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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

The Vertebrates That Evolutionists Never
Expected!
Vertebrates are defined as organisms with a spinal column and
spinal cord, a skeleton consisting of bone or cartilage, a brain pro-
tected inside a skull, a closed circulatory system and a heart consist-
ing of two, three or four chambers. They are divided into five class-
es: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. Widely distribut-
ed across the world, their bodies contain a wide variety of highly de-
veloped and complex structures.
Vertebrates are a group included in the phylum Chordata. Some
members of this phylum are vertebrate and others invertebrate, but
all possess a nerve tube known as the notochord. For a great many
years, the Cambrian fossil record lacked vertebrate, and for that rea-
son, the earliest vertebrate specimens were thought to belong to the
later Devonian.
Evolutionist paleontologists believed that vertebrates appeared
relatively later than the other main groups, since vertebrates as a
group—of which man is also a member—are exceedingly complex
in their anatomy. Evolutionists claimed that this group must have
appeared in stages and at a relatively late date, and for long used the
lack of any vertebrate remains in Cambrian rocks to bolster their po-
sition. As the evolutionist paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould admits,
Darwinist textbooks particularly stressed the fact that no evidence
of vertebrates in the Cambrian had ever been found, seeking to por-
tray this as evidence that Cambrian rocks confirmed the truth of
Darwin’s theory of evolution. In their scenarios regarding vertebrate
evolution, evolutionists suggested that Pikaia, a Cambrian chordate,
was the ancestor of all vertebrates.
Yet as they were soon to see, these claims were unjustified.
Excavations performed in Cambrian rock beds in China pro-

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