Missing Links

“The known fossil record fails to document a single example of phyletic (gradual) evolution accomplishing a major morphologic transition and hence offers no evidence that the gradualistic model can be valid.”

―Steven Stanley, Microevolution

 

“Despite the tremendous increase in geological activity in every corner of the globe and despite the discovery of many strange and hitherto unknown forms, the infinitude of connecting links has still not been discovered and the fossil record is about as discontinuous as it was when Darwin was writing the Origin. The intermediates have remained as elusive as ever and their absence remains, a century later, one of the most striking characteristics of the fossil record. . . .There is no doubt that as it stands today the fossil record provides a tremendous challenge to the notion of organic evolution, because to close the very considerable gaps which at present separate the known groups would necessarily have required great numbers of transitional forms.”

―Michael Denton, M.D., Evolution: A Theory In Crisis

“If it is not the fossil record which is incomplete, then it must be the theory!”

―Professor Niles Eldredge (of the American Natural History Museum)

“Herein lies a powerful tautology, a circular argument.  The assumption of evolution is the basis upon which index fossils are used to date the rocks; and these same fossils are supposed to provide the main evidence for evolution.  The fossil record, itself based on the assumption of evolution, is interpreted to teach evolution.  By this sort of reckoning, the main evidence for evolution is the assumption of evolution.”

―Michael Pitman, (instructor of biology at Cambridge), Adam and Evolution