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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

perfect in scientific faith. 182
Darwinists maintain this mindset and never question their
blind beliefs when dealing with a phenomenon such as the
Cambrian explosion that loudly contradicts evolution in all respects.
The Cambrian fossils are scientific fact. Therefore, any mindset that
rejects their implications is dogmatic and totally illogical. This
mindset inevitably compels Darwinists to engage in unscientific be-
havior.
The most telling example of this is certainly Walcott’s covering
up of the evidence. Academically, Walcott was a knowledgeable and
talented scientist who worked for the United States Geological
Survey for 27 years, serving as its director for 12 of them. Later, he
became the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and held this
post for 20 years, and rose to the position of president of the US
National Academy of Sciences. His career made him one of the most
important figures in American scientific history.
But despite his knowledge and experience, his blindness in the
face of the Burgess Shale fossils was seldom to be equaled. Many
Burgess Shale life forms told science of the existence of brand new
phyla. It was clear to him that these needed to be considered and
added alongside other known phyla. Yet Walcott completely ig-
nored the Cambrian explosion, described by paleontologists as “the
most remarkable and puzzling event in the history of life.” 183
Instead of naming these new phyla, he tried to fit the fossils in-
to already existing phyla—a most superficial and contrived ap-
proach. The world of paleontology realized how rottenly distorted
Walcott’s analyses were thanks to Stephen Jay Gould’s award-win-
ning book Wonderful Life (1989), and studies by Morris et al.
Gould examined Walcott’s notes and photographs and subject-
ed them to fierce criticism in his book. He wrote that Walcott had ig-
nored the extraordinary nature of the Burgess Shale fossils because

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