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EXCAVATIONS OVER
EXCAVATIONS OVER
THE LAST 150 YEARS HAVE Following his statement quoted above, Darwin arrived at this
THE LAST 150 YEARS HAVE

UNEARTHED NOT A SINGLE conclusion:
UNEARTHED NOT A SINGLE
… the number of intermediate and transitional links, between all living
INTERMEDIATE-FORM FOSSIL
INTERMEDIATE-FORM FOSSIL
and extinct species, must have been inconceivably great. 2
Darwin expressed the same point in other parts of his book
On the Origin of Species:

If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking

most closely all of the species of the same group together must as-
suredly have existed... Consequently evidence of their former exis-
tence could be found only amongst fossil remains. 3

However, Darwin was well aware that no fossils of these
intermediate forms had yet been found. He regarded this as
a major difficulty for his theory. In one chapter of his book

titled "Difficulties on Theory," he wrote:

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensi-
bly fine gradations, 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 ex-
isted, why do we not find them embedded in countless num-
bers in the crust of the earth?… Why then is not every

geological formation and every stratum full of such inter-
mediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such
finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the
most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged
against my theory. 4

Darwin's only explanation for this major

dilemma was lack of evidence—insufficient fossil
remains had been discovered at that time. He
maintained that later, when the fossil record was
examined in detail, the missing intermediate

links would inevitably be found. Over the last
150 years, however, research has shown that
the hopes of Darwin and his successors were
all empty: Not a single intermediate form

fossil has ever been encountered.
There are now roughly 100 million
fossils in thousands of museums and
collections all over the world. All of

them are identifiable as species with
their own unique structures, dis-
Charles Doolittle Walcott tinguished from one another by

Charles Doolittle Walcott collected some 65,000 specimens of the oldest complex major anatomical differences.
life forms from the Burgess Shale region—and then perpetrated one of the worst sci- No fossil remains of any
entific frauds of all time. The fossils he found, belonging to life forms from the half-fish, half-amphibian,
Cambrian Period (543-490 million years), constituted major evidence that would to-
tally refute the theory of evolution, he concealed them for 70 years in the or half-dinosaur, half-
Smithsonian Museum, of which he was the director at the time. The fact that not a
single intermediate-form fossil has ever been unearthed in 150 years of excavations
forced Darwinists to perpetrate various frauds.

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