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former existence could be found only amongst fossil remains. 113
However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of these
intermediate forms had yet been found. He regarded this as a
major difficulty for his theory. In one chapter of his book titled
"Difficulties on Theory," he wrote:
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly
fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable
transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion in-
stead of the species being, as we see them, well de-
fined?… But, as by this theory innumerable transitional
forms must have existed, why do we not find them em-
bedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?…
Why then is not every geological formation and every
stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly
does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and
this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which
can be urged against my theory. 114

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
uncovered. All of the fossils, contrary to the evolutionists' ex-
pectations, show that life appeared on Earth all of a sudden
and fully-formed.

One famous British paleontologist, Derek V. Ager, 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 ex-

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