{"id":24478,"date":"2023-08-25T22:47:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T05:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=24478"},"modified":"2025-03-12T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T23:00:35","slug":"from-bad-to-worse-for-darwinism-as-new-cambrian-explosion-finds-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/from-bad-to-worse-for-darwinism-as-new-cambrian-explosion-finds-arrive\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bad to Worse for Darwinism, as New Cambrian Explosion Finds Arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More bad news for Darwinism arrived after my\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/evolutionnews.org\/2023\/08\/taphonomy-study-shortens-cambrian-explosion-fuse\/\">last article<\/a>\u00a0about Cambrian Explosion. I showed there that taphonomic conditions should have produced Precambrian animal fossils had they existed. Now, some of the other props for\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/store\/product\/darwins-house-of-cards\/\">Darwin\u2019s House of Cards<\/a><\/em>\u00a0have been removed. Tom Bethell had said in that book, \u201cThe near-instant explosion of body plans is the opposite of what Darwin\u2019s theory predicts\u201d (p 134).<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oxygen Theory Deflated<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cNo, oxygen didn\u2019t catalyze the swift blossoming of Earth\u2019s first multicellular organisms,\u201d begins some news from the\u00a0<a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/science.ku.dk\/english\/press\/news\/2023\/life-on-earth-didnt-arise-as-described-in-textbooks\/\">University of Copenhagen<\/a>. \u201cLife on Earth didn\u2019t arise as described in textbooks.\u201d What? Textbooks wrong? Shocking!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that\u00a0<strong>we now know, with a high degree of certainty, that oxygen didn\u2019t control the development of life on Earth<\/strong>\u00a0provides us with\u00a0<strong>an entirely new story<\/strong>\u00a0about how life arose and what factors controlled this success,\u201d says the researcher, adding:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecifically, it means that\u00a0<strong>we need to rethink a lot of the things that we believed to be true from our childhood learning.<\/strong>\u00a0And\u00a0<strong>textbooks<\/strong>\u00a0need to be\u00a0<strong>revised and rewritten.<\/strong>\u201d [Emphasis added.]<\/p>\n<p>Textbooks had been saying, \u201cincreased oxygen levels triggered the evolutionary arrival of more advanced marine organisms.\u201d Scientists at the university, with international peers, claim that the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/evolutionnews.org\/2016\/01\/the_oxygen_theo\/\">oxygen theory<\/a>\u00a0\u201cis being disproved\u201d by measurements of oxygen levels in rocks dating from \u201cthe Avalon explosion, a forerunner era of the more famed Cambrian explosion.\u201d The Avalon Explosion they date at \u201cbetween 685 and 800 million years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Defying expectations<\/strong>, the result shows that Earth\u2019s oxygen concentrations\u00a0<strong>had not increased.<\/strong>\u00a0Indeed, levels remained 5-10 times lower than today, which is roughly how much oxygen there is at twice the height of Mount Everest.<\/p>\n<p>Evolutionists have a strained relationship with oxygen. They don\u2019t want it at the origin of life, but they were relying on it to power the Avalon and Cambrian Explosions. And in modern times, they struggle with the complexity of molecular machines that protect life from\u00a0<a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/evolutionnews.org\/2021\/07\/molecular-machine-safari\/\">Reactive Oxygen Species<\/a>\u00a0(ROS). Current atmospheric oxygen levels appear finely tuned for complex life, as biologist Michael Denton argues in\u00a0<em>Fire-Maker<\/em>. We have a Goldilocks value that balances the advantages of oxygen for metabolism against the disadvantages of too much or too little.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/evolutionnews.org\/2023\/08\/from-bad-to-worse-for-darwinism-as-new-cambrian-explosion-finds-arrive\/\">evolutionnews.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More bad news for Darwinism arrived after my\u00a0last article\u00a0about Cambrian Explosion. I showed there that taphonomic conditions should have produced Precambrian animal fossils had they existed. Now, some of the other props for\u00a0Darwin\u2019s House of Cards\u00a0have been removed. Tom Bethell had said in that book, \u201cThe near-instant explosion of body plans is the opposite of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/from-bad-to-worse-for-darwinism-as-new-cambrian-explosion-finds-arrive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From Bad to Worse for Darwinism, as New Cambrian Explosion Finds Arrive<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/watching-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6mO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25620,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24478\/revisions\/25620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}