What Is the Cambrian Explosion?

What Do Some Evolutionists Say?

Here is an excerpt of an article which talks about the Cambrian Explosion and says what it is:

Douglas, Erwin, James W. Valentine, and David Jablonski, "The Origin of Animal Body Plans," American Scientist, vol. 85 (March/April 1997), pp. 126-137.

p. 126 "All of the basic architectures of animals were apparently established by the close of the Cambrian explosion; subsequent evolutionary changes, even those that allowed animals to move out of the sea onto land, involved only modifications of those basic body plans. About 37 distinct body architectures are recognized among present-day animals and from the basis of the taxonomic classification level of phyla."

These men are all evolutionists. Here are links to their credentials:

Douglas Erwin
Research Paleobiologist and Curator Paleozoic Mollusks, Interim Director National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution Washington, D.C

James W. Valentine
Active Emeritus Department of Integrative Biology University of California, Berkeley, CA

David Jablonski
Chair and Professor: Committee on Evolutionary Biology Professor: Department of Geophysical Sciences Charles Schuchert Award, Paleontological Society Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Here is an excerpt from another evolutionist, Stephen J. Gould:

Gould, Stephen Jay, "A Short Way to Big Ends," Natural History, vol. 95 (January 1986), pp. 18

"Studies that began in the early 1950s and continue at an accelerating pace today have revealed an extensive Precambrian fossil record, but the problem of the Cambrian explosion has not receded, since our more extensive labor has still failed to identify any creature that might serve as a plausible immediate ancestor for the Cambrian faunas."

He believed in evolution but did not believe that the fossil evidence supported that belief. He was so concerned about the lack of transitional fossils that he developed a new theory called Punctuated Equilibrium that says evolution happened so fast it did not leave the fossil evidence. In short, he developed a new theory with no proof to replace another theory with no proof.

What Does This mean to Creation?

Here is an article about what the Cambrian Explosion means to creation: Exploding Evolution

Here is an excerpt of that article:

Creationists have long pointed out the problem for evolution theory, namely that all the major groups (phyla) of life which we know today appear in the Cambrian with no evolutionary ancestors. This is why evolutionists refer to it as an 'explosion' of evolution. There are no groups which have been identified as ancestral to any of the phyla, and geologically these phyla 'seem to have appeared suddenly and simultaneously'.....

Evolutionists at present have no real answer. However, the paradox vanishes when one removes the glasses of evolutionary presuppositions and sees the data in the light of biblical creation/Flood. The entire set of unique body plans ever created is represented in all rocks bearing substantial numbers of animal fossils. The 'Cambrian' creatures, many of which are now extinct, are not 'primitive ancestors' to today's, but are complex creatures in their own right, with no trace of evolutionary ancestors.

If there are no ancestors to these animals in the fossil record then there is no proof that evolution took place. If there are no ancestors to these animals in the fossil record then that is evidence that God created them.