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cal processes, in which case it is then called "amber." On
occasions in the past, this resin trapped insects, as it flowed
down the tree trunks. It then solidified, and the amber and

the insects inside it have been preserved without damage for
millions of years, right up until today. This helps us to learn
a lot about creatures that lived long ago. Such preserved re-
mains of one species or another are called fossils.

What Does "A Transitional Form" Fossil Mean?

The most important falsehood that evolutionists invent is
that of "transitional forms." In some evolutionist books, these
are sometimes called "intermediate transitional forms."
As you know, evolutionists claim that creatures evolve
from each other. They also maintain that the first creature
came about by chance. They would have us believe that

gradually that creature changed into another, and that oth-
er creature turned into yet another, and so on. Evolutionists
say that fish, for example, are descended from a creature
that resembled a starfish. This means that one day, due to
mutation, a starfish lost one of its arms. Over the next mil-

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