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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

forward was the insufficiency of the fossil record of his time.
He maintained that the missing transitional forms would in-
evitably appear once the fossil record was complete and was
examined in detail.
However, fossil research of the last 150 years has revealed
that the expectations of Darwin—and the evolutionists who
followed him—were actually empty ones. Not a single fossil of
any transitional form has ever been found. To date, there are
around 100 million fossils, preserved in thousands of museums
and collections. All of these are the remains of full-developed
species with their own unique features, separated from all
other species by definite, fixed characteristics. Fossils of half-
fish, half-amphibians; half-dinosaur, half-birds, and half-ape,
half-humans so confidently and definitely predicted by evolu-
tionists, have never been encountered.
Despite being an evolutionist, Steven. M. Stanley of John
Hopkins University admits as such:
The known fossil record is not, and never has been in accord with
gradualism. . . Few modern paleontologist seem to have recognized
that in the past century, as the biological historian William Coleman
has recently written, 'The majority of paleontologists felt their evi-
dence simply contradicted Darwin’s stress on minute, slow and cu-
mulative changes leading to species transformation.' In the next
chapter, I will describe not only what the fossils have to say, but why
their story has been suppressed. 7
Curators in the Department of
Anthropology of the American Museum of
Natural History in New York City, Ian
Tattersall and Niles Eldredge describe
how the fossil record contradicts the theory
of evolution:

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