30 Aug '13 16:57>
Originally posted by RJHindsWait a minute. First of all, are you really using the fossil record to argue this? Is this the best you got? This happened 580 million years ago! You're the one who keeps 'reminding' us that the entire Earth is only 6,000 years old.
You must have never heard of the Cambrian explosion. The term Cambrian explosion describes the geologically sudden appearance of animals in the fossil record during the Cambrian period of geologic time.
The Cambrian Explosion: Biology’s Big Bang
Stephen C. Meyer, Marcus Ross,Paul Nelson, and Paul Chien
http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id=639
The Instructor
Not only that, but there is considerable debate over this among leading biologists, even now. I do not think you or I are qualified in the slightest to be arguing about it.