Page 227 - The Cambrian Evidence that Darwin Failed to Comprehend

HARUN YAHYA

No one has yet witnessed, in the fossil record, in real life, or in com-
puter life, the exact transitional moments when natural selection
pumps its complexity up to the next level. 168
Life began with already complex creatures. There is no evi-
dence that complexity increased through evolution. Therefore, the
idea of an increasing scale of complexity throughout natural history
was a deception, since the true course that complexity followed was
totally at odds with the Darwinist scenario.
A pamphlet of the American Geological Institute, an authority
on fossil strata, makes this admission:
The old Darwinian view of evolution as a ladder of more and more ef-
ficient forms leading up to the present is not borne out by the evi-
dence. 169
Scientists seeking to gather evidence that complexity could
have developed out of simpler structures encountered the exact op-
posite. The vertebrate jaw, for example, is a complex structure
whose every component functions in a very sensitive manner.
According to Darwinism, this complex structure must have been
simpler in fish, at the lower branches of the imaginary tree of life,
and then have evolved further in later vertebrates. Yet the facts re-
veal the very opposite; the jaw is more highly developed in fish, in
the supposedly lower section of the vertebrate tree of life. John G.
Maisey from the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the
American Museum of Natural History expresses this fact:
As we move back down our evolutionary ladder, jaw structure be-
comes more instead of less complex, and in fishes the jaws are very
elaborate indeed. 170
Another important example in this regard is the eye of the ex-
tinct trilobite. The complexity of this organ in one of the most an-
cient animals was not passed on to any subsequent arthropod. The

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