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birds, which acquired some bird traits in addition to the reptilian traits
they already had. Since these would be in a transitional phase, they
should be disabled, defective, crippled living beings. Evolutionists re-
fer to these imaginary creatures, which they believe to have lived in the
past, as "transitional forms."
If such animals ever really existed, there should be millions and
even billions of them in number and variety. More importantly, the
remains of these strange creatures should be present in the fossil
record. In The Origin of Species, Darwin explained:

If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking most
closely all of the species of the same group together must assuredly have
existed... Consequently, evidence of their former existence could be found
only amongst fossil remains. 178
However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of these inter-
mediate forms had yet been found. He regarded this as a major diffi-
culty 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 gra-
dations, 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? 179

Darwin's Hopes Shattered
However, although evolutionists have been making strenuous ef-
forts to find fossils since the middle of the nineteenth century all over
the world, no transitional forms have yet been uncovered. All of the

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