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in order to account—according to evolu- Organisms either appeared on the earth
tionary theory—for the sudden appearan- fully developed or they did not. If they did
ce of species in the Burgess Shale. Go- not, they must have developed from pre-
uld’s book is titled Wonderful Life, and existing species by some process of modifi-
cation. If they did appear in a fully develo-
Morris’s, The Burgess Shale and the Rise
ped state, they must indeed have been crea-
of Animals. However, as stressed in
ted by some omnipotent intelligence. 62
Trends in Genetics, neither of these aut-
horities is able in any way to account for Therefore, the fossil records show
either the Burgess Shale fossils or other that living things did not follow a path
fossils dating back to the Cambrian Peri- from the simple to the complex, as evo-
od. lution maintains, but instead appeared
The fact made clear by the fossil re- suddenly and perfectly formed. This, in
cord is that living things appeared sud- turn, is evidence that life came about not
denly on Earth and in perfect forms. through unconscious natural phenome-
The picture revealed by the Cambri- na, but through a sublime creation. In
an Period fossils refutes the assumptions “The Big Bang of Animal Evolution,” an
of the theory of evolution, while also article published in Scientific American,
providing significant evidence that li- the evolutionist paleontologist Jeffrey S.
ving things were brought into being Levinton admits as much, albeit reluc-
through a supernatural creation. The tantly: “Therefore, something special
evolutionist biologist Douglas Futuyma and very mysterious—some highly “cre-
describes this fact: ative force”—existed then [at the Cam-
Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)