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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

The predators that appeared suddenly in the Cambrian reveal
an evident conflict with Darwinism’s concept of gradual develop-
ment. Darwinism is based on the hypothesis of gradual develop-
ment and countless intermediate forms in the fossil record and
therefore, having incomplete, marginally functional structures.
Similarly, it requires the remains of developing, but still half-formed
complex attack and defense systems during the Cambrian Period.
Yet these life forms were created suddenly, with completely func-
tional and perfect structures for attack and defense.
The evolutionist writer Richard Monastersky describes the hol-
low nature of the hypothesis of gradual development:

People regarded the Cambrian as a rather early stage in the develop-
ment of ecosystems. The assumption was that predation wouldn’t
have been a very well developed strategy.

According to this theory, the earliest predators would have started off
as relatively simple creatures that then evolved more specialized fea-
tures over many millions of years. As the predators added to their of-
fensive weaponry, prey would evolve sophisticated defense systems.

But the fossils show that the arms race accelerated almost overnight
during the Cambrian explosion. Creatures with hard shells and long
spines abound in the Chengjiang fauna, displaying a broad sweep of
protective armor. Likewise, Anomalocaris appeared on the scene with
an array of formidable feeding tools. 93
The complexity that Cambrian fauna displays clearly and defi-
nitely repudiates the claims of the theory of evolution, because, in
both fauna and on the species level, the theory demands considera-
ble development from the simple to the more complex.
Paleontologists who discover fauna that lived millions of years ago
have to arrange them in terms of their relationships with one anoth-
er and their environments, from the simple to the complex in order

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