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this fact, even though he is an evolutionist:

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 an-
other. 14
This means that in the fossil record, all living species sud-
denly emerge as fully formed, without any intermediate forms
in between. This is just the opposite of Darwin's assumptions.
Also, this is very strong evidence that all living things are cre-
ated. The only explanation of a living species emerging sud-
denly and complete in every detail without any evolutionary
ancestor is that it was created. This fact is admitted also by the
widely known evolutionist biologist Douglas Futuyma:

Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possi-
ble explanations for the origin of living things. Organisms
either appeared on the earth fully developed or they did
not. If they did not, they must have developed from pre-
existing species by some process of modification. If they
did appear in a fully developed state, they must indeed
have been created by some omnipotent intelligence. 15
Fossils show that living beings emerged fully developed and
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