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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

Darwin’s Tree of Life Has Been Chopped Down

Darwinism maintains that life emerged from a single common
ancestor and branched out by way of small changes. That being so,
life must first have appeared in simple forms, all very similar.
According to this same claim, the way that organisms grew different
from one another, increasing in complexity, must have taken place
over long periods of time. Therefore, according to Darwinism, life
must have grown like a tree, starting from a single root and then
spreading into various branches.
Indeed, this hypothesis is stressed in Darwinist sources, where
the term “tree of life” is frequently employed. According to this met-
aphor, there must have been just one phylum initially, because the
first imaginary cell also constituted the first basic body plan of life,
or phylum. This hypothetical first species must later—and over an
infinitely long period of time—have branched out into others.
The farther the new forms departed from their illusory evolu-
tionary ancestors, the greater the differences in their appearances
must have been. There must also have been a gradual increase in the
number of phyla comprising these species.
Darwin depicted this imaginary tree of life in his The Origin of
Species. He claimed that species (A) in the diagram branched out,
like a tree, over a long period he divided into 14 time frames, and
that differences between varieties would increase over the course of
time. As an amateur biologist, Charles Darwin expressed his flights
of fantasy on this subject: “I see no reason to limit the process of
modification, as now explained, to the formation of genera alone...
These two groups of genera will thus form two distinct families, or
orders.” 156
Darwin’s unrealistic expectation imposes certain conditions:
According to him, first of all species must have diverged, followed

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