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Harun Yahya-Adnan Oktar
However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of these in-
termediate 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:

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine grada-
tions, 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 transi-
tional 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 formation and every stratum full of such interme-
diate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated
organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection
which can be urged against my theory. 11

Darwin’s Hopes Shattered
However, although evolutionists have been making strenuous
efforts to find fossils since the middle of the nineteenth century all

over the world, no transitional forms have yet been uncovered. All
of the fossils, contrary to the evolutionists’ expectations, show that
life appeared on Earth all of a sudden and fully-formed.
One famous British paleontologist, Derek V. Ager, admits this fact,
even though he is an evolutionist:
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 gradual evolution, but the sudden explosion of one
group at the expense of another. 12
This means that in the fossil record, all living species suddenly
emerge as fully formed, without any intermediate forms in between.

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