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To: Brumar89 who wrote (37858)	6/23/2013 2:57:57 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 69300

Only religious right can come up with bozo backgrounds as this picture, are those atoms or party balloons? Wheres the helium tank with pressure gauge to make it really look scientific? Btw, that was the critism of Matzke, the usual inept & dated diagrams used by SM in his latest moneymaker, attempting to be science . The Bozo & Forrest Gump of Science

To: Brumar89 who wrote (37858)	6/23/2013 3:01:37 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

Nicke Matzke review , more truth sir : Darwin’s Doubt is festooned with illustrations, mostly redrawn from other sources in a rather strange cartoon-like format also found in other recent ID books. However, there is never an illustration like these: A. THE “EXPLOSION” TOOK AT LEAST 30 MILLION YEARS, AND WAS NOT REALLY “INSTANTANEOUS” NOR PARTICULARLY “SUDDEN” Instead, we are treated to ultrasimple figures of the times of origin of “phyla”, which date back at least to the 1970s, although they’ve been endlessly copied by creationists/ID proponents and remain current in those circles because they convey the impression of “sudden” origin. Figures resembling this: The reality is that, even on the most conservative interpretation of the fossil record which relegates all of the classic Ediacaran fossils to the stem below the bilaterian common ancestor, or to cnidarians, or to even more remote positions, we still have this sequence observed in the fossil record: