The so-called Cambrian explosion, starting around 541 million years ago and lasting at least 50 million years, is a cornerstone of the Discovery Institute’s intelligent design “theory.”
It’s the subject of Darwin’s Doubt by Stephen Meyer, Vice President and Senior Fellow of the Discovery Institute, and a central figure in the infamous Sternberg peer review controversy. Meyer claims that the Cambrian explosion is proof of intelligent design. That’s when the Discoveroids’ designer — blessed be he! — is said to have visited this privileged planet to tinker with the primitive biosphere in order to create the basic forms of life we now see.
Meyer hasn’t made any impression on the scientific world, but that may be about to change. That’s because another powerful creationist voice is joining the debate. The world’s cutest rev has once again triggered the Drool-o-tron™. Its sirens and flashing lights alerted us to the latest video from the brilliant and articulate leader of David Rives Ministries, posted at the website of WorldNetDaily (WND).
Our computer was locked onto this headline: Famous fossil layer quietly baffles scientists. The video is actually titled: “The Cambrian Explosion.”
The world’s cutest rev is casually dressed, and he’s sitting in a meadow or something. Very appealing! He has lots of pretty pictures of creatures that lived in the Cambrian, such as trilobites. He says there are earlier fossils, but none of them are ancestors of the animals in the Cambrian. They just suddenly appeared, and this is a huge problem for evolution.
But it’s not a problem for the rev. He tells us that divine creation and the Flood explain everything — even all those layers of fossils. So although evolution is useless, the bible has the answers! Isn’t that amazing?
The video is almost three and a half minutes long (before the commercial at the end). Go ahead, click over to WND and watch it. It’s a life-changer!
As we always do with the rev’s videos, we dedicate the comments section for your use as an Intellectual Free Fire Zone. You know the rules. Okay, the comments are open. Go for it!
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It is amazing that such fools exist in the 21st Century. But then I am constantly amazed by the world. Fools seems to dominate.
@Zeno The Stoic “Fools seems to dominate”.
The problem is that the internet has given everybody a soapbox to trumpet out their ideas. Anybody with a keyboard and internet access is suddenly an “expert”.
I am surprised that a large percentage of the population of an advanced civilization falls for such foolishness.
See the Times Educational Supplement ranking of the major universities of the world:
https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2018
One boggles at the thought that an ultimate designer didn’t create the earth compatible with life at the very beginning, about 4 billion years ahead of the Cambrian! Oddly, the various bibles support the “life from the beginning” but not after 4 billion years of waiting around. Then there is that odd detail that simple single celled life preceded the Cambrian by billions of years, and the Cambrian is when life developed harder components that fossilize better.
Methinks the reverend has an entirely fossilized brain in his head.
“Earth compatible with life”
There are two approaches to this.
1) Everything is compatible with divine creation of life.
2) According to creationism, the Earth is not naturally compatible with life, it takes supernatural action.
“Trilobites were perfectly designed for their marine environments” the rev tells us.
Yeah, that’s why they went extinct, David. Because they were perfectly designed, by an idiot. No wonder your god hides himself away. He’s probably mortified by embarrassment.
See, I can speculate about a god I know absolutely nothing about, too, along with the best of them!
@ChrisS
The design was perfect, but the contractor ran into problems; maybe timely delivery of the specified materials
or some such.
Or maybe the style of design just went out of fashion, like Art Deco gave way to Bauhaus.
Ah, this is why I admire the Good Rev so much. Darwin’s Doubt has 500+ pages; even a fast reader like me would need 10 hours. The Good Rev, sexy as always, tells the same in three and a half minutes. Also he demonstrates excellently that every single “argument” brought up by IDiots like Meyer can be used by Young Earth Creacrappers just fine. The Good Rev simply refers to Gen. 6-9.
@Zetopan “boggles at the thought ….”
Have you actually watched the Good Rev’s video?! The Good Rev tells you explicitly!
1. The Cambrian Explosian refutes Darwinism.
2. Hence goddiddid.
3. The Bible tells you how goddiddid: creating the earth compatible with life at the very beginning.
What are you – a materialist darwinist evilutionist athiest commienazie like me?!
@TomS makes a serious attempt to understand creacrap: “There are two approaches to this.”
Both are correct and if that seems contradictory to you it’s because you’re an evilutionist fool like me.
@ChrisS doesn’t get it however: “Yeah, that’s why they went extinct, David.”
Fool! Heathen! Athiest! You forget another important rule:
– something good – praise the lord.
– something bad – blame Homo Sapiens.
They went extinct during the Global Flood and thats because humanity got depraved since Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. Blame them. And because of Original Sin blame yourself.
Ha – another athiest got checkmated.
When will it pass your thick skulls, guys – you simply can’t beat creacrap.
@FrankB
I was interested in the statement that Earth is compatible with liffe. What does it mean to be compatible with life, for a creatonist?
Supernaturallly compatible? That is meaningless, because the supernatural is just as capable of doing anything in the natural world, whatever the natural enviroment. The supernatural is not limited by the natural, so it doesn’t make sense to speak of the Earth being supernaturally compatible. Any place or time is just the same as when and where life appeared on Earth, as far as the supernatural is concerned.
Naturally compatible? But there is the argument that life could not arise by natural means – there is the 2nd law of thermodynamics, the conservation of complex specified information, etc., natural limits which mean that Earth is not naturally compatible for life.
Elegy on the death of an arthropod
Most modest of creatures,
In all of your stages
You had all the right features
You were one for the Ages
But God had some notion
That evil rat-fink!
To foul up your ocean
And make you extinct
Should anyone weep
For your sad little plight?
Just this Darwinist creep,
O poor Trilobite.
@TomS nails it: “That is meaningless.”
Exactly. Why do you think creacrappers can’t agree about anything but “goddiddid” and “evilution is wrong, no matter how”?
“But there is …..”
There you go again. You assume there is a contradiction with your “but”. You are and remain an evilutionist fool (like me).
OK, serious now. Creacrap starts with the conclusion. They “know” it’s correct. It’s why our dear SC writes the word truth with a capital and in red.
Everything and anything that seems to confirm that truth hence must be correct, even if that everything and anything seems to contradict each other. If that’s so it’s nothing but the result of human imperfection, ie Original Sin.
I refer to the last paragraph of Bertrand Russell’s chapter on Thomas of Aquino (I’m too lazy to type it over now). Creacrap thinking is a perversion of something that already was incorrect. Thomas of A. can be excused, creacrappers can’t.
@ChrisS: now we only need a composer to write some sad music for your elegy.