FOSSIL SPECIMENS OF INSECTS

COBWEB SPIDER Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland These spiders, members of the family Theriididae, are a long-legged arachnid that weaves webs with irregular threads and wide spaces. The spiderweb is a great work of art that evolutionists can never account for. All the spiders that have ever lived over millions of years have come into existence with this extraordinary ability bestowed on them by God. This goes to show that, like other living things, spiders never underwent evolution. This 50-million-year-old fossil is clear proof of this.

CLICK BEETLE Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland These insects, members of the Elatiderae family, are able to launch themselves as high as 20 to 30 centimeters (8 to 12 in) in the air and to emit a clicking sound in the process. They are generally found in grasslands and meadows. At moments of danger, they retract their legs and antennae and wait on the ground for the threat to recede. The fossil record has revealed that these life forms have remained unchanged for tens of millions of years. Evolutionists have tried to mislead people over the years by producing false evidence, but they have never been successful in this. Scientific research has invalidated all such false evidence by revealing the real proof that living things never evolved.

CICADA NYMPH Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland Every new discovery shows that living things are not descended from one another and did not evolve in gradual stages, and also once more reveals that they were created in perfect form by God. This 50-million-year-old cicada larva is identical to those alive today. No physical change of any kind has taken place in their physical structure over the last 50 million years. This once again reminds us of the invalidity of the theory of evolution's myths regarding insect evolution—as well as setting the fact of Creation plainly before our eyes.

CICADA Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland Cicadas have a pair of membranes located above the air sacs in their abdomens. The cicada produces its familiar shrill by means of these two membranes. When contracted and released by the muscle to which they are attached, the membranes makes a loud cackling sound. This contraction and expansion process carried out by the insect takes place an average of 500 times a second. The sound increases or decreases with the opening or closing of the extension on the abdominal side of the thorax. Since the human ear is unable to detect individual sounds coming any faster than ten times a second, it is unable to determine the individual segments of a cicada's call. And so, the noise emitted by cicadas sounds to us like a constant buzzing. From the fossil record, it appears that all the cicadas that have ever lived have possessed this same characteristic. Close inspection of the cicada pictured shows that there is no difference between it and present-day specimens. Over the last 50 million years, not the slightest change has taken place in its head, skeletal and wing structure, nor in the plates it uses to emit sounds.

DRAGONFLY AND MAYFLY LARVA Age: 128 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Yixian Formation, Shang Yuan, Liaoning, China One of the most important abilities of dragonflies is their enormous maneuverability. No matter at what speed or which direction it may be flying, the dragonfly can suddenly stop and head off again in the opposite direction. Alternatively, it can hover in the air and wait for a suitable position from which to attack its prey. From that position it can make a sharp turn and approach the prey. In a very short space of time, it can attain 40 kilometers/hour (25 mph), an astonishing speed for an insect. (Olympic 100-meter sprinters manage only 39 kilometers/hour [24.2 mph].) It is impossible to account for the magnificent way in which the dragonfly uses its wings by any model of gradual evolution. The wing represents a complete impasse for evolutionists. There is no difference between the oldest dragonfly fossils yet discovered and specimens alive today. There is no trace of any "semi-dragonfly" or a dragonfly whose wings were just developing that lived before the earliest known dragonfly. Like other living things, these insects emerged suddenly and have survived unchanged down to the present day. In other words, they were created by God and never evolved at all.

GROUND CRICKET Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil This fossil shows that there is no difference between present-day ground crickets and those that lived 125 million years in the past—proof that no evolutionary process ever took place. The countless fossils unearthed to date have proven that living things did not evolve. Darwinists are well aware that the fossil record does not support their theory of evolution. That is why hundreds of thousands of fossils are carefully hidden away from the public eye. However, there is no longer any point in concealing them. It is no longer possible to hide the defeat that the fossil record and scientific findings have inflicted on the theory of evolution.

GRASSHOPPER Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil Some grasshopper fossils date back to the Carboniferous Period (354 to 290 million years ago). Yet despite all the hundreds of millions of years that have passed since, grasshoppers have remained grasshoppers and never turned into any other life form. If Darwinists' claims were true, then grasshoppers should have developed and grown ever-stronger due to all their jumping and have turned into some form of bird. But of course, that never actually came about. Yet so severe is the logical collapse among Darwinists that they are even able to sign up to such irrational claims. The fact revealed by reason, common sense and science is that living things did not evolve, but were created. Every new fossil reveals the truth of this once again.

COCKROACH Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil Cockroaches are one of the many living things that challenge evolutionist claims. The fossil cockroach pictured is 125 million years old, and cockroaches have undergone not the slightest change in all that time. In the same way that all fossil excavations carried out to date have failed to produce any supposed forerunners of the cockroach, it has also failed to show what stages cockroaches might have gone through before assuming their present forms. No matter what its age, every fossil unearthed is identical to all others of its species and to specimens alive today. This is one of the clear proofs that evolution never happened.

GRASSHOPPER Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil In the classification of living things, arthropods represent a sub-phylum within the phylum Insecta. The earliest insect fossils date back to the Devonian Period (417 to 354 million years ago). One major dilemma for evolutionists is the way that species that existed 400 million years ago are no different from their counterparts alive today. The same applies to grasshoppers, which have remained unchanged from the time they first appeared in the fossil record. The grasshopper pictured confirms that 100-million-year-old grasshoppers were identical in every way to present-day grasshoppers, thus refuting evolution.

PLANTHOPPER Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil From the structure of their wings to their eyes, from their legs to their internal organs, planthoppers have been the same for tens of millions of years. The 125-million-year-old fossil pictured is confirmation of this. There are no fossil findings of a planthopper with half-developed wings or legs, only one eye or some distinctive organs not yet formed—in short, there is no sign of the intermediate stages claimed by evolutionists. All the fossil planthoppers unearthed have the same forms as planthoppers today, with all the same organs and limbs, just as if they had died only yesterday. This fact alone is sufficient to invalidate Darwinists' theories.

COCKROACH Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Araripe Basin, Brazil ". . . Cockroaches, which are one of the most venerable living insect groups, have remained more or less unchanged since the Permian, yet they have undergone as many mutations as Drosophila, a Tertiary insect." (Pierre-Paul Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms, New York: Academic Press, 1977, p. 87) The Permian Period comprises the era of time between 290 and 248 million years ago. In the above extract, Paul Grassé states that on the one hand, mutations—one of the imaginary mechanisms of evolution—do not actually exert the effects of which evolutionists dream. On the other hand, he notes that cockroaches have not undergone the slightest alteration over hundreds of millions of years. Cockroaches that existed 290 million years ago, those like the one pictured that lived 100 million years ago, and those still alive today are all identical to one another. Faced with this fact, evolutionists have no alternative but to retreat into silence.

MARCHFLY (Bibionidae) Age: 45 million years Period: Middle Eocene Location: Cache Creek Formation, Canada No marchfly fossil with wings partly developed and other features missing, with an as yet undeveloped eye or proboscis has to date been found. All fossilized marchflies are fully formed, just like those living today. If an insect alive today has exactly the same characteristics as its counterparts did 45 million years ago—and if it has remained unaltered over all that intervening period of time—then it is impossible to refer to it as having evolved. Along with revealing the invalidity of Darwinism, this stasis also confirms that Creation is an evident fact.

DRAGONFLY Age: 100 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: China Not one single incompletely developed, half-winged, rudimentary-eyed dragonfly fossil has ever been found to indicate that an evolutionary process took place. Every dragonfly fossil unearthed shows that the insect was been complete and flawless since it first came into existence, and that it has never changed at all so long as dragonflies have been around. The 100-million-year-old dragonfly fossil pictured here is one of the discoveries that verify this. Dragonflies living 100 million years ago possessed all the features that their present-day counterparts have. Scientific evidence, especially the fossil record, has proved the invalidity of the theory of evolution. The significance of this is that living things are created by an infinitely powerful Mind. No doubt that this mind is that of God, the Creator of all things.

This is a fossil that has left positive and negative impressions on the two layers of stone.

DRAGONFLY (with its pair) Age: 150 million years Period: Jurassic Location: Solnhofen Formation, Germany With their complex structures, dragonflies have constituted a model for new types of Sikorsky helicopters. Research showed that this insect possesses an ideal flying system. This dragonfly, which lived 150 million years ago, is identical to the perfectly formed dragonflies alive today. There are no traces of a "half dragonfly" or a dragonfly whose wings are just becoming established among all the fossils unearthed so far. Like other species of animals and plants alike, these creatures emerged suddenly and have remained unchanged down to the present day.

CRICKET Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil From Darwin's day down to the present, evolutionist geologists and paleontologists have been looking for fossils to support the theory of evolution. They have sought to come up with any discovery that will show that living things constantly change and develop into other species. Yet their endeavors have served no purpose, because among all the countless fossils unearthed, not one has indicated that living things change, whereas countless specimens prove that species after species has remained unaltered over hundreds of millions of years. This means that evolution never occurred. The paleontologist David Raup expresses this fact revealed by the fossil record, which has completely routed Darwinism: "Instead of finding the gradual unfolding of life, what geologists of Darwin's time, and geologists of the present day actually find is a highly uneven or jerky record; that is, species appear in the sequence very suddenly, show little or no change during their existence in the record, then abruptly go out of the record…" (David M. Raup, "Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology," Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin, Chicago, Vol. 50, January 1979, p. 23)

COCKROACH Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil The lack of any difference between the 125-million-year-old cockroach fossil pictured here and specimens alive today very clearly and distinctly re-emphasizes that the claim that distinct species descended gradually from one another is a myth, in conflict with the scientific facts. The fossil record invalidates the claim of "gradual evolution," and this fact is admitted by a large number of scientists. Historian of science Peter Bowler has this to say: "The record certainly did not reveal gradual transformations of structure in the course of time. On the contrary, it showed that species generally remained constant throughout their history and were replaced quite suddenly by significantly different forms. New types or classes seemed to appear fully formed, with no sign of an evolutionary trend by which they could have emerged from an earlier type." (Peter J. Bowler, Evolution: The History of an Idea, 1984, p. 187)

COCKROACH Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil The lack of any difference between the 125-million-year-old cockroach fossil pictured here and specimens alive today very clearly and distinctly re-emphasizes that the claim that distinct species descended gradually from one another is a myth, in conflict with the scientific facts. The fossil record invalidates the claim of "gradual evolution," and this fact is admitted by a large number of scientists. Historian of science Peter Bowler has this to say: "The record certainly did not reveal gradual transformations of structure in the course of time. On the contrary, it showed that species generally remained constant throughout their history and were replaced quite suddenly by significantly different forms. New types or classes seemed to appear fully formed, with no sign of an evolutionary trend by which they could have emerged from an earlier type." (Peter J. Bowler, Evolution: The History of an Idea, 1984, p. 187)

DRAGONFLY NYMPH Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil Dragonflies are known to have been in existence for some 300 million years. And with their extraordinary wing structures and flying systems, they inflict a heavy blow on Darwinism. Three hundred million years ago, at a time when it is claimed that only primitive life forms and a primitive environment supposedly existed, dragonflies already possessed a flawless flying system that's now used as a model for the most advanced helicopters. And those insects' system has undergone not the slightest change right down to the present. Dragonfly larvae have also had exactly the same anatomy for hundreds of millions of years, and have used the exact same structural mechanisms to catch prey. It is impossible to account for this state of affairs in evolutionary terms.

MAYFLY Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil Mayflies have remained unaltered over the course of some 100 million years, and are yet another of the many life forms that challenge evolution. All mayfly fossils show that these insects did not develop in stages, but that they emerged suddenly on the Earth, together with all their characteristics. Furthermore, they have never changed throughout all the time they appear in the fossil record. This demonstrates that, like all other living things, mayflies did not evolve, but were created.

MAYFLY Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil If all living things acquired the characteristics they now possess gradually, as evolutionists maintain, there should be a great many fossil specimens displaying these intermediate phases. For example, a large number of fossils proving that mayflies developed their wings in stages should have been unearthed. But as with the 125-million-year-old mayfly fossil pictured here, in all the fossil specimens so far obtained, these insects appear together with all the same characteristics they possess today. This situation renders claims of evolution utterly meaningless. Concrete scientific findings reveal that in fact, evolution never happened, and that God is the Creator of all living things.

WATER STRIDER (Gerridae) Age: 150 million years Period: Jurassic Location: Solnhofen Formation, Germany Like many other creatures, fossilized and still living, insects belonging to the family Gerridae present evidence that invalidates Darwinism. This Gerridae fossil, 150 million years old and dating back to the Jurassic Period, makes the invalidity of evolution. All these fossils indicate these evident truths: God has created all living things, these creatures have survived unchanged right down to the present day, and living things have never evolved.

WINGED STINK BUG (Pentatomidae) Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil Darwinists claim that atoms such as phosphorus and carbon combined together by chance and organized themselves as the result of natural phenomena such as lightning, volcanoes, ultraviolet rays and radiation and gave rise to proteins, cells, insects, fish, cats, rabbits, lions, birds, human beings and all of life. But they never stop to think that atoms are merely unconscious, inanimate units of matter with no intelligence or abilities. In addition, they fail to appreciate that they have not a single piece of evidence to prove that this imaginary process ever took place. As evolutionists founder from a lack of evidence, there are countless proofs showing that living things never evolved, but were created by Almighty God. One such proof is this 125-million-year-old fossil pictured here.

