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The Roots | |
The Roots performing in Toronto, Ontario on March 24, 2007. | |
Background information | |
Also known as | The Legendary Roots Crew, The Fifth Dynasty, The Square Roots |
Origin | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
Genres | Alternative hip hop, neo soul, jazz rap |
Years active | 1987–present |
Labels | Def Jam (2005–present) DGC, MCA, Interscope-Geffen-A&M (previous) |
Associated acts | Soulquarians, J Dilla, Jill Scott, Martin Luther, Jaguar Wright, Amel Larrieux, John Legend, Dave Chappelle, Erykah Badu, BT, Jazzyfatnastees, Big K.R.I.T., Jimmy Fallon, Elvis Costello |
Website | theroots.com |
Members | Black Thought Questlove Kamal Gray F. Knuckles Captain Kirk Douglas Damon "Tuba Gooding Jr." Bryson James Poyser Mark Kelley |
Past members | Kenyatta "Kid Crumbs" Warren Josh "Rubberband" Abrams Malik B. Rahzel Scott Storch Martin Luther Ben Kenney Scratch Dice Raw Hub Owen Biddle |
The Roots | |
The Roots performing in Toronto, Ontario on March 24, 2007. | |
Background information | |
Also known as | The Legendary Roots Crew, The Fifth Dynasty, The Square Roots |
Origin | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
Genres | Alternative hip hop, neo soul, jazz rap |
Years active | 1987–present |
Labels | Def Jam (2005–present) DGC, MCA, Interscope-Geffen-A&M (previous) |
Associated acts | Soulquarians, J Dilla, Jill Scott, Martin Luther, Jaguar Wright, Amel Larrieux, John Legend, Dave Chappelle, Erykah Badu, BT, Jazzyfatnastees, Big K.R.I.T., Jimmy Fallon, Elvis Costello |
Website | theroots.com |
Members | Black Thought Questlove Kamal Gray F. Knuckles Captain Kirk Douglas Damon "Tuba Gooding Jr." Bryson James Poyser Mark Kelley |
Past members | Kenyatta "Kid Crumbs" Warren Josh "Rubberband" Abrams Malik B. Rahzel Scott Storch Martin Luther Ben Kenney Scratch Dice Raw Hub Owen Biddle |
The Roots are an American Grammy Award-winning hip hop/neo soul band, formed in 1987 by Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The Roots are known for their jazzy, eclectic approach to hip hop which includes live instruments.[1] Malik B., Leonard "Hub", and Josh Abrams were added to the band, originally called the Square Roots.
Since their first independent album release, the band has released 10 studio albums, two EPs, and two collaboration albums, and has collaborated with a wide range of artists from different genres. The Roots have served as the house band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon since its premiere in 2009. The Roots' work has been repeatedly met with critical acclaim. About.com ranked the band #7 on its list of the 25 Best Hip Hop Groups of All-Time, describing them as "Hip hop's first legitimate band."[2]
Organix was the band's first album, released and sold independently. It was released in 1993. It generated enough industry buzz for offers from music labels, and the band signed with DGC/Geffen.
The Roots' first album for DGC, Do You Want More?!!!??!, was released in 1995. It was a moderate hit among alternative music fans due in part to the group's appearance at Lollapalooza. The band performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival that year. Touring guests, beatboxer Rahzel and producer Scott Storch, joined The Roots.[3]
The 1996 release Illadelph Halflife was the group's first album to break the Top 40 on the Billboard 200 chart,[3] spurred in part by MTV's airplay of the video for "What They Do" (a parody of rap video clichés)[4] and "Clones", which was their first single to reach the top five on the rap charts. "What They Do" was also the group's first single to hit the Top 40 of Billboard's charts, reaching a peak of #34. While continuing on the path of live instrumentation, the album's sound was somewhat darker.
The group released Things Fall Apart in 1999 (named after Things Fall Apart, a novel by Chinua Achebe, which in turn was named after a line from "The Second Coming" by W.B. Yeats). This was their breakthrough album, peaking at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 charts and earning a gold record, signifying U.S. sales of at least 500,000 units.[5] The album was eventually certified platinum in April, 2013. Mos Def contributed to the track entitled "Double Trouble". The track "Act Two" features African-Belgian band Zap Mama and Common. The track "You Got Me", a duet with R&B singer Erykah Badu and Eve and Jill Scott intended by Black Thought for the "unconscious" population,[6] peaked at No. 39 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts. At the 42nd Grammy Awards "You Got Me" won the award for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group[7] and the album was nominated for Best Rap Album.[8]
Steve Huey of the website allmusic perceived "a strong affinity for the neo-soul movement" in the album.[9] First-time cameos on Things Fall Apart for Philadelphia natives Beanie Sigel and Eve helped to earn them major record deals later (with Roc-A-Fella and Ruff Ryders, respectively). After this album, Dice Raw left the collective to record his solo debut album Reclaiming the Dead. In the summer, the band performed at the Woodstock '99 concert in New York state.[10]
Several members, including longtime member Malik B., left the group. In December 2001, The Roots backed Jay-Z for his MTV Unplugged concert.[11] With heightened popularity came mounting pressure. The Roots released Phrenology (named after the pseudoscience of phrenology) in 2002. Despite not charting as high as Things Fall Apart, reaching a peak of No. 28 on the charts, Phrenology was commercially successful, being certified gold, and earning a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Album. At the time, however, there came rumors that The Roots were losing interest in their signing with MCA.[3]
During this time, the band backed Jay-Z for his 2003 farewell concert in Madison Square Garden, and appeared in the accompanying Fade to Black concert film.
