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HARUN YAHYA
prominent contemporary exponents of Darwinism, declared pikaia to be
“the ancestor of us all.” His claim rested on the assumption that verte-
brates did not exist during the Cambrian Period. The portrayal of pikaia,
the oldest known chordate—in other words, an animal with a central
nervous system, which emerged during the Cambrian Period—as the
ancestor of the fishes identified during later periods, appeared entirely
compatible with the fossil record.
Evolutionists maintain that the creature known as the pikaia is the ancestor of fish.
The fact is, however, that fish supposedly descended from the pikaia have been
shown to have lived at the same time as it, during the Cambrian Period.
A discovery made in China in 1999, however, undermined this
evolutionist thesis concerning the Cambrian Period, proving that there
were indeed fish living at the same time as pikaia, the supposed ancestor
of all fish.
Paleontologists excavating in the Yunnan region found 530-mil-
lion-year-old fossil fish. In his report, "Waking up to the Dawn of
Vertebrates", the well-known paleontologist Richard Monastersky
made the following statement regarding these two separate fish species,
Haikouichthys ercaicunensis and Myllokunmingia fengjiaoa:
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