologist here, just someone with a superficial interest in the history of life.)
(2) "the archosaur"?????? I almost headdesked when I heard that. Archosaurs are a whole big branch of reptiles, including crocs, dinosaurs (and by extension, ducks) and a whole lot of other interesting creatures that took over land during the Triassic. Yes, there are archosaurs that are close to the point where the bird and the croc lineages split, but to say that "the common ancestor" has been found and it's "the archosaur"...
Making and argument out of incorrect/stupid points doesn't flatter us any more than it does creationists.
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