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Congratulations to Carmen and her group who will have worked extra hard on this amber dream, seeing as it covers early insect evolution and the gingko gymnosperm pollen. Two very difficult areas where you have to tread carefully.Let's have a lot more support for people who dedicate their time to unresolved questions about our earth and waste less on the dross

Questions:
1. Did they perform a C-14 dating test on these specimens or the amber?
2. How can ANY organic material last for 100 million years? How do they KNOW that it lasted 100 million years? Was someone there to record the first encasement and left a record for posterity with a nicely dated document? Basically, just how did they date the specimens and what assumptions are built into that dating method?
3. How did plants "evolve" from a single celled organism? This tiny little conundrum hasn't been answered yet. Furthermore, right now there's great controversy over ANY evolution of plants. It would appear that plants defy any evolutionary classification system - for the simple reason that they never did "evolve".
4. How did plants live independently of the insects? Or how did the insect live independently of the plants BEFORE they "co-evolved". If there wasn't any such independence then we have a miraculous simultaneous co-existence.

1.By applying some logic both! I know i would.

2. Yea you got it right there as God left the records there in the Carbon.

3. Lol try reading some real books not just religiouse propaganda spooned out of the Tea Party Cult.

4.Read the above answer labeled 3. Assuming you can bear the strain!!!

@kevinrtrs - Answers (in Science).

1. Why would anyone use radiocarbon dating on a sample so old? C-14 is good up to about 60,000 yrs. After that, C-14, being an unstable isotope, radioactively decays beyond a level to be useful in dating techniques. Thankfully, geology and paleo-biology can be used together to solve many dating problems. I encourage you to look them up.

2. See answer 1 and read vigorously. However, many people require several years of education to fully grasp the wealth of information humans have accumulated over centuries of intense study from many different scientific disciplines.

3. Actually, the conundrum you speak of is very well understood. The simplest plants are single-celled green algae. Much like the animal kingdom, these tiny lifeforms have chromosomes, which is an organized structure of DNA. DNA is the basic building block of life. I encourage you to read up on it.

4. No miracles involved. Ecosystems change every moment of every day. Read!!

guys guys stop answering kevins pseudo questions, he don't care about your or anyone's else answers and no he don't care to do some research or read about it or learn anything. he is on phys org , since many years, all those questions were answered to him many many times by different people who also provided him topics to research and read about , but all that proved to be useless, cause he again ask same old questions that were answered so many times. and even if you answered him now, on next article about an topic like this, he will ask again those same questions, witch will be answered again, and then on next article , all will be same again.... there is no point to try to teach anything to him or give him any answers , cause he think that science is EVIL , devils work , and he will never learn anything

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guys guys stop answering kevins pseudo questions, he don't care about your or anyone's else answers and no he don't care to do some research or read about it or learn anything. he is on phys org , since many years, all those questions were answered to him many many times by different people who also provided him topics to research and read about , but all that proved to be useless, cause he again ask same old questions that were answered so many times. and even if you answered him now, on next article about an topic like this, he will ask again those same questions, witch will be answered again, and then on next article , all will be same again.... there is no point to try to teach anything to him or give him any answers , cause he think that science is EVIL , devils work , and he will never learn anything

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