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HARUN YAHYA

cast over this laboured explanation for the why of the Cambrian explo-
sion is that the figures simply do not balance. The Cambrian explosion
took place between 543 and 538 million years ago. The last Snowball
Earth event ended 575 million years ago at the latest. So there is a dif-
ference of at least 32 million years between these two events. This is
fact. So a Precambrian Snowball Earth event cannot explain the
Cambrian explosion, although it could have played a role in the
Precambrian “surge.” 132
Despite his being an evolutionist, Parker’s words clearly dem-
onstrate the contradictions and logical flaws in the Snowball claim,
emphasizing with considerable detail that it is inconsistent in many
regards. In fact, many evolutionists have now accepted the
Snowball Earth hypothesis as invalid.
To resolve the many uncertainties of that hypothesis, a new the-
ory was put forward. Certain evolutionists regarded the oxygen the-
ory as a lifebelt in order to account for the imaginary evolutionary
origin of life.

The Oxygen Theory

Complex life forms need to convert food into energy by various
ways and means, and aerobic respiration, which requires oxygen, is
one of the best and most efficient. Therefore, evolutionists had to in-
clude oxygen in some way in their fictitious Snowball Earth hy-
pothesis. They thus came up with the following scenario:

For millions of years, life would have been restricted to a few small
refuges so nutrients would have accumulated in the oceans, turning
them into a tasty chemical soup. As soon as the ice receded, the oceans
would have become green with massive colonies of bacteria and al-
gae, which may have injected a pulse of oxygen into the post-

Snowball oceans. 133

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