SCT: Cambrian Explosion Keeps Bewildering Evolutionists
The Darwinians’ determination to evolu-
tionize all of biology keeps banging their
heads against the wall of fossil evidence
This article first appeared in Science & Culture Today.
Cambrian Explosion Remains the Gift that Keeps on Giving
by David Coppedge
Science & Culture Today, 5 June 2026
In the mainstream science news, I routinely encounter fossil stories touching on the Cambrian Explosion and have reported many of them at Science and Culture Today over the years (for example, here, here, here, and here). Earlier in 2026, a paper was published about a major new Cambrian fossil site in China rivaling the famous Burgess Shale (read my response here). And in May, Casey Luskin responded to claims of putative transitional forms in Ediacaran strata in China, which turned out to be far less convincing than initial statements claimed.
Among other recent news about the Cambrian:
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Illustra’s documentary explains the crisis that the Cambrian Explosion poses to Darwinism. Click the image to watch the film on YouTube.
A discovery of polychaete annelid fossils from the earliest Cambrian in south China was announced in PNAS, but no internal organs were discernible. The specimens are estimated to be 535 million years old. Polychaetes (marine worms) have as many complex body systems as their living counterparts today, including a gut, senses, muscles, and reproductive organs.
- Chelicerates comprise a large group of arthropods including spiders, mites, and scorpions. Nature announced “unequivocal evidence of large predatory chelicerates in the Cambrian” in Utah.
- In an article titled “Cambrian origin of the arachnid brain,” Current Biology announced a stem chelicerate from the mid-Cambrian. “Its prosomal nervous system corresponds to that of living spiders and scorpions,” the article says.
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Click to order Stephen Meyer’s book that explains the problem for Darwinian evolution posed by the Cambrian fossils.
Four vertebrate species with camera-type eyes were announced in Nature. These represent “earliest known fossil vertebrates (approximately 518 million years ago),” the report says.
- The strange Cambrian animal Hallucigenia might have been a suction feeder that scavenged soft parts of dead animals, according to a study in bioRxiv.
- Exceptionally well-preserved Cambrian biota in the Grand Canyon’s Bright Angel Shale contains “a range of functionally sophisticated metazoan consumers: suspension-feeding crustaceans, substrate-scraping molluscs, and morphologically exotic priapulids with complex filament-bearing teeth,” says a paper in Science Advances.
- A rich bed of exceptionally preserved fossils in South Australia, said to be part of the Cambrian Explosion, was also reported in Science Advances. Among some 25,000 recovered specimens include trilobites and jellyfish. Details of muscle fibers and compound eye lenses were found.
These representative papers show that the Cambrian Explosion remains a huge enigma for evolutionists….
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Humpty Darwin sits on a wall of foam bricks held together by decayed mortar. Cartoon by Brett Miller commissioned for CEH. All rights reserved.
Comments
I read that evolutionists were baffled at finding human sandal prints squishing a trilobite.
I am a young earth creationist and evolutionists just reach into their bag of tricks and find a rescuing device. They aren’t baffled at all with the squished trilobite. Their rescuing device is that the sandal print was formed by natural geologic forces. Thus no human and trilobite were contemporaneous and the problem of the squished trilobite goes away. I was a prof. of chemistry for 35+ years and never once saw an evolutionist baffled by the best evidences against evolution. They march on lock step.