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Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin, and knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded...Ironically we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time......by this I mean that some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded or modified as a result of more detailed information.David Raup, Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology, Chicago Field Museum Bulletin, January 1979
...I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustrations of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them...Yet Gould and the American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils...I will lay it on the line - there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.Personal letter from Dr. Colin Patterson, Senior Paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History in London, to L. Sunderland
...the gradual change of fossil species has never been part of the evidence for evolution...Darwin showed that the record was useless for testing between evolution and special creation because it has great gaps in it. The same argument still applies...In any case, no real evolutionist, whether gradualist or punctuations, uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of the theory of evolution as opposed to special creation. Mark Ridley, New Scientist, 90:930, 1981
Established species are evolving so slowly that major transitions between genera and higher taxa must be occurring within small rapidly evolving populations that leave no legible fossil record. S. M Stanley, Macroevolution: Pattern and Process, p. 39
Scientists develop and adhere to theories for what are ultimately subjective and even irrational reasons and that modern scientists can be ...every bit the equal of ancient myth-tellers, troubadours and court jesters. Paul Feyerabend, in J. Horgan, The Worst Enemy of Science, Scientific American, 268(5), p. 37
Darwinian evolution impossible to observe. T. Dobzhansky
No single watertight transitional fossil known. C. Patterson
Mutation/Selection mechanism effectively dead. S. Gould
Evolutionist Colin Patterson, a former senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History, perhaps summed it up the best when he admitted that Archaeopteryx has simply become a patsy for wishful thinking. C. Patterson, in Darwin's Enigma by Luther D. Sunderland, p. 70, 1984
The origin of birds is largely a matter of deduction. There is no fossil evidence of the stages through which the remarkable change from reptile to bird was achieved. W.E. Swinton, Biology and Comparaitive Physiology, ed. A.J. Marshall, Academic Press, NY, Vol. 1, p.11
Unfortunately, the intermediate stages hardly ever seemed to exist in the fossil record (Huxley's later trumpeting about Archaeopteryx notwithstanding). M. Ridley, Nature, 286:444 (1980)
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