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HARUN YAHYA

before, and almost nothing in more than 500 million years since. 69
The post-Cambrian fossil record, as summarized above by
Simpson and Gould, clearly conflicts with the Darwinist idea of
gradual development and reveals the two characteristics of sudden
appearance and stasis. Gould has explained these two concepts:
The history of most fossil species includes two features particularly
inconsistent with gradualism:

1. Stasis. Most species exhibit no directional change during their ten-
ure on earth. They appear in the fossil record looking much the same
as when they disappear; morphological change is usually limited and
directionless.

2. Sudden appearance. In any local area, a species does not arise gradu-
ally by the steady transformation of its ancestors; it appears all at once
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In the post-Cambrian period, in short, there was no increase in
anatomical variety at the phylum level. The categories that emerged
subsequently consisted of repetitions of already existing basic body
structures. Like the phyla, these new categories also emerged sud-
denly, complete with perfect structures. And they, too, underwent
no evolutionary changes during their time on Earth, but maintained
their physical characteristics for millions of years, exhibiting obvi-
ous stasis.
The emergence of Cambrian life forms with all their variety
and complexity, across the globe and in a single moment, represents
the clearest and absolute refutation of any evolution-based explana-
tion of the origin of living things. Evolutionists have invalidated
their own claims by means of the “gradual evolutionary develop-
ment” thesis they have themselves imposed. There was no gradual
development in the Cambrian, much less enough time for one to
have taken place. Literally dozens of organisms appeared in a short

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