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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

a short space of time shows that evolution contradicts its own the-
sis.
As you shall see in a later chapter, evolutionists have attempt-
ed to explain this extraordinarily short period of time in various
ways, although no account has been at all consistent with the facts.
Here, it will be useful to emphasize that though the various
Cambrian life forms appeared within 5 million years, each individ-
ual species must have been created at a different time, but in a sin-
gle moment over those 5 million years. There has been no evolu-
tionary process in this 5-million-year period, just as there has been
none in any stage in the history of life.
Allah created these living things for that limited period in his-
tory alone, brought them into being from nothing, and did away
with them at a moment of His choosing. Indeed, each of the catego-
ries that appeared subsequently within the Cambrian phyla did so
not by descending from one another. The fossil record makes this
crystal-clear. No fossil remains point to an evolutionary relationship
among them.
The well-known evolutionist paleontologist George G.
Simpson admits as much:
[Paleontologists recognize] that most new species, genera and fami-
lies, and that nearly all categories above the level of families, appear
in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, com-
pletely continuous transitional sequences. 68
In the same way that new species appeared suddenly, they al-
so preserved all their own characteristics and remained completely
unchanged, throughout their time on Earth. That is why Gould has
written that after the Cambrian almost nothing happened:
The Burgess Shale teaches us that, for the history of basic anatomical
designs, almost everything happened in the geological moment just

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