“A half-billion years ago the remarkably complex forms of animals we see today suddenly appeared. A new bonanza of Chinese fossils may finally tell us why.” [emp. added]
“In a blink of geologic time a planet dominated by simple spongelike animals gave way to one ruled by a vast variety of sophisticated beasts whose relatives still inhabit the world today.” [emp. added]
“This is Genesis material.”
“When ordinarily sober-minded scientists reach the biblical reference, it’s clear that something unusual has turned up–” [emp. added]
These quotes are from an article by Alan E. Cober appearing in the April 1993 Discover magazine. They are referring to the unearthing of a new fossil graveyard in southern China that shows the “explosion of life” on earth; the supposedly Cambrian explosion which marked for the first time in the fossils the appearance of representatives of every major phylum of living things “in a blink of geologic time.”
As a creationist I find it amazing, as I read the reports of these discoveries, how surprised the evolutionists are. You see, these fossils do not fit their preconceived ideas about how animals came to be here. It is totally wrong! They have no answer for it, and struggle to present an educated answer.
Yet, we as Christians and “sober-minded scientists” who regularly reach for biblical references” for information about life origins are not in the least shocked. This is exactly what is predicted by the Creation Model. The instant creation of living things! Praise the Lord!
