Evolution and Missing Links

                                                                                                                    Vol. XII, No. 10, Nov/Dec 1999

[The following is excerpted from Refuting Evolution by Jonathan Sarfati, pp. 47-8. This is an excellent, brief, readable book. Highly recommended. Order by calling 800-778-3390. TCP]

Charles Darwin was worried that the fossil record did not show what his theory predicted:

Why is not every geological formation full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory.

Is it any different today? The late Dr. Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist of the British Museum of Natural History, wrote a book, Evolution. In reply to a questioner who asked why he had not included any pictures of transitional forms, he wrote:

I fully agree with your comments about the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them.... I will lay it on the line - there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.

The renowned evolutionist (and Marxist) Stephen Jay Gould wrote:

The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution.