A Paleontologist on Why the “Cambrian Explosion” Label Persists

Episode 1115 April 23, 2018 00:18:49
A Paleontologist on Why the “Cambrian Explosion” Label Persists
Intelligent Design the Future
A Paleontologist on Why the “Cambrian Explosion” Label Persists

Apr 23 2018 | 00:18:49

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Sarah Chaffee interviews German paleo-entomologist Günter Bechly on the Cambrian explosion, the relatively sudden appearance of new body plans in the fossil record an estimated 550 million years ago. Dr. Bechly explains how the Cambrian explosion has been challenged by non-experts with an anti-ID bias, yet remains very much a real event in the opinion of specialists in the field — and with the continuing failure of Darwinian explanations, a strong source of evidential support for intelligent design.

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