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me genera or families, have really star- come into being through evolution, but
ted into life all at once, the fact would be were all separately created.
fatal to the theory of descent with slow
modification through natural selecti- Cambrian Period, the
on. 67
The Cambrian Period is a geological
The Cambrian Period confirms the age that began some 520 million years
picture described by Darwin as a fatal. ago and is estimated to have lasted 10
That is why the Swedish evolutionist million years. Apart from single-celled
Stefan Bengtson admits the absence of organisms and a few simple multi-celled
intermediate forms in discussing the organisms, no traces of living things
Cambrian Period and says, “Baffling from before that period are to be found
(and embarrassing) to Darwin, this in the fossil record. But in the excee-
event still dazzles us.” 68 dingly short Cambrian Period (10 milli-
As we have seen, the fossil record on years being a very brief space of time
shows that living things emerged sud- in geological terms), all the animal phyla
denly and perfectly formed, and did emerged simultaneously, with not a sing-
not—as the theory of evolution mainta- le deficiency among them. In the geolo-
ins—follow a process from the primitive gic periods that followed. Basic classifi-
to the developed. Living things did not cations such as fish, insects, amphibians,