And the funny thing is, Genesis is clearly talking about literal days so the WTS attempt at keeping in sight of science is only of use to people who will believe what they need to believe anyway.
WHAT IS JW view on trilobithes(sp?)
by badboy 16 Replies latest jw friends
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MissingLink
To be fair - they DO say that these creative "days" are not literal days or set lenghts of time.
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gaiagirl
Before the Cambrian, there were complex, multicellular creatures, but none had hard shells. As a result, fossils from before the Cambrian are less common than after, simply because having a hard shell dramatically increases the chances of becoming a fossil.
So, the apparant absence of fossils prior to the Cambrian led some to conclude that life appeared at that time, already developed.
In recent decades quite a few fossils from BEFORE the Cambrian have been found. Some are obviously evolutionary ancestors to Cambrian and later forms. Others appear to be lines which died out, and are not related to existing forms.
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blondie
The WTS once taught that a creative day was 7,000 years long (now an ambiguous thousands of years since the 1975 debacle), meaning that by the time Adam and Eve were created, only 42,000 years had gone by. They discount the current scientific method of analyzing how long tribolites were in existence. But it is hard to pretend they never existed.
*** g01 5/22 pp. 25-26 The Underground Splendor of Carlsbad Caverns ***According to geologists, these fossils provide a clue to the origins of Carlsbad Caverns. How so?
Long ago, it seems, algae, sponges, and mollusks thrived here. The whole region was a warm inland sea. Coral, the mainstay of modern reefs, was relatively rare. Some of the more exotic marine life included the now extinct trilobites and ammonoids. Many of the ammonoids lived within large, coiled chambered shells resembling those of the present-day nautilus. We were thrilled to see one of those shells embedded in the rock along the trail!
Apparently, limestone reefs developed as fossil remains of sea life and other particles piled up and cemented together. Because the sea floor sank, the reef complex thickened to more than 1,500 feet [500meters]. Eventually the sea retreated, and the reefs became deeply buried by sediments. Much later, the land rose, the sediments eroded, and the reefs emerged as mountains.
*** g00 1/22 p. 13 Joachim Barrande’s "Kingly Gift" ***Joachim Barrande was born in 1799 in Saugues, a small town in southern France. He studied engineering in Paris, specializing in road and bridge construction. At the same time, he took courses in natural science. It soon became apparent that he was gifted in that field. After graduation Barrande began working as an engineer, but when he caught the eye of the French royal family, he was invited to tutor the grandson of King Charles X. The subject—natural science. In 1830, as a result of a revolution in France, the royal family was exiled and eventually went to Bohemia. Barrande joined them there. It was in Prague, the capital of Bohemia, that Barrande again took up engineering.
As an expert in road and bridge construction, Barrande was assigned to survey the countryside around Prague for a proposed horse-drawn railway. While he was going about his work, Barrande noticed that there was an abundance of fossils in the area. Taking a closer look, he was amazed to discover striking similarities between the strata of Bohemia and the strata of Britain. His passion for the natural sciences rekindled, Barrande ultimately quit engineering and, for the next 44 years, devoted his life to the study of paleontology and geology.
Barrande’s classroom was the fossil-rich countryside of central Bohemia. Each day brought new discoveries of exceptional beauty and variety. By 1846 he was ready to publish the initial results of his research. In this work he described and classified new trilobite species, which once inhabited the bottom of the sea.
Barrande continued collecting and studying fossils. Then, in 1852, he published the first volume of a monograph, or treatise, entitled TheSilurianSystemofCentralBohemia. Volume I discussed the trilobites. This was followed by volumes devoted to crustaceans, chondrichthyes, cephalopods, lamellibranchs, and other fossilized organisms. During his lifetime he published 22 volumes in which he described in detail more than 3,500 species. The work is one of the largest monographs in the field of paleontology.
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badboy
I WONDER WHAT HEIR VIEW O THEIR PURPOSE IS?
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badboy
BTTTT
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nelly136
Interestingly, the same book observes: "Some extinct trilobites, in fact, developed more complex and efficient eyes than any living arthropod possesses." 20
developed???????? they can't surely mean evolved can they?