After Phrenology, Ben Kenney and Scratch both left the group; Kenney joined the rock band Incubus.[12] This culminated with the release of 2004's The Tipping Point, the byproduct of several jam sessions.[3] The album earned two more Grammy nominations: one for Best Urban/Alternative Performance for the track "Star/Pointro" and another for Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group for the track "Don't Say Nuthin'."[13] The Tipping Point peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard album chart. In 2005, Home Grown! The Beginner's Guide To Understanding The Roots, Volumes 1 & 2, a two-disc compilation album, was released. The Roots were among several performers on the 2006 film Dave Chappelle's Block Party, whose event took place on September 18, 2004[14] and was released on film two years later.[15]
Game Theory was released August 29, 2006, on Def Jam records. Questlove describes the album as being very dark and reflective of the political state in America.[16] The first single from the album, "Don't Feel Right", appeared on the internet in May 2006, and is available for free download on several websites. The album's first video, titled "The Don't Feel Right Trilogy", premiered on August 21, 2006, and features three songs, "In the Music", "Here I Come" and "Don't Feel Right". It earned an 83 on Metacritic and 2 Grammy Nominations. The late J Dilla is honoured on different occasions throughout the album. Track 1 is credited to be "Supervised by J Dilla". Track 13 "Can't Stop This" is devoted to his persona, the first part being an edited version of a track ("Time: The Donut of the Heart") of his Donuts album, released three days before his death. This version comprises vocals by Black Thought. Secondly, a string of kindred artists reminisce about J Dilla in the form of answering machine messages.
The Roots' eighth studio album, Rising Down, was released on April 29, 2008, the 16-year anniversary of the Los Angeles riots of 1992.
In the weeks before the album's release, the original first single "Birthday Girl", a radio-friendly collaboration with Fall Out Boy's Patrick Stump was removed from the album reportedly because it didn't fit in with the album's tone.[17] It remained as a digital download available from iTunes as a bonus track, as well as on international releases.
Picking up where Game Theory left off, the album maintains a dark and political tone, with Black Thought and several guests venting about the ills of society today. The album's guests include Chrisette Michele, Common, Mos Def, Saigon, Styles P, Talib Kweli, and Wale; it also features Philadelphia artists Dice Raw, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Peedi Crakk, Greg Porn, and Truck North, as well as former member Malik B. Rising Down features The Roots incorporating a more electronic and synth-heavy feel into their sound. Rising Down was released to critical acclaim, garnering an overall score of 80 on Metacritic.
The album's first single was "Rising Up" featuring Chrisette Michele and Wale.
How I Got Over reflects the relief the band felt at the end of the Bush administration and the beginning of the Obama presidency. Guests include Blu, Phonte and Patty Crash, whose song "Serve This Royalty" is covered on the album. Rather than relying on samples, the album was recorded live, with covers (including Celestial Blues, featuring the song's original artist, Andy Bey) being reinterpreted by the band.[18] The album was released on June 22, 2010.
On June 24, 2009, The Roots debuted the first single and title track from the album live on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The song features longtime Roots collaborator Dice Raw.[19]
The Roots collaborated with R&B singer John Legend on the album Wake Up!. The album was released on September 21, 2010, and was publicized two days later with a live concert at Terminal 5 in New York City with John Legend and Jennifer Hudson that was streamed on YouTube. On October 30, 2010 The Roots and John Legend played live at the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear in Washington, D.C.
The Roots collaborated with R&B singer Betty Wright on the 2011 album Betty Wright: The Movie, credited to Betty Wright and The Roots. The album, co-produced by Wright and Questlove, was nominated for a 2012 Grammy in the "Best Traditional R&B Performance".
The Roots released their thirteenth album Undun via Def Jam Records on December 6, 2011.[20] The first single "Make My" leaked on October 17, 2011. Undun is telling a story about their semi-fictional character, Redford Stephens. The album gravitates around Redford growing up in an urban landscape struggling with survival. He is forced to juxtapose between the choice of making something of himself or living a life of fast money and crime, and he chooses the life of crime. The album's name is inspired by The Guess Who's song "undun", and the character was named after the Sufjan Stevens song "Redford".[21] The album features artists like Aaron Livingston, Big K.R.I.T., Phonte, Dice Raw, Greg Porn, Truck North, Bilal, and Sufjan Stevens. The band went back to their original "roots", by returning to lyrics revolving around struggle and making something out of nothing.
The Roots and Elvis Costello released Wise Up Ghost on September 17, 2013 via Blue Note Records.[22] On July 22, 2013, they released a music video for the first single, "Walk Us Uptown."[23]
In a July 2012 tweet, Questlove said that the title of The Roots' next album will have the initials &TYSYC and that it is being recorded currently, with a different sound to expect than from Undun. In the November 12, 2012 issue of The New Yorker, Questlove revealed that the album is tentatively named & Then You Shoot Your Cousin...
When Jimmy Fallon becomes the host of The Tonight Show in February 2014, the Roots will become the house band for that show.
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The Roots' original lineup included Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter (MC) and Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson (drums), who were classmates at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts.[3] As they began to play at school and on the streets, they added bassist Josh "The Rubberband" Abrams, who went on to form the jazz group The Josh Abrams Quartet. They later added another MC Malik Abdul Basit-Smart ("Malik B."), a new bassist, Leonard Nelson Hubbard ("Hub"), and keyboardist Scott Storch. MC Kenyatta "Kid Crumbs" Warren, was a part of the group for their first album, Organix, but did not appear on any later albums. Another MC, Dice Raw, joined on for cameos in later albums. The Roots filled Storch's position with keyboardist, Kamal Gray, who continues to be a member. Kamal Gray has not played with the Roots on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon since April or May 2012. No explanation has been given for his disappearance. On the September 17th, 2012 episode, which was also the 700th Episode, Kamal Gray was back playing with The Roots. This marked his return from several months of absence, but confirms he is still a member of the band.
