D.Axelrod, Science 128:7 (1958)[As quoted by Duane T. Gish Evolution: The Fossils Still Say NO!, (Institute for Creation Research, El Cajon CA, 1995) [available from the Institute for Creation Research.]
p. 55
"One of the major unsolved problems of
geology and evolution is the occurrence of diversified, multi-cellular
marine invertebrates in Lower Cambrian rocks on all the continents and their
absence in rocks of greater age...
"However, when we turn to examine the Precambrian rocks for the forerunners of these early Cambrian fossils, they are nowhere to be found. Many thick (over 5,000 feet) sections of sedimentary rock are now known to lie in unbroken succession below strata containing the earliest Cambrian fossils. These sediments apparently were suitable for the preservation of fossils because they are often identical with overlying rocks which are fossiliferous, yet no fossils are found in them." [Emphasis added]
Dawkins, Richard, The Blind Watchmaker (New York: W. W. Norton, 1987).
p. 229
"… the Cambrian strata of rocks, vintage about 600
million years [evolutionists are now dating the beginning of the Cambrian at
about 530 million years], are the oldest in which we find most of the major
invertebrate groups. 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." [Emphasis
added]
Douglas Futuyma, Evolutionary Biology, 2nd ed. (Sunderland, Massachusetts: Siauer Associates, Inc., 1986) p. 325. [As quoted by Duane T. Gish Evolution: The Fossils Still Say NO!, (Institute for Creation Research, El Cajon CA, 1995) available from the Institute for Creation Research.]
p. 57
"It is considered likely that all the
animal phyla became distinct before or during the Cambrian, for they all
appear fully formed, without intermediates connecting one form to another."
[Emphasis added]
Stefan Bengtson, Nature 345:765 (1990)
"If any event in life's history resembles man's creation myths, it is this sudden diversification of marine life when multicellular organisms took over as the dominant actors in ecology and evolution. Baffling (and embarrassing) to Darwin, this event still dazzles us and stands as a major biological revolution on par with the invention of self-replication and the origin of the eukariotic cell. The animal phyla emerged out of the Precambrian mists with most of the attributes of their modern descendents." [Emphasis added]
Anonymous, "Ancient Alga Fossil Most Complex Yet," Science News, vol. 108 (September 20, 1975), p. 181.
p. 181
"Both blue-green algae and bacteria fossils dating back 3.4 billion years
have been found in rocks from S. Africa."
p. 181
"Even more intriguing, the pleurocapsalean algae turned out to be almost
identical to modern pleurocapsalean algae at the family and possibly even at the
generic level."
p. 181
"Do the Harvard paleontologists’ findings shed any light on the origin of
eukaryotes [cells with nuclei] from prokaryotes [cells without nuclei]:
Probably not."
p. 181
"In brief, as Barghoorn puts it, ‘We have no really good evidence from
all of the Precambrian records … of a genuine eukaryotic cell.'"
[Emphasis added]
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