Originally Posted by Russ
Ironically, I asked you 3 questions and you avoided them.

Who is the one going silent?

Why don't we have a real discussion here, discussing information?

Again, the questions were:

And just when did Cambrian occur?
Between 540 and 510 million years ago.

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How did we date it?
by radiometric dating of volcanic rock deposits on either side of the deposits with Cambrian fossils in them.

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Are there any enormous assumptions involved?
That depends on what you mean by "enormous". One assumption is that gaseous elements (Argon) will have been purged from the lava by the high temperatures and liquid state of the rock, just as happens today.
Is that an enormous assumption? That is why I asked you what enormous assumptions you were referring to. You stated that the assumptions were enormous. Please support your statement.

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So now it is the mob that is keeping the theory of evolution in place. I thought you said it was kept in place by powerful people despite the evidence and the reality known by most of the scientists who remain silent and shaking in their boots for fear of losing prestige, and their jobs. Which is it...the mob or the halls of power?


You're not accurately restating what I said.

Mob mentality is demonstrated by the "emperor has no clothes" paradigm. The motivation for lying to the emperor may be different from person to person, but the result is the same.
Who is the emperor that these people are so frightened of?

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And yes, there are many scientists who don't believe in evolution but are forced to keep silent for the sake of their jobs.
Yet many scientists signed that petition to which you and I have both referred. Why aren't they afraid of the powerful people profiting prodigiously from promoting evolution?

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Check out this video:

Expelled! No Intelligence Allowed

Take a gander and tell me what you think.
Seen it...another laugh riot. Really, I thought it was a parody of creationists the first time I saw it.


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"Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possible explanations for the origin of living things. Organisms either appeared on the earth fully developed or they did not. If they did not, they must have developed from pre-existing species by some process of modification. If they did appear in a fully developed state, they must have been created by some omnipotent intelligence."

—D.J. Futuyma, Science on Trial (1983), p. 197.
Talk about enormous assumptions!

A faith that connot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. -- Arthur C. Clarke