Are you again saying that there are no transitional forms? I gave a series of transitional forms for the whale. Ambulocetus is a good example of a transitional form
(N.B. ALL FOLLOWING QUOTATIONS ARE FROM EMINENT EVOLUTIONISTS:) PRIMITIVE - MODERN PLANTS MISSING "Supposedly somewhere within the group called algae lay the sources of the higher plants, the vascular groups. Whatever these ancestors may have been, they seem to have been irrevocably lost in the vastness of time" - Everette C Olson (The evolution of life, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 155).
.....I think that, to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favour of special creation - Prof E.J.H.Corner (Evolution in Contemporary Botanical Thought, A.M. Macleod and L.S. Cobley).
SINGLE CELLS - INVERTEBRATES MISSING "There is still a tremendous problem with the sudden diversification of multi-cellular life. There is no question about that. That's a real phenomenon" - Niles Elderedge (Quoted in Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other problems, by Luther D.Sunderland, Master book Publishers, Santee, California, p.45).
....extensive searches by palaeontologists have failed to reveal the Precambrian strata rich in fossils of multicellular animals (the ancestors of the many Cambrian animals) which Darwin believed must somewhere exist" - Richard E. Leakey (Same as Ref 18, p.163).
FISH - AMPHIBIANS MISSING ...there are no intermediate forms between finned and limbed creatures in the fossil collections of the world" - Gordon Rattray Taylor (The Great Evolution Mystery).
"Although this transition (from fish to amphibian) doubtless occurred over a period of millions of years, there is no known fossil record of these stages" - Kraig Adler (Encylopedia of Reptiles and Amphibians, Equinox, Oxford, p.4.).
AMPHIBIANS - REPTILES MISSING "Unfortunately, not a single specimen of an appropriate reptilian ancestor is known prior to the appearance of true reptiles" - Robert L. Carroll (Problems of Origin of Reptiles, Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosphical Society, p393.)
"The reptiles arose from amphibians of some kind, but the details of their early history are not clearly understood and current ideas about them are in a state of flux" - Angus d'A. Bellairs (Encylopedia of Reptiles & Amphibians, Equinox, Oxford p.60)
REPTILES - BIRDS MISSING "The origin of birds is largely a matter of deduction. There is no fossil evidence of the stages through which the remarkable change from reptile to bird was achieved" - W.E. Swinton (Chapter 1, in Biology & Comparative Physiology of Birds, A.J. Marshall (editor), Academic Press, New York, Vol 1, p.1.)
"Feathers are unique to birds and no known structure intermediate between scales and feathers has been identified" - J. Alan Feduccia (The Age of Birds, Harvard University Press, p.52).
REPTILES - MAMMALS MISSING "The transition to the first mammal, which probably happened in just one or, at most, two lineages, is still an enigma" - Roger Lewin (Bones Of Mammals, ancestor Fleshed Out. Science Vol 212, p.1492)
"Nor is there any fossil evidence of any consequences about their (the echidna and platypus) ancestors. So we have virtually nothing to help us link these creatures to any group of fossil reptiles" - David Attenborough (Life on Earth: A natural History, Reader's Digest/Collins, London, p.238).
LAND MAMMALS - SEA MAMMALS MISSING ....."we have no certain knowledge of their origin (the cetaceans), for the earliest-known fossils from the Eocene are already unmistakably whales and we can only guess at their evolutionary history by inference" - L. Harrison Mathews (The Natural History Of the Whale, Columbia Uni, Press, New York, p.23).
"we are ignorant of their terrestrial forebears (cetaceans and sirenians) and cannot be sure of their place of origin" - Alfred Sherwood Romer (vertebrae Paleontology, University of Chicago Press, p.339).
NON-FLYING MAMMALS - BATS MISSING ....."all fossil bats, even the oldest, are clearly fully developed bats and so they shed little light on the transition from their terrestrial ancestor" - John E. Hill andJames D. Smith (Bats: A natural History, Rigby Publishers, Adelaide, p.33).
"unfortunately no fossils have yet been found of animals ancestral to the bats. - Richard E. Leakey (Footnote in The Illustrated Origin of Species, abridged by R.E. Leakey, Faber and Faber Ltd London, p.128).
APES - HUMAN BEINGS MISSING "Modern apes, for instance, seem to have sprung out of nowhere. They have no yesterday, no fossil record. And the true origin of modern humans - of upright, naked, toolmaking, big-brained beings - is, if we are to be honest with ourselves, an equally mysterious matter" - Lyall Watson ('The Water People', Science Digest Vol 90, May 1982 p.44)
"Amid the bewildering array of early fossil hominoids, is there one of whose morphology marks it is man's hominid ancestor? If the factor of genetic variability is considered, the answer appears to be no'. ('Population genetics and human origins', Scientific American, Vol 226, p.94).
THE EVOLUTIONISTS' DILEMMA "Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assurely does not reveal any such finely-graduated organic chain' and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory" - Charles Darwin , Origin of Species, 6th ed., ch 10, para. 1). "the evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is interence, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils" - Stephen J.Gould, Natural History, Vol 86, No. 5, p.4).
Ever since Charles Darwin wrote in his 'Origin of Species in 1859, evolutionists have been searching for the transitional fossils which his theory demands. But although millions of fossils have been discovered and identified, those 'missing links' have not turned up. This presents evolutionists with a dilemma: did evolution take place graudally? or did it happen at all? Evolutionists are bitterly divided, with some clinging to Darwin's gradualistic theory, and other suggesting a new theory - punctuated equilibrium - meaning that evolution proceded in 'jumps', leaving no transitional forms. The problem wtih this new theory is that, like the Darwinian theory, there is no evidence to support it!
However, there is an explanation which fits the facts perfectly - the biblical account of special creation! The book of Genesis records that living things came into existence through acts of creation (Genesis chapter one). There is potential for wide variation within these 'kinds', but there are strict boundary lines between the types which cannot be crossed. Thousands of scientists have rejected evolution entirely and become creationists, and many ofthem have written books and papers demonstrating the superiority of the creationist view over all theories of evolution.
Recommended reading"
Stones and Bones (E. Wieland)
Refuting Evolution (Jonathon Sarfati)
