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To: TigerPaw who wrote (62572)	11/12/2014 2:56:11 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

I get it ... you propose that the earth is unchanging most of the time, then suddenly there are extreme changes and those prompt rapid evolution. "The organisms are now changing faster." But why do they change faster? Second, is the earth usually unchanging and stable? Look at the last couple million years, when the earth has gone into and out of a number of ice ages which changed the earth's temperature, plant life, linked continents by exposed land bridges and then separated them when seas arose again. Surely this should have brought vast increases in new creatures. But did it?