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Richard Monestarsky, a staff writer of the popular evolu-
tionist magazine, Science News, comments on the Cambrian ex-
plosion that astounds evolutionists:
A half-billion years ago,… the remarkably complex forms of ani-
mals we see today suddenly appeared. This moment, right at the
start of Earth's Cambrian Period, some 550 million years ago,
marks the evolutionary explosion that filled the seas with the
world's first complex creatures. The large animal phyla of today
were present already in the
early Cambrian and they
were as distinct from each
other as they are today. 58
How did the Cambrian
seas suddenly fill with such a
diversity of invertebrate
species, with no common an-
cestry? Evolutionists have
never been able to answer
the question. English biolo-
gist Richard Dawkins, one of
the foremost names in evolu-
tionist thought, has the fol-
lowing to say about on this
fact that negates the thesis he
espouses:
For example the Cambrian
strata of rocks, vintage
about 600 million years,
are the oldest ones in
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