GROUND CRICKET Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil Darwinists make a great many baseless claims about the origin of life, and there are hundreds of questions they need to answer. Heading the list of these questions is this: - Are there any intermediate forms that can be proposed as evidence for the theory of evolution? The obvious answer to this question—to which Darwinists constantly avoid responding, in order to avoid having to face the facts, is No! Not one single intermediate form fossil has ever been found in excavations conducted over the last 150 years. The fossil record is filled with examples of animals and plants that have survived with all their structures, never undergoing the least alteration, for hundreds of millions of years. One such specimen is the 125-million-year-old cricket pictured here. When confronted by these specimens, Darwinists are condemned to silence.

GROUND CRICKET Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil Asked about the origin of insects, Darwinists relate a series of hypotheses totally devoid of any logic. Asked to prove these stories with some scientific findings or concrete evidence, they enter into a profound silence—because all the theoretical studies to date, and findings such as fossils, completely invalidate these claims. One of the pieces of evidence invalidating evolutionists' claims is the 125-million-year-old ground cricket fossil illustrated here. This fossilized insect, identical in every respect to ground crickets alive today, refutes evolutionist claims that living things are in a constant state of change. Fossils show that living things tell us, "We never changed or evolved. We were created."

WASP Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil Darwinists believe in the myth that imaginary mechanisms constantly transform living things into new species. The findings that most strongly demolish the evolutionist dream of living things being in a state of change come from the fossil record. As the 125-million-year-old wasp fossil pictured here shows, living things do not change. In other words, they do not evolve. The paleontologist David Raup expresses how the geologic record contradicts Darwinism in these words: "He [Darwin] was embarrassed by the fossil record because it didn't look the way he predicted it would and, as a result, he devoted a long section of his Origin of Species to an attempt to explain and rationalize the differences. There were several problems, but the principle one was that the geologic record did not then and still does not yield a finely graduated chain of slow and progressive evolution." (David M. Raup, "Conflicts between Darwin and Paleontology," Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin, Chicago, Vol. 50, January 1979, pp. 22-23)

PLANTHOPPER Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil There are some 1,000,000 known insect species living on Earth, and some 15,000 fossil species. Every year, several thousand more species of insect are discovered. Each of them has entirely different systems, metabolisms and habitats.         Evolutionists maintain that all these species gradually developed from one another by way of very small changes. However, they cannot pinpoint the fist supposed ancestor of insects, nor any imaginary family relationship between species. They desperately look for fossils that could indicate these. Yet every new fossil acquired reveals that this insect species came into being out of nothing, with all its particular characteristics. In other words, it was created, and that has remained unchanged for tens or even hundreds of millions of years—meaning that it never underwent evolution. One of the proofs of this state of affairs is the 125-million-year-old fossilized planthopper pictured here. Identical in every way to planthoppers alive today, this fossil refutes evolution.

MAYFLY Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil If, as claimed, all living things evolved, then signs of this should be visible in the fossil record. Fossil discoveries should reveal the traces of entities in a constant state of progression, with incompletely developed systems and organs, slowly turning from one species into another. For example, there should be many peculiar fossils of half-crickets and half-flies, or half flies and half-butterflies, or whose wings had only partly formed, with a single eye on their abdomens, with feet protruding from their heads or whose antennae had not appeared. Yet the fossil record provides no examples of any such strange, rudimentary creatures. On the contrary, countless fossils show that living things emerged with all their limbs and systems complete, and that they never changed so long as their species continued to exist. D. S. Woodroff from California University says this on the subject: "But fossil species remain unchanged throughout most of their history and the record fails to contain a single example of a significant transition." (D. S. Woodroff, Science, vol. 208, 1980, p. 716)

GROUND CRICKET Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil The "lines of descent" among living things that frequently appear in evolutionist publications are no more than an imaginary concept. No concrete finding of any evolutionary link between living things has so far been discovered. Scientists state that the fossil record and other findings indicate no such relationship: "It is, however, very difficult to establish the precise lines of descent, termed phylogenies, for most organisms." (F. J. Ayala and J. W. Valentine, Evolving: The Theory and Process of Organic Evolution, 1978, p. 230) The 125-million-year-old ground cricket pictured here is not descended from any forerunner, and has remained unchanged throughout the course of its species' existence.

MAYFLY Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil Mayflies spend much of their life spans as larvae or nymphs. They live as adults only for a few hours or days. They are therefore also known as "one-day flies," or in French, ephémères, for "ephemerals." The mayfly fossil pictured here is 125 million years old, and is identical to mayflies living in the present day. Darwinists are in a despairing position when faced with mayflies like this one, which has remained the same for 125 million years and has never undergone even the slightest alteration.

SPIDER Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil The theory of evolution is entirely conjectural, devoid of any scientific criteria and based on no valid evidence. Moreover, it bases its entire claim on the illogical and unrealistic thesis that all living things in existence formed as the result of a succession of countless coincidences—something quite impossible. Scientific research and investigations confirm this state of affairs. For example, examination of the fossil record shows that no process of the kind maintained by evolutionists ever happened. It can be seen that living things did not develop by way of a succession of changes, but that each one appeared suddenly with all its characteristics complete. This means that living things did not evolve, but were created.

MAYFLY Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil Fossils are one of the most striking proofs that evolution never occurred. When the fossil record is examined, it reveals that all living species have remained the same over millions of years, and that they never changed until and unless their species became extinct. Joel Cracraft from the American Museum of Natural History states how, according to the fossil record, there is no transition between species: ". . . [I]t should come as no surprise that it would be extremely difficult to find a specific fossil species that is both intermediate in morphology between two other taxa and is also in the appropriate stratigraphic position." (Joel Cracraft, "Systematics, Comparative Biology, and the Case against Creationism," in Scientists Confront Creationism, ed. L. R. Godfrey, New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1983, p. 180) Cracraft's reference to the finding of intermediate form fossils as something "extraordinarily difficult" stems from an unwillingness to come out and say, "There are no such fossils." Although he is reluctant to state this openly, the fact is that the fossils in question have never been found, and it is impossible that they will ever be unearthed in the future.

GROUND CRICKET Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil The 125-million-year-old ground cricket fossil pictured here is one of the proofs that deal a lethal blow to Darwinism. The theory of evolution's claims regarding the origins of life have been invalidated, and the theory has been revealed to be built upon gaps that cannot possibly be filled by realistic and scientific data. C. McGowan, an expert on vertebrate paleontology, refers to these significant gaps as follows: ". . . [W]e have so many gaps in the evolutionary history of life, gaps in such key areas as the origin of the multicellular organisms, the origin of the vertebrates, not to mention the origins of most invertebrate groups." (Christopher McGowan, In the Beginning: A Scientist Shows Why the Creationists Are Wrong, New York: Prometheus Books, 1984, p. 95)

GROUND CRICKET Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil If, as evolutionists maintain, ground crickets are descended from other insects, then a great many fossil specimens of "semi-ground crickets" insects that had just been in the process of turning into their final form should have been found. Yet all the cricket fossils unearthed to date have complete and flawless structures and are identical to those living today. The thesis that living things are descended from a common forebear remains just a dream. Steven Stanley, a professor of paleontology, expresses this state of affairs thus: "Species that were once thought to have turned into others have been found to overlap in time with these alleged descendants. In fact, the fossil record does not convincingly document a single transition from one species to another." (S. M. Stanley, The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils, Genes and the Origin of Species, New York: Basic Books, 1981, p. 95)

MAYFLY NYMPH Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil Larvae such as those of the mayfly have remained just the same for as long as they have been in existence. The 125-million-year-old mayfly nymph pictured here is proof of this. Both mayflies and their larvae, stages of insects that have remained unchanged over tens of millions of years, silence evolutionists.

GROUND CRICKET Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil Although there are countless questions that Darwinists cannot answer, they continue to defend their theories with blind devotion. For example, they leave unanswered the question of, "What was the supposed forerunner of the ground cricket?" So do they the question of, "Through what stages did ground crickets pass in their descent from this supposed forebear?" And also, the question, "If these creatures developed in stages, how can we account for the fact that ground crickets that lived 125 million years ago are identical to those alive today?" The list of such questions can be lengthened enormously. All these unanswered questions are an indication of the scale of the predicament in which Darwinism finds itself.

SPIDER Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil It is astonishing that people who claim to speak in the name of science can defend such an outdated theory as evolution in the face of evidence from that same scientific discipline. Countless fossils have proved the invalidity of evolution, and it is illogical to attempt to hide from the facts by distorting them. Like this 125-million-year-old fossilized spider, fossil specimens belonging to countless different life forms have all clearly revealed that evolution never happened. What scientists need to do is not to ignore this state of affairs, but to concur with what scientific evidence shows. And what it shows is Creation.

DRAGONFLY Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil The superior nature of the dragonfly wing structure and its sophisticated flying mechanism can still not be fully replicated by present-day technology. Dragonflies use the same systems today as they did 125 million years ago, and fly with the same perfection and maneuverability. The fossil pictured here proves this, refutes Darwinism, and once again reveals that all living things are the work of God.

WASP Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil A. Brouwer, author of the book General Paleontology, summarizes the defeat suffered by Darwinism at the hands of fossils: "One of the most surprising negative results of paleontological research in the last century is that such transitional forms seem to be inordinately scarce. In Darwin's time this could perhaps be ascribed with some justification to the incompleteness of the paleontological record and to lack of knowledge, but with the enormous number of fossil species which have been discovered since then, other causes must be found for the almost complete absence of transitional forms." (A. Brouwer, General Paleontology [translated by R. H. Kaye], Edinburgh & London: Oliver & Boyd, 1967, pp. 162-163) Evolutionists do not need to "look for excuses," as Brouwer puts it, but to see the facts. Countless fossils, such as the 125-million-year-old wasp fossil pictured here, show that evolution never took place, and that living things are created.

MAYFLY NYMPH Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil The 2,500 known species of mayfly belong to the class Ephemeroptera. The appearances, structures and systems of all mayfly fossils discovered to date are exactly the same. The lack of any structural differences between mayflies that lived in different eras, despite the intervening millions of years, demolishes the hypotheses put forward by evolutionists. Clearly, that living things are not the product of successive coincidences and in a state of constant change. Almighty and All-Powerful God has created all living things.

MAYFLY NYMPH Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil The earliest known mayfly fossils date back some 200 million years. Mayflies that lived 200 million or 125 million years ago, as well as those alive today, are all identical. This is one of the proofs that living things never evolved.

MAYFLY Age: 125 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana Formation, Brazil Evolutionists are unable to explain how mayflies have remained unchanged for around 100 million years. To confirm their theories that living things have undergone evolution, they need to be able to observe species in constant change, or else support their claims with fossil discoveries. Yet no such changes, and no such fossil findings have ever been encountered. It is thus impossible to speak in terms of an evolutionary process. The structures and features of living things and the fossil record both prove that evolution never happened.

 

FOSSIL SPECIMENS OF INSECTS

ANT Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland Evolutionists claim that ants evolved from wild bees some 80 million years ago; that they suddenly began socializing, supposedly "of their own will," 65 to 40 million years ago; and that they represent the highest rung of insect evolution. If these claims were true, then the 50-million-year-old ant in the photograph should be markedly different from present-day ants, and there should be some very odd-looking creature somewhere between the ants we know and another insect. Or else many of their organs should either be missing or half-formed. Yet there is no difference between this ant in amber and present-day ants—which invalidates evolutionists' claims.

JUMPING SPIDER Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland The distinguishing feature of jumping spiders is that instead of spinning a web and waiting for their prey, they leap to capture it. So perfect are these spiders' ability that they can leap and catch an insect flying in the air half a meter away. The spider is able to make these astonishing leaps thanks to its eight legs that function according to hydraulic principles. All jumping spiders have possessed this astonishing ability ever since the first day of their existence. None could acquire it gradually, but all were created in full possession of it. The 50-million-year-old jumping spider in the picture, identical to present-day specimens, is proof of this.

BUTTERFLY LARVA Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland When butterfly larvae, known as caterpillars, hatch from the egg, their first food is the egg case they emerged from. The larval stage varies from species to species. All butterflies, and their larvae, have shared the same characteristics throughout history. The 50-million-year-old butterfly larva in the picture, identical to larvae alive today, confirms this fact.

BRISTLETAILS Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland These insects, members of the sub-order Archaeognatha of the order Thysanura (bristletails), generally inhabit rocky areas. They have survived for millions of years without changing any of their features. Every new fossil discovery only increases the predicament in which Darwinists find themselves—and also reveal, yet again, that Creation is an evident truth. Countless life forms such as the Archaeognatha refute the theory of evolution and testify that they were created.

Only the two insects on the sides are ants, the one in the middle being a jumping spider, which has one more pair of legs than ants. JUMPING SPIDER Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland Some species of jumping spider are at the same time masters of camouflage. The Myrmarachne species of jumping spider, for instance, imitates ants—and not only their appearance, but also their behavior. The spider, having two more legs than an ant's six, raises its two front legs in such a way as to resemble antennae, thus mimicking the ant's six-legged appearance. But how did this spider compare its own appearance to that of ants? And with what intelligence did it work out how to minimize the differences between the two species? Moreover, spiders that lived millions of years ago possessed exactly the same ability. It is impossible for Darwinists to account for this in terms of any evolutionary mechanism. No doubt that, like all other living things, spiders act under the inspiration of God and use the characteristics and abilities that He bestowed on them.

