there are two big problems in the fossil record 1.) the cambrian explosion 2.how life came from non life.
a third problem is the math. scientists can tell how long it takes for each random mutation to happen that creates speciation and calculate backwards how long it would take to make living things.
The length of time it would take is far longer than the age of the earth or the age of the universe.
So some other process is also going on.
But we human civilization are in the middle of one of these vast something else going on periods like the cambrian explosion.
How can we know this. We know this because 500 million years from now geologists digging in the dirt will see evidence of civlization but it will come from nothing. There won’t be a layer below with an intermediary primitive something. Rather It will look exactly like an alien civilzation had plunked down on earth and set up shop.
However, if the bible is still around it will record that God, himself, came to earth and dwelt among us for a time and then went back to heaven...and that he promised to return.
Did he return?
But the civilization on earth went out to the stars instead to look for Him
“The Man” by Ray Bradbury, in the anthology The Illustrated Man.