Brentwood Church of Christ

The fossil record has been a source of great misinformation over the years. Practically every evolutionist would like you to believe that there are hundreds of “transitional forms” found among the fossils that indicate a gradual evolution of life. Actually, just the opposite is true. The fossil record displays that same distinct life categories as what we see in the animal world around us. “Fifty million” year-old bats are still bats! Even Darwin himself understood that the fossil record was the most serious objection to his theory. In his chapter entitled, “On The Imperfection Of The Geologic Record”, he writes, “…intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic change, and this is perhaps the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory.”

Now more than 120 years later, nothing has changed. David Raup, a leading evolutionist and curator of the famous Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, which houses 20% of all fossil species known, writes in his 1979 article entitled “Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology”, “Most people assume that fossils provide a very important history of life. Unfortunately, this is not strictly true…Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin, and knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded…Ironically we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin’s time. By this I mean that some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded or modified as a result of more detailed information.” If this man in his position can see less transitional evidence than Darwin, the fossil record does not provide evidence for evolution. (Quotes taken from THE FACTS OF LIFE by Gary Parker, page 94-95)