HOW DOES THE COLLAPSE OF THE
THEORY OF EVOLUTION DEMONSTRATE
THE TRUTH OF CREATION?
WHEN we ask how life on Earth emerged,
we find two different answers:
One is that living things emerged by
evolution. According to the theory of
evolution, which makes this claim, life
began with the first cell, which itself
emerged by chance or by some
hypothetical natural laws of "self-
organization." Again as a result of chance
and natural laws, this living cell developed
and evolved, and by taking on different
forms gave rise to the millions of species of
life on Earth.
The second answer is "Creation." All living
things came into existence by being
created by an intelligent Creator. When life
and the millions of forms it takes, which
could not possibly have come into
existence by chance, were first created,
they had the same complete, flawless, and
superior design that they possess today.
The fact that even the simplest-looking
forms of life possess such complex
structures and systems that could never
have come about by chance and natural
conditions is a clear proof of this.
Outside these two alternatives, there is no
third claim or hypothesis today regarding
how life emerged. According to the rules of
logic, if one answer to a question with two
alternative possible answers is proved to
be false, then the other must be true. This
rule, one of the most fundamental in logic,
is called disjunctive inference (modus
tollendo ponens).
In other words, if it is demonstrated that
living species on Earth did not evolve by
chance, as the theory of evolution claims,
then that is clear proof that they were
formed by a Creator. Scientists who
support the theory of evolution agree that
there is no third alternative. One of these,
Douglas Futuyma, makes the following
statement:
Organisms either appeared on the earth
fully developed or they did not. If they did
not, they must have developed from pre-
existing species by some process of
modification. If they did appear in a fully
developed state, they must indeed have
been created by some omnipotent
intelligence. 4
The fossil record provides the answer to
the evolutionist Futuyma. The science of
fossils (paleontology) shows that all living
groups emerged on Earth at different times,
all at once, and perfectly formed.
All the discoveries from excavations and
studies over the last hundred years or so
show that, contrary to evolutionists'
expectations, living things came into
existence suddenly, in perfect and flawless
form, in other words that they were
"created." Bacteria, protozoa, worms,
molluscs, and other invertebrate sea
creatures, arthropods, fish, amphibians,
reptiles, birds, and mammals all appeared
suddenly, with complex organs and
systems. There are no fossils that show
any so-called "transition" between them.
Paleontology bears the same message as
other branches of science: Living things
did not evolve, but were created. As a
result, while evolutionists were trying to
prove their unrealistic theory, they by their
own hands produced proof of creation.
Robert Carroll, an expert on vertebrate
paleontology and a committed evolutionist,
comes to admit that the Darwinist hope has
not been satisfied with fossil discoveries:
Despite more than a hundred years of
intense collecting efforts since the time of
Darwin's death, the fossil record still does
not yield the picture of infinitely numerous
transitional links that he expected. 5
The Cambrian Explosion is enough to tear
down the theory of evolution
The world of living things is divided by
biologists into such fundamental groups as
plants, animals, fungae etc. These are then
subdivided into different "phyla." When
designating these phyla, the fact that each
one possesses completely different
physical structures should always be borne
in mind. Arthropoda (insects, spiders, and
other creatures with jointed legs), for
instance, are a phylum by themselves, and
all the animals in the phylum have the
same fundamental physical structure. The
phylum called Chordata includes those
creatures with a notochord or, most
commonly, a spinal column. All the large
animals such as fish, birds, reptiles, and
mammals that we are familiar in daily life
are in a subphylum of Chordata known as
vertebrates.
THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION TEARS UP THE
EVOLUTIONARY "TREE OF LIFE" The above
illustration is taken from The Book of Life,
published in 2001 under the editorship of
the late Stephen Jay Gould, one of the
world's most prominent evolutionists. The
illustration explains which different groups
of animals emerged in which periods. On
the left, the various geological periods are
listed, starting 2,500 million years ago. The
coloured columns show the major phyla of
animals. (The colours in the columns refer
to different periods.) When we examine this
figure, the miracle of the Cambrian
Explosion is obvious. There is only one
phylum before the Cambrian Age (the
Cnidaria, which include jellyfish and
corals). In the Cambrian Age, however, 13
completely different phyla suddenly
emerged. This picture is the opposite of
the theory of evolution, because evolution
maintains that living phyla increased in
stages, like the branches of a tree. The
evolutionists who drew up the figure try to
gloss over this gap by talking about
"theoretical links." We can see pale lines at
the bottom of the figure joining the
coloured boxes (in other words, genuine
phyla of which fossil remains have been
found). These are imaginary links required
by the theory of evolution, but of which no
evidence has ever been found. If the theory
of evolution were true, if these links were
real and not imaginary, then fossils of
transitional groups should have been
discovered. Despite all the fossil research
of the last 150 years, the fact that these
links are still just a dream shows that the
theory of evolution is nothing but a fantasy.
