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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

reptilian traits they already had. Since these would be in a transi-
tional 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 impor-
tantly, 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. 17
However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of these in-
termediate 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
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 defined?… But, as by this theory in-
numerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we
not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of
the earth?… Why then is not every geological formation and
every stratum full of such intermediate links? 18

Darwin's Hopes Shattered
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.

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