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The Truth That Fossils Reveal about Living Things: Creation

Fossils unearthed to date possess two very important features, both of which conflict with the claims

of the theory of evolution:
1. Stasis: Species exhibit no changes throughout the course of their existence on Earth. Whatever the
structure they display when they first appear in the fossil record, they have that same structure when
they finally disappear from it. Morphological (shape) change is generally minor and follows no specific

direction.
2. Sudden Appearance: No species ever emerges gradually through differentiation from its alledged
forebears; it appears suddenly and "fully formed."
The significance of these two points is that living things were created, with no process of evolution

and no intermediate stages to go through. They did not subsequently acquire the characteristics they
possess, but had them since the moment of their creation.
Darwin himself knew that the fossil record refutes his theory of evolution, but Darwinists have been
reluctant to ever admit it. In the chapter titled "Difficulties on Theory" in his book The Origin of Species,

Darwin admitted that the fossil record could not be explained in terms of
the theory of evolution:

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?… Why
then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of

such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any
such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the
most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against

my theory.(Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, Oxford
University Press, New York, 1998, pp. 140, 141, 227)
The argument that Darwin proposed in the face of the

lack of intermediate form fossils—to the effect that "there
are no intermediate forms now, but they may be found
through subsequent research"—today no longer applies.

Present-day data show that the fossil record is extraordinarily
rich. Based on hundreds of millions of fossil specimens
obtained from different regions of the world, some 250,000
separate species have been described—many of which bear an
Charles Darwin

A 54- to 37-million-
year-old bee fossil

The oldest known fossil specimens of the snail
pictured belong to the Jurassic Period (206 to 144
million years ago). The first samples of the class of
living beings to which this species belongs have
existed since the Cambrian Period (543 to 490
million years ago). Snails have remained the same
for hundreds of millions of years, revealing the
invalidity of evolution.

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