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A 150-million-year-old fossil brittlestar
showing that these echinoderms have Punctuated Equilibrium is a Major
not changed at all for millions of years.
Disappointment for Evolutionists

Today, the fictitious mechanism of punctuated equilibrium

has been totally discredited in scientific terms. It has been proved
that living things cannot evolve through the methods in question.
As Jeffrey Levinton from the State University of New York has
stated, there can be no way to test the theory of species formation

in question if it cannot be seen clearly in the fossil record. On
that basis, Levinton concluded that "the totality of the evi-
dence makes it a theory not worth following up." 48
This is of course true. The claim constituting the

foundation of the theory has been refuted scientifi-
cally. But the important fact is that the fossil record has
provided no evidence for punctuated equilibrium; on the con-
trary, it has demolished it. Millions of fossils in the record have

been in a state of "equilibrium" that the evolutionists claim to
have lasted for millions of years, as punctuated equilibrium sug-
gests. Yet for some reason, there is absolutely no trace of the inter-
vening evolution that—again according to the theory—should

have lasted for thousands of years, at least. The fossil record pro-
vides not one single example of the countless living things ex-
pected to have undergone evolution. Nor is there a single piece of
evidence to show how punctuated equilibrium might work.

As the result of their desperate situation, evolutionists try
to take one of the greatest proofs of the fact of Creation and
use it as a basis for evolution. This clearly demonstrates the
terrible position they are in!

How did such an inconsistent theory ever become so
popular? In fact, almost all the proponents of punctuated
equilibrium are paleontologists, who clearly see how the
fossil record refutes Darwinian theory.

This is why they are literally in a state of panic and

There is no difference between this 50-million-year-old
fossil trout-perches and specimens living today.

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