Evolution must surely stand or fall on the fossil records. If living things evolved step by step then there should be millions and millions of fossils of intermediate creatures.

That is, the creatures that have arisen with more complex beneficial mutated genes; the creatures that show millions and millions of transitional stages between one species and the next. Where are these intermediate creatures ? Where are the millions of intermediate fossils of transitional reptiles evolving into birds? There should be millions more fossils of transitional creatures than fossils of the perfected species - There is not one ! Never has a fossil been found of any intermediate transitional creature. The fossil record shows perfected kinds of species with awesome variation and unbridgeable gaps separating the kinds.


Let us suppose for the moment that the earth is indeed as old as it is said to be - 4.5 billion years. According to the fossils in the rocks, life began suddenly in the Cambrian period about five hundred million years ago. The rocks older than the Cambrian show absolutely no signs of life; nothing except some vague markings which evolutionists claim are signs of pre-Cambrian life, but they are controversial and extremely few. Whereas there should be an immense fossil record of earlier life, evolving for a thousand million years before that Cambrian explosion of life. Evolution depends upon a great pre-Cambrian fossil record and the truth is it has never been found, except for a few vague, disputable markings. Except for this controversial minority, the Pre-Cambrian rocks are barren and lifeless.

In the Cambrian rock immediately above them, fossils appear suddenly and by the millions. Suddenly there is an explosion of teeming life and these are highly specialised creatures sharply divided into species, genera and families. The earliest fossils are absolutely disastrous for the theory of evolution. Darwin himself admitted that this could be an objection to his theory. After the Cambrian period, new groups of species appear in the rock from time to time. However, every time a new species or kind appears, even creatures like the great long neck, the most gigantic fossil ever found, it appears suddenly; fully perfect and with no link to any previous kind. There are no fossils of any transitional creatures.

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs are the artists' symbol of evolution and yet dinosaurs totally contradict evolution. The great dinosaurs simply appeared from nowhere. They had their period and they disappeared mysteriously. The dinosaur fossils that have been found are in extremely good condition for their supposed age and yet no transitional dinosaur fossils have ever been found. Where are they?

Tyrannosaurus Rex was the king; fifty feet long, twenty feet high with six-inch teeth. Even larger were the long necks.

    

Diplodocus was ninety feet long. He would need three semi trailers to spread himself out. His feet supported thirty tons.

Brachiosaurus was gigantic. Even if you climbed a tree forty feet high, Brachiosaurus could have lifted his head and looked you right in the eye. His feet carried fifty tons. The dinosaurs were colossal and they left colossal fossils. There are no colossal fossils of something evolving into dinosaurs.

The Pterosaurs pose a worse problem. These were the flying reptiles with magnificent leathery wings. However, there is an infinite gulf between these and any other reptiles. They came in various sizes. The smallest was no bigger than a sparrow whilst the largest had a wingspan of twenty-five feet - the size of an F15 Fighter Jet. They have no ancestors. The first specimen was a perfect Pterosaurs. They are such a problem that one evolution book admits "all in all we should have had many fewer problems if the Pterosaurs had never existed."

If we turn to living creatures again we will find no evidence for evolution. Living creatures prove quite clearly that species do not change no matter how long the supposed time span.

Using the supposed time span of these millions of years, there is a dragonfly species still with us after sixty million years. The Australian Lung-Fish has not changed in two hundred and twenty million years; spiders are unchanged in three hundred million years; cockroaches and silverfish show no change in three hundred and fifty million years.



Turtles have been turtles for two hundred and fifty million years. Turtles have an incredible skeleton. They live inside boxes and their limb girdles are inside the rib cage. That should mean millions of years of evolving. We should find millions of quarter turtles then half turtles and so on... We don't! The very first turtles were perfect turtles. There is not one fossil of any transitional or pre-turtle.
'Coelacanth' fish that defied evolution for 70 million years.

The Coelacanth fish was recorded as having become extinct seventy million years ago. However, in 1938 a fisherman hauled up a Coelacanth alive and kicking. This, to the evolutionist, is tantamount to a dinosaur walking across the highway. Since then, more Coelacanths have been caught alive, exactly as they were when the last Coelacanth fossil was laid down seventy million years ago. If I tell you that a branch of the Coelacanth family was supposed to turn into an amphibian, you will know that a Coelacanth should have evolution in its blood. It has defied evolution for seventy million years.

In summary, living creatures are living evidence against evolution while extinct creatures present a record of unbridgeable gaps.

The immense gaps in the fossil record worried world renowned Professor Goldschmidt, who was an eminent geneticist and complete evolutionist. Goldschmidt finally admitted that evolution could not have happened by a slow and gradual change. Rather than admit evolution to be a complete farce, he proposed that it must have happened in very large jumps.

Thus was born the theory of the 'hopeful monster.' Goldschmidt proposed that - on occasion, a creature would produce an offspring totally different from its parents not only in appearance, but in actual species. The fossil record is a fatal impediment towards the theory of evolution.

The Horse Series

The prize exhibit used to sell evolution is the horse theory. Douglas Dewar said that he had seen twenty pedigrees of the horse, and every one of them different. At the bottom of the horse series is the Eohyppus and at the top lies the Equus.

An inherent weakness lies within this series:- there is no evidence whatsoever of a relationship; no connection of one specimen or one link with the next. Each link in the horse theory is isolated. These are extinct animals found in different parts of the world, and they are quite likely of different species and genera. At the bottom is the little Eohyppus, about the size of a fox with several toes on each foot; Eohyppus - the dawn horse. Was Eohyppus a horse at all? On the evidence - NO! Several evolutionists, including eminent professor Gaylord Simpson have admitted that Eohyppus could just as easily be regarded as the ancestor of other kinds of animals, like the Rhinosaurus, instead of the ancestor of the horse.

The horse theories can also be rebuked on the dating of the specimens. In fact, Dr. G.A. Kerkut of the dept. of Physiology and Biochemistry of Southampton University, himself an evolutionist, has openly questioned the dating of these fossils. If the dating is wrong then the whole theory is worthless.

Dr. Kerkut has also advised us that the text book pictures of the horse family are imaginative, drawn from the artists imagination. Dr. Kerkut says that the pictures rely on 'faith, rather than evidence'.

Nobody knows where Equus came from. Equus has been given different ancestors from different authorities. This shows that his ancestry is unknown.

Finally, fossils of the modern Equus have now been found, dating back to the same time as Eohyppus, our first dawn horse. Equus and Eohyppus both living at the same time! Do we have to say more?

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