The Fossil Record REFUTES THE Theory of Evolution
The theory of evolution argues that the evolution of a species into another species takes place gradually, step-by-step over millions of years. The logical inference drawn from such a claim is that monstrous living organisms called “transitional forms” should have lived during these periods of transformation. Since evolutionists allege that all living things evolved from each other step-by-step, the number and variety of these transitional forms should have been in the millions.
If such creatures had really lived, then we should see their remains everywhere. In fact, if this thesis is correct, the number of intermediate transitional forms should be even greater than the number of animal species alive today and their fossilised remains should be abundant all over the world.
Since Darwin, evolutionists have been searching for fossils and the result has been for them a crushing disappointment. Nowhere in the world – neither on land nor in the depths of the sea – has any intermediate transitional form between any two species ever been uncovered.
Darwin himself was quite aware of the absence of such transitional forms. It was his greatest hope that they would be found in the future. Despite his hopefulness, he saw that the biggest stumbling block to his theory was the missing transitional forms. This is why, in his book The Origin of Species, he wrote:
Why, if species have descended from other species by fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature 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.
Darwin was right to be worried. The problem bothered other evolutionists as well. A famous British paleontologist, Derek V. Ager, admits this embarrassing fact:
The point emerges that if we examine the fossil record in detail, whether at the level of orders or of species, we find – over and over again – not gradual evolution, but the sudden explosion of one group at the expense of another.
The gaps in the fossil record cannot be explained away by the wishful thinking that not enough fossils have yet been unearthed and that these missing fossils will one day be found. Another evolutionist paleontologist, T. Neville George, explains the reason:
There is no need to apologise any longer for the poverty of the fossil record. In some ways, it has become almost unmanageably rich and discovery is outpacing integration… The fossil record nevertheless continues to be composed mainly of gaps.
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Ok, you say these species have never existed and scientists are scrambling to find them. What about the ones they have found? Your stickman argument is just saying “they haven’t found it” but they clearly have and I’ve seen it with my own two eyes. I’ve seen bones of the Equus (Horse), the Pilohippus, the Merychippus, the Mesohippus, and the Hyracotherium. These all being the middle branches of evolution that have been linked together for present day horses. Even the POPE, as in POPE FRANCIS has said evolution is real.
There are no “transitional forms” that you desire because they are called SPECIES, where some are intermediate to, and evolve from, others.
A life form that evolved from a lizard to a rabbit would incrementally begin to lose scales and grow hair as the environment around them changed from hot and dry to cold and wet.
They would not sprout a hopping pair of legs and then lose their small reptilian appendages in one lifespan.
This is of course ignoring that they are of completely distinct phylogeny and evolved alongside each other in different habitat niches.