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One of the most im por tant branch es of sci ence to shed light on the or i gin of life is pa le on -
tol o gy, the study of fos sils. The fos sil beds stud ied with enor mous ded i ca tion over the last
100 years re veal a pic ture in stark con trast to Darwin's the o ry. Species did not emerge by
evolv ing, but ap peared sud den ly on Earth, with all their var i ous struc tures ful ly formed.

main amaz ing ly sta ble, and for very The American pa le on tol o gist
long pe ri ods of time, con tains all the S.M. Stanley de scribes how this fact,
fea tures of the sto ry of "The re vealed by the fos sil record, is com -
Emperor's New Clothes." Everyone plete ly ig nored by the Darwinist
saw the truth, but all chose to ig nore dog ma that dom i nates the world of
it. Paleontologists were faced by a fos - sci ence:
sil record that de fin i tive ly re futes the The known fos sil record is not, and
pic ture that Darwin im ag ined, but nev er has been, in ac cord with grad u -
open ly turned their backs on the al ism. What is re mark a ble is that,
truth. through a va ri e ty of his tor i cal cir cum -
stan ces, even the his to ry of op po si tion

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