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The Deception of Evolution

over time and all species have come into being in this way. In other
w o rds, this transformation proceeds gradually over millions of years.
Had this been the case, numerous intermediary species should
have existed and lived within this long transformation period.
For instance, some half-fish/half-reptiles should have lived in the
past which had acquired some reptilian traits in addition to the fish

traits they already had. Or there should have existed some re p t i l e -
b i rds, which acquired some bird traits in addition to the reptilian traits
they already had. Since these would be in a transitional phase, they
should be disabled, defective, crippled living beings. Evolutionists
refer to these imaginary cre a t u res, which they believe to have lived in
the past, as "transitional forms."
If such animals ever really existed, there should be millions and

even billions of them in number and variety. More importantly, the re-
mains of these strange cre a t u res should be present in the fossil re c o rd .
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In The Origin of SpeciesDarwin 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...
C o n s e q u e n t l yevidence of their former existence could be found only

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amongst fossil re m a i n s . 1 0

Darwin's Hopes Shattered
H o w e v e r, although evolutionists have been making strenuous ef-
forts to find fossils since the middle of the nineteenth century all over
the world, no transitional forms have yet been uncovered. All of the

fossils, contrary to the evolutionists' expectations, show that life ap-
p e a red on Earth all of a sudden and fully-formed.
One famous British paleontologist, Derek V. A g e r, admits this fact,

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