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A 320-million-year-old cock-
roach fossil (left). A 360-mil-
lion-year-old trilobite fossil
(below).

the sudden emergence of living species:
A half-billion years ago the remarkably complex forms of animals that we see
today suddenly appeared. This moment, right at the start of Earth's Cambrian
Period, some 550 million years ago, marks the evolutionary explosion that
filled the seas with the world's first complex creatures. The large animal phyla
of today were present already in the early Cambrian and they were as dis-
tinct from each other then as they are today .4

Not being able to find answers to the question of how earth came to
overflow with thousands of different animal species, evolutionists posit an
imaginary period of 20 million years before the Cambrian Period to explain
how life originated and "the unknown happened". This period is called the
"evolutionary gap". No evidence for it has ever been found and the con-
cept is still conveniently nebulous and undefined even today.
In 1984, numerous complex invertebrates were unearthed in

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