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ready had. Or there should have existed some reptile-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

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 would 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... (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, New
York: D. Appleton and Company. p. 161)

However, Darwin, having written these lines, was also well aware of
the fact that no fossils of these intermediate forms had yet been found. He
regarded this as a major difficulty for his theory. That is why, in one chapter
of his book titled "Difficulties on Theory," he wrote:
Firstly, 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,
LOVE IN THE GOSPEL must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless num-
well defined?…. But, as by this theory innumerable transitional forms

bers in the crust of the earth?… (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species,

New York: D. Appleton and Company. p.154, 155)

Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such
intermediate links? (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, New York:
D. Appleton and Company. p. 246)
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