Ape to Man
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what do you mean pavlovs_dog? I'm not supporting Creationism persay, but there are holes in both it and Evolutionary Theory.
The Burgess Shale deposits in Canada support what discipler is bringing to the front.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bur…
Since it's a sedimentary deposit it's full of cool little crablike creatures called Trilobites.
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The Cambrian Explosion has recently been a controversial topic regarding the history and evolution of life, with the idea posited that the Burgess Shale preserved such a wide variety of life and that the "Cambrian Explosion" was actually a slower radiation of animal forms than previously thought. The idea of an "explosion" of life in the Cambrian period is still being debated.The debate centers in part around an earlier notion that all phyla in existence today (and all others now extinct) except one were first found in this period. This would be as if one were pacing off the length of a football field (starting 4 bya), when between paces 78 and 79 all the different phyla suddenly sprang into existence.