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say on the subject—which fun- nary ancestors behind
damentally invalidates the them. The evolutionist
theses he maintains: biologist Douglas Fu-
tuyma also admits
For example, the Cam-
brian strata of rocks. . . this fact:
are the oldest ones in Organisms either ap-
which we find most of the peared on the earth
major invertebrate groups. And fully developed, or they
we find many of them already did not. If they did not, they
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lution, the very first time they C Cambrian rock beds preexisting species by some
appear. It is as though they process of modification. If
were just planted there, without any evo- they did appear in a fully developed sta-
lutionary history. Needles to say, this ap- te, they must indeed have been created by
pearance of sudden planting has deligh- some omnipotent intelligence. 66
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As Dawkins admits, the Cambrian Indeed, Darwin had
Explosion is clear evidence of creation, written that
since that is the only explanation of how
If numerous species, belonging to the sa-
living things appeared with no evolutio-
4.5 billion years ago
2 billion years ago
1 billion years ago
530 million years ago
THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION