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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

wonder of creation. David Raup, a professor of geology at Harvard,
Rochester, and Chicago Universities, says, "the trilobites 450 million years
ago used an optimal design which would require a well trained and
imaginative optical engineer to develop today." 69
The extraordinarily complex structure even in trilobites is enough to
invalidate Darwinism on its own, because no complex creatures with
similar structures lived in previous geological periods, which goes to
show that trilobites emerged with no evolutionary process behind them. A
2001 Science article says:
Cladistic analyses of arthropod phylogeny revealed that trilobites, like
eucrustaceans, are fairly advanced "twigs" on the arthropod tree. But fossils
of these alleged ancestral arthropods are lacking. ...Even if evidence for an
earlier origin is discovered, it remains a challenge to explain why so many
animals should have increased in size and acquired shells within so short a
time at the base of the Cambrian. 70
Very little was known about this extraordinary situation in the
Cambrian Age when Charles Darwin was writing The Origin of Species.
Only since Darwin's time has the fossil record revealed that life suddenly
emerged in the Cambrian Age, and that trilobites and other invertebrates
came into being all at once. For this reason, Darwin was unable to treat the
subject fully in the book. But he did touch on the subject under the
heading "On the sudden appearance of groups of allied species in the

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