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| Q30 | "Firstly, why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined?" Charles R. Darwin, The Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, first edition reprint Avenel Books, p. 205 | A quotation taken out of context. Read the original. | misrepresentation |
| Q31 | "But, as by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?" Charles R. Darwin, The Origin of Species, Ch 6, p134 | A quotation taken out of context. Read the original. | misrepresentation |
| Q32 | "Instead of revealing a multitude of transitional forms through which the evolution of the cell might have occurred, molecular biology has served only to emphasize the enormity of the gap. We now know not only of the existence of a break between the living and non-living world, but also that it represents the most dramatic and fundamental of all the discontinuities of nature. Dr. Denton, Ph.D (Molecular Biology), An evolutionist currently doing biological research in Sydney, Australia | 'Dr. Denton' is not an 'evolutionist'. He is a creationist hiding under the label of Intelligent Design. | misrepresentation |
| Q33 | "Yet Gould and the American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils. As a paleontologist myself, I am much occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record. Dr. Colin Patterson, Senior Palaeontologist, British Museum of Natural History, London "Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems," [1984], Master Book Publishers: El Cajon CA, Fourth Edition, 1988, p89 | One of the most infamous
examples of a quotation taken out of context and used to imply a meaning
diametrically opposed to the views of the originator. Please note that the author of "Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems" is NOT Colin Paterson, but Luther Sunderland. I don't know if this is a deliberate deception or simply poor research. |
misrepresentation |
| Q34 | The more scientists have searched for the transitional forms between species, the more they have been frustrated." Newsweek, November 3, 1980 | Newsweek? It's not even a scientific magazine, let alone an authoritative source on evolutionary theory! | irrelevant |
| Q35a | Breaking up the
quote "We now come to perhaps the most serious of defects in the evolutionary theory (belief) - the complete absence of transitional forms. |
Not true, as demonstrated above | FALSE |
| Q35b | If life has always been in a continual stream of transmutation from one form to another, as evolutionists insist, then we should certainly expect to find as many fossils of the intermediate stages between different forms as of the distinct kinds themselves. | We do. | FALSE |
| Q35c | Yet, no fossils have been found that can be considered transitional between the major groups or phyla! | There are. Archaeopteryx is just such a fossil | FALSE |
| Q35d | From the beginning, these organisms were just clearly and distinctly set apart from each other as they are today. | Not so. There is a lot of ambiguity in the fossil record. | FALSE |
| Q35e | Instead of finding a record of fine graduations preserved in the fossil record, we invariably find large gaps. | There are many case of fine gradations in the fossil record | FALSE |
| Q35f | This fact is absolutely FATAL to the general theory (belief) of evolution."Scott M. Huges. PH.D | Not is is not. Evolutionary theory does not rely on the fossil record for primary evidence. | FALSE |
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