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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

The record jumps, and all the evidence shows that the record is real: the gaps we
see reflect real events in life’s history—not the artifact of a poor fossil record. 8

As these evolutionist scientists state, the true history of life can be
seen in the fossil record, but there are no transitional forms within that
history.
Other scientists also admit the absence of transitional forms.
Rudolf A. Raff, Director of the Indiana Molecular Biology Institute, and
Thomas C. Kaufmann, Researcher at Indiana University, write:
The lack of ancestral or intermediate forms between fossil species is not a
bizarre peculiarity of early metazoan history. Gaps are general and prevalent
throughout the fossil record. 9
There are even preserved fossils of bacteria that lived billions of
years ago. Nevertheless, it is striking that not a single fossil of any imag-
inary transitional form has ever been found. Fossils exist of a great
many species, from bacteria to ants and from birds to flower-bearing
plants. Even fossils of extinct species have been preserved so well that
we are able to appreciate the kinds of structures possessed by these
once-abundant species, which we have never seen alive. The absence of
even a single transitional form within such rich fossil sources demon-

strates not the insufficiency of the fossil record, but the invalidity of the
theory of evolution.

Although a great many fos-
sils of living things which
existed billions of years ago,
from bacteria to ants and
from leaves to birds, are pre-
sent in the fossil record, not
a single fossil of an imagi-
nary transitional form has
ever been discovered.

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