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been found. He regarded this as a major difficulty for his theory. That
is why, in one chapter of his book titled “Difficulties on Theory,” he
wrote:
Firstly, why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gra-
dations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not
all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well
defined?…. But, as by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have
existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust

of the earth?… (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, New York: D.
Appleton and Company. p.154, 155)

Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such
intermediate links? (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, New York: D.
Appleton and Company. p. 246)

Darwin's Shattered Hopes

However, although evolutionists have been making strenuous
efforts to find fossils since the middle of the nineteenth century all over
the world, no transitional forms have yet been uncovered. All the fos-
sils, contrary to the evolutionists’ expectations, show that life
appeared on Earth all of a sudden and fully-formed.

Renowned British paleontologist, Derek V. Ager, admits this fact,
even though he is an evolutionist:
The point emerges that if we examine the fossil record in detail, whether at the
level of orders or of species, we find – over and over again – not gradual
evolution, but the sudden explosion of one group at the expense of
another. (Derek V. Ager, “The Nature of the Fossil Record,” Proceedings
of the British Geological Association, vol. 87, 1976, p. 133.)

This means that in the fossil record, all living species suddenly
emerge as fully formed, without any intermediate forms in between.
This is just the opposite of Darwin’s assumptions. Furthermore, this is

very strong evidence that all living things are created. The only expla-