Palaeontological Evidence(continued)

Hammering the Point Home:
Where are the transitions?

Richard Milton, a scientific journalist who does 'not hold any religous convictions' (p.294) and therefore has no creationist axe to grind, wrote a book entitled The Facts of Life (1992) in which he devastatingly 'shatters the myths of Darwinism'. He writes: "A case for Darwinism would be made convincingly if someone were to produce a sequence of fossils from a sequence of adjacent strata .... showing indisputable signs of progressive change on the same basic stock .... Even better would be a long sequence - eight or ten or twenty successive fossils - showing major generic evolution, but a short sequence would be enough."
"But this simple relationship is not what is shown in the sequence of the rock. Nowhere in the world has anyone met this simple evidential criterion with a straight forward fossil sequence from successive strata. Yet there are so many billions of fossils available from so many thousands of strata that the failure to meet this modest demand is inexplicable if evolution has taken place in the way that Darwin and his followers have envisaged. It ought to be relatively easy to assemble not merely a handful but hundreds of species arranged in lineal descent. Primary school children should be able to do this on an afternoon's nature study trip to the local quarry: but even the world's foremost palaeontologists have failed to do so with the whole Earth to choose from and the resources of the world's greatest universities at their disposal." - p.133
"Despite the bright promise that palaeontology provides a means of 'seeing' evolution, it has presented some nasty difficulties for evolutionists, the most notorious of which is the presence of 'gaps' in the fossil record. Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them." David Kitts - 1974 Professor of Geology at the        University of Oklahoma, quoted by Dr. D. Gish: Evolution:.. p.241
"Without intermediates or transitional forms to bridge the enormous gaps which separate existing species and groups of organisms, the concept of evolution could never be taken seriously as a scientific hypothesis." Dr. Michael Denton
molecular biologist and medical doctor, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis (1986) p.158

Weighing up the Evidence

Let us invite onto the witness stand, one or two authorities, all evolutionists, to testify what they know about the 'transitional stages' between various life forms.

Introduction

A Case for Creation

Astronomy

Geology

Palaeontology

Palaeontology 2

Palaeontology 3

Palaeontology 4

Palaeontology 5

Palaeontology 6

Palaeontology 7

Palaeontology 8

Palaeontology 9

Biology

Physics

Dating

Statistics

Creation

The Flood

Implications

'Missing believed Non-existent'

"If life had evolved into a wonderful profusion of creatures little by little, Dr. Niles Elderudge argues, then one would expect to find fossils of transitional creatures which were a bit like what went before them and a bit like what came after. But no one has yet found any evidence of such transitional creatures. This oddity has been attributed to gaps in the fossil record which gradualists expected to fill when rock strata of the proper age had been found. In the last decade, however, geologists have found rock layers of all divisions of the last 500 million years and no transitional forms were contained in them."

Where does it all lead?

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