arthropod head origin

The debate over the arthropod head origin continues within mainstream scientists, while creation scientists believe in a special creation during creation week fully formed. The issue revolves around the complexity of the arthropod head and its many key parts, and how this body feature originated. The fossil record shows a sudden appearance of arthropod types in the Cambrian strata, and this sudden appearance raises questions among mainstream evolutionist scientists about the origin of the arthropod head and body parts. Arthropod bodies are commonly segmented into various parts, most commonly the head, body, legs, and other body parts extending from the main body. This segmented body type appears suddenly in the fossil record and evolutionists have no record about how this type of complex living thing originated, while creationists believe in a six-day creation event where all land animals, including arthropods, were created on Day 6 of Creation Week. Evolutionists must explain how arthropods became segmented and how they evolved from simpler forms. Creationists believe that this transition from simpler, unsegmented bodies to segmented bodies with compex heads and body parts is impossible and that arthropods must have been created as-is, fully formed in their current state as part of a special creation from an Intelligent Designer.

Arthropod heads feature antennae, compound eyes, and the mouthparts, including the mandibles (jaws), labium, labrum, and maxillae. Where did all of these complex features come from? These features appear suddenly in the fossil record. The upper lip (labrum) is also a complex feature, and evolutionists do not know the origin of this feature. For the arthropod to have four complex mouthparts plus compound eyes and two antennae is amazing and a testament to an Intelligent Designer who had the animal in mind. The compound eye enables the arthropod to look in different directions so the animal does not have to rotate its head as often. While humans have one large lens in their eye, arthropods have many small lenses.

Arthropod Head Features

Antennae
Compound Eyes
Mouthparts: 
Mandibles (jaws)
Maxillae
Labium
Labrum (upper lip)