No Transitional Fossils in Cambrian Explosion - A Challenge to Darwinism

Anyone who has been exposed to the teaching ofrecord and whose bodies are composed mostly of
evolution has heard of the Cambrian Explosion ofsoft tissue that does not fossilize. The evolutionists
fossils. The evolutionists call it an "explosion" of fossilsare free to make all kinds of artful speculation from
because so many fossils appear so abruptly in thethe very limited evidence of relatively few bones.
geologic column.Evolutionists do claim to have some transitional
The Cambrian rock layers are among the lowest andmammal fossils but these are few and speculative
"oldest" layers in the geologic column yet areand 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 marineRaup, who has been curator of the famous Field
invertebrate fossils. About 95% of all animal fossilsMuseum of Natural History in Chicago has written
are of marine invertebrates. These include mollusksarticles showing the conflicts between Darwinism and
such as clams and snails, crustaceans such as crabspaleontology. Raup even came out against the classic
and lobsters and cephalopods which include squid. Thehorse evolution series as being flawed!
Cambrian layers also include abundant plant fossils andI 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 wellHistory is not science but is a liberal art. History is the
preserved Cambrian fossils of sea creatures that lookart 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'sthat occurred in the distant past. Natural History is a
perplexity when The Burgess Shale was discovered invaluable scholarly discipline but it is outside the realm
the Canadian Rockies in 1909. The Burgess Shaleof science.
contains billions of fossils that are so well preservedEvolution is the origins myth of secularism. Secularism
that even many of the soft body parts are clearlyis 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 otherevolution. Secularism is the dominant faith among the
Cambrian fossil layers contain NO TRANSITIONALruling elite in western civilization today. Evolution is
FORMS. The lack of transitional forms is one of thetaught 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 intoin the tax supported schools meets with severe
clams. There are no fossils of organisms that evolvedopposition from the establishment. Secularists don't
into crabs. There are no fossils that evolved intolike to see their origins myth challenged. They also
trilobites and no transitional fossils of anything intodon't like to be reminded of their future.
which trilobites could have evolved. There are noThe fossil record at all levels shows abundant
fossil precursors of jellyfish or squid or earthwormsevidence 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 cannotorganisms are buried by sediment soon after death.
explain obvious facts must be rejected. MarineThis rapid burial and fossilization of plants and animals
invertebrates and insects have very short life spansis evidence of catastrophic events that occurred in
and prolific rates of reproduction. They would seemancient times.
to be ideal candidates for genetic mutation followedThe Bible mentions many catastrophic events, most
by natural selection to cause macroevolutionarynotable of which is the flood of Noah's day. This
change. The fact that no such change is observed incatastrophic flood is also mentioned in the ancient
these organisms throughout the fossil record is onerecords 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 magnumthe time of the flood. Water borne sediment and
opus "The Structure of Evolutionary Theory," barelyvolcanic ash covered and fossilized billions of plants
mentions insects for good reason. There are noand animals.
transitional fossils found among the huge number ofThe Bible teaches that God created all life forms.
insect fossils that have been unearthed. I have neverWhile science cannot, in a formal way, prove that
read of any insect transitional fossil put forward byGod 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 angives evidence, such as the explosion of Cambrian
abundance of hard parts such as shells andfossils, which infers that evolution did not take place.
exoskeletons they preserve very well and the nearDarwinian evolution does not logically or reasonably
totality of the organism can be studied. The lack ofaccount for the facts contained in the fossil record.
transitional forms is therefore particularly galling toThe Cambrian Explosion of fossils of fully formed
Darwinists. This drives the knife deeper into the heartorganisms 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 mammalassertion that God created life in its full state of
fossils which comprise a tiny fraction of the fossildevelopment.