The
Cambrian Period (543-490 million years ago)
This period is the geological age in which all the basic
living groups (or phyla) still alive today, and even more
that subsequently became extinct, appeared suddenly. (Phylum
is the largest category after kingdom in the classification
of living things. Phyla are determined on the basis of
the numbers and variety of living things' organs and tissues,
their bodily symmetry and internal organization. The number
of today's phyla has been determined as 35, but around
50 existed during the Cambrian Period.)
The emergence of species was so sudden and so wide-ranging
that scientists gave it the name of the "Cambrian
Explosion." The evolutionist paleontologist Stephen
Jay Gould has described this phenomenon as "the most
remarkable and puzzling event in the history of life",
while the evolutionist zoologist Thomas S. Ray writes
that the origin of multi-cellular life is an event of
comparable significance to the origin of life itself.
When one considers information about the Cambrian explosion
as provided by the science of paleontology, it clearly
confirms God's creation and refutes the theory of evolution.
The Precambrian age before the Cambrian was populated
mainly by single-celled organisms, with just a few multi-celled
life forms with few specific characteristics and lacking
such complex structures as eyes and feet. Therefore, no
evidence supports the imaginary evolutionary transition
to Cambrian life forms, and not a single fossil that can
be claimed to represent their supposed forerunner. In
this barren environment, inhabited by single-celled organisms,
an astonishing variety of life with exceedingly complex
features suddenly came into being. Through this explosion,
moreover, there emerged life forms separated from one
another by very distinct structural characteristics. Fossils
reveal very profound gaps in terms of both relatedness
and complexity among organisms living in the Precambrian
and those in the Cambrian. So striking are these gaps
that evolutionists, who need to be able to prove continuity
among living groups, have been at a loss to establish
any familial relationships among these phyla, on even
a purely theoretical level.
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The Cambrian Period shows that right at the beginning,
very different life forms with exceedingly complex structures
emerged suddenly—and in fact, this is exactly what
is taught by creation. The origin of the perfect structures
possessed by living things is God's creation. In the fossil
record, these perfect structures appear in a flawless
form without exhibiting any deficient, semi-completed
or still-functionless stages of the kind predicated by
the chance-based theory of evolution. |
The Ordovician Period (490 to
443 million years ago)
In
this period, a large number of marine invertebrates lived.
The fossil record has revealed a great wealth of families
of marine creature during the Ordovician Period. There are
also terrestrial plant fossils dating back to the same period.
During the Ordovician Period, global climate changes caused
by ice ages resulted in a number of species becoming extinct.
This state of affairs is described as the "Ordovician
extinctions."
Some life forms that existed during the Ordovician Period
are still around today. One is the horseshoe crab. A 450-million-year-old
fossilized horseshoe crab shows that nearly half a billion
years ago, these creatures had exactly the same features
and complex equipment. The oldest known and most perfect
fossilized water spider also belongs to the Ordovician
Period (425 million years) and is another important proof
that living things have remained unchanged for long ages.
In a period when—according to the Darwinist scenario—living
things should have been undergoing evolution, these remains
reveal that evolution never took place in any manner whatsoever. This article is based on the works of Harun
Yahya
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INTRODUCTION
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proposed a theory based on various observations
made during his travels, but which could not be
supported by any subsequent scientific findings.
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