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these gaps that evolutionists, who need to be able to prove continuity among
living groups, have been at a loss to establish any familial relationships
among these phyla, on even a purely theoretical level.
The Cambrian Period shows that right at the beginning, very different

life forms with exceedingly complex structures emerged suddenly—and in
fact, this is exactly what is taught by creation. The origin of the perfect
structures possessed by living things is God's creation. In the fossil record,
these perfect structures appear in a flawless form without exhibiting any

deficient, semi-completed or still-functionless stages of the kind predicated
by the chance-based theory of evolution.

The Ordovician Period (490 to 443 million years ago)

In this period, a large number of marine invertebrates lived. The fossil
record has revealed a great wealth of families of marine creature during the

Ordovician Period. There are also terrestrial plant fossils dating back to the
same period. During the Ordovician Period, global climate changes caused
by ice ages resulted in a number of species becoming extinct. This state of
affairs is described as the "Ordovician extinctions."
Some life forms that existed during the Ordovician Period are still

around today. One is the horseshoe crab. A 450-million-year-old fossilized
horseshoe crab shows that nearly half a billion years ago, these creatures had
exactly the same features and complex equipment. The oldest known and

most perfect fossilized water spider also belongs to the Ordovician Period
(425 million years) and is
another important proof that
living things have remained unchanged for long ages. In
a period when—according to the Darwinist scenario—

living things should have been undergoing evolution,
these remains reveal that evolution never took
place in any manner whatsoever.

These rocks in Newfoundland show the transition
from the Cambrian to the Ordovician Period.

A 450-million-year-old
fossil horseshoe crab, no
different from those crabs
of our day.

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