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The Cambrian Evidence That Darwin Failed to Comprehend

The British biologist Richard Dawkins, one of the most deter-
mined proponents of Darwinism, was forced to admit the implica-
tions of the Cambrian:
... the Cambrian strata of rocks, vintage about 600 million years, are
the oldest ones in which we find most of the major invertebrate
groups. And we find many of them already in an advanced state of ev-
olution, the very first time they appear. It is as though they were just
planted there, without any evolutionary history [emphasis added]. 54
Cambrian rocks exhibit two-thirds of the basic body plans of
the animal kingdom. These “stony blueprints” are so clear that the
mineralized tissues of invertebrates have to a large extent been pre-
served. As you shall soon see in some detail, the now-extinct trilo-
bites—members of the phylum Arthropoda—were exceedingly com-
plex invertebrates.
Shelled creatures commonly leave more complete traces behind
in the fossil record, thanks to their hard structures. In addition, how-
ever, remains of soft tissues, perfectly preserved, have also been dis-
covered both in the Burgess Shale formation in Canada and in
Chengjiang in China.
In fact, fossils from Chengjiang even reveal the remains of crea-
tures consisting only of soft tissues. These Chengjiang fossils have
made possible detailed studies of such important organs as eyes, in-
testines, stomachs, digestive organs, skin, scales, mouths and even
nervous systems.
Evolutionists require evidence of—and time—for any transi-
tion between species. So for them, the Cambrian has led to some
highly damaging conclusions that present a major challenge to their
theory—as even they themselves have been forced to admit.
Because living things did not evolve, but were created, the
more that organisms from the Cambrian are studied, the more ap-

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