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The Deception of Evolution

fish traits they already had. Or there should have existed some rep-
t i l e - b i rds, which acquired some bird traits in addition to the re p t i l-
ian traits they already had. Since these would be in a transitional
phase, they should be disabled, defective, crippled living beings.
Evolutionists refer 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 cre a t u res 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.
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Darwin's Hopes Shattered
H o w e v e r, although evolutionists have been making stre n u o u s
e fforts 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 paleontologist, Derek V. A g e r, admits this
fact, even though he is an evolutionist:

The point emerges that if we examine the fossil record in detail, whether at
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the level of orders or of species, we find—over and over again—not grad
ual evolution, but the sudden explosion of one group at the expense of an
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other . 11
This means that in the fossil record, all living species suddenly

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