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tures, which they believe to have lived in the past, as
"tran si tion al forms."
If such ani mals ever real ly exist ed, there should be
mil lions and even bil lions of them in num ber and vari -
e ty. More impor tant ly, the remains of these strange
crea tures should be present in the fos sil record. In The
Origin of Species, Darwin explained:
If my the o ry be true, num ber less inter me di ate vari e -
ties, link ing most close ly all of the spe cies of the
same group togeth er must assur ed ly have exist ed...
Consequently, evi dence of their former exis tence
could be found only amongst fos sil remains. 10

Darwin's Hopes Shattered
However, although evo lu tion ists have been mak ing
stren u ous efforts to find fos sils since the mid dle of the
nine teenth cen tu ry all over the world, no tran si tion al
forms have yet been uncov ered. All of the fos sils, con -
tra ry to the evo lu tion ists' expec ta tions, show that life
appeared on Earth all of a sud den and fully-formed.
One famous British pale on tol o gist, Derek V. Ager,
admits this fact, even though he is an evo lu tion ist:
The point emer ges that if we exam ine the fos sil
record in detail, wheth er at the level of orders or of
spe cies, we find – over and over again – not grad u -
al evo lu tion, but the sud den explo sion of one group
at the expense of anoth er. 11

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