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jority represent living fossils. Fossil specimens dating back millions of years from very many species liv-
ing today have been discovered and put on display. (For details see http://www.fossil-
museum.com/fossils/ and http://atlasofcreation.com/index.php) The horses, giraffes, fish, dogs, birds
and reptiles alive today have all left traces dating back millions of years with the same states and ap-

pearances that they have now. The fossils illustrated in the Atlas of Creation volumes and those on show
at various exhibitions and on the Fossil Museum website represent just a few of the specimens in ques-
tion. There are so many of these specimens that nearly every life form alive today is represented by
members of the same species dating back millions of years. And these fossils are in complete harmony

with the organisms around today. There is no difference between fossils dating back millions of years
and contemporary living things. Life forms have never changed. They are the same now as when they
were first created.
Niles Eldredge, the well-known evolutionist paleontologist and curator at the American Museum of

Natural History, summarized their helplessness in the face of the reality that living fossils are one of the
greatest dilemmas confronting evolution:

... there seems to have been almost no change in any part we can compare between the living organism and
its fossilized progenitors of the remote geological past. Living fossils embody the theme of evolutionary sta-
bility to an extreme degree. ....We have not completely solved the riddle of living fossils. 27

Although Eldredge attempts, in his own eyes, to conceal Darwinists’ despair by the use of the term
“evolutionary stability” and seeks to give the impression that as if “an evolutionary process really did

take place in the past, but then underwent stability” the fact of the matter is this: the fossil record clear-
ly proves that evolution never happened at any time. All living species appeared in a moment with all
the characteristics they possess today, and have never changed over the course of tens of millions of

years. Fish have always existed as fish, reptiles as reptiles, mammals as mammals and human beings as
human beings. The fossil record, Darwin’s greatest hope, has proved to be the strongest evidence refut-
ing his theory.
There is no doubt that this state of affairs constitutes a huge rout for the theory of evolution, which
is unconfirmed by even a single transitional fossil. That is why Darwinist circles cover up the existence

of living fossils and never bring them up, despite their being well aware of the true position. Someone
looking at evolutionist references will form the impression that there are only a few living fossils be-
cause only a few living fossils are ever brought up by Darwinists. These references also attempt to give

the impression that it is miraculous how these few fossils have remained unchanged and that they are
an “exception” among all the countless imaginary “proofs” of evolution.
But this is a deception.

A 50-million-year-old ginkgo leaf is
identical to a present-day one.

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