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The Origin of Life and the Universe

then it would diversify all these organisms we have today. From a single
cell to all other species is what they were expecting, right? And this is the
real fossil evidence.
This line represents the Cambrian era 540 million years ago. This
line. Before that, like 600 million years ago for example, there were only
three different phyla. Phylum means specific animal groups that have a
certain body plan, body structure. Like this for example the Crustaceans;
mollusks, nematodes, arthropods. That kind of a structure according to
their body plan, here there are only three of them.
They are called Cnidarians or Porifera; sponges for example, there
were some sponges and worms. And those kind of animals existed, and
here are three of them. 540 million years ago in the Cambrian era,
explosively, that's the reason why they call it the “Cambrian explosion”, 50
different phyla came into existence with the commandment “Be” of God.
50 different animal groups and you know what happened with time, only
it decreased with time today. Today we have 35 of these phyla. But you see
they appeared all at once. Boom, like this, with the creation of God, the 50
different animal groups came into being. And then remain 35 different
animal groups.
At the very beginning Cyanobacteria was the first living cell on earth.
It is 3.8 billion years ago the first cell on earth came into existence all of a
sudden with sudden creation. That is a blue algae, it's called Cyanobacteria
that produces oxygen through photosynthesis. It is an extremely complex
living cell and it comes into existence all at once, that means sudden
evolution not creation through evolution of course. And this is from the
Cambrian period. Vertebrate and invertebrate animals, of course some
vertebrate fish were also found at the end of 1990’s in China.
All these animal groups and I want you to pay attention to this living
being over here, it's called Anomalocaris. The fossil was found in 2012. I
will also explain to you the trilobite. They have an eye structure, which is
called a “compound eye structure”, consisting of many lenses. It is an
extremely complex eye structure and this is the first eye in the history of
life as an organ. Before that there are some light sensitive cells that exist in
the three phyla that I showed you before. However these are the first

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