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and over again—not gradual evolution, but the
sudden explosion of one group at the expense of
another.” 3
Another paleontologist, Mark Czarnecki, admits
that the fossil record is of such a kind as to support
creation, not evolution:
. . . major problem in proving the theory (evolution theory)
has been the fossil record. . . This record has never
revealed traces of Darwin’s hypothetical intermediate vari-
ants—instead, species appear and disappear abruptly, and
this anomaly has fueled the creationist argument that each
species was created by Allah. 4
Also, most of the fossils proposed by evolutionists as evidence
for evolution were later found to be either forgeries, or else were
misinterpreted using biased or unscientific methods. (You shall see
such distortions in the next chapter.) Today, evolutionists cannot point
to a single fossil as evidence. Indeed, Mark Ridley, an University of Oxford
zoologist and well-known evolutionist, admits:
In any case, no real evolutionist, whether gradualist or punctuationist,
uses the fossil record as evidence in favour of the theory of evolution as
opposed to special creation. 5

1. Michael Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis,
London: Burnett Books, 1985, p. 368.
2. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, p. 205.
3. Derek A. Ager, “The Nature of the Fossil Record,”
Proceedings of the British Geological Association, Vol.
87, 1976, p. 133.
4. Mark Czarnecki, “The Revival of the Creationist
Crusade,” MacLean's, 19 January 1981, p. 56.
5. “Who Doubts Evolution?,” New Scientist, Vol. 90,
25 June 1981, p. 831.