James Tour
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 15 Dec
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the Cambrian explosion is that you went from about 540 million years ago, is presumed when this thing happened, is all of a sudden you burst on the scene with all these new species, all these new life forms.
And it happened over a short period of time, little over 500 million years ago, is what the fossil record is suggesting.
You don't see transitional forms.
You don't see transitional forms before... They just appear.
They just appear, as if God spoke it into existence, as if God said...
Let these kind form.
There is an explosion.
And even firm people like Stephen Gould, who was a staunch evolutionist, said, you know, this thing just pops out here.
And so he spoke about... Wait, but doesn't that kind of blow up the theory right there?
Yes, it does.
And there is not.
And there is not.
And that's where he came up with this idea of what he called punctuated equilibrium.
Everything is in stasis.
Then all of a sudden, boom, it happened.
And then it stays.
What does that mean?
Punctuated, that was his definition of this.
So I'm not alone in this.
I mean, Levine, Wagner, Davidson, Irwin, these are key biologists are saying these,
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