Life's Big Bangs

Avalon & Cambrian (& Worldview) Explosions

Sea-faring creatures from ages ago just won't go away. New data from the fossil record concerning a dramatic "explosion" of life forms about 543 million years ago continue to baffle evolutionary scientists. A few years ago one biologist wrote, "Elucidating the materialistic basis of the Cambrian explosion has become more elusive, not less, the more we know about the event itself."¹ Indeed, since 2009 the "materialistic basis" itself has become dramatically less tenable. What follows is a brief description of what we know of the first appearance of animals on Earth that includes some of the latest scientific findings. Do these findings support an...