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The Errors of the American National Academy of Sciences

who have not lost their ability to evaluate the scientific evidence objec-
tively accept that the fossil evidence does indeed speak against the the-
ory of evolution. Indeed, this is a self-evident fact.
For example, Henry Gee, the editor of the journal Nature, says in
his book In Search of Deep Time that "mountains of evidence" support-

ing the theory of evolution have not been discovered in the fossil
record, and that, on the contrary, the evidence which does exist is
evaluated by evolutionists according to their own preconceptions:
Many of the assumptions we make about evolution, especially con-
cerning the history of life as understood from the fossil record, are,
however baseless.
The reason for this lies with the fact of the scale of geological time
that scientists are dealing with, which is so vast that it defies narra-
tive. Fossils, such as the fossil creatures we hail as our ancestors,
constitute primary evidence for the history of life, but each fossil is
an infinitesimal dot, lost in a fathomless sea of time, whose relation-
ship with other fossils and organisms living in the present day is ob-
scure. Any story we tell against the compass of geological time that
links these fossils in sequences of cause and effect—or ancestry and
descent—is therefore only ours to make. We invent these stories,
after the fact, to justify the history of life according to our own prej-
udices. 1

Looked at without evolutionist prejudice, it is clear that the fossil
record conflicts with the theory of evolution on many points. Some of
these areas are:
1. Species and higher categories emerge in a very sudden way in
the fossil record, fully formed in their distinct body plans. The inter-

mediate forms claimed by the National Academy of Sciences are
nowhere to be found. It has eventually been made clear that those fos-
sils portrayed as transitional forms by evolutionists have been inter-

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