Gaps In The Fossil Record

According t the general hypothesis of evolution, the basic progression

of life leading to man was in the following manner:

1. Non-living matter

2. Protozoans

3. Metazoan invertibrates

4. Vertebrate fishes

5. Amphipbians

6. Reptiles

7. Birds

8. Fur-bearing quadrupeds

9. Apes

10. Man

Now, it is perfectly logical and reasnonable to expect that we should

find vast numbers of transitional forms objectively preserved in the

fossil record. This, however, is not the case and the supposed

transitional forms between the major groups are missing in every case.

Consider the following IMMENSE GAPS:

a. the imagined jump from dead matter to living protozoans is a

transition of truly fanciful dimensions, one of pure conjecture.

b. There is a gigantic gap between one-celled micro-organisms and the

high complexity and variety of the metazoan invertibrates.

c. The evolutionary transition between invertibrates is completely

missing. This is absolutely incredible since evolutionist propse 100

million years of developemental time between the two, which would have

involved billions of transitional forms. Yet, not one such transtional

form has ever been found.

d. The evolutionary advance from fishes to amphibians is totally

nonexistent. the evolution of fishes into amphibians supposedly too

about 30 million years, and yet, no one has been able to produce evn one

fishbian. The coelacanth was once cited as an intermediate, but has been

subsequently disqualified. Instead of being extinct for millions of

years, the coelacanth was discovered to be still very much alive in

1938.

f. There are no transitional forms between reptiles and mammals.

g. There are no connecting evolutionary links between reptiles and

birds. Archaeopteryx was once highly acclaimed as such a link but has

since been acknowldeged as a bird (or a fraud).

h. There are no intermediate or transitional forms leading up to man

from an apelike ancestor. Fossil hominoids and homonids cited by

evolutionists to demonstrate human evolution are actually fossils either

of apes or men, or neither. There is not valid scientific evidence to

suggest that they are fossils of animals intermediate between apes and

men.

In an attempt to explain the lack of transitional forms, some

evolutionits have now proposed the idea that evolution occurs via sudden

large gaps rather than through gradual small modifications. This concept

known as punctuated equilibrium, has been advanced by paleontologists

Gould and Eldrige.

This concept has also been termed the

"hopeful monster" mechansim by Goldschmidt who proposes that at one time

a reptile laid an egg, maintaining that such ideas are pure speculation,

completely devoid of any scientific evidence.

The fossil record reveals a sudden appearance of highly diverse and

complex forms with no evolutionary ancestors, demonstrates fixity of

kinds, is devoid of the all-important transitional forms, and provides

sufficient justification for rejection of the evolutionary hypothesis.

These facts are, however, in complete agreement with the expectations of

the the Creation Model. The rocks do indeed proclaim, "Creation!"

George T. Neville remarks in "Fossils In Evolutionary Perspective,"

Science Progress, vol.48

"There is no need to apologize any longer for the poverty of the

fossil record. In come ways it ha become almost unmanageably

rich, and discovery is outpacing integration...The fossil record

nevertheless continues to be composed mostly of gaps."

It' not the rocks, it's the "Rock of Ages."