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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

Darwin himself . . . prophesied that future generations of paleontologists would
fill in these gaps by diligent search. . . . One hundred and twenty years of pale-
ontological research later, it has become abundantly clear that the fossil record
will not confirm this part of Darwin’s predictions. Nor is the problem a miser-
ably poor record. The fossil record simply shows that this prediction is wrong.
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The fossil record can be seen to refute the theory of evolution in
every regard. A separate, noteworthy point that Eldredge makes is how
studies that show that species do not change in the fossil record, but
rather remain entirely stable, are not published and are described as
“unsuccessful.” Evolutionists are highly experienced at hiding away ev-
idences against the theory of evolution, not just with regard to fossils
but in other relevant branches of science, and at misleading society with
biased interpretations. This method, a familiar one among evolution-
ists, can be seen between the lines of Eldredge’s words.
Despite being an evolutionist publication, Focus magazine in its
April 2003 edition, which dealt with the coelacanth, referred to species

like that fish, which have remained unchanged over millions of years:
The discovery that a creature as large as the Cœlacanth had lived for so many
years outside the knowledge of the scientific world led to its attracting a great
deal of interest. Yet there are a very large number of organisms which, like the
Cœlacanth, are identical to fossils remaining from millions of years ago. For ex-
ample, the Neopilina, a species of crustacean, has remained unchanged for 500
million years, the scorpion for 430 million years, the Limulus, a marine crea-
ture with armour and a sword-like tail, for 225 million years, and the Tuatara,
a species of reptile living in New Zealand, for 230 million years. Many arthro-
pods, crocodiles, turtles and many species of plant are other components of this
growing list. 201
Focus openly admits the blow dealt by these fossils to the theory of
evolution:
Looked at from the evolutionary perspective, the probability of organisms such
as these undergoing mutation is much higher than that of others. Because every

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