Page 213 - A Definitive Reply to Evolutionist Propagand‪a

HARUN YAHYA

Dawkins, one of the most prominent defenders of Darwinism in the
world, makes the following admission regarding the living things
of the Cambrian:
For example the Cambrian strata of rocks . . . are the oldest ones in
which we find most of the major invertebrate groups. And we find
many of them already in an advanced state of evolution, the very
first time they appear. It is as though they were just planted there,
without any evolutionary history. 3
Another aspect of the Cambrian period that totally undermines
evolution is the fact that the number of phyla existing today is far
fewer than the number that emerged during the "explosion."
According to the theory of evolution, there should have been an in-
crease over time in the number of categories of living things. Yet
from the fossil record the situation is the exact opposite.
One of the world's most prominent critics of Darwinism is
University of California Berkeley professor Phillip E. Johnson, who
openly states the contradiction with Darwinism revealed by this sit-
uation in the following words:
Darwinian theory predicts a "cone of increasing diversity," as the
first living organism, or first animal species, gradually and contin-
ually diversified to create the higher levels of taxonomic order. The
animal fossil record more resembles such a cone turned upside
down, with the phyla present at the start and thereafter decreas-
ing. 4

Not one word about this is mentioned in the documentary.
There can be only one reason why a film that deals with how living
things emerged on earth and then spread should ignore this huge
explosion in the number of phyla and variety of living things. This
explosion in the Cambrian Period definitively reveals that life came
about not by chance but all of a sudden and in perfect form—in
other words that it was created. The makers of the documentary de-
liberately avoided touching on the subject.

211