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PLATED LOBSTER

Age: 95 million years

Period: Cretaceous
Location: Lebanon

The fossilized lobster pictured here, a member of the family Palinuridae, reveals that these crustaceans

have remained exactly the same for the last 95 million years. The way that species undergo no
changes over millions of years is referred to as "stasis," and this represents a major predicament for
evolutionists. Stephen Jay Gould, one of those evolutionists who has often stated that the fossil record
does not support the theory of evolution, said this on the subject in an article in Natural History mag-
azine in 1993:

"[S]tasis, or nonchange, of most fossil species during their lengthy geological lifespans was tacitly acknowl-
edged by all paleontologists, but almost never studied explicitly . . . [T]he overwhelming prevalence of sta-

sis became an embarrassing feature of the fossil record, best left ignored as a manifestation of nothing (that
is, nonevolution)." (Stephen Jay Gould, "Cordelia's Dilemma," Natural History, February 1993, pp. 10-18)

There is only one reason why evolutionists describe the stasis in the fossil record as an embarrass-
ment: That living things have never changed means the invalidation of the theory of evolution. This

fact, which demonstrates that evolution never happened, confirms the fact of Creation.

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