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PORTENTS AND FEATURES OF THE MAHDI'S COMING

shows us that there is no "evo lu tion a ry mech a nism" in
nature. Since no evo lu tion a ry mech a nism exists, no
such any imag i nary proc ess called "evo lu tion" could
have taken place.

The Fossil Record: No Sign of Intermediate
Forms
The clear est evi dence that the sce nar io sug gest ed
by the the o ry of evo lu tion did not take place is the fos -
sil record.
According to this the o ry, every liv ing spe cies has
sprung from a pred e ces sor. A pre vi ous ly exist ing spe -
cies turned into some thing else over time and all spe -
cies have come into being in this way. In other words,
this trans for ma tion pro ceeds grad u al ly over mil lions of
years.
Had this been the case, numer ous inter me di a ry spe -
cies should have exist ed and lived with in this long trans -
for ma tion peri od.
For instance, some half-fish/half-rep tiles should have
lived in the past which had acquired some rep til i an traits
in addi tion to the fish traits they already had. Or there
should have exist ed some rep tile-birds, which acquired
some bird traits in addi tion to the rep til i an traits they
already had. Since these would be in a tran si tion al
phase, they should be dis a bled, defective, crip pled liv -
ing beings. Evolutionists refer to these imag i nary crea -

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