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ed... Consequently, evidence of their former existence could be found only
amongst fossil remains. 35
However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of these interme-
diate forms had yet been found. He regarded this as a major difficulty 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 count-
less numbers in the crust of the earth?… Why then is not every geologi-
cal formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology
assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and
this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be
urged against my theory. 36

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 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. Ager, admits this fact,
even though he is an evolutionist:
The point emerges that if we examine the fossil record in detail, whether at
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
another. 37
This means that in the fossil record, all living species suddenly
emerge as fully formed, without any intermediate forms in between.
This is just the opposite of Darwin's assumptions. Also, this is very strong

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)