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however says its late appearance is evidence against its being a
missing link, it may just have lasted a long time. Such exam-
ples are called "ghost lineages"; we assume these animals ex-
isted earlier when we have probable ancient ancestors for
them a long way back, and perhaps possible descendants back
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This summation shows what a huge distortion cladistics
is. The following point needs to be made clear: the
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Velociraptor in the above extract is one of the fossils portrayed
as a supposed intermediate form in the myth of birds evolv-
ing from dinosaurs. Like the others, however, this is nothing

more than biased evolutionist interpretation. The feathers
seen in the imaginary reconstructions of Velociraptor merely
reflect evolutionists' imaginations; the fact is that there is no
evidence the animal had feathers at all. In addition, again as
we have seen in the above quotation, evolutionists manifestly
distort the results from the fossil record according to their
own theories. The only reason for supposing that a species,

with a 70-million-year-old fossil, actually existed 170 million
years earlier—and establishing an evolutionary family rela-
tionship on the basis of that supposition—is to distort the
facts.
Cladistics is a covert confession that the theory of evolu-
tion cannot cope with the fossil record and opens a new di-
mension. To sum up:
1) Darwin predicted that, once the fossil record was
studied in detail, intermediate forms would be discovered to

fill in the gaps between all the known species. This is what the
theory expected.

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