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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

The “Snowball Earth” Hypothesis

This conjectural theory is like a cloak used to conceal the irrep-
arable damage inflicted on the theory of evolution by the Cambrian
explosion and to distract attention away from it.
Basically, the hypothesis maintains that the Earth experienced
intense ice ages during very early geological periods. Scientists sup-
porting this hypothesis claim that between 750 and 590 million years
ago, there were a number of ice ages, each lasting up to 10 million
years. During these periods, glaciers up to 1 kilometer (0.621 mile)
thick descended as far as the equator, turning the Earth into a ball
coated with ice.
This hypothesis, which has been debated since the 1960s, was
once again raised by the Harvard University geologist Paul F.
Hoffman and Daniel P. Schrag in the 1990s. According to this claim,
in the pre-Cambrian, the entire world, without exception—from the
Poles to the equator—was covered in a layer of ice. The average sur-
face temperature on Earth was -40 degrees Celsius (-40 degrees
Fahrenheit). Again according to this hypothesis, the last of these ice
ages lasted for 10 to 20 million years.
The claim that evolutionists use to cloak for the supposed evo-
lutionary appearance of species in the Cambrian Period lies basical-
ly in what came next. They suggest that at the end of this ice age, a
sudden global warming took place and all the ice melted. Life forms
that had existed before the Earth entered this glacial period consist-
ed of single-celled organisms. Afterwards, in some way, matchless,
perfect and complex multi-celled organisms evolved among the
melting ice caps!
Of course, it is easy to come up with fairy tales. On one evolu-
tionist website, for instance, this allegedly scientific theory is de-
scribed as follows:

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