What conclusions have some evolutionists reached after studying the fossil record?
[L. Harrison Matthews] “The peppered moth experiments beautifully demonstrate natural selectionor survival of the fittestin action, but they do not show evolution in progress, for however the populations may alter in their content of light, intermediate or dark forms, all the moths remain from beginning to end biston betularia.”62 [Pierre-P. Grasse] “We are in the dark concerning the origin of insects.”63 (Dr. Grasse is considered the outstanding scientist of France, the dean of French zoologists.) [Louis L. Carroll] “Unfortunately, not a single specimen of an appropriate reptilian ancestor is known prior to the appearance of true reptiles. The absence of such ancestral forms leaves many problems of the amphibianreptilian transition unanswered.”64 [Jean L. Marx] “True birds have existed at least as long as archaeopteryx so that the latter could hardly have been their ancestor.”65 [Charles Darwin] “Nothing is more extraordinary in the history of the Vegetable Kingdom, as it seems to me,
