Gaps In The Fossil Record

Gaps In The Fossil Record

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:

1. the imagined jump from dead matter to living protozoans is a transition of truly fanciful dimensions, one of pure conjecture.
2. There is a gigantic gap between one-celled micro-organisms and the high complexity and variety of the metazoan invertibrates.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. There are no transitional forms between reptiles and mammals.
6. 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).
7. 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.”