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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

dividual gene functions. 140
Stasis—in other words, stability in the fossil record—also re-
futes the gradual-evolution-through-mutations model propagated
by neo-Darwinists. Specimens of organisms in the fossil record that
existed millions of years ago are identical to their descendants alive
today. According to stasis, living things emerge with the traces they
have left behind in the fossil record with the same features they pos-
sess today or possessed in the recent past. The fossil record shows
no intermediate forms and no change over the course of millions of
years. This confirms that living things never undergo evolution and
also constitutes one of the most serious blows to neo-Darwinism.
The evolutionist Peter G. Williamson, of the Harvard
University Geology Department, sets this out in a paper in Nature

magazine:
The principal problem is morphological stasis. A theory is only as
good as its predictions, and conventional neo-Darwinism, which
claims to be a comprehensive explanation of evolutionary process, has
failed to predict the widespread long-term morphological stasis now
recognized as one of the most striking aspects of the fossil record. 141
After admitting that neo-Darwinism is not supported up by the
fossil record, Stephen Jay Gould’s description of the theory’s posi-
tion reads like an obituary notice:
[Neo-Darwinism] is effectively dead, despite its persistence as text-
book orthodoxy. 142

Neo-Darwinism, or the modern evolutionary synthesis, has
been put forward simply to satisfy evolutionist requirements and to
excuse their lack of evidence. It is another claim, another fairy tale,
invented to account for the Cambrian explosion and keep alive the
theory of evolution. In fact, a number of evolutionists are in com-
plete agreement on this.

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