Peter Douglas Ward, On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions (1992)

The seemingly sudden appearance of skeletonized life has been one of the most perplexing puzzles of the fossil record. How is it that animals as complex as trilobites and brachiopods could spring forth so suddenly, completely formed, without a trace of their ancestors in the underlying strata? If ever there was evidence suggesting Divine Creation, surely the Precambrian and Cambrian transition, known from numerous localities across the face of the earth, is it.

Peter Douglas Ward, On Methuselah’s Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions, W. H. Freeman, New York 1992, 29.