Does The Fossil Record Support Evolution?
It is commonly, but incorrectly, assumed that the fossil record confirms evolution. When Darwin developed the theory of evolution, there was not much of a fossil record. However Darwin was confident that when more fossils were found, that they would show the gradual changes from one species to another that his theory required. Darwin acknowledged that his theory implied that “the number of intermediate and transitional links, between all living and extinct species, must have been inconceivably great.” If evolution were true, there should be no problem finding hundreds of clear examples of in between species. In fact, the variety of species should blur one into another. However this is NOT what we see. For example Colin Patterson, a committed evolutionist and the senior paleontologist at the British Museum of Natural History which houses sixty million fossils, the world’s largest collection confessed, “If I had known of any [evolutionary transitions], fossil or living, I would certainly
