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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

A new discovery in 1999
revealed two fish species
that lived in the
Cambrian Period.
Myllokunmingia fengjiaoa

Haikouichthys ercaicunensis

that this fact revealed by paleontology openly conflicts with Darwinism:
Darwinian theory predicts a "cone of increasing diversity," as the first
living organism, or first animal species, gradually and continually di-
versified 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 decreasing. 16
Finally, it needs to be made clear that it is a mistake to portray
living species' arrangement in geological strata as proof of the claim

that species evolved from one another. In order to prove their claims,
evolutionists need to be able to point to fossils belonging to transi-
tional species, thus demonstrating an evolutionary transition be-
tween different species. However, as we have seen in the preceding
pages, there is no sign of such intermediate forms. In conclusion, the
NAS's "self confident" statements about the fossil record are actually
hollow claims, devoid of proof and used solely for propaganda pur-

poses.

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