> There is no need for multiple steps of creation.
>
> The base of the Cambrian records the first massive burial of abundant
> seafloor life (that is the death of these organisms) but their origin (and
> their life) necessarily precedes their time of burial. In a creation-flood
> model, Proterozoic bacteria and upper Proterozoic metazoans, as well as
> Cambrian forms, lived contemporaneously after the origin of multicellular
> (and unicellular) life, before the initiation of the large scale burial
> events that resulted in the Phanerozoic blanket of sediment layers
> worldwide.
>
> The Precambrian forms, perhaps having burrowed into the seafloor sediments
> (before any Phanerozoic layers were deposited), were trapped in placed and
> fossilized when the Cambrian sediments flowed in above them. The
> fossilization of both Cambrian and Precambrian forms thus occurred more or
> less simultaneously.
>
> There is a time-gap between creation and fossilization, but not between
> Precambrian and Cambrian (and most Phanerozoic) fossilization.
>
> The "Cambrian Explosion", instead of being explosive diversification, is
> explosive sedimentation.
This may work for phanerozoic bacteria, proterozoic metazoans and the early
Cambrian fauna, but how does it work for the entire order of successional
appearance? Is it your position that all of the forms of vertebrates, from fish to
mammals, were also created at the same time and just didn't manage to leave behind
a trace until hundreds of mlllions of years later? How can this be explained from
your perspective without multiple creation events?
Ed