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assuredly have existed... Consequently, evidence of their former
existence could be found only amongst fossil remains. 34
However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of these inter-
mediate forms had yet been found. He regarded this as a major dif-
ficulty 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 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 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 obvi-
ous and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory. 35

Darwin's Hopes Shattered

However, although evolutionists have been making strenuous
efforts to find fossils since the middle of the nineteenth century all
over the world, no transitional forms have yet been uncovered. All
of the fossils, contrary to the evolutionists' expectations, show that
life appeared on Earth all of a sudden and fully-formed.
One famous British palaeontologist, 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 explosion of one
group at the expense of another. 36
This means that in the fossil record, all living species suddenly
emerge as fully formed, without any intermediate forms in