LARGE JUMPING SPIDER Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland With their appearances, structures, abilities and organs, all jumping spider species have been exactly the same since the day they first came into existence. Not a single fossil specimen indicates that jumping spiders assumed their present status by going through a large number of different stages. Instead, countless fossils showing that they have remained the same for millions of years. One of these is the 50-million-year-old jumping spider preserved in amber in this photograph.

Fly, Orb weaver spider ORB WEAVER SPIDER AND FLY Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland These spiders, members of the family Araneidae, have white spots on their backs. Another important feature of theirs is that they weave round webs. The spider and the fly here preserved in amber are 50 million years old. With their structures that have remained unchanged for tens of millions of years, these creatures defy the theory of evolution.

GROUND SPIDER Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland The fossil spider pictured, a member of the family Gnaphosidae, is 50 million years old. There is no difference between it and specimens alive today. This lack of difference cannot be explained with Darwinian logic. If that Darwinian thesis were valid, then over the last 50 million years, the arachnids in question should have changed into very different life forms. Yet no such transformation occurred. Neither could it have, because no evolutionary process among living things ever took place.

BARKLOUSE Age: 100 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Myanmar Barklice belong to the order Psocoptera. The earliest known fossils date back to the Permian Period (290 to 248 million years ago). The bark louse pictured lived 100 million years earlier, in the Cretaceous Period (144 to 65 million years ago). With their wings, eyes and other organs, barklice have remained unchanged for hundreds of millions of years and invalidate scenarios stemming from evolutionists' imaginations.

WASP Age: 100 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Myanmar Despite all their expectations and endeavors, Darwinists have been unable to obtain the evidence they hoped for from the fossil records. Every specimen unearthed reveals that living things have never changed throughout their time on Earth, and no evolutionary transition between living species has been observed. David M. Raup, former president of the Chicago Museum of Natural History Geology Department, expresses this fact as follows: "[Darwin] was embarrassed by the fossil record. . . . Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species but the situation hasn't changed much. The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky . . ." (David M. Raup, "Conflicts between Darwin and Paleontology," Field Museum of Natural History Bulletin, Vol. 50, no. 1, January 1979, p. 25)

GALL MIDGE Age: 100 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Myanmar With their superior flight techniques and eye structure, gall midges represent a major dilemma for evolutionists. It is impossible to account for such complex structures as wings and eyes in terms of gradual formation. No fossil fly with only partly developed wings has so far been encountered. All fossil flies are complete, with fully formed wings, visual systems and other structures. These findings condemn evolutionists to a profound silence, because they mean that living things did not evolve, but were created by God.

ASSASSIN BUG Age: 25 million years Period: Oligocene Location: Dominican Republic Insect species belonging to the order Hemiptera include bedbugs, true bugs and other hemipterous insects. The assassin bug pictured is another member of this order. When examined, these modern-day insects can be seen to be identical to this 25-million-year-old fossil. This completely invalidates the myth of insect evolution. Insects never evolved, as Darwinists maintain. Our Almighty Lord has created all living things in the form of different species. Insects are one of these different forms and, as can be seen in this specimen, have remained unchanged for millions of years.

SOFT-BODIED PLANT BEETLE Age: 25 million years Period: Oligocene Location: Dominican Republic The plant beetle pictured is a member of the family Dascillidae. It is estimated that this family contains 15 genera and some 80 species. The insect pictured possesses exactly the same features as its present-day counterparts, despite being 25 million years old. This example totally does away with the nonsense of "insect evolution" espoused by evolutionists.

COCKROACH AND MIDGE Age: 25 million years Period: Oligocene Location: Dominican Republic These two insects fossilized together in amber have come down to us from 25 million years ago. Close examination shows that the cockroach is identical to its modern-day counterparts. The fossil records show that cockroaches emerged suddenly, without having undergone any form of evolution. The fact that these creatures, which possess highly complex systems and characteristics, came into being without passing through any intermediate stages is one of the proofs of God's Creation. Despite its being an evolutionist publication, Focus magazine cited cockroaches as an example when it admitted the lethal blow that fossils deal to the theory of evolution: ". . . In theory, various elements of pressure such as changing environmental conditions, hostile species and competition between species should lead to natural selection, the selection of species advantaged by mutation, and for these species to undergo greater change over such a long period of time. YET THE FACTS ARE OTHERWISE. Let us consider cockroaches, for example. These reproduce very quickly and have short life spans, yet they have remained the same for approximately 250 million years. Archaeobacteria are an even more striking example. These emerged 3.5 billion years ago, when the Earth was still very hot, and are still alive today in the boiling waters in Yellowstone National Park." (Focus magazine, April 2000.)

LONG-HORNED BEETLE Age: 25 million years Period: Oligocene Location: Dominican Republic One of the most important characteristics of these insects, members of the family Cerambycidae, is their antennae, many times longer than their bodies and reminiscent of stag antlers. The antennae of some species living in Asia are known to reach as long as 22 centimeters (8.7 in) in length. These creatures, fossilized in amber, have come down from millions of years in the past and openly declare the invalidity of the theory of evolution. Today, the fossil record is just about complete; and this fact comes as a terrible disappointment to evolutionist paleontologists. Although countless fossils have been discovered, not a single one constitutes any evidence for Darwinism. Moreover, the fossils unearthed not only provide no proof of evolution, but they also eliminate the false proofs submitted. In other words, fossil research has revealed a truth far from the expectations of Darwin and the evolutionists who came after him—the fact of Creation.

TWO MEALWORM LARVAE Age: 25 million years Period: Oligocene Location: Dominican Republic This life form, a member of the family Tenebrionidae (darkling beetles), is actually a kind of larva. The larvae of beetles in this family are agricultural pests, of which the fossil mealworm pictured is one of the best known. The larva in amber, pictured here, reveals that there is no difference between mealworms that lived 25 million years ago and those living today, and is one of the findings that refute the theory of evolution. It is important proof that living things never evolved, and that all living things, in the form of different species and complex organisms, were created with the same features they have today.

CATERPILLAR Age: 25 million years Period: Oligocene Location: Dominican Republic Darwin had great hopes for the fossil excavations that would be undertaken in the future. Yet despite the intervening 150 years between his day and the present, none of the intermediate forms he expected has ever been encountered. All fossils unearthed during this time are indications, not of a chaotic process stemming from chance, but of a perfect order that is proof of God's Creation. Fossils dealt the most severe blow to the theory of evolution. The 25-million-year-old caterpillar in amber is identical to present-day caterpillars and one of the exemplary fossils that invalidates Darwinism.

TRUE BUG Age: 25 million years Period: Oligocene Location: Dominican Republic Evolutionists claim that all forms of life are descended from one another, and they assume that changes constantly took place among living things. The fact is, however, that such a state of constant change would require countless intermediate forms to have existed. For that reason, the supposed evolutionary development that is hypothesized to have taken place should be visible in the fossil record. Yet there are no such intermediate forms, and no supposed evolutionary development can be seen in the fossil record. For example, the Encophalid insect in the picture, a member of the order Heteroptera, is exactly the same as those living today. These insects have survived unchanged for 25 million years, meaning that it is impossible to speak of these insects having evolved.

SANDHOPPER Age: 25 million years Period: Oligocene Location: Dominican Republic Amphipods, reminiscent of wood lice in terms of their general appearance, are represented by two sub-orders. They mainly live in deep seas and fresh water, while some species also live in warm, humid locations on dry land. One of the most important features of those living by the shore is their very powerful sense of direction. It is God Who creates, knows and Who at every moment keeps under control the universe, the galaxies with their extraordinary balances, life on Earth, all the known and unknown varieties of living things, their life styles, and human beings—as well as a single enzyme in the DNA possessed by every living thing, a single leaf that falls from just one of all the billions of trees in the world, a single micro-organism on the surface of that leaf, and the organelles in that micro-organism responsible for photosynthesis. It is certainly an easy for Almighty God to create countless living things, all very different to one another at the time He chooses, and all in a single moment. The 25-million-year-old sandhopper pictured is one of the proofs of God's sublime creation.

MANTIS, PEDILID BEETLE, AND FUNGUS GNAT Age: 25 million years Period: Oligocene Location: Dominican Republic This piece of amber contains three different insects that were fossilized at the same time, and are all 25 million years old. Like all living things, these insects have exactly the same features as their counterparts of today, proving that evolution is an imaginary process. All the structures in living things are without doubt marvels of Creation and the work of an incomparable artistry. These works belong to Almighty God, the Creator of all things and Lord of the Worlds. Whenever our Lord wills a thing, He merely commands it to "Be!"

SCALY BARKLOUSE Age: 25 million years Period: Oligocene Location: Dominican Republic Scaly barklice are members of the order Psocoptera. The 25-million-year-old fossil illustrated proves that barklice have been the same throughout the eons, have never evolved, and are not descended from any primitive forerunner. So long as evolutionists insist on ignoring this fact, they will continue looking for non-existent intermediate forms, deceiving people by the use of fraud and spending their entire lives chasing an illusion. Yet all their endeavors will not alter the fact that living things are the work of Almighty God, and every day, more and more people will stop listening to the myths of Darwinism.

SAP BEETLE Age: 25 million years Period: Oligocene Location: Dominican Republic Of those insects belonging to the family Nitidulidae (Coleoptera), only those living on flowers are regarded as pests. The great majority of species feed on pollen and sap. Coleoptera alive today have exactly the same characteristics as those that lived millions of years ago. This fact, confirmed by fossil discoveries, is an indication that the insects in question did not form in stages, in other words that they did not evolve.

GRASSHOPPER Age: 25 million years Period: Oligocene Location: Dominican Republic During his lifetime, Darwin was aware that the existing fossil findings did not confirm his theory. However, he thought that the number of fossils would increase in the future and that discoveries to support his theory would sooner or later be obtained. Darwinists unconditionally shared his view. However, every new fossil unearthed both refuted Darwin's predictions and also dashed all Darwinists' hopes. No fossils showing that evolution had taken place were found. Every fossil discovered revealed that Creation was an indisputable fact. One such fossil is the 25-million-year-old grasshopper pictured.

SCUTTLE FLY Age: 45 million years Period: Eocene Location: Kaliningrad, Russia The scuttle fly pictured, which lived 45 million years ago, exhibits exactly the same characteristics as other members of its species living in various parts of the world today. This is one of the most important proofs that evolution never happened. No doubt it is an easy matter for God to recreate or destroy all the living things on Earth, the universe and the galaxies and more, at the moment of His choosing. This is a most important truth that evolutionists are unable to comprehend.

DANCE FLY Age: 45 million years Period: Eocene Location: Kaliningrad, Russia Dance flies are another member of the order Diptera, of the family Empididae. This insect fossilized in amber has been preserved together with all its features, and shows no difference between it and its counterparts alive today. Concrete findings like this have revealed that evolution is the product of the imagination, and have completely invalidated the theory.

WORKER ANT Age: 45 million years Period: Eocene Location: Kaliningrad, Russia The worker ant pictured belongs to the order Hymenoptera, of the family Formicidae. As can clearly be seen, it is no different to worker ants living today. The truth is plain to see for anyone looking at matters objectively and thinking logically: there is no room for evolution in the latest point reached by science. Darwinists are chasing a dream they have invented in their own minds, and refuse to abandon these wraiths, despite scientific evidence of all kinds.

DANCEFLY Age: 45 million years Period: Eocene Location: Kaliningrad, Russia This photograph shows a dance fly from 45 million years ago, fossilized in amber and discovered in Russia. Like other living species, this insect has survived down to the present day together with all its features. It therefore represents yet another defeat suffered by evolutionists in the face of God's impeccable Creation.

CLICK BEETLE Age: 45 million years Period: Eocene Location: Russia Evolution never happened in any period in history, and fossils prove this in the most powerful way. Preserved examples of living things that existed millions of years ago show that they were all marvels of Creation, brought into being in a single moment and in perfect form by the sublime might of God. Paleontology, which evolutionists hoped would come to supply one of the main foundations of their theory, supports the fact of Creation and invalidates the theory of evolution. The 45-million-year-old click beetle fossil pictured emphasizes this fact once again.

MOTH FLY Age: 45 million years Period: Eocene Location: Kaliningrad, Russia Despite all their searching and hard work, evolutionists have failed to find the slightest evidence in the fossil record that any species emerged by way of evolution. This 45-million-year-old moth fly preserved in amber is manifest proof that evolutionists are at a dead end and that their efforts have proved a waste of time. Like all other living things, moth flies have always existed as moth flies, have not descended from any other species, and have never undergone evolution for as long as they've been in existence.

BRACONID WASP Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Kaliningrad, Russia The examples of intermediate forms that Darwin expected—and hoped—would be discovered in the future have still not been found, despite the passage of 150 years since his time. Full scientific evidence has proved that countless life forms emerged without any evolutionary process. Ignorantly insisting on defending a theory in the face of so much evidence to the contrary is a sign of intense prejudice. One of the pieces of evidence that can be shown to evolutionists on this subject is this wasp, a member of the family Braconidae, that lived 50 million years ago. With its structure that has remained unchanged for all that length of time, this creature tells us that evolutionists are on the wrong track.

