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A major problem in proving the theory has been the fossil record; the imprints of vanished species preserved
in the Earth's geological formations. This record has never revealed traces of Darwin's hypothetical interme-
diate variants—instead species appear and disappear abruptly, and this anomaly has fueled the creationist
argument that each species was created by God. 9

In his book The Neck of the Giraffe: Where Darwin Went Wrong, the well-known biologist Francis
Hitching says:

If we find fossils, and if Darwin's theory was right, we can predict what the rock should contain; finely grad-
uated fossils leading from one group of creatures to another group of creatures at a higher level of complex-
ity. The "minor improvements" in successive generations should be as readily preserved as the species
themselves. But this is hardly ever the case. In fact, the opposite holds true, as Darwin himself complained;

"innumerable transitional forms must have existed, but why do we not find them embedded in countless
numbers in the crust of the earth?" Darwin felt though that the "extreme imperfection" of the fossil record
was simply a matter of digging up more fossils. But as more and more fossils were dug up, it was found that
almost all of them, without exception, were very close to current living animals. 10

As stated by Darwin and the others quoted above, the fact that not a single intermediate form fossil
has been unearthed to date clearly reveals the invalidity of the theory of evolution. Because first of all,
had living things turned into other life forms, they should have left a large number of intermediate
forms during their transition process, and all around the world, the fossil record should be full of these
intermediate forms in various stages of evolution. The fact is, however, that of the 100 million or so
fossils unearthed so far, all belong to fully formed, complete life forms.

The fossil record shows that living species emerged instantaneously, with all
their different structures, and have remained unchanged over very long
geological periods. Stephen Jay Gould, the Harvard University pa-

leontologist and evolutionist, admitted this in these words:

The history of most fossil species includes two features particu-
larly inconsistent with gradualism:

If Darwinists' claims were true, then the fossil record should contain a
large number of very strange life forms with several eye sockets, noses in
different places, a jaw in the back as well as in the front, and abnormally
developed skulls, as pictured here. Yet no such fossil has ever been found
after 150 years of research. On the contrary, all the fossils unearthed to
date show that all living things have been flawless and fully formed since
the moment they first came into being, and never changed so long as they
existed.

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