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CHAPTER 8.
CHAPTER 8.

EVOLUTIONISTS' CONFESSIONS
REGARDING THE SUDDEN
EMERGENCE OF LIFE

I nvestigation of the geological strata and the fossil record shows
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that life on Earth emerged all of a sudden. The deepest stratum in

which fossils of living things are encountered is that known as the
Cambrian, dating back 520 to 530 million years.
The fossils in Cambrian rocks belong to radically different life forms.
What comes as a terrible disappointment to evolutionists is that all of
these species emerged suddenly and with no primitive forerunners pre-
ceding them.
Most of the life forms in Cambrian strata possess complex systems,
such as eyes, gills and blood circulatory systems, and often, advanced
physiological features no different from those of creatures living today.

This is a sign that all of life was created in a single act, with no common
ancestors or evolutionary process being involved.
Darwin warned that if such a possibility were ever proven-that life
began suddenly-it would represent a lethal blow to this theory. As can be
seen from the evolutionist statements below, the theory of evolution suf-
fers the first of many such blows from the Cambrian fossils, among the
earliest forms of life.

As the Harvard paleontologist and evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould
has said, Darwinists’ greatest alarm stems from the fossil record, and
particularly from Cambrian fossils:
The fossil record had caused Darwin more grief than joy. Nothing dis-
tressed him more than the Cambrian explosion, the coincident appear-
ance of almost all complex organic designs. 155