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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

The Idea of Ascent from the Simple to the
Complex is a Deception
Darwin’s theory claimed that all the complexity in present-day
forms of life emerged as the result of an imaginary evolutionary
process that allegedly has continued over millions of years.
Complex structures such as a dolphin’s sonar system, a chameleon’s
tongue, the wing of a hummingbird or an octopus’s tentacles
must—according to this hypothesis—have developed gradually
from inferior, rudimentary systems.
Darwin’s hypothesis placed an imaginary first cell, with none
of these complex systems, at the start of the fictitious evolutionary
process. Therefore, according to Darwinism, the supposed natural
evolution of life forms must have followed a developmental course
from the simple to the complex. But the Cambrian explosion irrefu-
tably demolished that claim.
First of all, the living things that appeared in the Cambrian al-
ready had very complex structures. University of London biochem-
ist D. B. Gower states this fact in clear terms:
In the oldest rocks we did not find a series of fossils covering the grad-
ual changes from the most primitive creatures to developed forms,
but rather in the oldest rocks developed species suddenly appeared. 165
Second, both the fossil record and the species that lived in the
period after the Cambrian suggest the exact opposite of Darwin’s
gradual-development model. They indicate no gradualism. George
Gaylord Simpson, one of the 20th century’s foremost paleontolo-
gists, expresses this:

It is a feature of the known fossil record that most taxa appear abrupt-
ly. They are not, as a rule, led up to by a sequence of almost impercep-
tibly changing forerunners such as Darwin believed should be usual
in evolution. 166

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