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HORSECHESTNUT LEAVES

Age: 58 million years

Period: Paleocene
Location: Sentinel Butte Formation, Central North Dakota, USA

The fossil record is one of the main findings that devastate the theory of evolution—and the ma-
jority of scientists are aware of this. For example N. Eldredge and I. Tattersall make the following
comment:

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 abun-
dantly clear that the fossil record will not confirm this part of Darwin's predictions [Emphasis added]. Nor is the

problem a miserably poor record. The fossil record simply shows that this prediction is wrong. (N.
Eldredge and I. Tattersall, The Myths of Human Evolution, New York: Columbia University Press, 1982,
pp. 45-46.)

One of the fossils revealing that Darwin was wrong is this 58-million-year-old fossilized horsech-
estnut leaf.

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