Page 88 - Slanders on Muslims in History

86 SLANDERS ON MUSLIMS IN HISTORY

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, a as by this theory innumerable tran-
sitional 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 grad-
uated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most
obvious and gravest objection which can be urged
against my theory. 11

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, n no transitional
forms have yet been uncovered. All of the fossils, con-
trary to the evolutionists' expectations, show that l life
appeared on Earth all of a sudden and fully-formed.
One famous British paleontologist, Derek V. Ager,
admits this fact, even though he is an evolutionist:
The point emerges that if we examine the fossil record
in detail, whether at the level of orders or of species, w we
find - over and over again - not gradual evolution, but
the sudden explosion of one group at the expense of
another. 12
This means that in t the fossil record, all living species