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The NAS's Errors on the Subject of the Fossil Record

Modern-day insects like the dragon-
fly possess the same eye structure
as the trilobite.

optical engineer to develop today." 14
Another point which needs to be made clear about trilobites is
that the 530-million-year-old compound eye system has come down
unchanged to the present day, and that some insects, such as the bee
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or the dragonfly, today possess exactly that same structure. This
finding deals a mortal blow to the theory of evolution's claim that liv-
ing things developed directly from the simple to the complex.
The fossils found in Cambrian strata belong to very different
species, such as snails, trilobites, sponges, worms, star fishes, sea

urchins, and sea lilies. A new discovery in 1999 even revealed the ex-
istence of two separate fish species, Haikouichthys ercaicunensis and
Myllokunmingia fengjiaoa. Most of the living things in this stratum pos-
sessed advanced physiological structures and complex systems, such
as the eye, the lung, and a circulatory system, which are no different
from those of modern-day specimens. These structures are both very
complex and very different from one another. The NAS's claim that

life evolved from the primitive to the advanced is therefore very defi-
nitely untrue.
Professor Phillip Johnson of the University of California, Berkeley,
one of the most important critics of Darwinism in the world, declares

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