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EVOLUTIONISTS' INTERMEDIATE-FORM DILEMMA

As you have seen, evolutionists appeal to the fossil record to confirm their claims that living species
evolved gradually from one another. Yet even though 99% of the fossil record has been unearthed and
catalogued, they still do not have a single piece of evidence to support the claim of evolution. For that
reason, some evolutionists have attempted to manufacture their own fossils as alleged evidence for their

theories, though subsequently these "remains" have been exposed as either hoaxes or distorted misinter-
pretations.
Fossils in the Earth's strata confirm the fact that all life forms have existed in their original perfect
state ever since they were first created. The Glasgow University professor of palaeontology T. Neville

George expressed this many years ago:

There is no need to apologize any longer for the poverty of the fossil record. In some ways it has become al-
most unmanageably rich, and discovery is outpacing integration … The fossil record nevertheless continues
to be composed mainly of gaps. 7

The paleontologist Niles Eldredge describes the invalidity of Darwin's blaming the insufficient na-
ture of the fossil record for why no intermediate forms had been found:

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

Many people have the mistaken impression that there is a positive correlation between the fossil
record and Darwin's theory—a misconception that was explained in an article in Science magazine:

A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evo-
lutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately
EVOLUTIONISTS' FALSE EVIDENCE gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more

Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the over-
The fossils that evolutionists present as evidence, in the face of millions simplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level
of genuine fossils, consist of outright hoaxes, distortions, sleight of hand textbooks, semi-popular articles, and so on. Also, there

and deception. For example: is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the
years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find pre-
ALSE
- "Piltdown Man," strongly de- F FALSE dictable progressions. In general these have not been
fended by Darwinists for found yet the optimism has died hard, and some pure
many years and portrayed for fantasy has crept into textbooks. 9
40 years as major evidence of
evolution everywhere from the The American palaeontologist S. M. Stanley
newspapers to school textbooks Piltdown Man describes how the truth revealed by the fossil
is one example of such a hoax. record is ignored by the Darwinist mind-set that
Piltdown Man never actually existed at dominates the scientific world, which causes oth-
all. The "fossil" consisted of a recently deceased orangutan's jawbone ers to ignore it, as well:

being added onto a human cranium.
- "Nebraska Man" was depicted as evidence of evolution by evolution- The known fossil record is not, and never has been, in
ists on the basis of a single tooth—which actually belonged to a wild accord with gradualism. What is remarkable is that,

American pig!
- The fossils in the fabricated "family tree" known as the Horse Series through a variety of historical circumstances, even
the history of opposition has been obscured. ... as the
actually consisted of wholly independent species that lived at differ- biological historian William Coleman has recently
ent times and in different areas of the world.
- The fossil Ramapithecus and the Australopithecus series actually con- written, 'The majority of paleontologists felt their ev-
sisted of extinct species of ancient apes, which fossils were illustrated idence simply contradicted Darwin's stress on

minute, slow, and cumulative changes leading to
in a totally misleading manner,
- And the illustrations presented by Ernst Haeckel as a basis for his the- species transformation.' ... their story has been sup-
sis that the developing embryo in the womb repeated the supposed pressed. 10
stages of evolution were fraudulent. This all left Darwinists with noth-

ing with which to defend their theories.

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