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Cambrian rocks on all the continents and their absence in rocks of greater
age. 160

Barbara Jaffe Stahl is an evolutionist paleontology professor and
senior faculty member at Saint Anselm College, Manchester:
Finding vertebrate bone in Cambrian rocks, for instance, has proved that
the back-boned animals are as old as most of the known invertebrates. 161

Richard Monastersky is senior writer at The Chronicle of Higher
Education in Washington:
A half-billion years ago,... the remarkably complex forms of animals we
see today suddenly appeared. The Chengyiang fauna demonstrates that
the large animal phyla of today were present already in the early
Cambrian and that they were as distinct from each other as they are to-
day. 162
Richard Dawkins is a British zoologist and one of the leading con-
temporary evolutionists:
For example the Cambrian strata of rocks... are the oldest ones in which
we find most of the major invertebrate groups. It is as though they were
just planted there, without any evolutionary history. 163
Stephen Jay Gould is professor of geology and paleoanthropology
at Harvard University:
Where, then, are all the
Precambrian ancestors-
or, if they didn't exist in
recognizable form, how
did modern complexity
get off to such a fast
start? 164
The Cambrian explosion
was the most remark-
able and puzzling event
in the history of life. 165

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