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The theory of evolution claims that living species gradually evolved from
one another. The fossil record, however, explicitly falsifies this claim. For
example, in the Cambrian Period, some 550 million years ago, tens of to-
tally distinct living species emerged suddenly. These living beings depict-
ed in the above picture have very complex structures. This fact, referred to
as the "Cambrian Explosion" in scientific literature is plain evidence of
creation.

However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of these
intermediate forms had yet been found. He regarded this as a
major difficulty for his theory. In one chapter of his book titled
"Difficulties on Theory," he wrote:

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly
fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transi-
tional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the