Still NO Fossils? (Basics of Intelligent Design Biology, Episode 2)

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Published 2022-03-16
Are there transitional forms and Precambrian fossils which reveal the evolution of the diverse animal phyla that appear in the Cambrian explosion? The history of paleontology shows the answer is no! As paleontologists have learned more about the fossil and geological record, the challenge of the Cambrian explosion to Darwinian theory has only increased.

This video is part of "Basics of Intelligent Design Biology," a video series reviewing scientific problems with the Darwinian (and neo-Darwinian) evolution of animal life. The first four episodes (season 1) will review the basics of the Cambrian explosion and failed evolutionary attempts to explain it using Precambrian fossils, punctuated equilibrium, and the tree of life.

This series is a partnership between Discovery Institute and Lukas Ruegger, creator of the Deflate YouTube Channel (youtube.com/c/Deflate2020), which has lots of great content dealing with science-faith questions and intelligent design.

For more information on the Cambrian explosion and problems with Darwinian explanations for the origin of animals, be sure to also check out the Darwin’s Doubt website and book darwinsdoubt.com/.

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All Comments (21)
  • @eswn1816
    "A heavy load of optimism..." That summarizes evolution nicely!
  • @andrewthomas2353
    Thank you for sharing this with us. Keep up the good work ☺️
  • @richarddullum2373
    I love this series. Discovery Science succeeds in rational argument. Watching it work here.
  • @dongately2817
    So, the fossil record is incomplete and not every stage of life has gone thru the process of fossilization. This is amazing! I’m sure the scientific community will completely throw out the theory of evolution and accept intelligent design 😂😂😂😂😂 This is sophistry plain and simple.
  • @ZolaniZweni
    Cambrian explosion The unparalleled emergence of organisms between 541 million and approximately 530 million years ago at the beginning of the Cambrian Period. The event was characterized by the appearance of many of the major phyla (between 20 and 35) that make up modern animal life. Many other phyla also evolved during this time, the great majority of which became extinct during the following 50 to 100 million years. Ironically, many of the most successful modern phyla (including the chordates, which encompass all vertebrates) are rare elements in Cambrian assemblages; phyla that include the arthropods and sponges contained the most numerically dominant taxa (taxonomic groups) during the Cambrian, and those were the taxa that became extinct. The beginning of the Cambrian Period is marked by the evolution of hard body parts such as calcium carbonate shells. These body parts fossilize more easily than soft tissues, and thus the fossil record becomes much more complete after their appearance. Many lineages of animals independently evolved hard parts at about the same time. The reasons for this are still debated, but a leading theory is that the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere had finally reached levels that allowed large, complex animals to exist. Oxygen levels may also have facilitated the metabolic processes that produce collagen, a protein building block that is the basis for hard structures in the body.
  • @bombgardener3118
    Great Job! I'm continually amazed by how the "scientists", can ignore the science that's even obvious to the common man . . . From our staggeringly intricate Biology, (which becomes more so the more we learn), even to the precisely geared machinery operating the flagella on a lowly, one celled creature! But what really cracks me up?
  • @ellipticalequinox6869
    it will be interesting to see if Discovery institute will further expand into cosmology.