quoting from the web site:
> I note that a few weeks ago--in early February, 1998--the discovery
> of the first evidence of the phosphaticized embryos of a number of
> different phyla in very late Precambrian rocks was announced, justifying
> the predictions of all paleontologists that the early forms were there,
> and we might someday discover their fossils (sometimes soft-bodied
> organisms are fossilized by a variety of ethods, in this case
> phosphatization).
Steven, where can we learn more about this new fossil evidence?
As to your web site, I would say it is a diligent and competent effort,
but really the same old stuff. I think evolutionary science would be
better off if it were acknowledged that the Cambrian Boom is quite a
mystery and that conventional theory does not explain it satisfactorily.
Your implication (elsewhere in your text) that conventional gradual
evolution underlies it, but that the lack of hard parts precludes our
observing the process, is a speculation without support. The fishes
that popped (apparently) into existence do have hard parts, and we do
have pre-Cambrian fossils of soft-bodied organisms.
-- Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noevalley.com