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The 150-200-mil-
lion-year-old fossil
dragonfly
(Jurassic-Recent
age) is no different
from specimens
living today.

dence of their former existence could be found only
amongst fossil remains. 20
However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of
these intermediate 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 in-
sensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innu-
merable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in con-
fusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well
defined?… But, as by this theory innumerable transitional
forms must have existed, why do we not find them em-
bedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?…
Why then is not every geological formation and every
stratum full of such intermediate links? 21

Darwin's Hopes Shattered

However, although evolutionists have been making
strenuous efforts to find fossils since the middle of the nine-
teenth century all over the world, no transitional forms

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