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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, well de-
fined?…. But, as by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have ex-
isted, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers 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 in-
termediate links? (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, New York: D. Ap-
pleton and Company. p. 246)

DARWIN’S SHATTERED HOPES

However, although evolutionists have been making strenuous
efforts to find fossils since the middle of the nineteenth century all
over the world, no transitional forms have yet been uncovered. . All
the fossils, contrary to the evolutionists’ expectations, show that life
appeared on Earth all of a sudden and fully-formed.
Renowned 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 gradual evolu-
tion, but the sudden explosion of one group at the expense of another. (Derek
V. Ager, “The Nature of the Fossil Record,” Proceedings of the British Geo-
logical Association, vol. 87, 1976, p. 133.)
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. Furthermore, this