LONG-LEGGED FLY Age: 45 million years Period: Eocene Location: Kaliningrad, Russia Like this long-legged fly pictured, the hundreds of fossils in this book (and the billions on Earth) are clear proofs that no such thing as evolution ever took place, and that living things emerged on Earth perfectly formed and in a single moment. In other words, they were created. Almighty God, Lord of the Earth and sky and all that lies between, created the entire universe and all the infinite number of entities, living and non-living, within it. Led astray by a preconception, evolutionists defend this theory in terrible ignorance. One of the best responses to them is given by fossils, which clearly and indisputable reveal that evolution is a myth.

SPIDER Age: 45 million years Period: Eocene Location: Kaliningrad, Russia The fossil record is one of the clearest evidence by which it can be seen whether the claim of evolution is valid. By now, a large part of the world's sedimentary strata have been excavated and examined, and millions of fossils have been found. Yet not a single specimen has emerged from among them to show that evolution ever happened. In all respects, the fossil record shows the almighty existence of God, and His sublime creative artistry and might. This 45-million-year-old spider preserved in amber is one of the proofs of the fact of Creation.

SPIDER Age: 45 million years Period: Eocene Location: Kaliningrad, Russia The fossil record is one of the clearest evidence by which it can be seen whether the claim of evolution is valid. By now, a large part of the world's sedimentary strata have been excavated and examined, and millions of fossils have been found. Yet not a single specimen has emerged from among them to show that evolution ever happened. In all respects, the fossil record shows the almighty existence of God, and His sublime creative artistry and might. This 45-million-year-old spider preserved in amber is one of the proofs of the fact of Creation.

BUTTERFLY CHRYSALIS Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland The "process of evolution" that Darwinists have been recounting for the last 150 years or so is a fantasy. Evolution never happened. Living things did not develop by way of evolution, nor did they give rise to new species by diverging from one another. Not one single claim of the theory of evolution has been scientifically proven. Not one piece of evidence has been obtained from the fossil record, which should provide Darwinism's greatest and most important support. On the contrary, like this 50-million-year-old butterfly chrysalis, all fossils completely disprove evolution.

RAPHIDIOPTERA (SNAKE FLY) LARVA Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland Snake flies, of which there are around 100 species known, live in the shady parts of forested areas. Raphidioptera larvae are carnivorous. They feed on small invertebrates, particularly harmful leaf mites. The development of the larvae lasts for approximately two years, during which they go through a number of stages. It's easy to see that the 50-million-year-old Raphidioptera larva pictured is identical to present-day Raphidioptera larvae. This declares a fact that Darwinists cannot conceal through distortion and deception: Living things never evolved in any way.

PIRATE SPIDER Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland These spiders are members of the family Mimetidae. One of their chief distinguishing features is the way they neutralize predators and capture prey through secretions they squirt out. There are some 200 known species. With their physical structures, modes of web-spinning and hunting techniques, every species that lived millions of years ago has exactly the same characteristics as modern-day spiders. This is one of the most important proofs that living things never evolved.

BRISTLETAIL Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland Different families of these insects, members of the sub-order Archaeognata, live in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. When one of their legs, antennae or similar appendage is severed, the organ grows back. This fossil shows that Archaeognatas living 50 million years ago were the same as present-day specimens in terms of structure and appearance—and is further proof that evolution never occurred. Like all living things, Archaeognatas were created by Almighty God.

ICHNEUMON WASP Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland The common feature of members of the family Ichneumonidea is that they are parasites. Various species can be found across the world, though they generally inhabit the northern hemisphere. With structures and appearance that have remained unchanged for tens of millions of years, ichneumon wasps refute the theory of evolution. There is no life form that evolutionists can propose as these wasps' supposed common ancestor. Neither can they explain through which stages these insects acquired their present features. No trace of any such ancestor can be found in the fossil record, nor any stage through which they might have passed. As with all other living things, stasis is the common feature of all ichneumon wasp fossils.

WALKING STICK Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland One of the important features of these creatures, members of the family Phasmatidae, is their ability to change color, depending on light, temperature, humidity and even the abundance of food. This change comes about through an alteration in the density and location of pigment, or else through the formation of new pigment.* The 50-million-year-old fossil walking stick pictured was also able to change colors, just like specimens living today. Whatever characteristics present-day Phasmatidae have, those that lived 50 million years ago also possessed. In the face of this truth, evolutionist claims are utterly meaningless. * Ali Demirsoy, Yasamin Temel Kuramlari (The Fundamental Theories of Life), Vol. II, Part II, p. 406.

BUTTERFLY LARVA Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Poland The larval phase is one of a butterfly's four developmental stages. Larvae mature by going through metamorphosis, then after a period of pupation, emerge as beautiful butterflies. Evidently, this metamorphosis has been taking place in exactly the same way for millions of years, and the process has not changed in any way. The 50-million-year-old butterfly larva in the picture never evolved, and is identical to butterfly larvae in our own day. The evolutionary claim regarding the origin of life is an atheistic and materialistic account, and not based on any scientific facts. Darwinism is mere conjecture, consisting of imaginary scenarios, false evidence and confused myths. The true origin of life is Creation, as verified by countless proofs.

 

FOSIL SPECIMENS OF PLANTS

BEECH LEAF Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Tranquille Shale, British Columbia, Canada Despite all the research and enormous labor and means expended over the last 150 years, no findings of any kind have been unearthed that might support the theory of evolution. If such a thing as evolution had in fact taken place, then countless proofs have been discovered by now. Indeed, many scientists since Darwin's day have admitted there should be a large quantity of evidence, but that it has never been found. On the other hand, countless findings and proofs reveal that Creation is a manifest truth. One of these is the fossil specimen pictured here, which proves that beech trees have not changed over 50 million years.

FERN Age: 58 million years Period: Paleocene Location: Sentinel Butte Formation, North Dakota, USA There are around 250 species of fern, as the one pictured here, which is a member of the genus Dryopteris. Comparison reveals that there is no difference between this fossilized fern, approximately 58 million years old, and ferns living today.        This 58-million-year old fossil fern is one of the proofs that invalidates the myth of plant evolution. Like other living things, plants appeared suddenly and remained unchanged for millions of years. In other words, they did not evolve, but were created.

HONEYSUCKLE LEAF Age: 58 million years Period: Paleocene Location: Sentinel Butte Formation, North Dakota, USA The absence of any differences between the 58-million-year-old honeysuckle leaf pictured here and those alive today is a sufficient response by itself to evolutionist claims. One of the major predicaments that confronts scientists espousing the scenario of plant evolution is the lack of even a single intermediate-form fossil. There are no "primitive" plant fossils with half-developed systems. To date, no evidence has been produced that one plant is the ancestor of any other. Therefore, family trees purporting to show the supposed evolution of plants are entirely imaginary, with no scientific basis to them at all.

FERN Age: 58 million years Period: Paleocene Location: Sentinel Butte Formation, North Dakota, USA Fern fossils demonstrate that no evolutionary process ever took place and that living things have remained unchanged since they first came into existence. The fern fossil in the picture has not changed over 58 million years, and never evolved. Plant species emerged suddenly and independently of one another, and there are no so-called evolutionary links between them. It is of course impossible for an infinite variety of plants to emerge from one single plant. All plants possess their own unique features. Their colors, tastes, shapes and methods of reproduction are all different, and they often exhibit exceedingly complex mechanisms, which cannot possibly have come into being by chance, as evolutionists maintain.

BIRCH LEAF Age: 58 million years Period: Paleocene Location: Sentinel Butte Formation, North Dakota, USA "Birch" is the common name given to members of the Betulaceae family. Birch trees prefer temperate climates, and their smooth bark is generally white or silvery grey in color. The descendants of the birch tree that left this fossilized leaf pictured here have not changed over millions of years, never evolved, and have preserved the original form in which they were created by Almighty God.

Sentinel Butte Formation FERN Age: 58 million years Period: Paleocene Location: Sentinel Butte Formation, North Dakota, USA One of the proofs that plants never underwent evolution in any form is the fossil fern pictured here. Many scientists state that plants have no common ancestor, and that all plant species appeared suddenly on Earth in the absence of any evolutionary process. If there were such a supposed "forerunner" species of the kind evolutionists claim, then evidence of this should be revealed by now. Moreover, it should be possible to explain through what stages plants diverged from this supposed ancestor. So far, however, no evolutionist has come forward able to offer any explanation in the light of concrete scientific findings. And none will do so in the future, either—because, contrary to what Darwinists maintain, plants never underwent such a process. Almighty and Omniscient God has created all plant species.

HONEYSUCKLE LEAF Age: 58 million years Period: Paleocene Location: Sentinel Butte Formation, North Dakota, USA The theory of evolution is not supported by scientific findings and goes no further than being a fantasy, as is stated by a great many scientists. In an article published in the journal Developmental Biology in 1996, the evolutionist biologists Gilbert, Opitz and Raff describe how Darwin's theory of evolution is incapable of resolution: "As Goodwin (1995) points out, 'the origin of species—Darwin's problem—remains unsolved.''' (Scott F. Gilbert, John M. Opitz and Rudolf A. Raff, "Resynthesizing Evolutionary and Developmental Biology," Developmental Biology, Vol. 173, article no. 0032, 1996, p. 361) These words are an admission of the defeat suffered by the theory of evolution in the face of the scientific facts. The 58-million-year-old honeysuckle leaf pictured here once again makes this defeat plain for all to see.

BIRCH LEAF Age: 58 million years Period: Paleocene Location: Sentinel Butte Formation, North Dakota, USA There are more than 500,000 known species of plant currently alive on Earth. Fossils of these same species are being unearthed one by one, and it is thus being proved that these plants never underwent evolution in any way. Since they first came into existence, they have remained the same right up to the present day. A significant number of scientists have realized this fact and admit that the theory of evolution is now discredited. One of these is Paul Lemoine, a former president of the French Geological Society. He admits that evolutionist accounts are insufficient for both zoologists and botanists. Or to put it another way, these branches of science deny evolution: "Our young people who enjoyed engaging in research regarding the theory of evolution have been deceived. A dogma was established which the whole world is still learning. Zoologists or botanists have determined that no account offered is satisfactory . . . The conclusion from this summary is that it is impossible for evolution to have taken place." (Introduction: De l'Evolution, Encyclopedie Francaise, Vol. 5, 1937, p. 6.)

This is a "two-faced" fossil whose traces can be seen on both surfaces of the split rock layers. SOAPBERRY LEAF Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon          The 95-million-year-old fossilized soapberry tree leaf pictured here is another of the proofs of Creation that evolutionists cannot explain. Every new fossil unearthed further confirms the fact of Creation and makes even more insoluble the dilemma in which evolutionists find themselves.

SOAPBERRY LEAF Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon         The 95-million-year-old fossilized soapberry tree leaf pictured here is another of the proofs of Creation that evolutionists cannot explain. Every new fossil unearthed further confirms the fact of Creation and makes even more insoluble the dilemma in which evolutionists find themselves. This is a "two-faced" fossil whose traces can be seen on both surfaces of the split rock layers.

Nammoura, Lebanon SOAPBERRY LEAF Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon No fossil unearthed to date shows that soapberry leaves ever underwent evolution. All soapberry fossils have exactly the same characteristics as those living today. Evolutionists are unable to indicate any supposed evolutionary process or any supposed common ancestor for any living thing, not only for soapberries. Fossil discoveries show that originally, all living species appeared suddenly on Earth. In other words, they were created. The evolutionist Douglas Futuyma admits this evidence as demonstrated by the fossil record in these words: "The majority of major groups appear suddenly in the rocks, with virtually no evidence of transition from their ancestors. . . . Hence, the fossil record would be most inadequate exactly where we need it most—at the origin of major new groups of organisms." (D. Futuyma, Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution, New York: Pantheon Books, 1983, pp. 82-83)

FERN Age: 354 to 290 million years Period: Carboniferous Location: Llewellyn Formation, Pennsylvania, USA Some of the proofs that plants never evolved are the ferns that are so frequently encountered in the fossil record. No fossilized plant that can be regarded as the forerunner of ferns has so far been found. One of the facts revealed by the fossil record is that ferns emerged suddenly. In other words, they were created. Another fact that has emerged is that these ferns have never changed over the course of 300 million years, nor have they turned into any other species. Ferns that have remained the same for some 300 million years, clearly demonstrating that evolution is only a figment of the imagination.

FOSIL SPECIMENS OF PLANTS

HACKBERRY SEEDS Age: 54 to 37 million years Period: Eocene Location: Hart Mountains, North Central Wyoming, USA This tree, a member of the genus Celtis, grows in temperate climates. The hackberry seeds pictured here, roughly 50 million years old are some of the proofs that evolution never occurred. This plant has always existed as the hackberry and, like all other plant species, it has never gone through any intermediate stages. It is not descended from any other plant, and never developed into any other plant. In fact, evolutionists are well aware that there are no intermediate form fossils they can point to as evidence of plants' supposed evolution. George Gaylord Simpson, one of the founders of neo-Darwinism, states this fact thus: "This regular absence of transitional forms is not confined to mammals, but is an almost universal phenomenon, as has long been noted by paleontologists. It is true of almost all classes of animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate. . . it is true of the classes, and of the major animal phyla, and it is apparently also true of analogous categories of plants." (George G. Simpson, Tempo and Mode in Evolution, New York: Columbia University Press, 1994, pp. 105, 107) (emphasis added)

SEQUOIA PINE CONE Age: 144 to 65 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Cannonball Formation, North Dakota, USA Sequoias presently growing in North America can reach more than 100 meters in height; there are countless fossil specimens showing that these trees' foliage has remained the same for tens of millions of years. The fossil in the picture is around 140 million years old. These specimens once again condemn evolutionists, who cannot explain scientifically how plants first emerged and why there is such a variety of them, to a profound silence. It is clear that each species of plant which appears suddenly in the fossil record, together with its own unique features and which has survived completely unchanged for millions of years, has been created by Almighty God.

