Fossils do NOT point to evolution

Originally posted on August 25, 2007 – by Andre Piet

Yesterday I read an excellent article in the Nederlands Dagblad (Dutch newspaper) about fossils and geological layers. A rock-solid piece, in other words… Below are a few quotes:

We are now nearly one hundred and fifty years into feverishly searching for transitional forms in the geological layers. And it turns out these transitional forms simply do not exist. The famous paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould doesn’t beat around the bush: “The fossil record shows us very little, and probably no example at all of gradual transitions… Most, if not all, classical examples are simply incorrect. In fact, the record of the strata is a bewildering manifestation of nothing, that is, of non-evolution.”

From an evolutionary point of view, it is truly a complete mystery how all these land animals developed from the sea creatures of the underlying Devonian. For it is impossible to explain how the very complex and specialized body structures of dragonflies and flies could ever have originated from marine ancestors (mollusks, corals, sea lilies, squids). (…) These animals suddenly appear in the geological layers, without a trace of evolutionary ancestors to be found.

The fossils in the rocks are therefore a model of discontinuity. There are no gradual transitions between species, let alone between larger groups of animals and plants. This fundamental geological fact has two consequences. It shows that the theory of evolution has degenerated into a dogmatic straitjacket, a filter on knowledge, a tunnel vision. This theory functions like the fairy tale of the emperor’s new clothes: you are supposed to see things that are not there.

In addition, the fossils actually point in the direction of special creation of the larger groups of organisms. Precisely as is emphatically (nine times) stated in Genesis 1: God created the major groups of animals and plants, each according to its kind.

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