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HARUN YAHYA
he "Conquerors" episode of the documentary The
Shape of Life dealt with the arthropods, suggesting
that these creatures made the transition from sea to
land, and afterwards formed a separate taxonomic
T category by developing wings and beginning to fly.
Evolutionist scenarios that have been disproved countless times by
scientific research and discoveries were repeated to the accompani-
ment of new images, with no evidence put forward to back them
up. This article reveals the evolutionist propaganda that took place
in this documentary, and briefly sets out the dilemma that the
arthropods represent for evolution.
The Evolutionists' Cambrian Difficulties
The beginning of the film deals with living things which lived
around 500 million years ago. This period, known as the Cambrian
Age, was when organisms possessed of complex physical structures
suddenly emerged. These are the "phyla," the most fundamental
category of living creatures. In a most interesting way, nearly all the
phyla that have existed on the earth emerged during the Cambrian
period. Only a few phyla have been identified from before this pe-
riod, whereas it has been estimated from the fossil record that the
number of phyla appearing in the Cambrian was close to 100. The
enormous jump in the variety of life at this time was so great that it
is known in the scientific literature as the "Cambrian Explosion."
Richard Monastersky, a staff writer at Science News magazine , a
popular evolutionist publication, provides the following informa-
tion on the Cambrian Explosion:
A half-billion years ago, . . . the remarkably complex forms of ani-
mals that we see today suddenly appeared. This moment, right at
the start of the Earth's Cambrian Period, some 550 million years
ago, marks the evolutionary explosion that filled the seas with the
world's first complex creatures. 1
The same article also quotes Jan Bergström, a paleontologist
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