SEQUOIA PINE CONE Age: 144 to 65 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Cannonball Formation, North Dakota, USA Sequoias presently growing in North America can reach more than 100 meters in height; there are countless fossil specimens showing that these trees' foliage has remained the same for tens of millions of years. The fossil in the picture is around 140 million years old. These specimens once again condemn evolutionists, who cannot explain scientifically how plants first emerged and why there is such a variety of them, to a profound silence. It is clear that each species of plant which appears suddenly in the fossil record, together with its own unique features and which has survived completely unchanged for millions of years, has been created by Almighty God.

ALLOPHYLUS LEAF Age: 54 to 37 million years Period: Eocene Location: Douglas Pass, Colorado, USA These plants, members of the Polemoniaceae family, are among those living things that defy the theory of evolution, since their structures have remained unchanged for millions of years. The way that Darwinists persist in their theories stems from a failure to consider the significance of findings, in as much as countless fossil specimens show that evolution never happened. Evolutionists never stop to consider that not a single intermediate form fossil has been unearthed among all the millions of fossils discovered to date, but continue to relate the same old theories. Though they used to find consolation in these fables, evolutionists are now unable to continue telling falsehoods to a public who have gained a much more detailed knowledge of the subject.

POPLAR LEAF Age: 54 to 37 million years Period: Eocene Location: Green River Formation, Utah, USA This fossil—which proves that poplars are not descended from any other plant, that they have no evolutionary forerunner and have always existed as poplars—is a proof of Creation. Poplars that lived around 50 million years ago are identical in every respect to present-day poplars, revealing that evolution is a figment of the imagination.

British Columbia National Park CEDAR LEAF Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Cache Creek Formation, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada The fossil pictured here shows that cedar trees, a kind of coniferous evergreen, have not changed over the last 50 million years—and tell us that evolutionists' claims are untrue. Charles Darwin claimed that there was an evolutionary process that caused all life forms to develop gradually from a single common ancestor without exception, however, the fossil record tells us the exact opposite. The countless remains of extinct or surviving life forms have no familial links between them required by Darwin's theory. Every known fossil has its own unique characteristics. Natural history is divided into different groups, which, far from being very similar and having only minor differences, are very different and separated from one another by huge structural variations.

SUMAC LEAF Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Green River Formation, Utah, USA The fossil findings that most clearly refute the idea of plant evolution are those belonging to flowering plants. These angiosperms—to give them their biological definition—are divided into 43 separate families, each one of which emerges suddenly in the fossil record with no trace of any primitive "intermediate form" behind it. This fact was realized in the 19th century, and Darwin described the origin of angiosperms as "an abominable mystery". In his book Palaeobiology of Angiosperm Origins, the evolutionist paleobotanist Norman F. Hughes makes the following admission: ". . . the failure to find a satisfactory explanation has persisted, and many botanists have concluded that the problem is not capable of solution, by use of fossil evidence." (N. F. Hughes, Palaeobiology of Angiosperm Origins: Problems of Mesozoic Seed-Plant Evolution, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976, pp. 1-2)) This admission means that no fossil capable of being represented as proof of plant evolution has been found. And neither is it possible for any to be discovered in the future. As the 50-million-year-old sumac fossil pictured here shows, plants did not evolve, but were created.

SPURGE LEAF Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Green River Formation, Utah, USA In his article The Evolution of Flowering Plants, the paleobotanist Daniel Axelrod makes the following comment on the origin of flowering plants: "The ancestral group that gave rise to angiosperms has not yet been identified in the fossil record, and no living angiosperm points to such an ancestral alliance." (D. I. Axelrod, "The Evolution of Flowering Plants," in Evolution After Darwin: Vol. 1: The Evolution of Life, ed. S. Tax, Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1960, pp. 264-274) As you can see from his admission, fossil research over the last 150 years or so has failed to produce even a single fossil that can be construed as the ancestor of flowering plants. This refutes the Darwinist claim that plants descended from one another by undergoing very small changes over very lengthy periods of time. As the 50-million-year-old spurge leaf pictured here shows, plants have never changed despite the intervening tens of millions of years. In other words, they never evolved.

BALLOON VINE Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Green River Formation, Utah, USA Darwin, 150 years ago, described one significant problem facing the theory of evolution: "Nothing is more extraordinary in the history of the Vegetable Kingdom, as it seems to me, than the apparently very sudden or abrupt development of the [taxonomically] higher plants." (Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, "From Charles Darwin to J. D. Hooker, August 6, 1881," p. 248) The significance of Darwin's reference to plants developing suddenly is that plant species did not emerge gradually, as the result of incremental changes. In other words, there is no evidence that they ever evolved. Since even Darwin saw how plant fossils argued against evolution, it is illogical for contemporary evolutionists to insist on the myth of "the evolution of plants."

POPLAR LEAF Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Green River Formation, Utah, USA The most impassable dead end in which proponents of the scenario of plant evolution find themselves today is the question of how the first plant cell evolved. The questions of how the first plant could have emerged from a single cell and how thousands of species of plant emerged from that one original plant. There is not a single intermediate-form fossil to point to the fact of such a process. There are no primitive fossil plants with semi-developed organs and systems, and no evidence to indicate that one plant species is the ancestor of any other. On the contrary, fossils show that every plant species emerged individually and suddenly, each with its own particular characteristics, and that these countless plant species have remained unchanged for so long as they have survived. An example of one such species is this 50-million-year-old poplar leaf fossil, identical to poplar leaves today. Green River Formation, Utah, USA

Green River Formation, Utah,USA OAK LEAF Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Green River Formation, Utah, USA As fossils prove, plant species have been created in their specific and original forms, each one completely different from one another, and have no evolutionary links between them. As the evolutionist paleontologist E. C. Olson admits: "Many new groups of plants and animals suddenly appear, apparently without any close ancestors." (E. C. Olson, The Evolution of Life, New York: The New American Library, 1965, p. 94) One proof of this is the 50-million-year-old oak leaf pictured here. This fossil, which shows that oak leaves have existed as oak leaves for the last 50 million years, invalidates evolution.

Green River, Utah, USA WILLOW LEAF Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Green River Formation, Utah, USA Willow trees have always existed as willow trees throughout the course of geologic time. They are not descended from any other plant and have never transformed into any other species throughout the course of their long existence. There is no trace of a "half-willow half-oak", or "half-willow half-maple" species in the fossil record—because such intermediate forms never existed. The 50-million-willow leaf pictured here clearly shows that the evolutionists' idea that plants evolved is a figment of their imaginations. Fossils are proof that evolution never happened, and that the origin of life is Creation.

FERN (with its pair) Age: 300 million years Period: Carboniferous Location: Mazon Creek, Illinois, USA Paleontological findings prove that ferns, like all other living things, did not emerge by way of evolution and that, on the contrary, they were created. Many contemporary scientists accept that the fossil record supports Creation rather than evolution, and that intermediate life forms exist only in evolutionists' imaginations. The evolutionist Hoimar von Ditfurth, author of the book Im Anfang war der Wasserstoff, says: "When we look behind us we see that there is no need to be surprised by the way we have failed to find any of the intermediate forms sought for in an almost painful manner. Because in all probability, no such intermediate stage ever existed." One of the findings confirming von Ditfurth's comment is the 300-million-year-old fern fossil pictured here.

FOSSIL SPECIMENS OF MARINE CREATURES

PUFFER FISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon This fossilized puffer fish is another of the proofs that living things never evolved. The skeleton of this 95-million-year-old fish has been almost completely preserved, and there is no difference between its skeletal structure and that of button fish living today. Yet evolutionists ignore this fact and claim that fish evolved from invertebrate marine organisms—a claim devoid of any scientific basis. The fossil record shows that evolution is a groundless claim, and throws this fact in Darwinists' faces on every occasion. Fossils show that living things did not evolve, but were created.

SQUID Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon The squid is a marine-dwelling mollusk, a member of the class Cephalopoda (cephalopods). This photo shows a 95-million-year-old squid fossil. There is not the slightest difference between it and present-day specimens. The pigment sac beneath the skin can even be seen in this fossil, and its skeletal structure is identical to those in modern-day squid. If evolutionists' claims were true, then squid should have undergone various changes over the course of millions of years, and by now, various fossil specimens documenting these stages should have been discovered. But every fossil found shows that squid have survived completely unchanged for millions of years.

SARDINE Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Nammoura, Lebanon This 95-million-year-old fossilized sardine gives a clear response to evolutionists' fictitious claims. The fact that this fossil sardine has exactly the same appearance as specimens living today, with exactly the same skeleton and fins, demolishes the evolutionist tale of the evolution of fish. At the same time, it also proves that Almighty God has created all life forms, and that living things have not changed from that time to this.

Eel - Mantis Shrimp MANTIS SHRIMP AND EEL Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Scientific data and findings show that eels have always existed as eels, and mantis shrimp as mantis shrimp. They have no supposed primitive forebears. They have undergone no intermediate stages ever since they first came into existence.

PUFFER FISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon The puffer fish has survived unchanged for millions of years. The fact that puffer fish living 95 million years ago were identical to those still alive today is a state of affairs that evolutionists can never explain. The clear fact revealed by fossils is that God has created living things. Despite being a proponent of the theory of evolution, the British paleontologist Derek W. Ager admits as such: "The point emerges that, if we examine the fossil record in detail, whether at the level of orders or of species, we find—over and over again—not gradual evolution, but the sudden explosion of one group at the expense of another." (Derek W. Ager, "The Nature of the Fossil Record," Proceedings of the British Geological Association, Vol. 87, 1976, p. 133.)

NEEDLEFISH (with its pair) Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Nammoura, Lebanon With its thin body and skeleton, long jaw resembling that of a swordfish and its sharp teeth, the needlefish has undergone not the slightest change in 95 million years. This unchanging nature, seen in all living species in the fossil record, is known as "stasis" and represents one of the main problems confronting Darwinists. Peter Williamson from Harvard University sums up this state of affairs, which is a most unexpected one for Darwinists: "The principal problem is morphological stasis. A theory is only as good as its predictions, and conventional neo-Darwinism, which claims to be a comprehensive explanation of evolutionary process, has failed to predict the widespread long-term morphological stasis now recognized as one of the most striking aspects of the fossil record." (Peter G. Williamson, "Morphological Stasis and Developmental Constraint: Real Problems for Neo-Darwinism," Nature, Vol. 294, 19 November 1981, p. 214.) This fossil consists of apositive nand a negative slab.

MANTIS SHRIMP Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Scientific findings reveal that evolution never happened. The mantis shrimp fossil illustrated is one proofs of this fact, which evolutionists attempt to conceal. There is no difference between this fossil and mantis shrimp living today. Mantis shrimp use arm-like appendages extending out of their chests in order to feed. Each of these is clawed. The second one is particularly large and is used for striking and holding prey. Since the second appendage closely resembles the claws of the mantis, these creatures are widely known as mantis shrimp. These appendages, which come in two types—speared and heeled—vary among species. A large mantis shrimp can strike as powerfully as a 22-caliber bullet. ("Seeing the World in Many Colors," Maryland University Web Site, http://www.umbc.edu/gradschool/research/profile_11.html)

GUITARFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon In his words "It is doubtful whether, in the absence of fossils, the idea of evolution would represent anything more than an outrageous hypothesis" (S. M. Stan-ley, The New Evo-lu-ti-onary Timetable Fos-sils, Genes and the Origins of Species, New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1981, p. 72.), S. M. Stanley from Johns Hopkins University reveals the significance of the fossil record for the theory of evolution. As you have seen, leading evolutionists admit that the deficient nature of the fossil record poses a problem for their theory. The 95-million-year-old guitarfish pictured is one of the examples confirming Professor Stanley's confession. (Ibid.)

MACKEREL (with its pair) Age: 110 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Santana  Formation, Brazil Mackerel are members of the sub-order Scombroidei, are fast swimmers and generally live in schools. There is no difference between the 110-million-year-old fossil pictured and mackerel alive today. This applies to all other fish, plants, mammals and birds, fossil specimens of which have exactly the same features as their present-day counterparts.

NEEDLEFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Nammoura, Lebanon Large numbers of needlefish can be found in the fossil record. Living specimens of these same species can also be seen today, and they are one of the proofs that living things never evolved. The illustrations show fossil digs being conducted at the Haqe Formation in Lebanon. As a result of such excavations over the last 150 years, millions of fossils belonging to hundreds of thousands of species have been unearthed. Not a single one of these points to the so-called evolutionary process of living things. Species appear in the fossil record with all their characteristics fully formed and developed. This shows that the Darwinist scenario of gradual development from the primitive to the more advanced never occurred.