Marrella: One of the interesting fossil
creatures found in the Burgess Shale, a
Cambrian rock formation
A fossil from the Cambrian Age.
There are around 35 different phyla of
animals, including the Mollusca, which
include soft-bodied creatures such as
snails and octopuses, or the Nematoda,
which include diminutive worms. The most
important feature of these phyla is, as we
touched on earlier, that they possess
totally different physical characteristics.
The categories below the phyla possess
basically similar body plans, but the phyla
are very different from one another.
So how did these differences come about?
Let us first consider the Darwinist
hypothesis. As we know, Darwinism
proposes that life developed from one
single common ancestor, and took on all
its varieties by a series of tiny changes. In
that case, life should first have emerged in
very similar and simple forms. And
according to the same theory, the
differentiation between, and growing
complexity in, living things must have
happened in parallel over time.
INTERESTING SPINES: Hallucigenia: One of
the creatures that suddenly emerged in the
Cambrian Age. This and many other
Cambrian fossils have hard, sharp spines
to protect them from attack. One thing that
evolutionists cannot account for is how
these creatures should have such an
effective defense system when there were
no predators around. The lack of predators
makes it impossible to explain these spines
in terms of natural selection.
According to Darwinism, life must be like a
tree, with a common root, subsequently
splitting up into different branches. And
this hypothesis is constantly emphasized in
Darwinist sources, where the concept of
the "tree of life" is frequently employed.
According to this tree concept, one phylum
must first emerge, and then the other phyla
must slowly come about with minute
changes over very long periods of time.
Many complex invertebrates such as
starfish and jellyfish emerged suddenly
some 500 million years ago with no so-
called evolutionary ancestor before them.
In other words, they were created. They
were no different from those alive today.
That is the theory of evolution's claim. But
is this really how it happened?
Definitely not. Quite the contrary, animals
have been very different and complex since
the moment they first emerged. All the
animal phyla known today emerged at the
same time, in the middle of the geological
period known as the Cambrian Age. The
Cambrian Age is a geological period
estimated to have lasted some 65 million
years, approximately between 570 to 505
million years ago. But the period of the
abrupt appearance of major animal groups
fit in an even shorter phase of the
Cambrian, often referred to as the
"Cambrian explosion." Stephen C. Meyer, P.
A. Nelson, and Paul Chien, in an article
based on a detailed literature survey, dated
2001, note that the "Cambrian explosion
occurred within an exceedingly narrow
window of geologic time, lasting no more
than 5 million years."6
One of the complex invertebrates that
suddenly emerged in the Cambrian Age
some 550 million years ago were the fossil
trilobites above. Another feature of trilobites
that poses a quandary for evolutionists is
their compound eye structure. Trilobites'
very advanced eyes possessed a multi-
lens system. That system is exactly the
same as that found in many creatures
today, such as spiders, bees, and flies. The
sudden emergence of such a complex eye
structure in a creature that lived 500
million years ago is enough on its own to
consign evolutionists' theories based on
chance to the waste bin.
Before then, there is no trace in the fossil
record of anything apart from single-celled
creatures and a few very primitive
multicellular ones. All animal phyla
emerged completely formed and all at
once, in the very short period of time
represented by the Cambrian Explosion.
(Five million years is a very short time in
geological terms!)
The fossils found in Cambrian rocks belong
to very different creatures, such as snails,
trilobites, sponges, jellyfish, starfish,
shellfish, etc. Most of the creatures in this
layer have complex systems and advanced
structures, such as eyes, gills, and
circulatory systems, exactly the same as
those in modern specimens. These
structures are at one and the same time
very advanced, and very different.
Prof. Philip Johnson
Richard Monastersky, a staff writer at
Science News journal, 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 world's first complex creatures.7
Phillip Johnson, a professor at the
University of California at Berkeley who is
also one of the world's foremost critics of
Darwinism, describes the contradiction
between this paleontological truth and
Darwinism:
Darwinian theory predicts a "cone of
increasing diversity," as the first living
organism, or first animal species, gradually
and continually diversified to create the
higher levels of taxonomic order. The
animal fossil record more resembles such
a cone turned upside down, with the phyla
present at the start and thereafter
decreasing. 8
As Phillip Johnson has revealed, far from
its being the case that phyla came about
by stages, in reality they all came into
being at once, and some of them even
became extinct in later periods. The
meaning of the emergence of very different
living creatures all of a sudden and
perfectly formed, is creation, as evolutionist
Futuyma has also accepted. As we have
seen, all the available scientific discoveries
disprove the claims of the theory of
evolution and reveal the truth of creation.
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