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HARUN YAHYA

worms and arthropods.
But what were fossils of creatures that had lived on the sea bed
hundreds of millions of years ago doing some 3,000 meters (9,850
feet) high in the Rocky Mountains? It appeared that these creatures
had been covered over in sand as the result of an underwater slide
that had occurred hundreds of millions of years ago, and that this
sediment-containing strata had risen up under the influence of geo-
logical pressures to form the Rocky Mountains. This made it possi-
ble for exceedingly well-preserved fossils of the ancient, yet com-

plex living things to be to Walcott’s gaze.
Inspired by the nearby Mount Burgess, Walcott named the re-
gion “Burgess Shale” and collected some 65,000 fossil specimens
there between 1910 and 1917. 45

Charles Doolittle Walcott, who collected some 65,000 specimens of the earliest
complex life forms in the Burgess Shale region, was responsible for one of the
worst scientific cover-ups in history. Since he realized that the fossils he discov-
ered would substantially demolish the theory of evolution, he concealed them for
70 years in the Smithsonian Institution, of which he was the secretary. However,
this still failed to hide the facts of the Cambrian Period. Newly discovered fossils in
various parts of the world clearly showed that there had been an explosion of life
in the Cambrian Period. The Burgess Shale fossils, which were brought out into the
light after 70 years, also made this crystal-clear.

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