Creation vs Evolution ♦ Fossils

Transitional fossils

Evolutionary model assumes that everything we see today is the result of a continuous set of changes that have produced new species from the existing ones, more evolved than their predecessors. And even since Darwin’s time, the predictions were strongly related to finding transitions between species in the fossil record. If millions and millions of organisms have slowly evolved new features, this means that their remains should have been found in the fossil record.

But contrary to this prediction, the fossil record tells a completely different story. Instead of transitions between species, the evidence displayed by the fossils is that new species appear suddenly and fully formed. Even more, it is well known that the fossil record documents a few “explosions” when not only a few, but a large number of complex new plants and animals appear suddenly without any indication of transitions or ancestors. However, evolutionists still think that those “missing links” will be someday uncovered and finally their theory would be proven.

One of the most important transitions assumed by the evolutionists is the one that has produced birds out of dinosaurs. Even though there is no evidence in the fossil record for the transformation of dinosaur legs into bird wings, the evolutionists still affirm that this is what has actually happened. They consider that the forelimbs of some dinosaurs evolved into longer forelimbs until they became wings. And also hindlimbs have been shortened until they have got the size and the shape of bird legs.

This story is very interesting but hard to prove. Not only that the fossil record does not display those transitions, but also it is hard to explain these innovations in terms of genetic information.

Sometimes, species that share some common characteristics with other species, are considered as “transition species” by the evolutionists. For example, the evolution from land animals to wales is proved by the evolutionists by a series of animals, chosen and arranged by themselves in a desired order. They start with a few semi-aquatic animals like Pakicetus (a fully terrestrial animal like a wolf), continue with Ambulocetus and other semi-aquatic animals related to seals, sea lions and walruses. Then, they continue with full-aquatic animals like Basilosaurus and Dorudon that were related to wales. So, the transition forms are actually animals chosen in a certain order, with large morphological gaps between them.

Something similar happens with the evolution of turtles and their shells. Instead of real transitions, the evolutionists have published a list of different turtle species that once lived. And the order of their arrangement is said to be proof of their evolution.

But the fossil record does not have proof for the evolving process itself. If the transitions are real, then the fossil record should contain a lot of intermediate creatures between the species, which doesn’t happen. There are large morphological gaps between the species, even for those that are called “transitions”. The only thing we can be sure of is that there were animals with common traits that lived at the same time.

By reading the following articles, you will be able to understand that there are no real transitions between species and all “so called transitions” are more or less human imagination. Species appear in the fossil record suddenly and fully formed, and they appear like that not because they lived in different ages, but because they were buried at different stages of the Flood.