You’ve probably heard this “proof” of evolution: The fossil record starts out simple and grows increasingly complex the higher you go.

Well, there’s order to the fossil record, but it doesn’t start simple. The life-forms found in the bottom layers are highly complex. Life bursts on the scene not slowly and gradually as you’d expect with evolution but fully-formed and functioning.

Take the Cambrian rock layers for example. A massive diversity of life is found there that seems to have come from nowhere. The layers underneath don’t contain ancestors to Cambrian creatures.

The fossil record—it does not support evolution.