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THE PAINS OF THE FALSE WORLD

the reptilian traits they already had. Since these would be in a
transitional phase, they should be disabled, defective, crippled li-
ving beings. Evolutionists refer to these imaginary cre a t u re s ,
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 impor-
tantly, 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
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most closely all of the species of the same group together must as
suredly have existed... Consequently, evidence of their former exis
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tence could be found only amongst fossil remains.
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Darwin's Hopes Shattered
However, although evolutionists have been making strenu-
ous efforts to find fossils since the middle of the nineteenth cen-
tury all over the world, no transitional forms have yet been unco-
v e red. All of the fossils, contrary to the evolutionists' expectati-
ons, show that life appeared on Earth all of a sudden and fully-

formed.
One famous British paleontologist, Derek V. A g e r, admits
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
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group at the expense of another
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