Primitive - Modern Plants
“Supposedly somewhere within the group called
algae the
sources of the higher plants, the
vascular groups. Whatever these ancestors may have been, they seem to
have been
irrevocably lost in the vastness of time”.
E.C Olson.
The Evolution of Life, New American Library, New York, 1965. Page 94.
“I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil records of
plants is in favour of special creation”.
Prof. E.J.H. Corner.
Evolution in Contemporary Botanical Thought, Quadrangle Books, Chicago,
1961, Page 97.
Single Cells - Invertebrates
“Most of the major groups of animals appear fully fledged
in the early
Cambrian rocks, and we know of no fossil forms linking them”.
Dr. Colin Patterson.
Evolution, British Museum of Natural History, 1978, Page 133.
“It
is as though they (the Cambrian invertebrates) were just
planted there, without any evolutionary history”.
Dr. Richard Dawkins.
Evolution in Contemporary Botanical Thought, Quadrangle Books, Chicago,
1961, Page 97.
Invertebrates - Fish
“All three subdivisions of the bony fishes first appear
in the fossil records at approximately at the same time...... why is
there no trace of earlier, intermediate forms”.
Gerald T Todd.
American Zoologist, Vol 24 (4) 1980 Page 757.
“Fossil remains, however, give no information on the origin of
the vertabrates”.
Encyclopaedia Britannica.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol 7, Page 567 (1976 Edition, Macropaedia).
Fish - Amphibians
“There are no intermediate forms between finned and limbed
creatures in the fossil collections of the world”.
Gordon Rattray Taylor.
The Great Evolution Mystery, Harper & Row, New York, 1983.
“Although this transition doubtless occurred over a period of
millions of years, there is no known fossil record of these stages”.
Dr. Kriag Adler.
Encyclopaedia of Reptiles & Amphibians, George, Allen & Unwin,
London, 1986, Page 4.
Amphibians - Reptiles
“Unfortunately not a single specimen of an appropriate
reptillian ancestor is known prior to the appearance of true reptiles”.
Robert L. Carroll.
Problems of the Origin of Reptiles, Biological Review of the Cambridge
Philosophical Society, July 1969, Page 393.
“The reptiles arose from amphibians of some kind, but the
details of their early are not clearly understood and current ideas
about them are in a state of flux”.
Angus d'A. Bellairs.
Reference. 8 Page 60.
Reptiles - Birds
“The origin of birds is largely a matter of deduction.
There is no fossil evidence of the stages through which this remarkable
change from reptile to to bird was achieved”.
W. E. Swinton.
Biology & Comparative Anatomy of Birds, Academic Press, New York,
Vol. 1, 1960, Page 1.
“Feathers are unique to birds, and there are no known
intermediate structures between reptilian scales and feathers”.
A. Feduccia.
The beginning of Birds, The Jura Museum, Eichstatt, Germany, 1985, Page
76.
CLAIMS THAT FOSSILS OF 'FEATHERS DINOSAURS' HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED HAVE NOT BEEN SUBSTANTIATED. ONE CALLED 'ARCHAEORAPTOR' REPORTED IN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC NOVEMBER 1999 WAS LATER EXPOSED AS A FRAUD. ALSO, THE FOSSIL 'ARCHAEOPTERYX' ONCE CLAIMED TO BE A 'MISSING LINK' IS NOW REGARDED BY ALMOST ALL AUTHORITIES AS A TRUE BIRD.
Reptiles - Mammals
“The transition to the first mammal, which probably happened in just one or, at most two lineages, is still an enigma”.
Roger Lewin.
Bones of Mammals' Ancestors Fleshed Out, 'Science' Vol 212, 1981,Page
1492.
“Nor is there any fossil evidence of any consequence about
their (the supposedly "primitive" monotremes) ancestors. So we have
virtually nothing to link these creatures to any group of fossil
reptiles”.
David Attenborough.
Life on Earth, Fontana/Collins, Glasgow, 1979, Page 207.
Land Mammals - Sea Mammals
“We have no certain knowledge of their origin (the
cetaceans), for the earliest known fossils from the Eocene are already
unmistakably whales”.
L. Harrison Matthews.
Natural History of the Whale, Page 23.
“We are ignorant of their terrestrial forebears (the cetaceans
and sirenians) and can not be sure of their place of origin”.
Prof. Alfred S Romer.
Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Chicago Press, 1966, Page 339.
Non-Flying Mammals - Bats
“All fossil bats, even the oldest, are clearly fully
developed bats, and so they shed little light on the transition from
their terrestrial ancestors”.
John E. Hill and James D. Smith.
Bats: A Natural History, British Museum of Natural History, 1984, Page
33.
“Unfortunately no fossils have yet been found of animals
ancestral to the bats”.
Richard Leakey.
Footnote in the Illustrated Origin of Species, abridged by R. Leakey,
Faber & Faber Ltd, 1979, Page 128.
Apes - Humans Beings
“Modern apes...have no yesterday, no fossil record. And
the true origin of modern humans - of upright, naked tool-making,
big-brained beings - is, if we are honest with ourselves, an equally
mysterious matter”.
Lyall Watson.
The Water People, Science Digest - May 1982, Page 44.
“It is very likely that no fossil humanoid yet found is on
the direct line of descendant to modern humans”.
JS Jones.
A Thousand and One Eves, Nature Vol 345 1990 p395-396.
Darwin - Denton
“The number of intermediate varieties which
have formerly existed must have been enormous. Why then is not every
geological formation full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly
does not reveal any such finely graduated chain; and this, perhaps is
the most serious objection which can be urged against my theory”.
Charles Darwin.
The Origin of Species - 1859.
“There is no doubt that as it stands today the fossil records
provides a tremendous challenge to the notion of organic evolution”.
Dr. Michael Denton.
Evolution: a Theory in Crisis, Burnett Books, 1985, Page 172.
L. John Boye - Mary Johnson
“I know that evolution is true, in fact I saw a program all about it on TV last night, how we used to be small mammals like mice and evolved into
humans over millions of years. Everyone
believes in evolution!”
John Boye.
Market Trader, London, 2006, My Diary Page 56.
“I heard it just after the BBC news, just after they
explained how Iraq could bomb us with chemical weapons in 45 minutes,
scientists explained it, and they never make mistakes. Its been proven,
hasn't it? Anyway the BBC wouldn't allow it if it wasn't a fact.”
Mary Johnson.
Accountant, Norwich, Norfolk, 2007, My Diary Page 61.