Beatboxer Rahzel was a member of the group from 1995 to 1999. Alongside Rahzel was vocal turntablist Scratch, who DJ'd for them during live concerts. However, he abruptly left in 2003. Malik B. left the group in 1999 due to drug problems but continued to record, making occasional cameos on future albums. Guitarist Ben Kenney, had a short stint with the group and contributed to their Phrenology album, but left to join Incubus as their bassist. A percussionist, F Knuckles, was added in 2002 and guitarist, Kirk Douglas (a.k.a. "Captain Kirk"), replaced Kenney. Martin Luther, a vocalist, toured with The Roots in 2003 and 2004 and contributed to the Tipping Point album. The group announced in August 2007 that longtime bassist, Leonard Hubbard, was leaving the group. Owen Biddle was the bassist from 2007-2011, followed by Mark Kelley.
The current members of The Roots are Black Thought (MC), Questlove (drums), Frank Knuckles (percussion; also a former Protégé of Questlove), and Cap'n Kirk (guitar). Recently, they have toured with sousaphonist Damon "Tuba Gooding Jr." Bryson and current bassist Mark Kelley[disambiguation needed].[24] For their performances on Jimmy Fallon, keyboardist James Poyser contributes additional keyboards.
The band announced on August 25, 2011 that Owen has left the band and will be replaced by Mark Kelley.[25]
Because the band members hail from Philadelphia and its surrounding area, they showed their support for the Phillies during the 2009 World Series against the Yankees, displaying Phillies memorabilia when performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. On the episode which aired the day after the Yankees clinched the title, Questlove stated "No comment!" on the show's intro (when he usually states the episode number), and had a Yankees logo purposely displayed upside-down on his drumset. In 2010, the group showed support for the Flyers during their run to the Stanley Cup Final by having the team logo on their drumset.
The band tours extensively, and their live sets are frequently hailed as the best in the genre.[26] Recently, the band played a concert in NYC's Radio City Music Hall with Common, Nas, Talib Kweli and Big Daddy Kane. They backed Jay-Z a third time, for his Reasonable Doubt Concert, a celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the release of his first album.
In 1994, The Roots appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation album, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool. The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African American community, was heralded as "Album of the Year" by Time magazine. They have been highly involved in many other Red Hot Organization productions, including the 1998 album Red Hot + Rhapsody and the 2001 album Red Hot + Indigo, a tribute to Duke Ellington.
The Roots have been featured in four movies: Dave Chappelle's Block Party, both performing album songs and playing as a backing band for other artists; Spike Lee's Bamboozled; Marc Levin's Brooklyn Babylon, in which Black Thought plays the protagonist, Solomon, and former band member Rahzel narrates; and Chasing Liberty, starring Mandy Moore. Black Thought and Questlove were both featured in the movie Brown Sugar. Black Thought made an appearance in the film Love Rome as Tariq Trotter, and Questlove currently appears in the recent documentary movie about TBC Brass Band called From the Mouthpiece on Back, which lists The Roots as one of the executive producers of the movie.
The band guest performed on August 25 and 26 with the Dave Matthews Band during their 2007 summer tour. Members of The Roots played in various forms as well as a whole band on DMB's back to back concerts at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin. In 2007 the band performed at an NAACP tribute to Bono, covering U2's "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and "Pride (In the Name of Love)". Black Thought mixed in lines from the band's own "False Media".[27]
The group hosts a highly anticipated jam session every year the night before the Grammys. The Roots jam session, produced by Okayplayer, Goodtime Girl Entertainment and Keldof, has been attended by everyone from Jay-Z, Beyoncé Knowles and Tom Cruise to Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven and Prince with impromptu performances from Snoop Dogg and Corrine Bailey Rae to Queen Latifah, Matisyahu, Fall Out Boy and Dave Chappelle.
Billed as The Roots, Questlove, Kirk and Owen made an appearance on The Colbert Report on April 15, 2008 when Stephen Colbert spent a week in Philadelphia prior to the 2008 Pennsylvania Democratic primary. During the appearance, they performed the intro song to the show, and closed the episode with a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.
The Roots are featured on the Men in Black Original Soundtrack (1997) with the song "The Notic" with neo-soul singer D'Angelo. The song "Here I Come" was featured in the movies Superbad and Hancock. "Here I Come" is also featured in many video games including Project Gotham Racing 4. The song "The Seed 2.0" featuring Cody ChesnuTT was featured in the movies Collateral and I Think I Love My Wife, as well as the Without a Trace episode "Candy." The song "Don't Say Nuthin" was featured in the first season episode, "Busey And The Beach" of HBO's Entourage. The song, "Guns Are Drawn", featuring Aaron Livingston, was featured in a season six episode of CBS' Cold Case.
They have performed on the popular kids show Yo Gabba Gabba, performing "Lovely, Love My Family" in 2008.
They also did a secret show while in Kentucky. The group had one of their famous jam sessions at the Oulipo Ballroom in 2009.
In March 2009, The Roots became the new official house band on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, with "Here I Come" as the show's theme. The Roots, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, and Taylor Hicks performed Rebecca Black's viral hit "Friday" on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show on April Fool's Day, 2011.
The Roots host the Roots Picnic, an annual all-day music festival in Philadelphia, PA, every June.
On Tuesday, November 22, 2011, United States Congresswoman and presidential candidate Michele Bachmann was a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. For her entrance, The Roots controversially played a snippet from Fishbone's 1985 song, "Lying Ass Bitch" resulting in apologies from Jimmy Fallon, The Roots, and NBC.
On Monday, January 2, 2012 they played during the NHL Winter Classic at Citizen's Bank Park in Philadelphia, PA.
Most recently, on October 13, 2012, The Roots appeared at Austin City Limits Music Festival (ACL) in Austin, Texas
On Saturday, July 27, 2013, The Roots performed at the Gathering of the Vibes Music Festival at Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Ct.
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A distinctive feature of The Roots albums is the way tracks are numbered. In most cases, The Roots use a continuous track numbering beginning with their first studio album Organix through all following albums:[29]
Some of the tracks are available only on particular editions of the respective album (e.g., on vinyl or on iTunes).


