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traits they already had. Since these would be in a transitional phase,
they should be disabled, defective, crippled beings. Evolutionists
refer to these imaginary creatures, which they believe to have lived in
the past, as “transitional forms”.
I If such animals ever really existed, there would be millions and
even billions of them in number and variety. More importantly, 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... (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species,
New York: D. Appleton and Company. p. 161)
However, Darwin, having written these lines, was also well aware
of the fact that no fossils of these intermediate forms had yet been
found. He regarded this as a major difficulty for his theory. That is
why, in one chapter of his book titled
“Difficulties on Theory,” he wrote:

Firstly, 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 innumerable transitional forms
must have existed, why do we not find
them embedded in countless numbers in
the crust of the earth?… (Charles Darwin,
The Origin of Species, New York: D.
Appleton and Company. p.154, 155)

Evolutionists generally inter-
pret fossils in the light of their
ideological expectations, for
which reason the conclusions
they arrive at are for the most
part unreliable.