Page 180 - The Cambrian Evidence that Darwin Failed to Comprehend

If, as the Snowball Earth theoreticians claim, there had been such a freeze on Earth,
then there could have been no return from it. This freezing effect would have left
the Earth barren for all eternity. Life forms that had not previously existed could not
have suddenly emerged as the result of supposed evolution.

sion happened around 545 million years ago, a good 45 million years
after the Snowballs ended. That’s far too long to sit around with a
lighted fuse, waiting for the bang. Even Paul [Hoffman] admits this. 131
Time is not the only problem, of course. Andrew Parker of the
Oxford University Zoology Department declares the invalidity of
the Snowball Earth hypothesis in his book In the Blink of an Eye:

[This idea] assumes the course of evolution was predetermined from
the beginning. We are given a situation where the Precambrian worm-
like bodies of all animal phyla are just itching to take on their
Cambrian forms, but ice puts everything on hold. Then, when the ice
has gone, it is time for evolution again. This is not an objective view.
As we have considered before, why should a convenient worm shape
have to change? If the course of evolution was predetermined, why
did it not continue in the water under the ice? The second major doubt

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