Re: oecies just appear in the strata asz

On 5/6/24 7:13 PM, Ron Dean wrote:

Mark Isaak wrote:

On 5/3/24 6:47 PM, Ron Dean wrote:

The evidence shows that almost all modern phyla appeared or was placed on the planet during the Cambrian.

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Correction: The evidence shows that *most, but far from all,* modern *animal* phyla, and perhaps some fungus phyla, appeared on the planet during the Cambrian. (I don't expect you to remember this correction any more than you have failed to remember it the last few times you were told.)
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You did not read the statement which is so typical, yet you committed on it. I did _not_ write all, rather I wrote almost all. And the subject of this topic was animal phyla, not plant phyla and not
not fungi phyla.

I read the "almost all." It is wrong. Most, but not "almost all", animal phyla appeared at various times in the Cambrian.
And not talking about plants does not make them go away.
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Mark Isaak
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