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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

period, evolutionists took them to be of great importance.
Following the discovery in Australia of many fossils from this pe-
riod, specimens from the same age were found in Southern Namibia,
Russia, Great Britain, Sweden, Canada and America as well. Thorough
examination of all these fossils showed that the 16 or so different spe-
cies found in the Ediacara strata had left behind no remains of their
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hard tissues. To put it another way, these creatures were entirely soft-
bodied.
It is true that a wide variety of multi-celled organisms emerged
suddenly in Ediacaran-period strata, immediately following after the
pre-Cambrian. However, their forms were completely unique and dif-
ferent from those of the later Cambrian life forms. Unlike Cambrian life
forms, they had no hard tissues, no complex structures and organs.
They were generally shaped like ferns, pouches or discs. These organ-
isms had various sensory extensions, but no apparent head sections or
respiratory, nervous or digestive systems. They had no complex physi-
ological systems, and their features are generally unclear.
The fact that these multi-cellular organisms emerged immediately
before the Cambrian led to their being the subjects of considerable spec-
ulation. Every evolutionist scientist trying to account for Cambrian life
forms looked for an ancestor by formulating a theory on Ediacaran life
forms.
For example, the evolutionist paleontologist Martin Glaessner and
his colleagues claimed that in this fauna, they could detect certain fea-
tures belonging to present-day phyla, but that these fossilized remains
were not sufficiently well preserved to be able to identify their charac-
teristics.
Another evolutionist, Adolf Seilacher, believed that jellyfish
would have been preserved as depressions in the sand. The Ediacaran
jellyfish, however, appeared as bumps on the undersides of sandstone
beds. In his view, this implied that those animals lived on the bottom

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