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TREE OF LIFE im ag i nary tree of life. The true pic -
ture that emer ges from the fos sil
According to Darwinism, the
record is that spe cies have been thor -
course of ev o lu tion re sem bles a tree,
ough ly dif fer ent and very com plex,
start ing from a sin gle stem and then
ev er since the pe ri od when they first
di ver ging in to branch es. Indeed, this
ap peared.
hy poth e sis is strong ly em pha sized
All the an i mal phy la known to -
in Darwinist sour ces, where the con -
day ap peared sud den ly on Earth in a
cept of the tree of life is fre quent ly
ge o log i cal age known as the
used. According to this im ag i nary
Cambrian Period.
met a phor, phy la, one of the ba sic
Berkeley University's pro fes sor
clas si fi ca tions in to which liv ing
Phillip Johnson, one of the world's
things are di vid ed, must have
ma jor crit ics of Darwinism, states
"branched out" in sta ges.
that this fact re vealed by pa le on tol o -
According to Darwinism, a sin gle
gy is in clear con flict with the the o ry
phy lum must first have ap peared,
of ev o lu tion:
and oth er phy la must
then have Darwinian Theory pre dicts
a "cone of in creas ing di -
emerged slow ly
ver si ty," as the first
through small
liv ing or gan ism, or
chan ges and
first an i mal spe cies,
over very long
grad u al ly and con tin u -
pe ri ods of time.
al ly di ver si fied to cre ate
(See Phylum.)
the high er lev els of tax o -
According to this Different liv ing clas si fi ca tions nom ic or der. The an i mal
hy poth e sis, there emerged sud den ly with no sim i lar fos sil record more re sem -
fore bears and re mained sta ble,
must have been a bles such a cone turned
un der go ing no change, for hun -
grad u al rise in dreds of mil lions of years. up side down, with the
the num ber of phy la present at the start
an i mal phy la. Illustrations made on and there aft er de creas ing. 259
this sub ject show a grad u al rise in In the Pre-Cambrian Period,
the num ber of phy la, in con form i ty there were three phy la con sist ing of
with Darwinist ex pec ta tions that the sin gle-celled or gan isms. In the
liv ing things should have de vel oped Cambrian Period, how e ver, near ly
this way. But the fos sils refuse this 60 an i mal phy la emerged all at once.

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