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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

to be a cone shaped “V” is now in the form of a line “_”.
The fact that Darwin’s famous tree of life is actually a falsehood
is a major disappointment for the theory itself and for its propo-
nents. In his book Icons of Evolution, the American biologist Jonathan
Wells describes this fact:
Since higher levels of the biological hierarchy appear first, one could
even say that the Cambrian explosion stands Darwin’s tree of life on
its head. If any botanical analogy were appropriate, it would be a
lawn rather than a tree. Nevertheless, evolutionary biologists have
been reluctant to abandon Darwin’s theory. Many of them discount
the Cambrian fossil evidence instead. 160
Life appeared suddenly, and with a great variety, with the
Cambrian explosion. Clearly there was no process of evolution, be-
ginning with a single bacterium and extending eventually as far as
human beings, of the sort Darwinists still believe in. Darwin’s tree
of life has been chopped down in a single moment.

According to Darwin Himself, the Cambrian
Explosion Deals His Theory a Deadly Blow

As Stephen Jay Gould says:
The fossil record had caused Darwin more grief than joy. Nothing dis-
tressed him more than the Cambrian explosion, the coincident ap-
pearance of almost all complex organic designs... 161
In Darwin’s time, the Cambrian explosion was a newly discov-
ered fact. For a biologist who claimed that organisms emerged by
chance in slow stages, this phenomenon was unexpected and sur-
prising. Darwin admitted this severe difficulty in his book The
Origin of Species:

There is another and allied difficulty, which is much more serious. I al-
lude to the manner in which species belonging to several of the main

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