Darwin searching for the missing link

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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"