Admissions from observed fact. It is a pity they don't follow up on the
implications...but alas, no such thing.
http://www.bible.ca/tracks/fossil-record.htm
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STEPHEN J. GOULD, HARVARD, "The Cambrian Explosion occurred in a geological
moment, and we have reason to think that all major anatomical designs may
have made their evolutionary appearance at that time. ...not only the phylum
Chordata itself, but also all its major divisions, arose within the Cambrian
Explosion. So much for chordate uniqueness... Contrary to Darwin's
expectation that new data would reveal gradualistic continuity with slow and
steady expansion, all major discoveries of the past century have only
heightened the massiveness and geological abruptness of this formative
event..." Nature, Vol.377, 26 10/95, p.682
Preston Cloud & Martin F. Glaessner, "Ever since Darwin, the geologically
abrupt appearance and rapid diversification of early animal life have
fascinated biologist and students of Earth history alike....This interval,
plus Early Cambrian, was the time during which metazoan life diversified
into nearly all of the major phyla and most of the invertebrate classes and
orders subsequently known." Science, Aug.27, 1982
RICHARD Monastersky, Earth Science Ed., Science News, "The remarkably
complex forms of animals we see today suddenly appeared. ...This moment,
right at the start of the Earth's Cambrian Period...marks the evolutionary
explosion that filled the seas with the earth's first complex creatures.
....'This
is Genesis material,' gushed one researcher. ...demonstrates that the large
animal phyla of today were present already in the early Cambrian and that
they were as distinct from each other as they are today...a menagerie of
clam cousins, sponges, segmented worms, and other invertevrates that would
seem vaguely familiar to any scuba diver." Discover, p.40, 4/93
Richard Dawkins, Cambridge, "And we find many of them already in an advanced
state of evolution, the very first time they appear. It is as though they
were just planted there, without any evolutionary history. Needless to say,
this appearance of sudden planting has delighted creationists. ...the only
alternative explanation of the sudden appearance of so many complex animal
types in the Cambrian era is divine creation...", The Blind Watchmaker,
1986, p229-230