LADY FISH (with its pair) Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Evolutionist claims that "Living things developed gradually, and that is how species emerged," are once again refuted by the 95-million-year-old ladyfish fossil in the picture. Fish of the family Elopidae had exactly the same skeletal structure millions of years ago as they still exhibit today. The significance of this is obvious: Living things never evolved, but were created by our Lord.

BONEFISH (with its pair) Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Nammoura, Lebanon The 95-million-year-old bonefish pictured is a member of the family Albulidae, of the suborder Elipoidei. It is identical to today's bonefish. Fossil research has been going on all over the world for roughly the last 150 years. As a result, millions of fossils have been unearthed. Yet not a single specimen of a half-invertebrate/ half-fish, or a half-fish/ half-crocodile life form has ever been found. Evolutionist claims regarding "intermediate-form fossils" have never been anything more than dreams. Every fossil discovered has revealed that living things remain unchanged for as long as their species have survived. This means that God has created living things. This fossil is a mirror-image one that appears on both sides of the split rock's surfaces.

SAWFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon There are no differences between present-day specimens and the 95-million-year-old sawfish pictured. This, by itself, puts the theory of evolution in a severe quandary. Our Almighty Lord has created all living things as separate species, which have survived unchanged from the moment of their creation right down to today.

SEA URCHIN Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Nammoura, Lebanon The sea urchin is only of the hundreds of millions of fossils that refute the theory of evolution. The 95-million-year-old sea urchin pictured here is by itself sufficient to invalidate the claims of evolutionists, who now find it impossible to mislead people with demagoguery, deceptions and speculation of various kinds—because all the scientific findings, and particularly the fossil record, are out in the open. Evolutionary speculations are valueless in the face of the sea urchin that has remained unchanged for 95 million years.

CATSHARK Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Cat sharks that lived millions of years ago possessed all the same fully formed features as those living today—as is confirmed by the 95-million-year-old cat shark pictured, which is identical to present-day specimens. God has created cat shark to be fully formed and with nothing lacking, as He has all other living things. Like them, cat sharks never underwent evolution.

FOSSIL SPECIMENS OF MARINE CREATURES

PLATED LOBSTER Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon The fossilized lobster pictured here, a member of the family Palinuridae, reveals that these crustaceans have remained exactly the same for the last 95 million years. The way that species undergo no changes over millions of years is referred to as "stasis," and this represents a major predicament for evolutionists.     Stephen Jay Gould, one of those evolutionists who has often stated that the fossil record does not support the theory of evolution, said this on the subject in an article in Natural History magazine in 1993: "[S]tasis, or nonchange, of most fossil species during their lengthy geological lifespans was tacitly acknowledged by all paleontologists, but almost never studied explicitly . . . [T]he overwhelming prevalence of stasis became an embarrassing feature of the fossil record, best left ignored as a manifestation of nothing (that is, nonevolution)." (Stephen Jay Gould, "Cordelia's Dilemma," Natural History, February 1993, pp. 10-18) There is only one reason why evolutionists describe the stasis in the fossil record as an embarrassment: That living things have never changed means the invalidation of the theory of evolution. This fact, which demonstrates that evolution never happened, confirms the fact of Creation.

MANTIS SHRIMP Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon Mantis shrimps, which have survived unchanged ever since the Carboniferous period (354 to 290 million years ago), are a life form that invalidates Darwinism. It is impossible to provide any evolutionary explanation for a creature that remains unaltered for 300 million years. The mantis shrimp pictured here is 95 million years old, yet is completely identical to both those that lived 300 million years in the past and specimens alive today.

PUFFER FISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon All the puffer fish fossils unearthed during the last 150 years are identical in every way to puffer fish alive today. If evolutionists' claims were true, then a great many fossils of semi-developed fish should have been excavated. Yet no such fossil ever has been, because no such intermediate form ever existed. The 95-million-year-old fossil pictured here is proof that puffer fish have always existed as puffer fish.

LOBSTER Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon The fact that concrete evidence, such as fossils, argue against Darwinism cannot be concealed. Even evolutionists who have the ability to evaluate modern-day scientific findings in an unbiased manner admit it is plain to see that the fossil record opposes the theory of evolution. In his book In Search of Deep Time, Henry Gee states that there is no accumulation of evidence to support the theory of evolution in the fossil record—and that, on the contrary, the evidence at hand is interpreted by evolutionists in the light of their own preconceptions: "Many of the assumptions we make about evolution, especially concerning the history of life as understood from the fossil record, are, however, baseless." (Henry Gee, In Search of Deep Time, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999, pp. 1-2.)

SEAHORSE Age: 5 to 1.8 million years Period: Pliocene Location: Marecchia River Formation, Italy Seahorses have always existed as seahorses, and are neither descended from not turned into any other life form. This fossil, which is proof that these creatures have never changed over millions of years, also declares that evolution is a lie. The origin of life does not lie in evolution. God, the Almighty and Omniscient, created the universe and all things within it.

One such fossil is the 95-million-year-old mantis shrimp specimen pictured here. MANTIS SHRIMP Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon None of the research conducted to date has been able to discover a single life form that represents the supposed evolutionary forebear of the mantis shrimp. No findings indicate that mantis shrimp came into being through any process of evolution. Every fossil unearthed shows that mantis shrimp have always existed as mantis shrimp and have remained unchanged for millions of years.

This is a two-sided "mirror image" fossil, traces of which can be seen on either surface of the rock. PUFFER FISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon You read pro-evolutionary reports in magazines and newspapers and you see similar programs and documentaries on television, not because Darwinism is a scientific viewpoint, but rather, there are tireless efforts to support it out of ideological concerns. Darwinism is the supposed scientific foundation for materialism and atheism. No one who accepts Darwinism's invalidity can support materialism and atheism. That is why, despite all scientific findings and evidence arguing against the theory of evolution, these facts are ignored, and Darwinism continues to be defended through lies and distortions. One of the proofs that evolutionists refuse to acknowledge are the fossils, now numbering in the millions, each one of them clear proof of Creation. Like the 95-million-year-old puffer fish pictured, all fossils tell us that living things never evolved, and that God created them all.

STINGRAY (with its pair) Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Science has proved that evolutionists' claims regarding the origin of life are mere nonsense, and the theory of evolution has collapsed in the face of many concrete findings. One of the countless bits of evidence to demolish the theory of evolution is the lack of any imaginary intermediate forms in the fossil record. Every fossil unearthed shows that all living species came into being with all their characteristics fully present, and remained unchanged from then on. The 95-million-year-old stingray in the picture is one such specimen. There is no difference between this fossil and stingrays alive today; and all stingrays have been exactly the same ever since they first appeared in the fossil record.

The 150-million-year-old sea lily in the picture is one of the proofs in question. SEA LILY Age: 150 million years Period: Jurassic Location: Solnhofen Formation, Germany The wealth of the fossil record poses a serious dilemma for evolutionists. These fossils present those people unwilling to understand the origin of life with a fully detailed, complete picture. Living things emerged separately, each one in a single moment and with all its different structures, with no imaginary "intermediate evolutionary" forms preceding them.

MANTIS SHRIMP Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Darwin's hypotheses regarding the origin of life were based on no scientific findings or experiments. However, with the support and encouragement he received from materialist biologists of the time, Darwin constructed a theory out of these hypotheses. According to his theory, all living things were descended from a supposed single primitive ancestor, underwent minute changes over a very long period of time, and thus became different from one another. This hypothesis has been confirmed by no concrete scientific findings, neither in Darwin's own time nor in the intervening 150 years. On the contrary, all the fossils unearthed have revealed that living things have remained unchanged, often for tens of millions of years and sometimes for hundreds. His theory has collapsed in the face of science. One of the proofs of that collapse is the 95-million-year-old mantis shrimp pictured.

PUFFER FISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon In the fossil record, it is sometimes possible to come across remains of living things bearing features belonging to another species. Darwinists, interpreting these findings in a prejudiced manner, claim that these fossils confirm their theories. But that is a grave error, because one living thing having features similar to another's is not characteristic of any "intermediate form." The platypus, for example, lives in Australia, and despite being a mammal, lays eggs like reptiles. In addition, it has a beak resembling that of birds. Scientists describe the platypus as a "mosaic form." Even leading evolutionists admit that these cannot be regarded as intermediate forms. Instead of engaging in distorted interpretations regarding mosaic forms, Darwinists need to produce concrete evidence to prove that species descended from one another by way of minuscule changes. But this they can never do, because no such process ever took place.

BOWFIN Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Messel Quarry, Germany The theory of evolution is not based on scientific fact, but is maintained by means of invented scenarios and propaganda, and it is impossible to find any fossils supporting this fictitious theory. Darwinists have written an imaginary natural history, and have attempted to find fossils to fit it. Yet the exact opposite actually happened: Every new fossil places the theory of evolution in an even worse predicament. The bowfin fossil pictured dates back 50 million years. Its sharp teeth have been perfectly preserved, and its skeletal structure can be seen to be identical to that of specimens alive today.

SEA HORSE Age: 23 -5 million years Period: Miocene Location: Marecchia River Formation, Poggio, Rimini, Italy Sea horses (Hippocampus sp.) generally cling onto plants with their tails, and swim upright with their dorsal fin because they lack tail fins. Their ability to swim upright is based on their being able to fill their flotation sacs with air very quickly. Pictured is a fossilized sea horse discovered in rock beds in northern Italy. This sea horse, from Miocene period, is exactly the same in terms of all its organs and structures—its skeleton, flotation sac and gills—as present-day sea horses. Sea horses have remained unchanged since they first begin appearing in the fossil record, and fundamentally invalidate evolutionist claims.

COELACANTH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon In 1938, Darwinists suffered a terrible disappointment with the capture of a living coelacanth, a fish they had long depicted as so-called evidence of the transition of vertebrates from the sea to dry land. In the years that followed, some 200 coelacanths were caught. In 1987, Professor Hans Fricke of the Max Planck Institute observed these creatures in their natural habitat by descending to a depth of 200 meters off the East African Comoro Islands, in a submarine named Geo. He observed that their bony fins had no functional link to the limbs that permit walking in tetrapods (four-footed animals). The April 2003 issue of Focus magazine reported the findings from this research: "The flexible fins had no similar functions to those in four-footed land vertebrates. These allowed the creature to swim head-down and in all directions, even backwards." (Focus, April 2003) With its structures that have remained unchanged for 400 million years, the coelacanth places evolutionists in a highly difficult position. Bear in mind, too, that continental shifts have taken place over those 400 million years, during which the coelacanth never changed at all. It can be seen that evolutionists are in an utterly hopeless position. Moreover, the coelacanth exhibits a profound gulf between the marine and terrestrial life forms, between which the theory of evolution presumes a transitional link.

This is a mirror-image fossil, traces of which can be seen on either side of the rock surface. STINGRAY (with its pair) Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon The 95-million-year-old fossil stingray pictured reveals that these fish have undergone no change since they first came into being on Earth. This has gone down as yet another of the proofs demolishing the Darwinist thesis that "Fossils support the theory of evolution." Countless scientific books and articles have revealed the invalidity of these illusory evolutionist claims. The fact that fossils have failed to produce the "intermediate forms" of which Darwin dreamed—and that, on the contrary, different living groups on Earth appear suddenly in the fossil record and with all their unique structures—is agreed by a great many scientists, including many present-day evolutionist paleontologists. Niles Eldredge, for example, admits that evolutionist paleontologists are well aware of the lack of intermediate forms and the stasis in the fossil record (the fact that living species have remained unaltered), but this evidence goes ignored: "Each new generation, it seems, produces a few young paleontologists eager to document examples of evolutionary change in their fossils. The changes they have always looked for have, of course, been of the gradual progressive sort. More often than not their efforts have gone unrewarded—their fossils, rather than exhibiting the expected pattern, just seem to persist virtually unchanged. . . . This extraordinary conservatism looked, to the paleontologist keen on finding evolutionary change, as if no evolution had occurred. Thus studies documenting conservative persistence rather than gradual evolutionary change were considered failures, and, more often than not, were not even published. Most paleontologists were aware of the stability, the lack of change we call stasis." (an excerpt from Niles Eldredge, "Evolutionary Tempos and Modes: A Paleontological Perspective," in the anthology What Darwin Began: Modern Darwinian and non-Darwinian Perspectives on Evolution [ed. Godfrey, 1985], as quoted in the book Darwin on Trial by Phillip E. Johnson, Regnery Gateway, 1991, pp. 58-60)

GUITAR FISH Age: 95 million years Period:Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon The countless proofs revealed by paleontology over the years confirm that living things never evolved. The fossil pictured is one of the many proofs that evolutionists ignore. This 95-million-year-old fossil, popularly known as a guitar fish thanks to its appearance, has to a large extent preserved its skeletal structure. The head and fins can be made out in perfect detail. Confronted by this fossil, which is identical to modern-day guitar fish, evolutionists have no explanation to offer, and no evidence to submit. All they can do is attempt to mislead and deceive people through demagoguery.

