But Darwin Was Wrong!

Our current knowledge regarding the pre-Cambrian is doubtless much more complete than it was in Darwin's time. Ever since then, enormous research has been conducted into pre-Cambrian fossils-and the emerging results have actually made the problems facing evolutionists even more difficult, rather than resolving Darwin's original concerns. New Cambrian fossil beds were discovered in Canada, Greenland and China.8

Darwin thought that the evidence necessary to prove his theory would be obtained through future fossil discoveries. However, improvements in technology and advances in the fields of genetics, biology, biochemistry and medicine, and the wide-ranging fossil findings, all revealed facts that would totally eliminate his theory.

All that was obtained from the pre-Cambrian was a number of single-celled organisms. There was no trace of any fossil similar to Cambrian ones, or which could be regarded as their ancestors.

That the Cambrian strata exhibit a wide spectrum of such complex living things is by itself sufficient to undermine Darwin's fundamental claims concerning the origin of species. Darwin did not live to witness these new fossil discoveries, which he would no doubt have described as a tragedy for his theory. But these findings did present a severe dilemma for his followers. Discoveries in the Cambrian fossil beds shattered their claims regarding the origin of species.

But what was the great difference between the Cambrian and other previous eras? What was it about Cambrian organisms that so worried evolutionists?

We may examine this question from various different angles: