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Peter Ward (not an [[intelligent design]] supporter) wrote:

Peter Ward (not an [[intelligent design]] supporter) wrote:

:“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. – ''On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions'' (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1992), 29. <ref>cited by [[William Dembski]] [http://www.uncommondescent.com/evolution/quoting-misquoting-quote-mining/]</ref>

{{quotebox|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. – ''On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions'' (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1992), 29. <ref>cited by [[William Dembski]] [http://www.uncommondescent.com/evolution/quoting-misquoting-quote-mining/]</ref>}}

{{quotebox|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. (35)}}

{{quotebox|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. (35)}}