Even Darwin noticed: "several
> of the main divisions of the animal kingdom suddenly appear in the lowest
> known fossiliferous rocks." Suddenly means that life evolved from
> jellyfish to insects, fish, salamanders, mollusks and others 'overnight'.
In geologic time scales, "overnight" is several 100,000 to a couple million
years. The Cambrian started approximately 570 million years ago and lasted
approximately 70 million years. So overnight is "equivalent" to about 20
million years. Well within the margin of error for any kind of radioactive
aging techniques, and certainly within the margin of error or stratigraphic
aging.
> So, when was the last time you witnessed the evolution of a new, non-
> interbreeding, genus and species?
Has anyone been alive long enough (ie overnight) to witness such
evolutionary event?
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