Page 47 - The Transitional Form Dilemma

HARUN YAHYA

very different from one another and very complex ever since they first
appeared. All the phyla known today—and others, as well—appeared on
Earth at the same time, during the geological era now known as the Cambrian
Period.

This period, when all presently known animal phyla emerged, is a
geological era that lasted about 65 million years and took place between
570 and 505 million years ago. Yet the period in which just about all the
known phyla appeared is a much smaller interval within the Cambrian
Period itself, and is calculated to have lasted no more than 10 million
years. In geological terms, that is a very brief time indeed!
The sudden emergence of life, in all its variety and with all its dif-
ferent bodily structures within such a short space of time, runs com-
pletely contrary to Darwinism’s expectations. The way that a number of
the phyla that emerged during the Cambrian subsequently became ex-
tinct, along with the failure of any new phyla to emerge, reinforces this
contradiction. Life did not increasingly broaden and assume greater va-
riety, as evolutionists would have us believe. Rather, it began in many
different forms and increasingly narrowed down.

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