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terms, it is short in geological terms, amounting to less than 2 percent
of the time elapsed since the beginning of the Cambrian.) 65
Stephen Jay Gould also commented on this extraordinary speed:
Fast is now a lot faster than we thought, and that is extraordinarily in-
teresting. 66
In an article published in Scientific American, Gould described
the truth about the Cambrian’s 5-million-year “window” that all ev-
olutionists have had to accept:

Even the most cautious opinion holds that 500 million subsequent
years of opportunity have not expanded the Cambrian range,
achieved in just five million years. The Cambrian explosion was the
most remarkable and puzzling event in the history of life. 67

In addition to the complex features of the organisms that sud-
denly appear in Cambrian rocks, evolutionists must also explain
how these creatures came into being in a space of time too short for
the lengthy stages of the supposed evolutionary process to have tak-
en place. In as short a space of time as 0.001 of the age of the Earth,
could imaginary evolutionary stages have given rise to thousands of
creatures, prey and predator, with various and different features,
hard shells, perfect eyes and circulatory and digestive systems, in an
environment that formerly held only a few, small multi-celled or-
ganisms? How might this imaginary process have worked and over-
come so many impossibilities? That new life forms emerged in such

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