Sticking a fork in Natural Selection (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, December 06, 2011, 23:19 (4714 days ago) @ xeno6696

The problem here is that whenever you bring this up... please define a sudden jump, and then explain how the "snapshot" observation of the fossil record is false... because to me, Evolution has always been something that could speed up and slow down based on need, so I don't see where the Cambrian Explosion really, fully, argues against the traditional view of evolution.

Gould himself, to paraphrase, noted the jumps as a dark paleontologic secrets. The Cambrian is a huge jump. These animals have organ systems and eyes. Legs, very complete nervous systems. There is nothing before this that comes close. There is no gradual approach to the Cambrian. It comes out of nowhere and everything present now is based on it and on the later plant bloom. It is gradual from then on.