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It didn't take long before Insinna had a DJ name and an image — DJ Sinna-G, a sprightly house DJ with a multi-colored mohawk and a penchant for beat-matching Top 40 dance tracks with hits from the 1970s.
"It's what gets the most response from the crowd," Insinna says. "I think it's the reason I've gotten as far as I have, because I play music people can relate to."
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Like the diehard vinyl enthusiasts that came before her, she has a hard time parting with her CD collection.
She says she's not ready to give up the "slippage."
"If the beats-per-minute never deviate, you defeat the purpose of what you're doing," Insinna says. "Playing from CDs is a lot like playing from vinyl. You can still manipulate speed."
A night owl with boundless energy, Insinna recently finished a five-month stint playing chill-lounge music at Pacific Rim in Sarasota's Hillview District.
She's now working as a project manager at the HuB, the technology incubator/warehouse hotspot responsible for organizing this week's Vinyl Music Festival (VMF), a four-day electronic music party featuring more than 50 local and national DJs, including star headliners Scooter & Lavelle, Paul Mendez, Shawn Rudnick and Madam Malixa.
The event, only in its second year, is estimated to draw more than 5,000 club-goers to Sarasota. According to Insinna, more than half the rooms in the Hyatt Regency, Sarasota were booked by the end of June.
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An earlier version of this article incorrectly downplayed the latest young-earth creationist thinking on the extent of order in the fossil record. We apologize for that error and for the delay in publishing this emended version.
My friend asked me this question "find me a fossilised bunny in the cambrian or any equivalent...just one. thats all you would need."
What would be a good response to that.
Thank you for passing along your friend's question. So, where are all the bunny fossils?1 At first, it appears to be a riddle for creationists. The implication behind the question is that, if the fossil record isn't an accurate record of millions of years of evolution, then why is there a neat order to it (see the illustration, right), which is explained by evolutionists as showing millions of years of slow burial? If most of the fossil record was laid down all at once by the global Flood, then why are rabbits found only in "recent" Tertiary and Quaternary sediments rather than in the sediments belonging to the "ancient" Cambrian period?
Fossils and the Geologic Column
We must first look at the very validity of the geologic column. Is there actually a definable Cambrian period that exists in the sedimentary layers, independent of uniformitarian and evolutionary presuppositions? Geologist Andrew Snelling answers:
Even though the order of strata and the fossils contained in them (sometimes extrapolated and interpolated) has been made the basis of the accepted millions-of-years system of geochronology and historical geology, the physical reality of the strata order and the contained fossils is generally not in dispute. . . . Careful correlations of strata of the same rock types have then been made between local areas and from region to region, often by physical means, so that the robustness of the overall fossil order and strata sequence of the geologic record has been clearly established."2
So the geologic column isn't simply an evolutionary fabrication; there is a definite general order in the fossil record. However, the schema isn't quite as complete as the illustration on the right, nor does it accurately reflect a history of life. There are many known exceptions to the fossil record, such as living fossils,3 reworked fossils,4 and polystrate fossils5; indeed, the entire Cambrian explosion is one major puzzle to evolutionists.6
Considering the strict evolutionary/old-age interpretation of the fossil record, John Woodmorappe writes:
When we consider the fact that fossil succession is limited in overall extent, it is another way of stating that there are many fossils which are found at many stratigraphic intervals. In fact, only a minority are confined to rocks attributed to only one geologic period.
Since the early days of the acceptance of the standard geologic column, fossils have been turning up in "wrong" places as more and more fossils have been collected, and this process continues to this very day. And even this does not include the numerous instances where fossils are supposed to be reworked from older strata, often with no independent supporting evidence.7
Additionally, old-earthers use presuppositions about radiometric dating and uniformitarianism (the idea that present geological processes are the key to understanding the past) to interpret the fossil record.8
Even so, Snelling cautions, "[I]t is not the recognized order of the strata in the geologic record that is in dispute, but rather the millions-of-years interpretation for the deposition of the sedimentary strata and their contained fossils."9 While there are facts contradictory to uniformitarian model that old-earthers have been hard-pressed to explain, there is nonetheless a clear overall order to the fossil record. So the question is, how do creationists explain why Cambrian sediments have no fossilized rabbits?
Alternative Explanations for Order
Let's turn to Dr. Snelling to understand what degree of order we must explain. He writes, "The first fossils in the record are of marine animals exclusively, and it is only higher in the strata that fossils of land animals are found." Why should this be? There's actually a very obvious explanation within the global Flood model, and Dr. Snelling explains it: "[B]ecause the Flood began in the ocean basins ('the fountains of the great deep burst open') and the ocean waters then flooded over the continents."10 In another article, he provides more detail, writing:
[The fossil record] can be more reasonably explained by Flood geologists as due to the order of burial of the different ecological zones of organisms by the Flood waters. For example, shallow marine organisms/ecological zones would be the first destroyed by the fountains of the great deep breaking open, with the erosional runoff from the land due to the torrential rainfall concurrently burying them.11
Creationist Gary Parker offers a general description of the model in Creation: Facts of Life (see the chapter How fast?):
[T]he geologic column does represent a tendency for fossils to be found in groups and for those groups to be found in a certain vertical order. Cambrian trilobites and Cretaceous dinosaurs aren't usually found together. . . . Why aren't trilobite and dinosaur fossils found together? According to evolution, the answer is easy. The Cambrian trilobites died out millions of years before the dinosaurs evolved. But there is another explanation that seems even more natural. After all, even if trilobites and dinosaurs were alive today, they still wouldn't be found together. Why? Because they live in different ecological zones. Dinosaurs are land animals, but trilobites are bottom-dwelling sea creatures.
