Where's The Proof
After all those millions of
years of evolution, you’d think Earth would be ten feet deep in missing links
and you’d find them every place you dug a hole, but it’s not and you don’t.
There’s no conclusive evidence of evolution having happened.
Those who believe in
evolution say, “It had to have happened because the only alternative is that
God created things, and we don’t believe that. We can’t see Him, and we don’t
believe in Him anyway—it’s irrational.” Well, they can’t see any evidence for
evolution either, unless it’s some of the various hoaxes they’ve concocted and
wild ideas they’ve dreamed up—that’s what’s really irrational!
On the other hand, there’s plenty of evidence for Creation—the Earth and everything in it! The beauty, the majesty, the complexity of life, the Earth, and the heavens could only have come from the Creator, not from random chemical interactions over millions or billions of years. --David Brandt Berg
if life had evolved into its
wondrous profusion of creatures little by little, then one would expect to find
fossils of transitional creatures which were a bit like what went before them
and a bit like what came after. But no one has yet found any evidence of such
transitional creatures. This oddity has been attributed to gaps in the fossil
record which gradualists expected to fill when rock strata of the proper age
had been found. In the last decade, however, geologists have found rock layers
of all divisions … and no transitional forms were contained in them.1
—Paleontologist Niles Eldredge
The reason for abrupt
appearances and gaps can no longer be attributed to the imperfection of the
fossil record as it was by Darwin when paleontology [the study of ancient life
by means of the fossil record] was a young science. With over 200,000,000
catalogued specimens of about 250,000 fossil species, many evolutionist
paleontologists … argue that the fossil record is sufficient.2
—Lawyer W.R. Bird
The universal experience of
paleontology is that while the rocks have continually yielded new and exciting
and even bizarre forms of life … what they have never yielded is any of
Darwin’s myriads of transitional forms. Despite the tremendous increase in
geological activity in every corner of the globe and despite the discovery of
many strange and hitherto unknown forms, the infinitude of connecting links has
still not been discovered and the fossil record is about as discontinuous as it
was when Darwin was writing the Origin [of Species]. The intermediates have
remained as elusive as ever and their absence remains, a century later, one of
the most striking characteristics of the fossil record.3
—Biochemist and molecular
geneticist Michael Denton
First, and perhaps most
important, is the first appearance of fossils. This occurs at a time called the
“Cambrian.” The fossils appear at that time in a pretty highly developed form.
They don’t start very low and evolve bit by bit over long periods of time. In
the lowest fossil-bearing strata of all [the Cambrian], they are already there,
and are pretty complicated in more-or-less modern form. This situation has
troubled everybody from the beginning—to have everything at the very opening of
the drama. The curtain goes up and you have the players on the stage already,
entirely in modern costumes.4
—Lawyer Norman Macbeth
The extreme rarity of
transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of
paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at
the tips and nodes of their branches. ... A species does not arise gradually by
the gradual transformation of its ancestors; it appears all at once and fully
formed.5
—Paleontologist, evolution
advocate, biologist, and historian of science Stephen Jay Gould
Intermediate links? Geology
assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic change, and this is
perhaps the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the
theory [of evolution].6
—Charles Darwin
To take a line of fossils
and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can
be tested, but an assertion that carries the same validity as a bedtime
story—amusing, perhaps even instructive, but not scientific.7
—Henry Gee
The creation account in
Genesis and the theory of evolution could not be reconciled. One must be right
and the other wrong. The story of the fossils agreed with the account of
Genesis. In the oldest rocks we did not find a series of fossils covering the
gradual changes from the most primitive creatures to developed forms, but
rather in the oldest rocks, developed species suddenly appeared. Between every
species there was a complete absence of intermediate fossils.8
—Biochemist D.B. Gower
1 Niles Eldredge, “Missing,
Believed Nonexistent,” The Manchester Guardian (November 26, 1978), 1.
2 W.R. Bird, The Origin of
Species Revisited (Nashville, Tn.: Thomas Nelson, Thomas Nelson Co., Nashville,
1991), 48.
3 Michael Denton, Evolution:
A Theory in Crisis (Chevy Chase, Md.: Alder and Alder, 1986), 162.
4 Norman Macbeth, speech at
Harvard University, September 24, 1983, quoted in L. D. Sunderland, Darwin’s
Enigma (1988), 150.
5 Stephen Jay Gould,
“Evolution’s Erratic Pace,” Natural History 86 (May 1977), 14.
6 Charles Darwin, Origin of
the Species, quoted in David Raup, “Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology,”
Field Museum Bulletin (January 1979).
7 Henry Gee, In Search of
Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life (New York: The
Free Press, 1999).
8 D.B. Gower, “Scientist
Rejects Evolution,” Kentish Times [England] (December 11, 1975), 4.
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