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             According to the theory of evolution, millions of half-reptile, half-bird
          creatures should have existed. The differences between these two living
          groups and also among millions of others should have been bridged in
          stages by transitional species. Therefore, had any evolutionary process
          taken place, then at least some of these intermediate forms should have
          been fossilized and survived to the present. They should be far more
          numerous than those species alive today.
             Yet despite all the intense efforts over the last century or so to find an
          intermediate form, not one of the desired fossils has been found. Some
          evolutionists make striking confessions on this subject. This is how Charles
          Darwin himself, who put forward the theory, described his despair on the
          subject of intermediate forms in his book, The Origin of Species:

             Firstly, why, if species have descendent from other species by insensi-
             bly 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?  2

             After Darwin, the intensive efforts to find intermediate forms all ended in
          disappointment. Though an evolutionist, the well-known paleontologist
          Derek W. Ager, admits that the fossil records is against evolution: “The
          point emerges that if we examine the fossil record in detail, we find–over












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