Page 505 - Bigotry: The Dark Danger

Adnan Oktar
(Harun Yahya)

If such animals ever really existed, there would be millions
and even billions of them in number and variety. More important-
ly, the remains of these strange creatures should be present in the
fossil record. In The Origin of Species, Darwin 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... (Charles
Darwin, The Origin of Species, New York: D. Appleton and

Company. p. 161)

However, Darwin, having written these lines, was also well
aware of the fact that no fossils of these intermediate forms had yet
been found. He regarded this as a major difficulty for his theory.
That is why, in one chapter of his book titled "Difficulties on Theory,"

he wrote:

Firstly, why, if species have descended from other species by

insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumer-
able 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 num-
bers in the crust of the earth?… (Charles Darwin, The Origin of
Species, New York: D. Appleton and Company. p.154, 155)

Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum
full of such intermediate links? (Charles Darwin, The Origin of
Species, New York: D. Appleton and Company. p. 246)

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