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day. All these fossilized insects have the same features today—one
of the problems that evolutionists are unable to resolve. 124
Their second major problem is the sheer variety among insects.
According to the evolutionary scenario, there should be a limited
number of insect species, all descended from the same forerunner.
However, the actual number of insect species is estimated to exceed

30 million. Such an enormous number of species represents anoth-
er question that evolutionists are unable to answer. There is not
enough time for an imaginary process such as mutation to give rise
to such variety.
In their book An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North

America, Prof. R.W. Merrit and K.W. Cummins from California
Berkeley University comment:
Interpretations of the fossil record must be made with great caution.
For example fossils used in evaluating the terrestrial aquatic origin

of insects were recently found to be not primitive insects at all, but
merely fossilized segments of crustaceans! 125
Despite the large number of evolutionist scenarios about the
origin of insects, scientists who closely research the subject arrive at

these same conclusions. But proponents of the theory of evolution
do not base their arguments on concrete evidence. The comments
THE MICROWORLD MIRACLE Unfortunately, evidence of the crucial steps leading to the origin of
by H.V. Daly and J.T. Doyen of Berkeley and Oxford universities
make this clear:

insects have not yet been found in the fossil record. Wings have con-
tributed more to the success of insects than any other anatomical
structures, yet the historical origin of wings remains largely a mys-

246 tery. The earliest insect fossils that have been discovered, from the