What Do the Fossils Say?
Each basic kind of animal appears in the fossil record complete, with no ancestors in an incomplete form. All mammals, whether living or fossil, have three ear bones and a single bone in the lower jaw. All reptiles, living or fossil, have a single ear bone and at least four bones in the lower jaw. There are no in-between forms. We are told that mammals evolved from reptiles although the method by which they evolved has not been discovered. All 32 orders of mammals appear as distinct groups in lower Tertiary rock. The most highly specialized, the flying bats and swimming whales, appear at the beginning of the mammal explosion as fully developed and separate kinds. All fossils are of distinct types. For example, reptiles and mammals are just plain different, totally, and there is nothing in between. There is no fossil evidence of reptiles slowly turning into mammals over millions of years. All the fossils are of the same basic types that we still have, nothing in between. Fossils are of
