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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

mud rather that floating in the water. 25 For Stephen Jay Gould of
Harvard University, these fossils were unsuccessful “experiments” that
had taken place during the transition to the great variety of species in
the Cambrian.
For the Oregon University paleontologist Gregory Retallack, the
Ediacaran fossils were not even animals. In his opinion, they were prob-
ably lichens—symbiotic species emerging from fungi and algae living
together. They were able to feed by way of photosynthesis and their im-
pressions were preserved in sandstones up to 5 kilometers deep. 26
As we have seen, there was no consensus even among evolution-
ists regarding the Ediacaran Period. What really matters is that none of
these claims provides any explanation for the sudden, later explosion of
life that occurred during the Cambrian. None provided any clues as to
where the supposed ancestors of Cambrian life forms had been. In ad-
dition, they gave no account of the origin of these new forms of
Ediacaran fauna, which are described in so very different terms from
Cambrian life forms. For that reason, Ediacaran species actually repre-
sent another major difficulty for evolutionists, rather than any ray of
hope.
The University of California at Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology
website says this about the creatures of the period:

The question of what these fossils are is still not settled to everyone’s
satisfaction; at various times they have been considered algae, lichens,
giant protozoans, or even a separate kingdom of life unrelated to any-
thing living today. Some of these fossils are simple blobs that are hard
to interpret and could represent almost anything. Some are most like
cnidarians, worms, or soft-bodied relatives of the arthropods. Others
are less easy to interpret and may belong to extinct phyla. But besides
the fossils of soft bodies, Vendian rocks contain trace fossils, probably
made by wormlike animals slithering over mud. 27
For evolutionists still speculating about a few fossils belonging to
Ediacaran fauna, the situation became even more precarious when fos-

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