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Prior to the Cambrian explosion, most organisms were simple, composed of individual cells occasionally organized into colonies. Over the following 70 to 80 million years, the rate of diversification accelerated by an order of magnitude[note 3] and the diversity of life began to resemble that of today.[11] Almost all the present phyla appeared during this period,[12][13] with the exception of Bryozoa, which made its earliest known appearance in the Lower Ordovician.[14]
The Cambrian explosion has generated extensive scientific debate. The seemingly rapid appearance of fossils in the "Primordial Strata" was noted as early as the 1840s,[15] and in 1859 Charles Darwin discussed it as one of the main objections that could be made against the theory of evolution by natural selection.
Cambrian explosion - Wikipedia
Explosion is a terrible word for it. It wasn't a sudden thing. It's not like all those new life forms evolved overnight. It actually took place over a period of about 20 or 25 million years.
And it wasn't that new life forms were created. It's just that the life forms evolved structures that fossilised more easily.
So not the evidence for creationism that many creationists hope it is.
That video seems to be pretty much creationist propaganda. Have a look at 1 hour, 17 minutes and 40 seconds. "We should consider intelligent design..."
The Cambrian Explosion:
For most of the nearly 4 billion years that life has existed on Earth, evolution produced little beyond bacteria, plankton, and multi-celled algae. But beginning about 600 million years ago in the Precambrian, the fossil record speaks of more rapid change. First, there was the rise and fall of mysterious creatures of the Ediacaran fauna, named for the fossil site in Australia where they were first discovered. Some of these animals may have belonged to groups that survive today, but others don't seem at all related to animals we know.
Then, 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. But it was not as rapid as an explosion: the changes seems to have happened in a range of about 30 million years, and some stages took 5 to 10 million years....
The question of how so many immense changes occurred in such a short time is one that stirs scientists. Why did many fundamentally different body plans evolve so early and in such profusion?
Evolution: Library: The Cambrian Explosion
The term "explosion" was coined by atheist evolutionists
The following is taken from an atheist evolutionist website:
Paleontological Research
Our study also accentuates the Cambrian Explosion, which put an end to the peaceful “Garden of Ediacara”. Not only did the former rulers become extinct or restricted to less favorable environments, but the radiation of metazoan phyla was also accompanied by an ecological revolution that established a new and more dangerous world, which persists to the present day.
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You really need to stop making stuff up if you want to be taken seriously.
Harry B. Whittington - Wikipedia
>> Harry Blackmore Whittington FRS (24 March 1916 – 20 June 2010) was a British palaeontologist who made a major contribution to the study of fossils of the Burgess Shale and other Cambrian fauna.[1] His works are largely responsible for the concept of Cambrian explosion, <<
>> Whittington, as was his family, remained a Christian his entire life, belonging to Methodist Church. His first professional careers were directly due to his religious connections. Judson College in Burma and Ginling Women's College in China were Christian, specifically Methodist-supported institutions. <<
PBS is not an "atheist evolutionist website". You're being very, very dishonest.
Your link led me to this:
BTW
That doesn't explain why atheist-evolutionists accept that term and still use it.
It uses the term Cambrian explosion.Uh huh... and what do you think that means?
Yes but if indeed it is a terrible scientific misnomer as you claimed that it is-then for the sake of scientific accuracy atheistic evolutionists would have discarded it long ago. Yet they continue to employ it as an accurate description of what geologically occurred. In short, no-one in the scientific community shares your idiosyncratic opinion.Probably the same reason Methodist-evolutionists, Sunni-evolutionists, Reformed-evolutionists, Catholic-evolutionists, Buddhist-evolutionists, etc. etc. etc. accept and still use it.
It uses the term Cambrian explosion.
Yes but if indeed it is a terrible scientific misnomer as you claimed...
Were explosives involved?Yes but if indeed it is a terrible scientific misnomer as you claimed that it is-then for the sake of scientific accuracy atheistic evolutionists would have discarded it long ago. Yet they continue to employ it as an accurate description of what geologically occurred. In short, no-one in the scientific community shares your idiosyncratic opinion.
Were explosives involved?
BINGO!Now THAT is silly! It's a figure of speech and idiomatic expression
BINGO again.RELATIVELY
But no one ever claimed that it is an actual literal explosion. So your objection is against an imaginary argument. That the phenomenon was relatively sudden is a well-known fact as is the fact that it indeed has induced bafflement among evolutionists..BINGO!
BINGO again.
Perhaps it was explosive diarrea that caused life to evolve at such a break-neck pace hence the name.Now THAT is silly! It's a figure of speech and idiomatic expression just as in explosive diarrhea, or explosive personality which indicates a relatively sudden and swift unexpected occurrence. RELATIVELY
As long as you interprete this term accordingly I have no objections, at all.But no one ever claimed that it is an actual literal explosion. So your objection is against an imaginary argument.
In what way do these issues matter?That doesn't explain why atheist-evolutionists accept that term and still use it. Neither does it invalidate comparing it to an explosion in geologically temporal terms.
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