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HARUN YAHYA

divisions of the animal kingdom suddenly appear in the lowest
known fossiliferous rocks. 162
Elsewhere, Darwin openly admitted that he was unable to
come up with an explanation appropriate to his theory:
To the question why we do not find rich fossiliferous deposits belong-
ing to these assumed earliest periods prior to the Cambrian system, I
can give no satisfactory answer. 163

Under normal circumstances, one would expect such a great
fact to consign the theory of evolution to the shelf and to silence its
supporters. Yet that is not what happened. Darwin hoped that in the
future, an explanation would be provided for this extraordinary va-
riety of life that emerged in the Cambrian. Yet he did recognize that
if no explanation were forthcoming—in other words, if the fossil rec-
ord failed to produce the expected intermediate forms—this would
be a lethal blow for his theory:

The abrupt manner in which whole groups of species suddenly ap-
pear in certain formations, has been urged by several paleontolo-
gists—for instance, by Agassiz, Pictet, and Sedgwick—as a fatal objec-
tion to the belief in the transmutation of species. If numerous species,
belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into
life at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution
through natural selection [emphasis added]. 164

This admission of Darwin’s expresses in his own words the
persistent flaw in the theory of evolution. No examples of the inter-
mediate forms have turned up that Darwin expected would be
found in the future. It is increasingly obvious that the countless
numbers of species began life immediately, with no foregoing proc-
ess of evolution. The fact that 50 separate phyla existed all together
in an era when there should have been only single-celled organisms,
is sufficient to constitute that coup de grâce..

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