by Henry Morris, Ph.D.
…In recent years, creationists have delivered telling blows
against Darwinian paleontology by repeatedly citing the ubiquitous absence of
transitional forms in the fossil record.
Since
1859 one of the most vexing properties of the fossil record has been its
obvious imperfection.… The inability of the fossil record to produce the
'missing links' has been taken as solid evidence for disbelieving the theory.
Similarly, creationists have argued effectively against
uniformitarianism by pointing out the widespread evidence of catastrophism in
the ad" rocks and fossil beds of the geological column.
In fact,
the catastrophists were much more empirically minded than Lyell. The geologic
record does seem to require catastrophism: rocks are fractured and contorted;
whole faunas are wiped out. To circumvent this literal appearance, Lyell
imposed his imagination upon the evidence. The geologic record, he argued, is
extremely imperfect and we must interpolate into it what we can reasonably
infer but cannot see. The catastrophists were the hard-nosed empiricists of
their day, not the blinded theological apologists.
…So, all of a sudden, many—perhaps most—evolutionary
biologists are no longer claiming that natural selection was a major factor in
the development of basic categories of plants and animals. Many leading
evolutionary paleontologists are aggressively proclaiming the absence of
transitional forms in the fossil record, and many evolutionary geologists are
advocating a return to catastrophism in the study of the rocks!
What
creationists have been vigorously contending against heated denials,
evolutionists now cheerfully admit to have been true all along! (Emphasis added)
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