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Primitive plants to modern plants
"I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favour of special creation .... Can you imagine how an orchid, a duckweed, and a palm have come from the same ancestry, and have we the evidence for this assumption? The evolutionist must be prepared with an answer, but I think that most would break down before an inquisition." Professor E. J. H. Corner Evolution in Contemporary Botanical Thought - 1961 p.97
Single cells to invertebrates
The single greatest problem which the fossil record poses for Darwinism is the 'Cambrian explosion' of around 600 million years ago. The animal phyla appear in the rocks of this period without a trace of the necessary evolutionary ancestors.
"It is as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history. Richard Dawkins: as quoted by Phillip Johnson in Darwin on Trial 1991 p.54
Fish to amphibians
"There are no intermediate forms between finned and limbed creatures in the fossil collections of the world." Gordon Rattray Taylor: The Great Evolution Mystery - 1983 p.60
Amphibians to reptiles
"Unfortunately not a single specimen of an appropriate reptilian ancestor is known prior to the appearance of true reptiles." Robert L. Carroll: Problems of the Origin of Reptiles Biological Review of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1969 p.393
Reptiles to birds
"Feathers are features unique to birds, and there are no known intermediate structures between reptilian scales and feathers."
A. Feduccia: The Beginning of Birds - Jura Museum, Germany 1985 p.76
Perplexing Palaeontological Problems
1. Misplaced fossils: "Evolutionists believe, for example, that the land plants didn't appear until over 100 million years after the Cambrian trilobites died out. Yet over sixty genera of woody plants, spores, pollen, and wood itself have been recovered from lowest 'trilobite rock' (Cambrian) throughout the world. The evidence is so well known that it's even in standard college and biology text books. A botany textbook by
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