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HARUN YAHYA

numbers. This is a total contradiction of the theory of evolution’s
claim that the number of phyla should increase as species increased.
To clarify this with an analogy: Wheeled vehicles, aircraft, and
boats are the humans’ main means of transportation. Cars, tractors,
hovercraft, and canoes are all subcategories of these. Over the years,
there has been an increase in their number and variety. Yet the num-
ber of these basic categories—wheeled vehicles, boats, and aircraft—
has remained fixed at three.
Snails, trilobites, sponges, worms, jellyfish, starfish, chambered
nautiluses and sea lilies, all of which have very different character-
istics, left the remains in the fossil record of their bodies 530 million
years ago. So perfect and complete are these that large parts of their
internal organs and even respiratory systems can be seen just as they
were. Their soft tissues are so clear as to reveal their vital systems.
The interesting point is that most of the creatures in these strata have
structures and advanced physiological traits—eyes, gills, and circu-
lation and excretory systems—that are almost identical to those of
organisms today. These fossils in Cambrian rocks are exceedingly
complex, with “skeletons for strengthening bodies and attaching
muscles; shells for encasing feeding chambers ... and hardened de-
vices for rasping and cutting food items.” 52
Richard Monastersky, a Science News writer, has this to say on
the subject:
A half-billion years ago the remarkably complex forms of animals that
we see today suddenly appeared. This moment, right at the start of
Earth’s Cambrian Period, some 550 million years ago, marks the evo-
lutionary explosion that filled the seas with the world’s first complex
creatures. The large animal phyla of today were present already in the
early Cambrian and they were as distinct from each other then as they
are today. 53

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