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CENTIPEDE
Age: 45 million years
Period: Eocene
Location: Russia
A centipede that lived 45 million years ago exhibits perfect characteristics that are indistinguish-
able from those of modern-day specimens. If living specimens provide no evidence that evolution
ever happened, if no evidence of any intermediate form has ever been unearthed, this shows that
the fossil record refutes the theory of evolution. As in all other branches of science, the theory of
evolution has been completely discredited by the fossil record as revealed by paleontology. Many
evolutionists admit the truth of this, as does Stephen Jay Gould:
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology .
. . We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of
evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we never see the very process we profess
to study. (S. J. Gould, "Evolution's Erratic Pace," Natural History, Vol. 86, No. 5, p. 14, May 1977.)
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