- Darwin’s greatest challenge, The fossil record we find outlined in textbooks depicts the varied life forms, many of which are extinct, that have existed throughout the history of the earth.
- The common interpretation of the fossil record is largely a human construct that is used to support Darwin’s theory that life developed naturally from simple to complex forms without the assistance of a supernatural cause. You can find charts and pictures in almost any biology book depicting a gradual transition of one species to another: fish to amphibians, amphibians to reptiles, reptiles to mammals, and so on. These pictures and charts describe a consistent pattern of simple to complex fossil forms in the earth’s strata.
- But in real-life geology that pattern is not so consistent. The inconsistency between the charts and pictures and what is actually found in the strata is rarely acknowledged in textbooks or popular writings on evolution. So convinced are evolutionists that all life developed from its most simple forms to complex living creatures that they tend to exclude evidence that contradicts their conclusions.
- If evolution were the explanation for the teeming variety of life on Earth, we would surely find abundant evidence of the incalculable number of intermediary varieties that must have existed. Charles Darwin himself struggled with the fact that the fossil record failed to support his conclusions. “. . . Why, if species have descended from other species by fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? . . .
- Why do we not find them imbedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?” (The Origin of Species, 1958 Masterpieces of Science edition, pp. 136-137).“. . . The number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, [must] be truly enormous,” he wrote.
- “Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?
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