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A fossil
from the
Cambrian
Age

who is also one of the world's foremost critics of Darwinism, describes the
contradiction between this paleontological truth and Darwinism:

Darwinian theory predicts a "cone of increasing diversity," as the first living
organism, or first animal species, gradually and continually diversified to
create the higher levels of taxonomic order. The animal fossil record more
resembles such a cone turned upside down, with the phyla present at the
start and thereafter decreasing. 60
As Phillip Johnson has revealed, far from its being the case that phyla
came about by stages, in reality they all came into being at once, and some
of them even became extinct in later periods. The diagrams on page 53
reveal the truth that the fossil record has revealed concerning the origin of
phyla.
As we can see, in the Precambrian Age there were three different
phyla consisting of single-cell creatures. But in the Cambrian Age, some 60
to 100 different animal phyla emerged all of a sudden. In the age that
followed, some of these phyla became extinct, and only a few have come
down to our day.
Roger Lewin discusses this extraordinary fact, which totally
demolishes all the Darwinist assumptions about the history of life:
Described recently as "the most important evolutionary event during the
entire history of the Metazoa," the Cambrian explosion established virtually
all the major animal body forms — Baupläne or phyla — that would exist
thereafter, including many that were "weeded out" and became extinct.
Compared with the 30 or so extant phyla, some people estimate that the
Cambrian explosion may have generated as many as 100. 61

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