PIPEFISH Age: 40 million years Period: Eocene Location: Green River Formation, Wyoming, USA Pipefish, members of the family Syngnathidae, are toothless, and their mouths are tube-shaped. Those that lived tens of millions of years ago had exactly the same features as pipefish alive today. Nonetheless, evolutionists still claim that pipefish came into existence by chance, as the result of a long process of evolution—as indeed they do with regard to all other life forms. They are completely lacking in any evidence to support their claims. Yet there are millions of proofs, like the one in the picture, that clearly show that the evolution hypothesis is not true.

PUFFER FISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Darwinist publications contain no accounts based on concrete scientific evidence. The fundamental dilemmas that contradict the theory of evolution are glossed over in a few sentences, while on the other hand, a great many fantastical scenarios are dreamed up and presented as factual. Evolutionists constantly claim that all living things developed by gradually evolving from one another, yet remain silent when firm evidence is demanded. For example, if you ask evolutionists who have offered a long explanation of how "Fish forced to emerge onto dry land as the seas dried up eventually turned into reptiles" whether they have any fossil evidence with which to support their claim, you will never receive an answer. Despite all their searching over the last 150 years, Darwinists have failed to find one single example of an intermediate form. All the fossils they have unearthed show that life emerged suddenly—in other words, species were created, never changed, and never underwent evolution.

NEEDLEFISH Period: Cretaceous Age:95 million years Location: Lebanon Evolutionists, who persist in claiming that "species evolved from one another" at every available opportunity are helpless in the face of the fossil record because they possess not a single piece of evidence. The fossil needlefish in the picture, for instance, documents how these have remained unchanged for 95 million years. This slender fish, which belongs to the family Belonidae, is no different to specimens alive today.

MANTIS SHRIMP Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon The theory of evolution consists of a hypothesis. In order for that hypothesis to be regarded as scientific it needs to be testable or else confirmed by findings. Yet evolutionist fantasies lack these criteria. There is no significance or scientific value in the tales that Darwinists have been relating for so long, about how invertebrates supposedly turned into vertebrates, how fish living in the seas moved to the dry land as the oceans dried up, or how dinosaurs chasing flies began to fly themselves. They need to point to a single fossil of a half-invertebrate and half-vertebrate, half-fish and half-reptile or half-dinosaur and half-bird—if any such exist. Evolutionists are unable to point to any such fossils, yet there are a countless—and ever-increasing—number of fossils proving that evolution never happened at all. This 95-million-year-old fossilized mantis shrimp is one such example.

FOSSIL SPECIMENS OF MARINE CREATURES

EEL Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Not a single example of a supposed forebear of any of the many different species in the fossil record has ever been encountered. For instance, while countless fossils show that eels have always existed as eels, there are none that can be proposed as the ancestor of the eel. This fact represents a terrible predicament for evolutionists, and is openly stated by many scientists. Professor Rudolf A. Raff, president of the Indiana Institute of Molecular Biology, and Thomas Kaufman from Indiana University say this on the subject: "The lack of ancestral or intermediate forms between fossil species is not a bizarre peculiarity of early metazoan history. Gaps are general and prevalent throughout the fossil record." (R.A. Raff, and T.C. Kaufman, Embryos, Genes, and Evolution: The Developmental-Genetic Basis of Evolutionary Change, Indiana University Press, 1991, p. 34)

SANDFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon No fossil of a strange-looking sandfish with partial fins and gills, only a partly formed respiratory system and developing eyes has ever been encountered. Every sandfish fossil discovered possesses exactly the same appearance and structure as present-day sandfish. This invalidates Darwinism, which maintains that living things developed gradually through very small changes, evolving from the primitive to the more advanced.

CRAB Age: 50 million years Period: Eocene Location: Monte Baldo, Italy Excavations over the last 150 years have revealed findings that have dealt a serious blow to evolution every single time. One of these is this fossil 50-million-year-old crab, showing that crabs have always existed as crabs. The fact that not a single fossil specimen capable of supporting the myth of evolution has ever been found is doubtless one of evolutionists' worst nightmares. Moreover, this nightmare of theirs will never end. Because, as is they have been to date, all the fossils obtained in future will also show that evolution never happened and that God has created all living things. In an article in Nature magazine, Edmund Leach, author of the book Rethinking Anthropology, stresses this: "Missing links in the sequence of fossil evidence were a worry to Darwin. He felt sure they would eventually turn up, but they are still missing and seem likely to remain so." (E. R. Leach, "Men, bishops and apes," Nature, Vol. 293, September 3, 1981, p. 20)

SHRIMP Age: 150 million years Period: Jurassic Location: Solnhofen Formation, Germany One of those issues that make the supposed evolution of crustaceans impossible is the eye structure in the lobster and shrimp. A great many life forms belonging to the class Crustacea have refractive-type lens structures. Only two—the lobster and the shrimp—have a reflective mirrored eye. According to the unscientific evolutionist hypothesis, all living things belonging to the Crustacea must have evolved from a common forebear. If this claim were true, then it needs to be proved that the reflective mirrored eye structure also evolved from the refractive type lens structure. Yet such a transition is impossible, because both types function perfectly with their own entirely different systems, and there is no point in looking for any "intermediate" form. For a crustacean to gradually lose the lens in its eyes and for mirrored surfaces to emerge where formerly there had been lenses would leave the invertebrate deprived of sight in the meantime, and it could never survive. In addition, no example of a semi-reflective and semi-refractive eye has ever been encountered in any fossil of any other life form. Every fossil discovered to date had perfect eyes, systems and structures, just like the 150-million-year-old shrimp pictured here.

SANDFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Darwinists' worst predicament is their inability to find a single piece of evidence for a transition from invertebrates to fish, or from fish to reptiles, from reptiles to mammals and birds. The late evolutionist paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould describes the lack of evidence for these imaginary transitions as a disquieting problem: "The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution." (Stephen Jay Gould, "Is a New and General Theory of Evolution Emerging?", Paleobiology 6, 1980, pp. 119-130, reprinted in the collection Evolution Now: A Century After Darwin, ed. Maynard Smith, Freeman, 1982, p. 140)

STARFISH Age: 430 million years Period: Silurian Location: Humevale Formation, Cloninbane, Victoria, Australia Paleontologists have failed to come up with any supposed forebears of starfish. Neither have starfish been seen to change into other life forms. Were Darwinists' claims valid, starfish—which have survived for hundreds of millions of years—should long since have developed into other marine creatures, or even terrestrial life forms. Yet no such transition ever happened. These creatures, which have existed as starfish for the last 430 million years, have demolished all claims to the effect that evolution represents the origin of life.

ANGELFISH (Cichlidae) Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon It has now been realized that most of the fossils evolutionists have pointed to as supposed evidence of evolution are hoaxes, or else evolutionists have advanced biased interpretations incompatible with scientific methodology. For example, the discovery of the fully-fledged bird Longisquama that lived 70 million years earlier than the fossil bird Archaeopteryx, depicted as "the leading intermediate form," made it clear that the latter was neither a "primitive bird" nor an "intermediate form," as had been claimed. In short, evolutionists have not one single fossil specimen they can hold up as evidence for evolution. As can be seen from the 95-million-year-old angelfish fossil pictured here, the fossil record exhibits evident proofs of Creation.

RAZORFISH (Centriscus) Age: 23 to 5 million years Period: Miocene Location: Green River Formation, Colorado, USA Fossils prove that fish have always existed as fish and never descended gradually from any other life form. No odd-looking fossil with semi-developed gills, an as-yet unformed digestive system, or with rudimentary fins has ever been seen. Every fish fossil discovered shows that that fish was in full and complete possession of all the features of the family to which it belongs. For example, the 23-5-million-year-old razorfish fossil pictured here reveals that these species have remained the same, and have never altered, for millions of years. Faced by this evidence, Darwinists must stop blindly advocating the dogma of the myth of evolution and accept the truth indicated by science, which has proved that no evolutionary process ever took place, and has revealed that God has created living things.

SEA CUCUMBER (with its pair) Age: 300 million years Period: Carboniferous Location: Francis Creek Shale, Braidwood, Illinois, USA Sea cucumbers generally live on the sea bottom in areas close to the shore, and are grouped under the class Holothuroidea. The earliest known fossil specimens date back to the Devonian Period (417 to 354 million years ago). A comparison of sea cucumbers that lived 400 or 300 million years ago, and those living today shows that there is no difference between them. This lack of change demolishes the claim that living things evolved by developing gradually over very long periods of time. Contrary to what Darwinists maintain, living things did not come into existence as the result of any evolutionary process. Our Lord, God, Lord of the worlds, created all things, both living and inanimate.

STARFISH Age: 450 million years Period: Ordovician Location: Bromide Formation, Criner Hills, Carter County, Oklahoma, USA The fossil record has revealed no life form that could possible be the supposed ancestor of starfish. Neither has it shown that starfish developed into any other life form over the course of time. This same dynamic applies to all living things. Darwinists have no fossil evidence through which they can maintain that life forms are descended from one another. The late evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould admitted how the accounts of the supposed evolution of marine invertebrates are nothing more than myths and are based upon no scientific evidence in the following terms: ". . . one feature stands out as most puzzling—the lack of clear order and progress through time among marine invertebrate faunas. We can tell tales of improvement for some groups, but in honest moments we must admit that the history of complex life is more a story of multifarious variation about a set of basic designs than a saga of accumulating excellence." (Stephen Jay Gould, "The Ediacaran Experiment," Natural History 2/84, p. 22)

CORAL Age: 3 million years Period: Pliocene Location: Caloosahatchee Formation, Manatee County, Florida, USA Corals (Antozoons) are invertebrate organisms that are known to have lived since the Cambrian Period (543 to 490 million years ago), and of which there are many fossil specimens dating back to the Ordovician period (490 to 443 million years ago). Corals come in various types; soft, horny, spiny and true corals. Coral beds form as a result of coral skeletons accumulating in a specific location over thousands of years. Corals live either alone or in colonies. They tend to live in warm seas, attached to large rocks on the sea bed, though free-moving, newly-hatched ones are rarely encountered. Corals deal a severe blow to Darwinism, given their sophisticated structures that have remained unchanged for hundreds of millions of years. Like all other living things, they are the work of our Lord's sublime creation.

TROUTPERCH (Percopsidae) Age: 54 to 37 million years Period: Eocene Location: Green River Formation, Kemmerer, Wyoming, USA These fish, which belong to the class Percopsiformes, generally live in fresh water in North America. Some evolutionists claim that fish belonging to this class possess primitive features. However, investigations have revealed that the vertebrates in question actually have very complex structures. Some families even amaze evolutionists through the extraordinary features they display in nest-building and caring for their offspring. The fossil pictured here is around 50 million years old and shows that fish of this species have survived exactly the same over the last 50 million years.

SCALLOP Age: 300 million years old Period: Carboniferous Location: Francis Creek Shale, Braidwood, Illinois, USA There are an estimated 15,000 extinct species of oysters, traces of which can still be seen in the fossil record, and some 11,000 species still alive today. The fossil pictured here, a member of the family Pectinidae, shows that the mollusks in question have remained unaltered for hundreds of millions of years. Evolutionists are unable to account for this. In such cases, they prefer resorting to demagoguery, pretending not to understand the issue, and confusing the public with imaginary tales. The fact is, however, that if they were to honestly evaluate the information revealed by the scientific facts, they would see that the theory of evolution has collapsed under the weight of evidence in the fossil record.

FLYING FISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Darwinist logic makes exceedingly ridiculous and unscientific claims. For example, were life to be in a constant state of change and transition, as evolutionists maintain, then flying fish should long since have grown full-developed wings and turned into strange, flying gilled creatures. Yet contrary to evolutionist claims, these fish have survived for tens of millions of years without undergoing any changes whatsoever. The fact that flying fish that existed 95 million years ago are identical to those alive today demolishes all evolutionist logic. Darwin hoped that excavations undertaken after his day would produce fossils representing proof of his theory of evolution. Yet even though digs were conducted for decades all over the world, no such evidence was forthcoming. All the fossils unearthed to date have proved that living things had not undergone evolution. The photos to the left show fossil research being undertaken in Haqel and Nammoura in Lebanon, well-known for their rich fossil beds.

CORAL Age: 3 million years Period: Pliocene Location: Caloosahatchee Formation, Manatee County, Florida, USA The coral pictured here is some 3 million years old. Corals that lived 300 million years ago, those that existed only 3 million years in the past and those still living today are all identical, in terms of both appearance and structure. While this uniformity invalidates the claim of evolution, it also once again demonstrates that Creation is an irrefutable fact. Over time, coral skeletons accumulate and build themselves toward the surface of the ocean, in structures known as coral beds or coral reefs.

STURGEON Age: 150 million years Period: Jurassic Location: Peipiao, Liaoning , China Like all other living things, sturgeon fish, which belong to the order Acipenseriformes, have no evolutionary forebears in the fossil record. Throughout geologic history, they have always existed as sturgeon. This fact once again dramatizes the "intermediate form" dilemma, one of the major problems facing Darwinists. The paleontologist Colin Patterson revealed the absence of any intermediate forms that might be proposed by Darwinists, by not referring to such forms at all in his book Evolution. He made the following admission in a letter to those people wondering why this was so: "I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. As a paleontologist myself, I am much occupied with the philosophical problems of identifying ancestral forms in the fossil record. You say that I should at least 'show a photo of the fossil from which each type of organism was derived.' I will lay it on the line—there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument." (From a letter dated 10 April, 1979, quoted in L. D. Sunderland's Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems, 4th edition, Master Books, 1988)

RAZORFISH Age: 5 million years Period: Pliocene Location: Marecchia River Formation, Poggio Berni, Rimini, Italy The late evolutionist paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould admitted how fossils have never supported the theory of evolution: "The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. . . . We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection we view our data as so bad that we never see the very process we profess to study." (Stephen Jay Gould, "Evolution's Erratic Pace," Natural History, Vol. 86 (5), May 1977, p. 14) Evolutionists refer to this as an enigma. But in fact, there is no enigma here at all, but a manifest truth: Fossils demonstrate the fact of Creation.

