I must admit Paul, the Video is very interesting if rather long.
My personal rather hurried thoughts came to mind rather quickly
When it comes to the Why, Where, and How life started here on Earth
....None of us want to believe in fairy tales, do we?
Every correct honest and science minded person would like to know the truth.
However the truth was not available 6000+ years ago.....Genesis was written by the cleverest men of their time, Over time, historical items were added by different groups of peoples.
Every different group of peoples in the world have their own even similar Bibles. They became similar due to cultural communication, where it happened..
A large proportion of peoples in the world treat the Bible as a Fairy tale with with later added local histories.
Nothing wrong in that....it was, and still is accepted as the truth, by many peoples.
The problem is, it does not answer my underlined question above.
Still yet is another large proportion of peoples that talk about an all seeing, and all encompassing invisible God-like Father, who created our world and who obviously should look out for us.
Thats another set of truths accepted by an larger group of (religious) peoples.
Both ideas still don't answer the underlined question above, and so a more modern and recent idea was formulated, called Creationism.
Creationism trys to use semi-scientific arguements in their hunt for the truth and to validate its points.
Creationists, deny Evolution.....because no-one has ever found Transitional life forms that would prove evolution as a fact to them.
That said- they cleverly accept the historical Biblical accounts (not wanting to upset the Bible thumpers) and state that Life must have started, been created, formed,
and controlled by an Intelligent Source.
Its a clever but unproven idea.
Nobody wants Fairy stories....we would all like the truth
If no transitional Life has been found....it may mean that we hav'nt looked around hard enough.
That does not mean that Creationism has to be correct, or even accepted.
Creationism makes a good point...that after the Cambrian explosion, there was no fossil records of the evolutionary theory that Darwin was so desperate find, to enable him to back up and prove his theory of Evolution.
Yet there are thousands of later records proving Evolution, ..... fish came out of the sea, developed lungs, and walked the Earth...continuing to develop, as did plant life.
The problem is that Creationists do not accept Evolution, because no fossil records later
than Cambrian show any signs of Oxygen breathing small animals.
They believe that all the animals that came later...were a product of Intelligent design.
That gave them eyes to see with, feet to run with, arms to fight with, and brains to survive, all courtesy of Intelligent design. There was an explosion of different animals, the reasons I will discuss later.
Since there are gaps in Creationism, and gaps in Evolution.....it follows that there is not
enough information to produce the truth, one way or another.
Truth is truth...it may take very many years into the future to find it, but eventually another more correct idea will come along, and tend to push out all our old ideas.
The more correct the answer, the quicker its acceptance.
I would like to throw in some (to me) obvious ideas regarding the lack of post Cambrian life.
Tribolites in all their beautiful forms are found all over the world in the mountain ranges of Wales, Canada, and China. All found about the same height above sea level
Remember they were all fossilised on the sea floor, covered by silt, sand or fine dust.
And then the records show, they were no more. Life died.
I would like to posit that they died because of a sudden large amount of dust covered them so thickly that it killed their food source, even making it difficult for
them to move around, plus with no food they died ---all over the world.
Pauls film shows that the Tribolytes fed upon all the soft bodied microscopic egg shaped embryo life that had existed for 60 million years before the Cambrian Tribolytes evolved.
All of the Cambrian fossils show that they had compact articulated bodies, complete with legs, mouth and anus.
Then they died everywhere...I'm suggesting the shallow seabeds all over the world were covered in a fine silt.
Life had to start again. Soft bodied life along sea-shores, developed and ate their own developing soft life.
They could not nibble Tribolyte's for food, they were hard shelled and fossilising under silt.
These new soft bodied creatures were not even found together with Tribolytes, or above them in the strata.
These were the development of new soft life , that eventually developed into Jelly fish, articulated worms and fish........Oh yes many millions of years later.
Sorry I am writing quickly, and not bothering about looking up Epoch dates.
I would also like to suggest that this new soft bodied life
after death, did not survive in the strong sea tides around the worlds shallow coasts. Dead they left no trace.
Later when all the different Phyla, left the sea shore and eventually ventured inland to die...THEN they became the sudden explosion of the very many different fossils found, in the world that the Creationists attribute to an Intelligence Source.
At that time, there must have been many different animals developing aplenty.
But the newly developed dead ones must have been battered to pieces in the strong surf tides
Which is why nobody. including Creationists has found any of this new animal life that evolution was evolving,...until they walked lived and died inland.
The continents separated slowly, leaving shallow seas, when these tiny animals left the sea, and populated various places inland, and died inland. Only then could the modern archeologists dig down, find and place that multitude of animals into the evolutionry catalogue.
My idea is- that there will never be any earlier evolutionary transitional animals to be found, they were all destroyed and battered by the surf.
So eat your heart out Creationists.
We mine for coal, drill for oil, change the valleys to build dams, but no Transitional animal life has been found, as yet.
Life began in the sea, the various types of animals developed on the sea shores. They died leaving no trace util they walked inland.
Is the above a possible answer?
We dont know the answers, regarding Earths life. But you can be sure what we believe in today has a percentage of fairy story, and incorrect data attached to it.
