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bird, or half-ape, half-human—forms so eagerly awaited by evo-
lutionists—have ever been discovered.
The paleontologist Niles Eldredge and the anthropologist Ian

Tattersall, both from the American Museum of Natural History,
state that the fossil record is perfectly adequate in order to under-
stand the history of life—, and that this record in no way sup-
ports the theory of evolution:

That individual kinds of fossils remain recognizably the same

throughout the length of their occurrence in the fossil record had
been known to paleontologists long before Darwin published his
Origin. Darwin himself, ... prophesied that future generations of
paleontologists would fill in these gaps by diligent search ... One

hundred and twenty years of paleontological research later, it has
become abundantly clear that the fossil record will not confirm
this part of Darwin's predictions. Nor is the problem a miserably
poor record. The fossil record simply shows that this prediction

is wrong. 5
As these evolutionist scientists make clear, it is quite possi-

ble to see the true history of life in the fossil record—but there
are no intermediate forms in that history.
Other scientists agree that no intermediate forms exist. For
example, Rudolf A. Raff, director of the Indiana University

Molecular Biology Institute, and the Indiana University re-
searcher Thomas C. Kaufman have declared:

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 6
The fossil record has even preserved the microscopic re-

mains of bacteria that lived billions of years ago. Yet despite
this, not a single fossil belonging to any of these fictitious tran-
sitional life forms have ever been found. There are fossils be-
longing to thousands of different life forms, from ants to

bacteria, and from birds to flowering plants. Fossils belonging
to extinct plants and animals have been preserved so perfectly
that we can establish the structures of extinct life forms that we
never see alive today. The absence of

even one single intermediate-form speci-
men, despite the fossil record being so
rich, does not indicate that the fossil
record is lacking. Rather, it shows the in-

validity of the theory of evolution.

New specimens of fossils are constantly being un-
earthed all over the world. The number of fossils so
far discovered exceeds 100 million. Scientific insti-
tutions and academies examine these fossils in de-
tail. Yet as a result of all these endeavors, not a
single intermediate life form that might represent
evidence for evolution has ever been found.

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