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To: Greg or e who wrote (17946)	7/11/2001 6:33:58 AM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 82486

Your research is out of date, Greg... there are smaller fossils from 3.5B years ago onwards. The record isn't complete, possibly never will be (as not every example of every species happens to have been perfectly preserved and then found) but it's improving. The 'explosion' of species - over tens of millions of years - did not come from nothing. Fossils - more than unicellular - from earlier times are hard to preserve because they're fragile, without hard parts. Microfossils can be well preserved (less complex 'bodies'), but hard to find because they're small... And we don't have great expanses of explored sedimentary rock from pre-Cambrian times; one of the reasons for the dating of Cambrian rocks is that they were there, exposed, to be explored... As for subsequent to the Cambrian, how many generations of ammonites do you need? Incidentally, do you believe dinosaur bones (etc.) are relics from the Flood, or were placed there by God for a laugh, or by Satan to confuse; or do you believe dinosaurs evolved from smaller reptiles and over tens of millions of years developed into a huge range of now-extinct creatures?