According to creationists, the geological systems represent different ecological zones, the buried remains of plants and animals that once lived together in the same environment. A walk through Grand Canyon, then, is not like a walk through evolutionary time; instead, it's like a walk from the bottom of the ocean, across the tidal zone, over the shore, across the lowlands, and into the upland regions.12
Creationists have presented other reasons as well for the order in the fossil record. Many concern the way moving water sorts objects of different weight, density, and buoyancy. Others compare the mobility of such creatures as marine invertebrates (not very mobile) to humans and other mammals (much more mobile). The latter group would have generally been able to seek higher ground as the Floodwaters rose. Taken together, all these reasons can easily account for the order in the fossil record. We shouldn't expect to find rabbit fossils in the Cambrian any more than we would expect to find rabbits today (dead or alive) on the ocean floor.
For more information, see our Fossils, Geology, and Living Fossils Get Answers sections.
I want to leave you with three key things to remember when it comes to interpreting the fossil record.
- Both creationists and evolutionists interpret the evidence in light of their presuppositions.
- Fossils aren't the only reason we reject the old-earth model; there are geological reasons (such as missing geologic time), and, ultimately, we reject it because it disagrees with what the Bible says.
- For the young-earth creation model to be successful, we don't have to destroy the old-earth model; we only have to understand how the facts fit what the Bible says. The creation model doesn't rise or fall on how flawed the alternative is.
I hope this all helps. I also strongly recommend you read Why Don't We Find Human & Dinosaur Fossils Together? for another biblical perspective on order in the fossil record.
In Christ,
A. P. Galling
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- This question, and this article's title, are intended as a humorous reference to Dr. Andrew Snelling's seminal article Where are all the human fossils? The actual question the feedback submitter's friend asked probably traces back to a purported quip of evolutionist J. B. S. Haldane, who said he would reject Darwinism if someone found a fossil rabbit in the Cambrian. Back
- A. Snelling, Doesn't the Order of Fossils in the Rock Record Favor Long Ages? in K. Ham, ed., The New Answers Book 2 (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2008), 345. Snelling continues, "there are at least six thick sequences of fossil-bearing sedimentary strata, known as megasequences, which can be traced right across the North American continent and beyond to other continents. Such global-scale deposition of sediment layers . . . is, of course, totally inexplicable to uniformitarian (long-ages) geologists . . . . But it is powerful evidence of catastrophic deposition during the global Genesis flood. Back
- "Living" fossils are those that, based on the fossil record, were thought to have been extinct for millions of years but are actually still living among us today. A prime example is the coelacanth. A uniformitarian interpretation of the fossil record implies that the coelacanth evolved sometime before the age of the dinosaurs but went extinct around the same time the dinosaurs died out. In fact, that was the prevailing evolutionary wisdom for years—until coelacanths were found alive and well in modern oceans. See Why Don't We Find Human & Dinosaur Fossils Together? Back
- "Reworked" fossils describes fossils found so far from the layers they're supposed to be in that evolutionists can't reconcile the discrepancy. When out-of-place fossils are found, they are dismissed—or, more accurately, evolutionists create stories to explain why they are where they shouldn't be. Back
- "Polystrate" fossils, such as tree trunks, cut vertically or semi-vertically through numerous layers claimed to be laid down millions of years apart. Uniformitarians usually have to resort to miniature catastrophes to explain polystratic fossils. For example, a TalkOrigins page on "Polystrate" Tree Fossils "counters" the young-earth model by saying, "This is not the correct way to do it, because individual beds can be deposited rapidly"! Back
- The Cambrian explosion is the most famous puzzle of the uniformitarian interpretation, when an extraordinary diversity of life-forms "explode" into the fossil record suddenly when nothing exists before. The scenario is at odds with the slow-and-gradual view Darwinists had previously maintained. To reconcile this puzzle with their worldview, famous evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould postulated the "punctuated equilibria" model that attempts to explain the fossil record by allowing sudden bursts of evolution followed by long periods of little transition. Back
- J. Woodmorappe, The fossil record: Becoming more random all the time, TJ 14(1):110–116, 2000. Back
- When it comes to radiometric dating, even the dating technique chosen for a given fossil is shaped by evolutionary assumptions; so is how much notice is paid to the margin of error and contradictory results given by other dates. Back
- A. Snelling, Doesn't the Order of Fossils in the Rock Record Favor Long Ages? 346. Back
- A. Snelling, Doesn't the Order of Fossils in the Rock Record Favor Long Ages? 345. Back
- A. Snelling, Where are all the human fossils? Creation 14(1):28–33, 1991. Back
- G. Parker, Creation: Facts of Life (Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2006), taken from the online chapter How fast? Back


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Norman Mailer: Letters to Jack Abbott
We publish here the third of three selections from the letters of Norman Mailer, with notes provided by Michael Lennon. This group of letters spans three decades; the first four touch on Mailer's relationship to Jewish writers or to his own Jewishness. We've included two letters to Jack Abbott, with whom Mailer conducted a long correspondence while Abbott was in a Utah state prison. All the letters by Norman Mailer published in this and preceding issues of The New York Review are in the collection of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
—The Editors
To Alfred Kazin1
May 26, 1959
Dear Alfred,
I want to thank you for your good paragraph on The Time of Her Time,2 especially since your letter made it clear that your defense of it is more a matter of professional duty than outright pleasure.
I loved your letter,3 which is a strong way to put it except that it gave me a pleasure it obviously did not give you: I had the feeling, well now we know what to talk to each other about, and I'm glad you laid it out so frankly. I got my laugh out of "the Rabbi of screwing, the Talmudist of fucking," because more than once in the last year when I've been having an argument with some of my hip friends I have said to them something on the general order of, "Hush now, the Rabbi is speaking." And of course the coldness and grimness you talk about in my work is probably the single most unattractive feature of what I manage to do, but shit, Alfred, you know as well as I do that one does not write away from such a large part of one's temperament. One tries to write through it and maybe eventually out of it.
