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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 79

John Adler and John Carey are journalists:

The more scientists have searched for the transitional forms that lie be-
tween species, the more they have been frustrated. 191

Mark Ridley is a zoologist at the University of Oxford:
In any case, no real evolutionist...uses the fossil record as evidence in fa-
vor of the theory of evolution as opposed to special creation... 192
Steven M. Stanley is Professor of Paleontology at The University
of Hawaii at Manoa:
The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic
evolution [the evolution of a species' entire population into a new
species] accomplishing a major morphologic[structural] transition and
hence offers no evidence that the gradualistic model can be valid. 193
Hoimar Von Ditfurth is a German Professor of Neurology and
Psychiatry and a well-known evolutionist science writer:
When we look back, we see there is no need to have been surprised at our
failure to find those transitional forms searched for almost painfully.
Because the great likelihood is that such transitional stages never exist-
ed. 194

The most ancient fossils discovered to date are objects fossilized inside
minerals, such as non-nucleic algae. No matter how primitive these may
be, they still represent relatively complex and expertly organized forms of
life. The story of the development between these first fossil organisms and
molecules emerging by way of chemical combinations, biopolymers in
other words is a gap that we have been as yet unable to fill.... On the oth-
er hand, this "temporary" gap that has been unable to be filled is quite at-
tractive to some people, for understandable reasons. Someone who sees
that it is impossible for life to begin in the absence of any supernatural ef-
fect can see the signs of a miracle in such a gap, intervention by a super-
natural force. 195
Edmund J. Ambrose is professor of cellular biology at the
University of London:
At the present stage of geological research, we have to admit that there is
nothing in the geological records that runs contrary to the view of con-
servative creationists, that God created each species separately..." 196