Cambrian Extinction

Wait.  What?

Michael Behe ("Darwin's Black Box") says that the Cambrian Explosion (of most life forms) happened in only 10 million years.  Why would anyone think that?

When you look at the fossil layer labelled the "Cambrian" period, you are not actually looking at a deposition laid down over ten million years.  You are looking at what should be called the "Cambrian Extinction."  This layer is evidence of a near-extinction by one or more cataclysmic floods which happened in an instant of geologic time.  The thickness of such a layer of fossils does not begin to tell us how many years may have happened before this event.  The lack of fossil evidence of all of that Cambrian life possibly evolving over the previous hundreds of millions of years only shows that life cleans up after itself.

This is why we are not hip-deep in skeletal remains. Life feeds on life, and just a few short years after death, there is nothing left of a dead body.  It is only in very exceptional circumstances that a body can leave visible evidence: Buried in a peat bog, frozen in a high-altitude cave, desiccated in a desert, or buried in the mud of a river or flood.

In my opinion, people should stop assuming that all fossil layers were laid down slowly and gradually over millions of years.  If that were the case, then the fossils would not exist because life would have consumed them.  If you are going to believe in the theory of Evolution, then use the brain God gave you: The fossils were obviously laid down as the result of a great flood.  You can use the lack of fossil evidence prior to that flood layer as evidence that life was alive and well, doing what life does best: consuming itself. 

Do I believe that the Cambrian fossils were deposited as the result of a great flood? Absolutely!  There is fossil evidence of this from the deepest desert to the top of Mt. Everest.

Do I believe that the Cambrian life-forms evolved in the millions of years before this flood-event?  Sorry, I don't have enough faith to believe in something with no evidence.