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Here is what we observe as we examine the fossil record….

1. Abrupt appearance of animals.

All the different, basic kinds of animals appear abruptly and fully
functional in the strata - with no proof of ancestors. This is often referred
to as the Cambrian Explosion, which refers to the great quantity and
diversity of life found in what is called the Cambrian layer of the geologic
column. The Cambrian age in the geologic time scale is dated by scientists
as being about 541 million years old. What is really interesting is not
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just what is found in this layer, but what is found in the layers above it, and what is not found in layers
under it. The Cambrian layer has virtually every phylum known to man. Yes, all major body plans and
enormous varieties of each all coexist in this layer. No evolutionary sequence here; they are all
coexistent simultaneously.

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"Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and paleontology does not provide them."
(David Kitts, paleontologist and Evolutionist). Darwin was embarrassed by the fossil record. It contains
no proof for macroevolution of animals.

All the animal phyla, including chordate fish, are now known as fossils in the Cambrian System. No
ancestral forms can be found for the protozoans, arthropods, brachiopods, mollusks, bryozoans,
coelenterates, sponges, annelids, echinoderms or chordates. These phyla appear in the fossil record
fully formed and distinct, in better agreement with the concept of "multiple, abrupt beginnings"
(creation) than with the notion of "descent from a common ancestor" (evolution).
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2. Plants appear abruptly, too.

Evolutionist Edred J.H. Corner: "… I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil
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record of plants is in favor of special creation." Scientists have been unable to
find an Evolutionary history (beginning to end) for even one group of modern
plants.

3. Animals unchanged.

Contrary to common belief, most fossils are not of extinct types of animals. Most fossils are very similar
(and often totally identical) to creatures living today. It is said there are many more living species of
animals than there are types known only as fossils. If Evolution is true, one may wonder why the case is
not just the reverse! Evolutionary history is supposed to be filled with temporary, intermediate stages of
evolution, from amoeba to man.

For example, fossils that are considered 200 millions of years old, such as the shark, is identical to
today’s sharks. So scientists consider sharks “living fossils” because of the lack of change observed.
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80 https://www.google.com/search?q=cambrian+explosion&oq=cambrian+explosion&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l2j0i395l
7.5310j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
81 https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/123795-evolution-requires-intermediate-forms-between-species-and-
palaeontology-does-not
82 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion
83 Evolution in Contemporary Thought, 1961, p.97
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