| Anyone who has been exposed to the teaching of | | | | record and whose bodies are composed mostly of |
| evolution has heard of the Cambrian Explosion of | | | | soft tissue that does not fossilize. The evolutionists |
| fossils. The evolutionists call it an "explosion" of fossils | | | | are free to make all kinds of artful speculation from |
| because so many fossils appear so abruptly in the | | | | the very limited evidence of relatively few bones. |
| geologic column. | | | | Evolutionists do claim to have some transitional |
| The Cambrian rock layers are among the lowest and | | | | mammal fossils but these are few and speculative |
| "oldest" layers in the geologic column yet are | | | | and often challenged by many of the evolutionists |
| extremely rich in both number and variety of fossils. | | | | themselves. Don't get me started on that farce called |
| The layers below the Cambrian are virtually void of | | | | "ape to human" evolution! |
| fossils. | | | | Even some leading evolutionists are waking up. David |
| The Cambrian layer contains billions of marine | | | | Raup, who has been curator of the famous Field |
| invertebrate fossils. About 95% of all animal fossils | | | | Museum of Natural History in Chicago has written |
| are of marine invertebrates. These include mollusks | | | | articles showing the conflicts between Darwinism and |
| such as clams and snails, crustaceans such as crabs | | | | paleontology. Raup even came out against the classic |
| and lobsters and cephalopods which include squid. The | | | | horse evolution series as being flawed! |
| Cambrian layers also include abundant plant fossils and | | | | I have often said that evolution is art and not |
| a significant variety of insect fossils. | | | | science. Evolution is a theory of natural history. |
| Evolutionists have long been puzzled by the well | | | | History is not science but is a liberal art. History is the |
| preserved Cambrian fossils of sea creatures that look | | | | art of the storyteller. Historians consult limited |
| almost exactly like marine invertebrates alive today. | | | | evidence to speculate about nonrepeatable events |
| Great momentum was given to the evolutionist's | | | | that occurred in the distant past. Natural History is a |
| perplexity when The Burgess Shale was discovered in | | | | valuable scholarly discipline but it is outside the realm |
| the Canadian Rockies in 1909. The Burgess Shale | | | | of science. |
| contains billions of fossils that are so well preserved | | | | Evolution is the origins myth of secularism. Secularism |
| that even many of the soft body parts are clearly | | | | is a faith. Secularism needed a theory of origins that |
| discernible. | | | | could exclude God. They found it in Darwinian |
| The Burgess Shale and in fact all of the other | | | | evolution. Secularism is the dominant faith among the |
| Cambrian fossil layers contain NO TRANSITIONAL | | | | ruling elite in western civilization today. Evolution is |
| FORMS. The lack of transitional forms is one of the | | | | taught to children at taxpayer expense. |
| many conundrums facing the theory of evolution. | | | | Efforts to teach special creation and intelligent design |
| There are no fossils of organisms that evolved into | | | | in the tax supported schools meets with severe |
| clams. There are no fossils of organisms that evolved | | | | opposition from the establishment. Secularists don't |
| into crabs. There are no fossils that evolved into | | | | like to see their origins myth challenged. They also |
| trilobites and no transitional fossils of anything into | | | | don't like to be reminded of their future. |
| which trilobites could have evolved. There are no | | | | The fossil record at all levels shows abundant |
| fossil precursors of jellyfish or squid or earthworms | | | | evidence of a wide variety of ancient organisms with |
| or spiders or insects! | | | | no valid transitional forms. Fossilization occurs after |
| Facts destroy theories. Any theory that cannot | | | | organisms are buried by sediment soon after death. |
| explain obvious facts must be rejected. Marine | | | | This rapid burial and fossilization of plants and animals |
| invertebrates and insects have very short life spans | | | | is evidence of catastrophic events that occurred in |
| and prolific rates of reproduction. They would seem | | | | ancient times. |
| to be ideal candidates for genetic mutation followed | | | | The Bible mentions many catastrophic events, most |
| by natural selection to cause macroevolutionary | | | | notable of which is the flood of Noah's day. This |
| change. The fact that no such change is observed in | | | | catastrophic flood is also mentioned in the ancient |
| these organisms throughout the fossil record is one | | | | records of many civilizations. The biblical record infers |
| of the many proofs of the falsity of Darwinism. | | | | that volcanism and sediment deposition occurred at |
| Famous evolutionist Stephen J. Gould, in his magnum | | | | the time of the flood. Water borne sediment and |
| opus "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory," barely | | | | volcanic ash covered and fossilized billions of plants |
| mentions insects for good reason. There are no | | | | and animals. |
| transitional fossils found among the huge number of | | | | The Bible teaches that God created all life forms. |
| insect fossils that have been unearthed. I have never | | | | While science cannot, in a formal way, prove that |
| read of any insect transitional fossil put forward by | | | | God created all things, it can be said that creationism |
| any evolutionist in all my years of research. | | | | is consistent with unbiased science. The fossil record |
| Since marine invertebrates are composed of an | | | | gives evidence, such as the explosion of Cambrian |
| abundance of hard parts such as shells and | | | | fossils, which infers that evolution did not take place. |
| exoskeletons they preserve very well and the near | | | | Darwinian evolution does not logically or reasonably |
| totality of the organism can be studied. The lack of | | | | account for the facts contained in the fossil record. |
| transitional forms is therefore particularly galling to | | | | The Cambrian Explosion of fossils of fully formed |
| Darwinists. This drives the knife deeper into the heart | | | | organisms that are almost exactly similar to present |
| of evolution. | | | | day organisms is best explained by the Bible's |
| Evolutionists prefer to focus tunnel vision on mammal | | | | assertion that God created life in its full state of |
| fossils which comprise a tiny fraction of the fossil | | | | development. |