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According to the theory of evolution, every living species has
emerged from a predecessor. One species which existed previously
turned into something else over time and all species have
come into being in this way. According to the theory, this transformation
proceeds gradually over millions of years.
If this were the case, then innumerable intermediate species should
have lived during the immense period of time when these transformations
were supposedly occurring. For instance, there should have lived in the
past some half-fish/half-reptile creatures which had acquired some reptilian
traits in addition to the fish traits they already had. Or there should
have existed some reptile/bird creatures, which had acquired some avian
traits in addition to the reptilian traits they already possessed. Evolutionists
refer to these imaginary creatures, which they believe to have lived in
the past, as "transitional forms".
If such animals had really existed, there would have been millions,
even billions, of them. More importantly, the remains of these creatures
should be present in the fossil record. The number of these transitional
forms should have been even greater than that of present animal species,
and their remains should be found all over the world. In The Origin of
Species, Darwin accepted this fact and explained:
If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking most closely
all of the species of the same group together must assuredly have existed...
Consequently evidence of their former existence could be found only
amongst fossil remains.
Even Darwin himself was aware of the absence of such transitional
forms. He hoped that they would be found in the future. Despite his optimism,
he realised that these missing intermediate forms were the biggest
stumbling-block for his theory. That is why he wrote the following in the
chapter of the The Origin of Species entitled "Difficulties of the Theory":
…Why, if species have descended from other species by fine gradations, do
we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all naThe
Fossil Record Refutes Evolution
ture in confusion, instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?…
But, as by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed,
why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust
of the earth?… But in the intermediate region, having intermediate conditions
of life, why do we not now find closely-linking intermediate varieties?
This difficulty for a long time quite confounded me.
The only explanation Darwin could come up with to counter this objection
was the argument that the fossil record uncovered so far was inadequate.
He asserted that when the fossil record had been studied in detail, the missing
links would be found.
Believing in Darwin's prophecy, evolutionist paleontologists have
been digging up fossils and searching for missing links all over the world
since the middle of the 19th century. Despite their best efforts, no transitional
forms have yet been uncovered. All the fossils unearthed in excavations
have shown that, contrary to the beliefs of evolutionists, life
appeared on earth all of a sudden and fully-formed. Trying to prove their
theory, evolutionists have instead unwittingly caused it to collapse.
Harun Yahya "evolution deceit"
Muslim artist response to critic's cartoons of Prophet Mohammed, thinking to draw a cartoon on Jesus.
