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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

Paleontologists have long regarded vertebrates as latecomers
who straggled into evolutionary history after much of the initial
sound and fury had fizzled. Chinese paleontologists, however,
have discovered fossils of two fish that push the origin of ver-
tebrates back to the riotous biological bash when almost all
other animal groups emerged in the geologic record. Preserved
in 530-million-year-old rocks from Yunnan province, the paper
clip-size impressions record the earliest known fish, which pre-
date the next-oldest vertebrates by at least 30 million years. 4

This evidence that vertebrates also emerged during the
Cambrian Period demolished all hopes of locating the history of
life within an evolutionary framework.
Professor Phillip Johnson of University of California at
Berkeley, one of the most important critics of evolution in the

world, describes how this fact openly conflicts with Darwinism:
Darwinian theory predicts a "cone of increasing diversity," as the

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