“The Cambrian Period and the Explosion of Life,” taken from National Geographic, October 1993, page 120. And you see a couple of individuals and who are in the Canadian Rockies in British Columbia, Canada-near Field, British Columbia. And they are picking in the rock and what they find there is very interesting. Let me read to you from the article.
More than half a billion years ago, the world’s first monster
appeared. With bulging eyes and fearsome grasping claws,
Anomalocaris cruised the seas during the geological period
known as the Cambrian. Its mouth was a nightmare of hard
plates and teeth. Its body looking like a cross between a
stingray and a lobster. It could grow three feet in length, a
giant for its time. For millions of years animals have been
simple, mostly anemone like creatures or worms. Then in a
geological blink of about ten million years virtually all the
phyla or groupings based on body design of animals alive
today, came into being. Perhaps encouraged by an increase
of oxygen in the seas, this Cambrian explosion was the
greatest burst of animal evolution the planet has ever
known and new fossil finds are highlighting its detail.
(Gore & Mazzatenta 120)
Well, this is amazing! What are they telling us? They are telling us that at the bottom of
the geological chart, the Cambrian layer (one of the oldest supposed layers of earth’s
history) there is a sudden appearance of complex creatures. You see all of a sudden, multi-cellular creatures appeared and many of thesecreatures look like something out of science fiction. Some of them have eyes, tentacles, and complex organs. So now we have a great problem because in the Cambrian, which is supposed to be down at the bottom of the chart as one of the oldest layers, we have the appearance of these complex animals. And they have no intermediates that they can trace in order to show that single-cell creatures have evolved.
Richard Dawkins, the evolutionist, promotes evolution in a great way in Great Britain. In
his book, The Blind Watchmaker, he has made this statement:
The Cambrian strata of rocks, vintage about 600 million
years ago, are the oldest which we find of the major
invertebrate groups and we find many of them in advanced
state of evolution the very first time they appear. It is as
though they were planted there without any evolutionary
history. Needless to say this appearance of sudden planting
has delighted creationists. (Dawkins 229)
You see, this is incredible! The facts tell us that in this supposed oldest layer (the oldest
layer in earth’s history) you have the sudden appearance of multi-cellular organisms.
