Earliest multicellular organisms had animal-level complexity

Another researcher has gleaned additional insight into the first animal life on earth.  According to the Ages of Joy creation model, the Ediacaran period, which served host to the first complex life on Earth, corresponds to the beginning of the Third Day of creation.   AOJ expects life to appear suddenly and with great complexity as the result of God's creative acts.

The article, Fat from 558 million years ago reveals earliest known animal, provides evidence that the Ediacaran-era organism Dickinsonia is likely one of Earth's first animals.  Analysis of a fossil recovered by Ilya Bobrovskiy of The Australian National University has yielded evidence of biomarkers for cholesteroids, a category of fat that is only known to occur in animals.  These organisms are believed to have lived as early as 571 million years ago, or possibly slightly earlier, although the tested fossil dated to 558 mya.  What this study indicates is that the very first multicellular organisms were very complex indeed.  This is precisely what the Ages of Joy creation model anticipates: that God is the Author of these complex life forms and the raw material God used in creating them, He infused with a great deal of complex genetic information.  Naturalistic evolution would posit a transition from simple to complex, but here is an example of a huge jump in complexity.

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Each Creation Day corresponds to an Age of time for which a Day is a fitting metaphor.  Like a 'Day', each 'Age' of creation is a time period in which God works followed by a Night (Evening to Morning), and then the dawn (Morning) of a new Age.  Rather than interpreting Day (Hebrew 'yom') as merely a "long period of time", which is also our view, AOJ sees it as a metaphor for an Age.  Using metaphorical language, the Hebrew words for Evening and Morning can stand for a "Night of Distress and a Morning of Bright Joy".  This signifies the large-scale transitions that mark boundaries between Geologic time periods on the largest scales.  The distress of a major extinction event (think of the extinction of the dinosaurs) gives way to the joy of new kinds of creatures (think of the rapid proliferation of thousand of amazing bird species filling vacated ecological niches).