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<blockquote>“'''The seemingly sudden appearance of skeletonized life has been one of the most perplexing puzzles of the fossil record. How is it that animals as complex as trilobites and brachiopods could spring forth so suddenly, completely formed, without a trace of their ancestors in the underlying strata? If ever there was evidence suggesting Divine Creation, surely the Precambrian and Cambrian transition, known from numerous localities across the face of the earth, is it.''' ''Until almost 1950 the absence of metazoan fossils older than Cambrian age continued to puzzle evolutionists and earth historians alike.  Other than the remains of single-celled creatures and the matlike stromatolites, it did indeed look as if larger creatures had arisen with a swiftness that made a mockery of Darwin’s theory of evolution.  This notion was finally put to rest, however, by the discovery of the Ediacarian and Vendian fossil faunas of the latest Precambrian age.''  ”<ref>http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2004/06/dembskis_five_q.html</ref> -- [[Peter Ward]], from ''[[On Methuselah’s Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions]]'', 1992.</blockquote>

<blockquote>“'''The seemingly sudden appearance of skeletonized life has been one of the most perplexing puzzles of the fossil record. How is it that animals as complex as trilobites and brachiopods could spring forth so suddenly, completely formed, without a trace of their ancestors in the underlying strata? If ever there was evidence suggesting Divine Creation, surely the Precambrian and Cambrian transition, known from numerous localities across the face of the earth, is it.''' ''Until almost 1950 the absence of metazoan fossils older than Cambrian age continued to puzzle evolutionists and earth historians alike.  Other than the remains of single-celled creatures and the matlike stromatolites, it did indeed look as if larger creatures had arisen with a swiftness that made a mockery of Darwin’s theory of evolution.  This notion was finally put to rest, however, by the discovery of the Ediacarian and Vendian fossil faunas of the latest Precambrian age.''  ”<ref>http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2004/06/dembskis_five_q.html</ref> -- [[Peter Ward]], from ''[[On Methuselah’s Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions]]'', 1992.</blockquote>

This quote was used in a post by [[Intelligent design]] proponent [[William Dembski]].<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20040622075401/http://www.family.org/cforum/citizenmag/webonly/a0031659.cfm</ref> Critics later picked up on it and accused Dembski of using underhanded quote mining. <ref>http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2004/06/dembskis_five_q.html</ref> Dembski, however, responded that the quote as legitimate, that he proved the source and the context was clear. <ref>http://www.uncommondescent.com/evolution/quoting-misquoting-quote-mining/</ref> Dembski said the real problem was that supporters of Evolution would never admit to questioning the theory:

This quote was used in a post by [[Intelligent design]] proponent [[William Dembski]].<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20040622075401/http://www.family.org/cforum/citizenmag/webonly/a0031659.cfm</ref> Critics later picked up on it and accused Dembski of using underhanded quote mining. <ref>http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2004/06/dembskis_five_q.html</ref> Dembski, however, responded that the quote as legitimate, that he proved the source and the context was clear. <ref name="dembski">http://www.uncommondescent.com/evolution/quoting-misquoting-quote-mining/</ref> Dembski said the real problem was that supporters of Evolution would never admit to questioning the theory:

 

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