Ever hear of the fossil record? Lots and lots of transient fossils are available. Please see any textbook on biology, or any of the writings of Richard Dawkins or Stephen J. Gould.
If the (very strong) evidence of the fossil record does not convince, then nothing I say will convince either.
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Between every two ascending species there must be an almost infinite number of links, not just a dozen or so. The gradual specimens climbing up from a dinosaur to a feathered bird must number in the many thousands of steps with each step including many thousands of
individuals. According to evolution each upward step is the result of a mutation. Mutations are mistakes in the genetic code, like the abundance of cleft palate in the Philippine island of Cebu. A genetic mistake is of no advantage for survival in the environment in which it occurs, so the evolutionists say that the mutant somehow finds itself in a new environment where the mutation is an advantage to survival. This unlikely scenario must have been repeated millions of times. Our specimen racks are filled with many fossils with huge gaps between them. There ought to be a prodigious number of links between every two ascending species. There are few and these are questionable. Whenever an apparent one (to evolutionists) is found it makes headlines. It may as well be just another species that we didn't know about before.
David Raup, a paleontologist of the University of Chicago Field Museum, says:
Darwin predicted that the fossil record should show a reasonably smooth continuum of ancestor-descendant pairs with a satisfactory number of intermediates between major groups.
Darwin even went so far as to say that if this were not found in the fossil record, his general theory would be in serious jeopardy. Such smooth transitions were not found in Darwin' time, and he explained this in part on the basis of an incomplete geologic record and in part on the lack of study of that record. We are now more than a 100 years after Darwin and
little has changed.
Sir J. William Dawson, professor of Geo1ogy and Principal of McGill University, has stated the argument from geology very succinctly:
The record of the rocks is decidedly against evolutionists, especially in the abrupt appearance of new forms. Every grade of life was in its highest and best estate in the age when first introduced. Paleontology furnishes no evidence as to the actual transformation of one species into another.
One of the most objectionable habits of evolutionary teaching is that of presenting highly imaginative reconstructions in such a way that the uncritical would take them as realities. In webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Piltdown man was defined in such a way as to give no indication that the idea was theoretical (now known to be based on fraud). Neanderthal man
is always presented with his head thrust forward in the fashion of an ape, whereas it has lately been shown that he walked erect. Eohippus has everywhere been advanced as a transitional stage toward the horse. The Baroness Wentworth, a breeder of thoroughbred and Arab horses, writes of the exhibits of the horse in the American Museum of Natural History:
This pictorial Evolutionary series. . . . has been subjected to such wholesale fancy reconstruction of missing parts that, as presented to the public, its evidential value amounts to little more than that of a pictorial historical nov el.. . If we accept the reconstructions of Eohippus, his ribs were eighteen, Orohippus dropped to fifteen, P1iohippus jumped to
nineteen, and Equus Scotti is back to eighteen. Eohippus starts at six or seven lumbars, Orohippus shows eight and, some five million years later, Equus Scotti is back at six!" Doctor Austin Clark of the United States National Museum says that no matter how far back we go in the fossil record of previous animal life on earth we find no trace of any animal forms which are intermediate between the various major groups or phyla. When one considers the vast number of individuals presupposed by evolutionists to be in the many intermediate species, it is fair to suppose that some would have been found if they had been existent, what
with more than a hundred years of diligent search by the evolutionists themselves.
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Tyson, fossil record is so strong, that they had to "construct" Piltdown man - ever heard of it?
