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A New Approach to Earth History

About the origin of the Earth and the creatures that multiplied on it.

  • Home
    • Why a new approach is needed
    • Signposts and blind alleys
    • Did you know?
    • No one wants to be an extremist
  • Current explanations don’t work
    • Problems with creationism
    • Problems with evolutionism
  • A record of Earth’s recolonisation
    • 1. The significance of fossils
    • 2. The Hadean cataclysm
    • 3. Water everywhere
    • 4. New land in the Archaean
    • 5. Recovery of marine communities
    • 6. The first steps from sea to land
    • 7. The land turns green
    • 8. Insects and other creepy crawlies
    • 9. The first tetrapods
    • 10. Rising fast: the first trees
  • Before the Cataclysm
    • Creation in six days
    • The antediluvian world
    • Antediluvian fauna and flora
    • The tradition in ancient Sumer
  • The old world destroyed
    • 1. The birth of the solar system
    • 2. A highly disturbed childhood
    • 3. Chondritic meteorites
    • 4. Piecing asteroids back together
    • 5. Asteroids, comets and moons
    • 6. Water in the heavens
    • 7. Impacts or explosions from within?
    • 8. How many exploded planets this side of Neptune?
    • 9. Events in real time
  • Transitional fossils – the top ten
    • 1. Fish to amphibian
    • 2. Amphibian to reptile
    • 3. Reptile to mammal
    • 4. Land reptile to marine
    • 5. The origin of turtles
    • 6. From dinosaur to bird
    • 7. Lizard to snake
    • 8. Manatees and dugongs
    • 9. Terrestrial ungulate to whale
    • 10. Ape to man
  • The age of the Earth
    • How old is the solar system?
    • How old is the Earth?
    • Maybe the present is the key to the past after all?
    • Rhythmic chalks and flints
    • Annual cyclicity in the Jurassic
    • Fast-accumulating tidal beds
    • Tidal beds in the Alps
    • The strontium isotope curve
    • The true duration of the Phanerozoic
    • Ussher and the genealogy problem
  • Images / overviews
    • Two views of geological time
    • The sequence of rocks in time
    • Time out of all proportion?
    • Detailed stratigraphic chart
    • Overview of the fossil record
    • Oxford’s exceptional fossils
    • Diversity over time
    • The insect explosion
    • The mammal explosion
    • Effects of a higher speed of light
    • Sedimentary cycles and real time
    • Our cratered solar system
  • Key concepts
    • Ecological succession
    • Recolonisation and plant fossil order
    • Plate tectonics (continental drift)
    • Darwin’s last words
  • Thinking creation through
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Creation distinct from evolution
    • 3. The creation of matter
    • 4. Let there be light
    • 5. A special place in the universe
    • 6. Existence itself implies creation
    • 8. The speed of light
  • Mysteries of the cnidarians
    • Tales of Cambrian jellyfish
    • Twenty-four eyes but no brain
    • The Portuguese man-o’-war
  • Other in-depth discussions
    • The Gosse problem
    • Evolution of the genome
    • Intentional biological repair mechanisms
    • A critique of “The Genesis Flood”
  • Genesis 6-11 and other texts
    • The primeval tradition of all mankind
    • The text of Genesis 7-8
    • The Cataclysm – more than a flood
    • The chronology of Genesis 7-8
    • Flood texts from Mesopotamia
    • Babel and its after-effects
    • The Incantation of Nudimmud
  • A prophecy of what must happen soon
    • The Apocalypse – an introduction
    • Author’s testimony
    • One like a son of Adam
    • The state of the Church
    • A vision of the throne
    • The scroll and the six seals
    • The 144,000 proclaim the gospel
    • The six trumpets
    • The two witnesses and last trumpet
    • The woman, the man and the dragon
    • The two beasts
    • The harvest of the Earth
    • The seven bowls of God’s fury
    • Babylon the Great
    • The fall of Babylon the Great
    • The marriage feast/banquet of God
    • Beginning and end of the kingdom
    • The holy city Jerusalem
    • Concluding words
    • Daniel: interpreter of visions
    • 70 years and 70 times 7 years
    • Appendix 1. Creation texts
    • Appendix 2. Resurrection texts
  • The last days
    • COVID-19 and lawlessness
    • The heir of the universe
    • Jerusalem, past and future
    • Hades, Tartarus and Gehenna
  • British geological museums
  • About us
  • Links and further reading
  • Contact

The insect explosion

Insects - the Carboniferous explosion
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  • Home
    • Why a new approach is needed
    • Signposts and blind alleys
    • Did you know?
