Page 201 - The Cambrian Evidence that Darwin Failed to Comprehend

HARUN YAHYA

Sounds great, but making bold claims is the easy bit—to convince
your colleagues, you usually need some evidence. Valentine,
Jablonski and Erwin needed to show that these mapmaking genes ac-
tually existed in the Cambrian. That posed a problem— . . . genes
don’t fossilise, least of all for half a billion years and more. 147
Dr. Raymond G. Bohlin, a zoologist and molecular biologist,
describes the unscientific aspect of the assumption regarding Hox
genes in the Cambrian:
Some evolutionists have gone so far as to suggest that the mechanisms
of evolution operating in the Cambrian were probably radically dif-
ferent from what has taken place ever since. This raises the possibili-
ty that we may never be able to study these mechanisms because ani-
mals with the proper genetic structure no longer exist. We are left on-
ly with the products of the Cambrian explosion and none of the pre-
cursors. The speculations will therefore be wild and uncontrollable
since there will be no way to test these theories. Fossils leave no trace
of their genetic organization. 148
The absence of Hox genes in the fossil record represents a prob-
lem for evolutionists. However, even if they had found the genes in

The sequence of Hox genes on the chromosome is the same as the arrangement of
those body parts the development of which is regulated by these genes. Changing
the location of these genes in the fruit fly Drosophila caused odd-looking insects
with legs sticking out of their heads. Thus in complex structures the damaging ef-
fects of even a conscious mutation are plain to see. This fact refutes all Darwinist
claims on the subject.

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