Dear Tony,
You have a very interesting perspective that is missing some major points. First of all, your typification of the Cambrian explosion as "sudden" is misleading. Sudden, in this case, means millions of years, plenty of time for early Cambrian organisms to develop.
You say these fossils appear all over the earth. That is also misleading. Five-hundred-fifty million years ago the long march towards the super continent Pangea was beginning. The most important thing to keep in mind here is that these slowly colliding continents were pushing up a plethora of shallow seas in the middle, vast shallow bodies of water which first led to an explosion of underwater plants (which then marched onto land) which provided the fodder for an explosion of animals to feed on the plants (which also then marched onto land). It is the formation of these shallow seas that was the trigger or spark that 'sped up' the Cambrian explosion. The sites of these animals may now be spread out over the earth, but at the time, this shallow water world sat in the middle of a ring of continents.
Honestly, the fossil record provides a far more realistic assessment of what has lived and died, the progression of animals and their offspring on this planet eons ago than anything written eons ago by priests and disciples.
Do you honestly believe God just plopped fully formed animals into the ocean? Of course not, he used the same process he uses when you impregnate your wife. It starts with just two cells and grows into a fully developed life form. Before sonograms and modern science, you could say science didn't have a strong enough theory to describe what was actually taking place in the womb, but to argue God places a fully formed baby in the womb is pushing insanity in the 21st century.
Gabriel Seth Koch
Davidson, North Carolina
