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THE TRANSITIONAL-FORM DILEMMA

course, would leave behind at least some traces in
the fossil record, and very early fossils with two ver-
tebrae, five vertebrae and twelve vertebrae would be
found. However, what actually appears in the record is
vertebrates with the most suitable structures and features for
the body shape in question. In terms of form and structure,
none is deformed, defective, or incomplete. On the contrary,
they are perfect. No transitional backbones of the type seen
in the pictures below have been encountered anywhere in
the fossil record.
All species, living or extinct in the fossil record, are
present fully formed and in the most perfect states. The
species that evolutionists propose as transitional forms
exhibit none of the features of such evolving anatomies.
They have no missing or intermediate-stage organs or

If the stage-by-stage development proposed by evolu-
tionists had actually taken place, then there should have
been vertebrates starting with two or five vertebrae, like
those above. Yet there is no sign of such species in the fossil
record. On the contrary, all the known backbones possess their
perfect, present-day forms.

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