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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

static, or nearly so . . . genera never show evolution
into new species or genera [emphasis added], but
replacement of one by another, and change is
more or less abrupt. 18
The picture revealed by paleontolo-
gists is that the Earth’s ecology of 4 billion
years ago remained virtually unchanged
until 600 million years ago. This long period
of time featured a largely barren environ-
ment. Only single-celled organisms have ever
been encountered.
Niles Eldredge
Evolutionists have made enormous efforts in
order to account for this long gap. Yet all their explanations produced
so far have been invalid and incapable of accounting for the lack of fic-
titious intermediate forms in the pre-Cambrian era.
Various evolutionists seek to account for this situation, which rep-
resents such a difficulty for their theory, in various ways. The evolution-
ist Niles Eldredge, for instance, takes refuge behind the following ac-
count:

We don’t see much evidence of intermediates in the Early Cambrian
because the intermediates had to have been soft-bodied, and thus ex-
tremely unlikely to become fossilized. 19

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