Page 169 - The Cambrian Evidence that Darwin Failed to Comprehend

W hen the scale and importance of

the Cambrian explosion was real-
ized, it confronted evolutionists with a major puzzle.
The February 1999 edition of the famous scientific journal
Trends in Genetics (TIG) admitted that the Burgess Shale fos-
sils could not be explained in terms of the theory of evolu-
tion:
It might seem odd that fossils from one small locality, no matter
how exciting, should lie at the center of a fierce debate about
such broad issues in evolutionary biology. The reason is that an-
imals burst into the fossil record in astonishing profusion dur-
ing the Cambrian, seemingly from nowhere. Increasingly pre-
cise radiometric dating and new fossil discoveries have only
sharpened the suddenness and scope of this biological revolu-
tion. The magnitude of this change in Earth’s biota demands an
explanation. Although many hypotheses have been pro-
posed, the general consensus is that none is wholly con-
vincing [emphasis added]. 126
The organisms that appear in Cambrian
strata, and the research into them by scien-
tists, clearly reveal in every detail
that no process of evolution
ever took place. This
fact led to

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