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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

evolved from one another, which is a scientific impossibility.
The question of how the first Hox gene, which supposedly con-
stitutes the ancestor of all the rest, emerged by chance still awaits an
explanation.
Those who claim that Hox genes had the potential to give rise
to a biological Big Bang like the Cambrian explosion must account
for why this did not occur yet again, in the subsequent 540 million
years of natural history. If Hox genes do pack such potential, then
why did species that existed after the Cambrian give rise to no sub-
sequent explosions? And why did other phyla not emerge?
These questions also apply to the present day. Why do present-
day scientists not witness such changes? Such observations should
constantly be reported in journals such as Nature and Science, yet not
a single example has ever been published!
In addition, as you have already seen in the example of the fruit
fly, Hox mutations produce defective entities. The theory that
Cambrian phyla evolved from earlier single-celled organisms re-
quires countless deformed organisms to bridge the gap. Therefore, if
Cambrian phyla did emerge through Hox mutations, where are all
the countless intermediate fossils? For example, why are there no
trilobite fossils with limbs coming out their heads? Why do living
things in the fossil record always display flawless structures?
The theory of evolution has no answers.
In his book, Simon Conway-Morris admits this lack of re-
sponse:
If we can explain how an animal develops from the fertilized egg
through a series of embryonic stages in which features such as seg-
mentation and limbs are formed, then there is a fascinating possibili-
ty of applying this knowledge to the Cambrian explosion. Do differ-
ent animals have very different sets of genetic instructions? If so, how
might they have evolved, and were there special mechanisms operat-

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