There is also the little matter of the real temper of the time. Even if I were capable of writing about sex with the warmth of Lawrence, there would still be the more abstract matter of whether one should. I am more or less obsessed with the idea that sex is close to dying in a new ice-age of the psyche, and I think the only way to change one's readers and warm them—for yes, I am guilty of a messianic lust—is to make them set up camp on the ice for a while.
In a way this beggars my intent. Most of our good novels have been written about people who start with youth, some heat, and much innocence, and in this new book4 I would like to do the opposite, to begin with characters who are monsters of self-consciousness and try for the more difficult and perhaps impossible trip into a terrain where emotion becomes real again. Whether I can bring it off is of course another matter. But on the limited ground of "The Time of Her Time" I still wonder if you don't tend to make Sergius a little too much of a direct spokesman for me—after all, I'm not over six feet, blonde, goy, and more anti-semitic than not.
There's so much to talk about that I'd like to remind you of your suggestion last Christmas season that we have lunch. I'm usually not too alert in the middle of the day so if you'd rather, maybe you and Ann would like to come over for dinner some night, or we could go out, you and me, and have a few drinks downtown or uptown. Suppose I call you in a few days.
To Arnold Kemp5
April 26, 1965
Dear Arnold,
Just a comment on Herzog.6 What I meant when I said Bellow has no ideas7 was not that there were no ideas in Herzog to be pondered, but rather that these ideas were not Bellow's own theses, but rather ideas he had picked up in his reading. His mind is very intelligent, very cultured, very cultivated. He's read a million books and remembered them, but he is not an original thinker. It's not that I'm that sure about anything, it's that I go with the animal part of my brain when I'm encountering an idea I have not met before, and none of the ideas in Herzog were in that sense the least bit fresh. Just a thought, but I did want to send it on to you.
Best for now,
To Jack Abbott8
April 18, 1979
Dear Jack,
Well, I finished the book.9 It came in December to 1,969 pages of double-spaced manuscript, and I wasn't that happy with a lot of the style so I went through it to make it as tight as I could and came out with 1,681 pages. How good it is I don't know, but I think it's fairly good at the worst, and very flat in style, for which I worked. Very noncommittal on the surface, for which I also worked. There's something in Gilmore's story that got to me. I felt that it might provide a datum for Americans, something that ideally millions of them could end up reading, and give them something in common to discuss and argue about. How you'll react to it I can't begin to imagine but I can promise you I'm curious as hell. I'm also going to put your name in the acknowledgements.10
The way it worked out, I have very little about Gilmore's 12 years in jail head on. The book covers the nine months and the nine days from the time he leaves Marion on April 9 of '76 until he's executed on January 17, 1977. And in that stretch, there are numerous echoes of his prison experience, and part of my understanding of that experience has come from your letters, and I think you'll feel the echoes of some of the things you wrote to me in Gilmore. But I believed that he would share your sentiments. Since in his own way he's a profoundly religious man with an unshakeable conviction of karma, he is also about as different from you as any two good convicts can be, and he's considerably softer than you and gives much more parley to what you would consider the enemy.
Nonetheless, I do not think I could have come to understand him without the letters you've written to me…. As you know, I thought at one time, months ago, of putting some of your letters directly into the book, even incorporating some of your experience into Gilmore. But I came to the conclusion that I wanted nothing imaginary in Gilmore's makeup. In other words, nothing I could not be certain he had felt would I put into his mouth or his experience. I go back to this idea I had that the book must be a datum, that if it was to exist as some piece of true evidence, true existence, it had to be more real than any book of its sort ever put together before. You will see when you read it. There's no attempt to decorate, to amplify, to underline, to develop, to exaggerate, even to take the natural profit, that profit might a novelist always take. It is a terribly sober document, and twice sober because the elements of the story are so exceptional and painful and funny and occasionally noble, and occasionally sordid. I confess I'm impatient for you to read it and get your reactions, even though that'll be many months.
In the meantime, we'll correspond. That is, I think we'll correspond. There's an ideological gulf between us so profound that I do not know how long we can talk to one another as intellectuals. You see, I was a Marxist for a number of years, not as good or thorough, nor certainly so devoted a Marxist as yourself, although my friend [Jean] Malaquais is more than your match when it comes to Marxist culture, and I was his disciple for a period, and eventually turned away from his thought because I found it—and this word will infuriate you—unendurably arid. And in your thought I find his, except you underline what he could never quite bring himself to admit, which is that the logic leads to violence and violence, indeed, is the only outcome of the logic.
Now, I am not one of those people who say, "Oh, horrors! We're talking of violence." I know some violence is one of the fundamental emotions in all human behavior, one of the ineradicable ones, like sex and a passion for justice. But violence in the grip of an intellectual system is always frightening to me because I feel its logical outcome can be found in the acts of Julian nihilists in Paris in the early '60s and late '50s,11 who placed plastic bombs in mailboxes, and the mailboxes would blow up two hours later and kill anyone who was at the street corner, including, quite conceivably, the wife or children of one of their friends, since how the hell are you going to know who's going to be in that area at that time?
Now, you can say in reply that the violence of which you speak is altogether different, and purposeful, and to a logical point, and I can only say to you in reply that my experience tells me that any intellectual system which is founded complacently upon the idea that violence is a special weapon available to it has to end in some aspect of that nihilism that believes that the destruction of systems is the brunt of future existence. And I have bogged down myself in what I consider the far greater horror of having to live with the world as it is, precisely what you would call, weak, intellectual bourgeoisie self-indulgence. Jewish, doubtless, since I am Jewish. And you would sneer at it.
