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“Science magazine in 2001 says: “The beginning of the Cambrian period, some 545 million years ago, saw the sudden appearance in the fossil record of almost all the main types of animals (phyla) that still dominate the biota today”.30 The same article notes that for such complex and distinct living groups to be explained according to the theory of evolution, very rich fossil beds showing a gradual developmental process should have been found, but this has not yet proved possible:”
“Richard Monastersky, a science journalist at Science News, one of the popular publications of evolutionist literature, states the following about the “Cambrian Explosion”, which is a deathtrap for evolutionary theory:
A half-billion years ago, the remarkably complex forms of animals we see today suddenly appeared. This moment, right at the start of Earth’s Cambrian Period, some 550 million years ago, marks the evolutionary explosion that filled the seas with the earth’s first complex creatures. ...the large animal phyla of today were present already in the early Cambrian ...and they were as distinct from each other as they are today.”
http://www.evolutiondeceit.com/chapter5.php
Lots of info on this site- take your time- go through it slowly.
"I don't give damn what your trilobite buddies do, We are not going to go swimming!"
“Science magazine in 2001 says
You should check these references out yourself rather than trusting someone else who says they support your position. The title of the article is "Evolution: The Cambrian Explosion Exploded?" and discusses evidence (fossil and molecular clock) that many of the phyla seen in the Cambrian had Precambrian origins. We have some excellent strata for Cambrian fossils but nothing so nice for Precambrian, although we're currently getting some interesting metazoan embryos from Precambrian strata in China that are providing such evidence.
...the large animal phyla of today were present already in the early Cambrian ...and they were as distinct from each other as they are today.”
I looked this up and it was a true quote, but I'm not sure why the author said it, unless he was just overcome by enthusiasm. A discussion of the difficulty of placing Cambrian organisms into modern phyla is given here.