I was thinking about the Pre-Cambrian explosion (of life forms) the other day... that all the creatures represented in that fossil record appear in completed form and do not change. Before the event, the only fossils we can find are bacteria.
The presence of bacteria add to the argument that Creation took a long time, not six days. I respect any and all fact-based arguments, and I will probably spend the rest of my life looking at them. The topic is immensely interesting to me. The longer we live, the more fossils are found, and the more we can see that -- stipulating hundreds of millions of years of available time -- the appearance of life on this planet does not represent the evolution argument. It represents the creation argument. Too many life forms appear in too short a time, complete, and from that moment forward UNCHANGING. Darwin said he was aware of the lack of fossil representation of creatures undergoing the change that evolution needs to see to be confirmed. His only thought was, "when the fossil record is more complete, this will be borne out".
It's now VERY MUCH complete... and he was just plain wrong. No transitional fossils have ever been found. Nothing between a salamander and a lizard, nothing between a lizard and a bird. Not even anything between a trilobite and a crab. The creatures of ancient times are either GONE, or their fossils are generally the same as the present day versions of them. Fish, crocodiles, many creatures have simply not changed in millions, tens of millions, HUNDREDS of millions of years.
I tend to think there are two possibilities. Either evolution is a non-starter, or the amount of time between the ancient fossils and today's creatures is insufficient for evolution to work.
Meanwhile, here is a real, genuine, minerally fossilized creature from the Cambrian period, right in my hand. Believe it or not, I bought it on Amazon for about fifteen bucks. That's how many billions upon billions of fossils of this creature are now found. It has shale, layered sedimentary rock, on the bottom. Came out of sediments. It's not the biggest of its kind, but not small either.
I'm going to search for more to acquire, and I suspect there will be many. Love having history in my hand like this.