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18. Para(pseudo) conformities—
One rock stratum sits on top of another rock stratum, but with supposedly millions of years of geological
time missing, yet the contact plane lacks any significant erosion; it is a "flat gap". For example, the
Coconino sandstone / Hermit shale in the Grand Canyon
(supposedly a 10-million-year gap in time). The thick Schnebly Hill
Formation (sandstone) lies between the Coconino and Hermit in
central Arizona.

19. Raindrops, ripple marks, and Animal tracks.
The presence of ephemeral markings (raindrop marks, ripple
marks, animal tracks) at the boundaries of paraconformities shows
that the upper rock layer has been deposited immediately after the
lower one, eliminating many millions of years of "gap" time.

20. Cambrian creatures are living today.
A fossil creature from the phylum Entoprocta (invertebrate animals that have tentacles and
lack a mineralized skeleton) was found in marked abundance (over 400 individuals) in the
Burgess Shale. According to evolutionists, the Burgess is a sedimentary layer that's

purportedly part of the Cambrian period, about half a billion years ago. The problem for
paleontologists is that the supposedly 520-million-year-old creature looks exactly like its
living counterparts, only up to eight times larger.

The Cambrian geologic system is an enigma for the evolutionary paradigm. If evolution is
true, life would have started simple and then evolved in complexity over time. The
Cambrian system is one of the oldest geological layers containing billions of sophisticated
fossils supposedly formed after the Precambrian system. The Precambrian layers contain
"simple" single-celled life but also have jellyfish and annelids (worms).

The fossils represent an explosion of complex multicellular life
forms in the Cambrian system, hence the term "Cambrian
Explosion." The problem with evolution is that the Cambrian
explosion occurs suddenly with no transitional forms preceding it.
Furthermore, many of the types of fossils found in the Cambrian
layer are represented by modern organisms, such as entoprocts, that
are alive and well today. This species of entoproct, Cotyledion
tylodes, was identified previously, but the specimens were not well
preserved and were difficult to characterize. The discovery of
hundreds of new extremely well-preserved fossils in much older
strata was a huge surprise. Another shock was the extremely well-
defined detail of the fossil's mouth, anus, and digestive tract, proving
that the previous classification of C. tylodes as a cnidarian (a jellyfish-
like creature) was wrong. In fact, not only was the creature
postulated to be much older than previously estimated, but it was

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