And I would say to you that what I found most disturbing in all your thought is that what you like, you adopt and adapt immediately to your intellectual system. You need drugs in order to alleviate the soul-killing monotony of prison, so drugs are part of your system. But if I take drugs, then I'm just a weak fucking bourgeois intellectual, and soft. You speak of Cuba as having to suckle the dugs of the world in order to stay alive and I agree. But you do not take the next step and say that an animal which exists on wolf milk is likely to take on the qualities of the wolf. You give Cuba, in effect, more charity than you allow to those of us bourgeois intellectuals who struggle against the system even while living within it.
You ascribe virtues to China, or is it to Viet Nam that you do not allow the other. How is it that I know without even discussing it, that on the war between China and Viet Nam that took place, one or the other is obligatorily all right and the other all wrong? I wonder which one you would pick, in fact, I am curious, Jack. But what I do know is that you will not admit that one gang of geniuses, fools, fuckups, good soldiers, and corrupt ones, is facing another precise such gang, and that the angels and the demons are at war with the devils and the saints.
Kazin's first book, On Native Grounds (1942), a study of American literature between 1890 and 1940, established him as a leading literary critic. His three memoirs— A Walker in the City (1951), Starting Out in the Thirties (1965), and New York Jew (1978)—are documents of the Jewish immigrant experience and the postwar intellectual scene in New York.↩
A short story of Mailer's from his 1959 book Advertisements for Myself, it is about a sexual encounter between a swaggering young man, Sergius O'Shaughnessy, and a Jewish girl, Denise Gondelman, who has never reached orgasm. Sergius succeeds in bringing Denise to orgasm at the conclusion of the story. In the spring of 1959, Putnam's, Mailer's publisher, was considering the story for inclusion in his forthcoming collection Advertisements for Myself. Mailer wrote to fourteen literary critics and scholars (Dwight Macdonald, Leslie Fiedler, Richard Chase, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Philip Rahv, Alfred Kazin, and others) asking for their opinion on the story, which Putnam's publisher, Walter Minton, thought might be considered obscene and cause the book to be banned. Thirteen of the fourteen endorsed it for publication. Mailer's Harvard professor Robert Gorham Davis declined to do so. The story was ultimately included in Advertisements for Myself, published on November 6, 1959.↩
Kazin wrote to Mailer on May 21, 1959, in response to his request for an endorsement of "The Time of Her Time." Kazin said he would "be glad to supply Putnam's with a statement of its literary seriousness and power," and found the story to be "quite wonderful," although he said Mailer managed "to make sex joyless and even as grim as a surgical operation." He continued, "But your characters make love with a stop-watch in hand. For this I should make love?" He added: "You are a deeply gifted writer, in some ways the most naturally talented novelist I know; but really, Norman, you take your own obsessions too seriously."↩
Mailer refers here to a long novel that he never finished. Mailer called it "a descendant of Moby-Dick " and said it could be a thousand pages in length. At the conclusion of Advertisements for Myself, he predicted that "the book will be fired to its fuse by the rumor that once I pointed to the farthest fence and said that within ten years I would try to hit the longest ball ever to go up into the accelerated hurricane air of our American letters." "The Time of Her Time," "Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out" (both appearing in Advertisements for Myself ), and a later short story, "The Last Night," were to be part of this huge novel, in which some of the characters would be recycled (with slight name changes) from The Deer Park (1955). Mailer struggled with the "big novel," as he called it, for over a decade before abandoning it. He wrote An American Dream (1965) in order to make enough money to be able to complete the "big novel."↩
A friend Mailer met in November 1960 when they were both being held in Bellevue Hospital in New York. Mailer was sent there for observation that month after stabbing his wife Adele with a penknife. Kemp (b. 1938), who grew up in Harlem, served a long prison term for armed robbery and later earned a graduate degree in English at Harvard and became a college professor. Mailer wrote to him when he was in prison and later gave a blurb to his 1972 novel, Eat of Me! I Am the Savior.↩
The sixth novel of Saul Bellow (1915–2005), published in 1964, is notable for its extended passages of intellectual discussion, much of it in letters written by its eponym, Moses Herzog.↩
Speaking at a March 10, 1965, press conference held in connection with the announcement of the winners of the National Book Award, Mailer said that Bellow "has no new ideas. He is like a dull college professor who has read too many books and has failed to grasp the essence of any of them. I have great admiration for Herzog as a book but I don't think it's intellectual." He went on to say, "There is something Russian about Herzog in its depth of feeling. There are plenty of faults, but my heart was literally burning as I read."↩
Jack Henry Abbott (1944–2002) was a convict with whom Mailer began corresponding in 1977, while he was writing The Executioner's Song. Abbott wrote eloquently about his perceptions of life in prison; these letters were collected and published, with Mailer's help, in 1981 in a book entitled In the Belly of the Beast ; excerpts from the letters were published in The New York Review the previous year. Mailer supported Abbott's bid for parole, which was granted in 1981; Abbott committed a murder six weeks later and was sent back to prison. He killed himself in 2002.↩
Mailer is referring to The Executioner's Song, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1980. It is an account of the case of Gary Gilmore, who murdered two people in Utah in 1976, and was the first person executed in the US after the reinstatement of the death penalty that year.↩
The following appears in "An Afterword" to The Executioner's Song : "To their assistance must be added the letters of Jack H. Abbott, a convict who has spent much of his life in Western prisons and sent me a series of exceptional letters, well worthy of being published, that delineate the code, the morals, the anguish, the philosophy, the pitfalls, the pride, and the search for inviolability in language I have not encountered in prison literature in recent years."↩
Algerian separatists who terrorized France during the presidency of Charles de Gaulle, 1958–1969.↩


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On Tuesday, May 6, gunmen riding tandem on a motorcycle shot journalist José Iván Aguilar Castañeda while he was driving to Calor Estéreo radio, where he hosts his weekday morning program "Noticias Ya" (News Now) in the city of Villavicencio, Meta Department, the journalist told CPJ.
