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A Metaldetes
fossil resembling Fossils from the Cambrian period (545 to
present-day 495 million years ago) show that living
sponges things appear in geological strata with all
their complex characteristics, without having
first undergone a process of evolution—in
other words that they were created.

releasing them. The Burgess
Shale fossils came to light
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only during an examination
of the museum's archives in
1985. The Israeli scientist
Gerald Schroeder makes the

following comment:
A fossil Wiwaxia,
fre qu ently en co un te red Had Walcott wanted, he could
in stra ta from the have hired a phalanx of gradu-
Camb rian period ate students to work on the fos-

sils. But he chose not to rock the
boat of evolution. Today fossil
representatives of the Cambrian
era have been found in China,
Africa, the British Isles, Sweden,
Mobergella: Greenland. The explosion was world-
A shelled fossil from the wide. But before it became proper to
Cambrian period discuss the extraordinary nature of the
explosion, the data were simply not re-
ported. 26
For more than 70 years, these fossils had remained hid-
den until they were found and analyzed by paleontologists
Harry Whittington, Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris.

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