We watched a movie about the Burgess Shale during lab.
The Burgess Shale is located in Canada. It's a big ol' shale, or a sort of monolithic... monolith. It's a fossil field day! People love it!
The thing is, this shale shows a serious leap between the Precambrian and Cambrian Eras, via layers in the sedimentary rock.
In the layers from the Precambrian Period, there are very few-- if any-- fossils suggesting the existence of complex organisms.
In the layer above, however, bam! all sorts of complex critters!
The movie we watched, "Darwin's Dilemma," basically screamed for an hour that the stark difference between the sedimentary layers of the Precambrian period (complex-organism free) and the Cambrian period (all sorts of complex creatures) is evidence for intelligent design.
And if you believe in intelligent design, then, yeah, it doesn't disprove it.
The movie continually referred to some quotes plucked out-of-context from Darwin's Origin of Species.
If I remember correctly, it was something like "...highly problematic." or "I cannot be certain..."
(I don't usually take notes during movies, but I'm beginning to see that I probably should.)
The movie suggested that the appearance of complex organisms can be pinpointed not only to a single day, but to a span of two minutes wherein a "burst of creativity" occurred.
I would have liked to have seen a video that was not produced by the Discovery Institute (who have produced such other blockbusters as A Case for a Creator and The Intelligent Design Collection.
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