Although one bullet grazed him and another pierced his upper chest, Aguilar was not seriously injured and was released from the hospital the following day. A third bullet struck his car.
Aguilar, 39, left for the capital, Bogotá, on Wednesday, May 7, with his wife and three children. He is seeking help through the government's protection program for journalists, which provides money and bodyguards to threatened journalists.
Aguilar spoke frequently about Colombia's civil conflict but said he had received no previous threats and does not know who was behind the attack. Aguilar also works as a correspondent for "Noticias Uno" (News One) on the Bogotá television station Canal Uno (Channel One).
Authorities are investigating the shooting but have made no arrests, said Meta police commander Col. José Arnulfo Oliveros.
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On Sunday, May 4, journalist Diógenes Cadena Castellanos, who covers judicial issues for Huila Estéreo radio in Neiva, Huila Department, fled for Bogotá after unidentified men called him twice at his home and threatened to kill him.
Cadena, 36, received the first threat on Tuesday, April 29, one day after his colleague Guillermo Bravo Vega was shot dead inside his house in Neiva. The caller left a message on Cadena's answering machine warning him that he would be killed unless he left Neiva in three days.
Four-days later, on May 3, Cadena received another call at his home, where he lives with his mother and siblings, from an unidentified man who said his time was up and warned that he was "finished." Cadena left the town the next day and said officials at the government protection program have promised him financial assistance for four weeks.
Cadena said he doesn't know who is threatening him. Cadena worked with Guillermo Bravo for nearly two years at the regional television station Alpevisión. However, Cadena said he doesn't know if the threats he received are related to his colleague's murder.
Bravo directed a morning program at the station called "Hechos y cifras" (Facts and Figures) and frequently accused municipal and state government officials of mishandling public monies. Authorities are investigating reports that a professional assassin hired by public officials killed Bravo.


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The one time I take a cheap shot at religion, you're there t' catch it... Damnit J. Condolences if I offended ya at all.
Back when 'Merica was even more of a racist, sexist, limited-thinking cesspool of ignorance. Christianity is still in the majority anywho, though that'l change in a few decades.
Well, my goal today was to go to the library to improve my knowledge level. Which must be done, as soon as possible...
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Back when the government's foundation was Christianity. Doesn't mean everyone practiced it.
I honestly think Christianity is still in the majority because not everyone thinks it's okay to not have a religion, so they just pick Christianity. I hardly see people whom actually practice their faith regularly.
Well, somebody has to be wrong, and therefore ignorant. Not every religion can be right~not is it connected with ignorance
I ain't no expert, but those are the same people that supported slavery and the like. Also, the people that wrote the Constitution were a small group.Have you read the Constitution? Many of the people back had a huge vocabulary. They dabbled in philosophy and such. I would say they are smarter than most people today.
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No One Lives | 2013 | Actor | Driver | 20137 |
Dracula Untold | 2014 | Actor | Vlad | 20147 |
The Raven | 2012 | Actor | Detective Field | 20127 |
Ashes | 2013 | Actor | n/a | 20137 |
The Three Musketeers | 2011 | Actor | Aramis | 20117 |
Immortals | 2011 | Actor | Zeus | 20117 |
Tamara Drewe | 2010 | Actor | Andy Cobb | 20107 |
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Fast & Furious 6 | 2013 | Actor | Shaw | 20137 |
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug | 2013 | Actor | Bard/Girion | 20137 |
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Born in Wales and raised in the largely rural area of Aberbargoed, Evans set his sights on city living as a youth, eventually moving to Cardiff as a teen to pursue music and drama. Later relocating to London for further stage training, he soon won roles in various musicals on the West End. Featured in British theater for nearly a decade, Evans finally shifted to movies around age 30, shooting his earliest film parts as Greek god Apollo in "Clash of the Titans" and Clive Richards in the Ian Dury biopic "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll" within weeks of each other. With barely a breather, he had a small turn in Ridley Scott's reworking of "Robin Hood" (2010) as the tough henchman of Matthew Macfadyen's Sheriff of Nottingham, and played up his country roots as dashing farmer Andy Cobb in Stephen Frears' "Tamara Drewe" (2010), where he pined for Gemma Arterton's lovely title character.
Although Evans came out as being gay years earlier, his climb up the cinematic ladder coincided with public relations executive Holly Goodchild revealing that she was in a relationship with him, baffling those eager to uncover more about his personal life. Regardless of his sexuality, Evans continued to surge ahead in his career, playing the ambitious Aramis in Paul W.S. Anderson's action-heavy clunker "The Three Musketeers" and landing his second turn as a mythological figure by portraying Zeus in Tarsem Singh's stylized adventure movie "Immortals." Slowing down only slightly, he appeared in the important role of determined detective Emmett Fields in the dark, violent period thriller "The Raven" (2012), inheriting the part from Jeremy Renner. After a foray into even grislier fare with the lead in the low-budget horror film "No One Lives" (2012), Evans prepared for more Hollywood work.
Evans had a banner year in 2013, first turning up as the villainous Owen Shaw in the chase-filled action flick "Fast & Furious 6" and then entering the Middle-earth pantheon as the steely archer Bard the Bowman in Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug." Slated to appear in its epic 2014 follow-up, "The Hobbit: There and Back Again," Evans seemed destined to have Bard as his signature character when he signed on as the title character of "The Crow," a high-profile revamp of the comic-book-based series that follows goth hero Eric Draven as he returns from the dead to exact vengeance on his killers. In just a few years on the screen, Evans had become a Hollywood leading man.
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"For me, when [Tarsem] told me that he wanted me to play Zeus, I was like, 'That's always been played by an old man, like Lawrence Olivier or Liam Neeson.' He convinced me, he said, 'No, you can do this. This is a new take.' And you just go, 'Okay, I surrender, I'll follow you and you'll lead me.' That's what we had to do in this film." - from Screen Rant, November 2011 |
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