Page 87 - The Cambrian Evidence that Darwin Failed to Comprehend

HARUN YAHYA

This conclusion faced by scientists is truly
astonishing, because as we have already
shown in some detail, organisms consist-
ing of only soft tissues lived shortly before
the Cambrian. At that time, all organisms
constituted only three phyla. When we
look a little further back, however, there
was nothing on Earth apart from single-
celled organisms. Yet the Cambrian is a pe-
riod when completely new life forms, with
complex anatomies and perfect internal and
external features suddenly appeared. Ernst Mayr
In his book This Is Biology, the evolutionist
Ernst Mayr describes the phenomenon this way:
There are indeed many phenomena in the history of life which sug-
gest the actual existence of such an internal cohesion. How else can
one explain the virtual explosion of different structural types at the
end of the Precambrian and the Early Cambrian? Even in the utterly
incomplete fossil record, one can distinguish at that time some 60 to
80 different morphotypes, compared with the 30 or so animal phyla
now in existence. ... one might almost say experimentally, a high num-
ber of new types, some of which were not successful and became ex-
tinct, while the remaining ones, represented by the modern chordates,
echinoderms, arthropods, and so on, became more and more inflexi-
ble. There has not been the production of a single major new body
plan since the early Paleozoic. It seems as if the existing ones had
“congealed”—that is, had acquired such a firm internal cohesion. . . 50

In the framework of the basic anatomical designs of the
Cambrian Period’s newly emerged forms, Stephen Jay Gould refers
to the variety they exhibit:

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