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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 77

But I do not pretend that I should ever have suspected how poor was the
record in the best preserved geological sections, had not the absence of in-
numerable transitional links between the species which lived at the com-
mencement and close of each formation, pressed so hardly on my theory. 180
On this doctrine of the extermination of an infinitude of connecting links,
between the living and extinct inhabitants of the world, and at each suc-
cessive period between the extinct and still older species, why is not every
geological formation charged with such links? Why does not every col-
lection of fossil remains afford plain evidence of the gradation and muta-
tion of the forms of life? 181
Derek W. Ager is an English paleontologist and head of the
Department of Geology and Oceanography at University College of
Swansea:

The point emerges that if we examine the fossil record in detail, whether
at the level of orders or of species, we find–over and over again–not grad-
ual evolution, but the sudden explosion of one group at the expense of
another. 182
W. R. Thompson is an entomologist and director of the
Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control:
Modern Darwinian paleontologists are obliged, just like their predeces-
sors and like Darwin, to water down the facts with subsidiary hypothe-
ses... 183
Mark Czarnecki is an evolutionist paleontologist:
A major problem in proving the theory [of evolution] has been the fos-
sil record. This record has never revealed traces of Darwin's hypothetical
intermediate variants-instead, species appear and disappear abruptly,
and this anomaly has fueled the creationist argument that each species
was created by God. 184
Carlton E. Brett is professor of geology at the University of

Cincinnati:
Did life on Earth change steadily and gradually through time? The fossil
record emphatically says "no." 185

Dr. David Raup is a paleontologist at University of Chicago:
... most people assume that fossils provide a very important part of the