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HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)

If such animals ever really existed, there should 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. 60

However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of these
intermediate forms had yet been found. He regarded this as a
major difficulty for his theory. In one chapter of his book titled
"Difficulties on Theory," he wrote:
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? 61

Darwin's Hopes Shattered

However, although evolutionists have been making
strenuous efforts to find fossils since the middle of the
nineteenth century all over the world, no transitional forms
have yet been uncovered. All of the fossils, contrary to the
evolutionists' expectations, show that life appeared on Earth