The Fossil Record does not Support Evolution

The fossil record ought in theory to be an excellent source of evidence for evolution. Given the claim that it is the record of hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary, it should show examples of the development of each species at every stage of the evolutionary process. But in fact, it does not. It is an embarrassment. Over the decades, paleontologists have admitted that the fossil record is woefully incomplete. The evolution tree that is proposed should be supported with actual fossil evidence. When we evaluate what has been found, one would have to conclude that the cupboard is bare. Millions upon millions of fossils have been collected to date, but there is no evidence of transition fossils, that is, fossils of organisms in an intermediate stage of development between steps on the evolutionary ladder. In actuality, the fossil record supports the idea of distinct and separate kinds, as proposed by Intelligent Design theorists and Creationists.

"As is now well known, most fossil species appear instantaneously in the record, persist for some millions of years virtually unchanged, only to disappear abruptly." (Tom Kemp, "A Fresh Look at the Fossil Record." New Scientist. Vol. 108: (Dec.5, 1985), p. 67.

“The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of the fossils."

"The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology—we fancy ourselves as the only true students of life’s history, yet to preserve our favoured account of evolution by natural selection, we view our data as so bad that we never see the very process we profess to study.”

“The history of most fossil species includes two features particularly inconsistent with gradualism: (1) Stasis - most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil record looking much the same as when they disappear; morphological change is usually limited and directionless; (2) Sudden appearance - in any local area, a species does not arise gradually by the steady transformation of its ancestors; it appears all at once and 'fully formed.’” (Stephen Jay Gould, "Evolution's Erratic Pace," in Natural History, May 1977, pp. 13, 14)

The above noted quotes are not given much consideration by those who promote evolutionary theory dogmatically as undisputed fact. The honest assessment of many these devout Darwinian scientists in the evolutionary establishment would be an immense embarrassment to their colleagues.