    • No one wants to be an extremist
  • Current explanations don’t work
    • Problems with creationism
    • Problems with evolutionism
  • A record of Earth’s recolonisation
    • 1. The significance of fossils
    • 2. The Hadean cataclysm
    • 3. Water everywhere
    • 4. New land in the Archaean
    • 5. Recovery of marine communities
    • 6. The first steps from sea to land
    • 7. The land turns green
    • 8. Insects and other creepy crawlies
    • 9. The first tetrapods
    • 10. Rising fast: the first trees
  • Before the Cataclysm
    • Creation in six days
    • The antediluvian world
    • Antediluvian fauna and flora
    • The tradition in ancient Sumer
  • The old world destroyed
    • 1. The birth of the solar system
    • 2. A highly disturbed childhood
    • 3. Chondritic meteorites
    • 4. Piecing asteroids back together
    • 5. Asteroids, comets and moons
    • 6. Water in the heavens
    • 7. Impacts or explosions from within?
    • 8. How many exploded planets this side of Neptune?
    • 9. Events in real time
  • Transitional fossils – the top ten
    • 1. Fish to amphibian
    • 2. Amphibian to reptile
    • 3. Reptile to mammal
    • 4. Land reptile to marine
    • 5. The origin of turtles
    • 6. From dinosaur to bird
    • 7. Lizard to snake
    • 8. Manatees and dugongs
    • 9. Terrestrial ungulate to whale
    • 10. Ape to man
  • The age of the Earth
    • How old is the solar system?
    • How old is the Earth?
    • Maybe the present is the key to the past after all?
    • Rhythmic chalks and flints
    • Annual cyclicity in the Jurassic
    • Fast-accumulating tidal beds
    • Tidal beds in the Alps
    • The strontium isotope curve
    • The true duration of the Phanerozoic
    • Ussher and the genealogy problem
  • Images / overviews
    • Two views of geological time
    • The sequence of rocks in time
    • Time out of all proportion?
    • Detailed stratigraphic chart
    • Overview of the fossil record
    • Oxford’s exceptional fossils
    • Diversity over time
    • The insect explosion
    • The mammal explosion
    • Effects of a higher speed of light
    • Sedimentary cycles and real time
    • Our cratered solar system
  • Key concepts
    • Ecological succession
    • Recolonisation and plant fossil order
    • Plate tectonics (continental drift)
    • Darwin’s last words
  • Thinking creation through
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Creation distinct from evolution
    • 3. The creation of matter
    • 4. Let there be light
    • 5. A special place in the universe
    • 6. Existence itself implies creation
    • 8. The speed of light
  • Mysteries of the cnidarians
    • Tales of Cambrian jellyfish
    • Twenty-four eyes but no brain
    • The Portuguese man-o’-war
  • Other in-depth discussions
    • The Gosse problem
    • Evolution of the genome
    • Intentional biological repair mechanisms
    • A critique of “The Genesis Flood”
  • Genesis 6-11 and other texts
    • The primeval tradition of all mankind
    • The text of Genesis 7-8
    • The Cataclysm – more than a flood
    • The chronology of Genesis 7-8
    • Flood texts from Mesopotamia
    • Babel and its after-effects
    • The Incantation of Nudimmud
  • A prophecy of what must happen soon
    • The Apocalypse – an introduction
    • Author’s testimony
    • One like a son of Adam
    • The state of the Church
    • A vision of the throne
    • The scroll and the six seals
    • The 144,000 proclaim the gospel
    • The six trumpets
    • The two witnesses and last trumpet
    • The woman, the man and the dragon
    • The two beasts
    • The harvest of the Earth
    • The seven bowls of God’s fury
    • Babylon the Great
    • The fall of Babylon the Great
    • The marriage feast/banquet of God
    • Beginning and end of the kingdom
    • The holy city Jerusalem
    • Concluding words
    • Daniel: interpreter of visions
    • 70 years and 70 times 7 years
    • Appendix 1. Creation texts
    • Appendix 2. Resurrection texts
  • The last days
    • COVID-19 and lawlessness
    • The heir of the universe
    • Jerusalem, past and future
    • Hades, Tartarus and Gehenna
  • British geological museums
  • About us
  • Links and further reading
  • Contact
  • Home
    • Why a new approach is needed
    • Signposts and blind alleys
    • Did you know?
