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Flowering plans and their pollinating insects appear suddenly
in the fossil record. According to the theory of evolution, there
should be not only a common ancestor, but countless intermediate
forms between that ancestor and the species' final form. In such a
rich fossil record, why has not a single one ever been encountered?
The proponents of evolution tend to generalize when referring
to plant and insect variety, as if they all had the same features. Yet

every insect and every plant possesses unique structures that dis-
tinguish it from every other. For instance, bees, butterflies, ants, leaf
mites, locusts, cockroaches, fireflies, mole crickets, and fleas are all
insects, yet display totally different features
that represent more unanswered
questions for evolution. The pro-

Coleopterae or beetles, pro-
tect the wings they use to
fly under external wing-
sheaths consisting of the
very hard but flexible sub-
stance chitin. These wing-
sheaths also serve to main-
tain balance in flight.

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