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tile-birds, which acquired some bird traits in addition to
the reptilian traits they already had. Since these would be in a transition-
al 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 importantly, the re-
mains 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 assured-
ly have existed... Consequently, evidence of their former existence could
be found only amongst fossil remains. 149
However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of these interme-
diate 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:

There is no fossil that can validate the claims
regarding the evolution of plants. To the con-
trary, hundreds of thousands of fossils dis-
prove these claims. One of these, pictured
here, is that of a 54- to 37- million-year-old
fossil ginkgo leaf. The fact that ginkgos have
not changed in millions of years shows that
evolution is a great deception.

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