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The NAS's Errors on the Subject of the Fossil Record

ing to species transformation.' . . . their story has been suppressed. 4
Professor of Philosophy and Zoology Michael Ruse:

One must acknowledge that there are many, many gaps in the fossil
record... There is no reason to think that all or most of these gaps
will be bridged. 5
Anthropologist Ian Tattersall and palaeontologist Niles Eldredge
of the American Museum of Natural History:
The record jumps, and all the evidence shows that the record is real:
the gaps we see reflect real events in life's history—not the artifact of
a poor fossil record. 6

Rudolf A. Raff, director of Indiana University's Molecular
Biology Institute, and Indiana University researcher Thomas C.
Kaufmann:
The lack of ancestral or intermediate forms between fossil species is
not a bizarre peculiarity of early metazoan history. Gaps are general
and prevalent throughout the fossil record. 7

Ernst Mayr, possibly the most prominent biologist of the twenti-
eth century:
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction be-
tween Darwin's postulate of gradualism . . . and the actual findings

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