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HARUN YAHYA

The Bighorn Basin in Wyoming

going back to the first periods of mammals. The fossil record here is so
rich that paleontologists expected to find transitional forms in the fos-
sils there that would demonstrate the evolutionary process. Yet their
hopes were all in vain. It was realized that the species they suggested
had evolved from one another in fact all appeared in the same periods.
It was seen that “The known fossil record is not, and never has been, in
accord with gradualism.” 199
Furthermore, species remained stable, with no changes, over the
millions of years until they disappeared from the record.
According to the claims of the theory of evolution, however, in
order for species to be able to evolve from one another, they need to be
in a constant state of change. For example, in order for a rodent to turn
into a bat or a whale, it must exhibit minute, gradual changes over very
long periods of time. In order for a rodent to acquire new characteristics,
these gradual changes have to take place over an exceedingly long time
frame. Over this period of time, there should be many transitional forms

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