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ian traits they already had. Since these would be in a transitional
phase, they should be disabled, defective, crippled living beings.
Evolutionists refer to these imaginary creatures, which they believe
to have lived in the past, as "transitional forms."
If such animals ever really existed, there should be millions
and even billions of them in number and variety. More impor-
tantly, 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. 30
However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of these inter-
mediate forms had yet been found. He regarded this as a major dif-
ficulty 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 for-
mation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? 31

Darwin's Hopes Shattered
However, although evolutionists have been making strenuous ef-
forts to find fossils since the middle of the nineteenth century all