    • No one wants to be an extremist
  • Current explanations don’t work
    • Problems with creationism
    • Problems with evolutionism
  • A record of Earth’s recolonisation
    • 1. The significance of fossils
    • 2. The Hadean cataclysm
    • 3. Water everywhere
    • 4. New land in the Archaean
    • 5. Recovery of marine communities
    • 6. The first steps from sea to land
    • 7. The land turns green
    • 8. Insects and other creepy crawlies
    • 9. The first tetrapods
    • 10. Rising fast: the first trees
  • Before the Cataclysm
    • Creation in six days
    • The antediluvian world
    • Antediluvian fauna and flora
    • The tradition in ancient Sumer
  • The old world destroyed
    • 1. The birth of the solar system
    • 2. A highly disturbed childhood
    • 3. Chondritic meteorites
    • 4. Piecing asteroids back together
    • 5. Asteroids, comets and moons
    • 6. Water in the heavens
    • 7. Impacts or explosions from within?
    • 8. How many exploded planets this side of Neptune?
    • 9. Events in real time
  • Transitional fossils – the top ten
    • 1. Fish to amphibian
    • 2. Amphibian to reptile
    • 3. Reptile to mammal
    • 4. Land reptile to marine
    • 5. The origin of turtles
    • 6. From dinosaur to bird
    • 7. Lizard to snake
    • 8. Manatees and dugongs
    • 9. Terrestrial ungulate to whale
    • 10. Ape to man
  • The age of the Earth
    • How old is the solar system?
    • How old is the Earth?
    • Maybe the present is the key to the past after all?
    • Rhythmic chalks and flints
    • Annual cyclicity in the Jurassic
    • Fast-accumulating tidal beds
    • Tidal beds in the Alps
    • The strontium isotope curve
    • The true duration of the Phanerozoic
    • Ussher and the genealogy problem
  • Images / overviews
    • Two views of geological time
    • The sequence of rocks in time
    • Time out of all proportion?
    • Detailed stratigraphic chart
    • Overview of the fossil record
    • Oxford’s exceptional fossils
    • Diversity over time
    • The insect explosion
    • The mammal explosion
    • Effects of a higher speed of light
    • Sedimentary cycles and real time
    • Our cratered solar system
  • Key concepts
    • Ecological succession
    • Recolonisation and plant fossil order
    • Plate tectonics (continental drift)
    • Darwin’s last words
  • Thinking creation through
    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Creation distinct from evolution
    • 3. The creation of matter
    • 4. Let there be light
    • 5. A special place in the universe
    • 6. Existence itself implies creation
    • 8. The speed of light
  • Mysteries of the cnidarians
    • Tales of Cambrian jellyfish
    • Twenty-four eyes but no brain
    • The Portuguese man-o’-war
  • Other in-depth discussions
    • The Gosse problem
    • Evolution of the genome
    • Intentional biological repair mechanisms
    • A critique of “The Genesis Flood”
  • Genesis 6-11 and other texts
    • The primeval tradition of all mankind
    • The text of Genesis 7-8
    • The Cataclysm – more than a flood
    • The chronology of Genesis 7-8
    • Flood texts from Mesopotamia
    • Babel and its after-effects
    • The Incantation of Nudimmud
  • A prophecy of what must happen soon
    • The Apocalypse – an introduction
    • Author’s testimony
    • One like a son of Adam
    • The state of the Church
    • A vision of the throne
    • The scroll and the six seals
    • The 144,000 proclaim the gospel
    • The six trumpets
    • The two witnesses and last trumpet
    • The woman, the man and the dragon
    • The two beasts
    • The harvest of the Earth
    • The seven bowls of God’s fury
    • Babylon the Great
    • The fall of Babylon the Great
    • The marriage feast/banquet of God
    • Beginning and end of the kingdom
    • The holy city Jerusalem
    • Concluding words
    • Daniel: interpreter of visions
    • 70 years and 70 times 7 years
    • Appendix 1. Creation texts
    • Appendix 2. Resurrection texts
  • The last days
    • COVID-19 and lawlessness
    • The heir of the universe
    • Jerusalem, past and future
    • Hades, Tartarus and Gehenna
  • British geological museums
  • About us
  • Links and further reading
  • Contact
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