SQUID Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon If Darwinists maintain that living things are descended from one another, then they can prove these claims only by revealing fossils of intermediate forms that existed in the past. The intermediate forms they have to find must be life forms interposed between two fossil species, but with missing or half-developed organs. If, for example, invertebrates such as squid evolved into fish, as evolutionists maintain, then a large number of "half-squid" and "half-fish" creatures must once have existed. And we should constantly be finding their remains in the fossil record. Yet even though digs have been conducted all over world ever since Darwin's day and countless fossils have been unearthed, not one single intermediate form has ever been found. As this 95-million-year-old fossil shows, squid have always existed as squid.

STINGRAY Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon Like all other fish, stingrays have always existed as stingrays. Darwinist hypotheses, claims and theses are of no scientific worth, because all the scientific data, beginning with fossil findings, refute its assertions. The hoaxes, distortions and propaganda to which Darwinists resort in order to keep their theories alive are pointless. As the 95-million-year-old stingray pictured here shows, living things tell us that they did not evolve, but were created, and this fact is impossible to be concealed.

SQUID Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon The theory of evolution, which has been kept alive ever since Darwin's day through hoaxes and distortions, has been defeated in the face of 21st century science. The most important findings to demolish evolution are the hundreds of millions of fossils belonging to some 250,000 species. Each one of these fossils has revealed that living things emerged suddenly, with all the characteristics they possess today, and that they have not undergone the slightest change over the course of millions of years. One such fossil is the 95-million-year-old squid pictured here. Squid, that have remained unchanged for 95 million years, indicate one single truth: Life forms did not evolve, but were created.

FOSSIL SPECIMENS OF MARINE CREATURES

SHRIMP Age: 206 to 144 million years Period: Jurassic Location: Solnhofen, Bavaria, Eichstatt, Germany The shrimp pictured is some 200 million years old. Shrimps, having remained unchanged for all that time, tell us that no evolutionary process ever happened. The fossil record deals one of the heaviest blows to the theory of evolution, because: 1. Evolutionists maintain that living things progress from the primitive to the more advanced by undergoing a constant succession of small changes. Fossil findings, however, prove that living things undergo not the slightest change over even hundreds of millions of years. 2. Evolutionists maintain that all living things are supposedly descended from a common ancestor. Yet to date, not a single fossil has been unearthed that can be regarded as the forebear of any other living thing. 3. Evolutionists say that life forms are descended from one another, via intermediate forms. Yet from among all the millions unearthed as the result of research over the last 150 years, not a single intermediate form fossil has ever been discovered to indicate this.

CATSHARK Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon The fossil record reveals that living things do not change, as long as they remain in existence. The 95-million-year-old catshark pictured is one of those life forms that have not altered over millions of years. This means that evolution—which maintains that living things are in a constant state of change and progress from the primitive to the more developed—is invalid. In actuality, evolution's claims regarding the origin of life do not reflect the facts, as is expressed in the book Integrated Principles of Zoology, jointly authored by three evolutionist biologists: "Many species remain virtually unchanged for millions of years, then suddenly disappear to be replaced by a quite different . . . form. Moreover, most major groups of animals appear abruptly in the fossil record, fully formed, and with no fossils yet discovered that form a transition from their parent group." (C.P. Hickman [Professor Emeritus of Biology at Washington and Lee University in Lexington], L.S. Roberts [Professor Emeritus of Biology at Texas Tech University], and F.M. Hickman, Integrated Principles of Zoology, St. Louis: Times Mirror/Moseby College Publishing, 1988, p. 866)

GUITARFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon One of the characteristics of guitarfish, members of the sub-order Rhinobatoidei, is their guitarlike body shape. They generally live at the bottom of tropical seas, close to the shoreline. The fossil pictured shows that guitarfish have remained the same for 95 million years, condemning evolutionists to a profound silence. These creatures, which have survived unchanged for tens of millions of years, demonstrate that evolution never happened to them and that they were created by Almighty God.

SHRIMP Age: 150 million years Period: Jurassic Location: Solnhofen Formation, Bavaria, Germany One common tactic that evolutionists employ is to distort or carefully conceal those fossils that represent indisputable proof of Creation. Although the fossil record shows that evolution never took place, they determinedly ignore this fact. The American paleontologist S. M. Stanley describes how facts revealed by the fossil record are ignored by the Darwinist dogma that dominates most of scientific world: "The known fossil record is not, and never has been, in accord with gradualism. What is remarkable is that, through a variety of historical circumstances, even the history of opposition has been obscured. . . . as the biological historian William Coleman has recently written, "The majority of paleontologists felt their evidence simply contradicted Darwin's stress on minute, slow, and cumulative changes leading to species transformation." . . . but their story has been suppressed." (S. M. Stanley, The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils, Genes and the Origin of Species, N.Y.: Basic Books Inc., 1981, p. 71) However, these Darwinist efforts to silence dissent are now of no avail. It is no longer possible to conceal the fact of Creation revealed by fossilized shrimp like this one pictured, some 200 million years old.

This is a fossil with both negative and positive slabs. COELACANTH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon The coelacanth is a large fish some 150 centimeters in length, whose body is all covered by thick scales reminiscent of armor. It is a member of the class of bony fishes (Ostechthyes), of which the earliest fossils are found in strata belonging to the Devonian Period (417 to 354 million years ago). For years, evolutionists portrayed fossils belonging to this vertebrate as belonging to an intermediate form, until the capture of a live coelacanth invalidated such claims. Research into the fish's anatomy again inflicted a major defeat on Darwinists . In an article in Nature magazine, an evolutionist paleontologist named Peter Forey said this: "The discovery of Latimeria [coelacanth] raised hopes of gathering direct information on the transition of fish to amphibians, for there was then a long-held belief that coelacanths were close to the ancestry of tetrapods. . . . But studies of the anatomy and physiology of Latimeria have found this theory of relationship to be wanting and the living coelacanth's reputation as a missing link seems unjustified." (P. L. Forey, Nature, Vol. 336, 1988, p. 727) The latest information regarding the complex structure of the coelacanth continues to pose difficulties for evolutionists. This problem was expressed in Focus magazine: "According to fossils, fish emerged some 470 million years ago. The coelacanth emerged 60 million years after that. It is astonishing that this creature, which would be expected to possess very primitive features, actually has a most complex structure." (Focus, April 2003) For evolutionists insisting on a gradual process of evolution, the appearance of the coelacanth with its complex structure naturally came as a major surprise. Yet there is nothing surprising about this at all. Any rational person is able to understand that God creates all living things, together with their complex structures, in the form and at the time He so desires, and in a single moment. The entities flawlessly created by God are all means by which His might and power can be appreciated.

STINGRAY Age: 100 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Hjoula, Byblos, Lebanon Evolutionists cannot point to even one of the countless stingray fossils unearthed as evidence for their claims. No stingray with supposedly primitive, semi-developed features belonging to two different life forms has ever been encountered. Every stingray fossil discovered belongs to a creature that was identical to stingray alive today and had exactly the same characteristics. This goes to show the invalidity of the claim that species are descended from one another and that life forms developed by way of small, gradual changes. The 100-million-year-old stingray fossil pictured proves once again that living things did not evolve, but were created.

CRAYFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon The crayfish pictured is 95 million years old, and there is no difference between it and crayfish living today. These invertebrates, which have undergone not the slightest change in the intervening 95 million years, show that evolutionists' claims are fantasies, products of the imagination, and that scientific data and findings do not support them in any way. Due to their materialist perspectives, Darwinists have a habit of making various assumptions and adorning them with Latin words and scientific terms difficult for ordinary members of the public to understand, presenting them as if they were scientific facts. The fact is, however, that the evidence showing the invalidity of evolution is perfectly clear. Even by a child of primary school age can easily understand it. One of these pieces of evidence is the fossil record. The absence of any difference between living things that existed hundreds of millions of years ago and specimens alive today totally undermines the concept of evolution.

SEA URCHIN Age: 354 to 290 million years Period: Carboniferous Location: St. Louis Formation, St. Louis, Missouri, USA Sea urchins are free-moving, spiny invertebrates. Their entire bodies are covered in spines. A roughly 300-million-year-old sea urchin defies all evolutionist claims regarding the origins of life. But sea urchins are by no means the only living things to invalidate evolutionists' claims. The fossil record is full of fossils of plants and animals that have undergone no changes. There is no evidence of any half-developed or deficient forms, despite the passage of very lengthy geological ages. Evolutionists have no rational and scientific answer for how or why living things have remained unaltered for so long. Yet for people who have not been taken in by Darwinist preconceptions, the answer is clear: Living things never evolved, but were all created by our Lord, God.

STINGRAY Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Despite all the findings and evidence, Darwinists refuse to admit that Darwinism has been defeated by scientific findings. They still blindly espouse claims first put forward under the primitive level of scientific knowledge in the 19th century. They turn their backs on all the scientific data out of ideological concerns and various preconceptions, and resort to hoaxes, distortions and irrational and illogical explanations. However, the millions of fossils unearthed over the last 150 years make it impossible for them to defend the theory of evolution any longer. Each and every fossil shows that living things have remained unchanged for millions of years—in other words that they never evolved, and that Creation is the origin of life. One such fossil is the 95-million-year-old stingray pictured here.

SEA BASS Age: 37 to 23 million years Period: Oligocene Location: Carpathian Mountains, Rowne, Poland These fish, members of the Perciformes (perchlike fishes) order, are classified under the family Serranidae. This roughly 30-million-year-old fossilized sea bass, identical in terms of its appearance and structural characteristics to those fish living today, is one of the proofs that invalidate the theory of evolution. Like all their other theses, Darwinists' claims regarding the "evolution" of fish are nothing more than fairy tales, with no scientific foundations. When we examine the evolutionist literature, we never encounter even a claim regarding any potential intermediate forms. Evolutionists have no fossil findings they can use to support the idea that invertebrate organisms developed into fish.

FLYING FISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon According to the fossil record, life forms emerged independently of one another, each one in a single moment, and with no line of familial descent between them. Fish, for example, did not emerge from invertebrate life forms, as evolutionists maintain, and neither did they later turn into reptiles. In his 1991 book Beyond Natural Selection, the American paleontologist R. Wesson describes what the fossil record tells us about the emergence of life: "The gaps in the fossil record are real, however. The absence of a record of any important [evolutionary] branching is quite phenomenal. Species are usually static, or nearly so, for long periods . . ." (R. Wesson, Beyond Natural Selection, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991, p. 45)

SAND FISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Despite having been scientifically discredited, the theory of evolution is kept constantly on the agenda of certain circles. Accompanied by drawings of imaginary half-man, half-ape creatures of no scientific validity, reports headlined "Missing Link Found!" announce every new fossil discovery. Captions read, "Our ancestors were microbes," "We are no different from apes," "Did we come from space?" and "Evolution in test tubes". The theory of evolution is constantly depicted as having solid evidence to support it, one that can explain every aspect of human life. The fact is, however, that fossils demonstrate that such reports and the claims associated with them are mere nonsense. As with the 95-million-year-old sand fish fossil pictured, all fossils reveal that living species have not changed at all over millions of years—in other words, that they never evolved. Faced with this reality, evolutionist propaganda is seen as nothing more than helpless posturing. The fossil in the illustration is a mirror-image one, traces of which can be seen on both surfaces of the split rock.

EEL Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon These fish, members of the order Anguilliformes (true eels), are classified under the family Congeridae (marine eels). The fossil in the picture proves that eels have not undergone the slightest alteration over 95 million years. It's just one of the other millions of fossil species that undermine Darwinism. Fossil research over the last 150 years or so has revealed not one single fossil to support evolutionists' theories. On the other hand, countless fossils prove that living things appeared suddenly, complete with all the features they possess, that they have not changed over millions of years—and that they were created, rather than having evolved.

LADY FISH (Elopidae) Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon The evolutionist fossil expert David Pilbeam admits that fossil findings invalidate the theory of evolution: "If you brought in a smart scientist from another discipline and showed him the meagre evidence we've got he'd surely say, 'forget it; there isn't enough to go on.'" (Richard E. Leakey, The Making of Mankind, Barcelona: Sphere Books Limited, 1982, p. 43) It is meaningless for Darwinists to refuse to see the groundlessness of their theory. Fossil discoveries have demolished the theory of evolution. The Elopidae fossil pictured, aged 95 million years, is one of these findings that defeat evolutionists' claims.

PIPEFISH (Syngathodei) Age: 5 to 1.8 million years Period: Pliocene Location: Marecchia River Formation, Poggio Berni, Rimini, Italy One of the most important features of pipefish is the long, tubular structure on the end of their mouths. With their structures that have remained unchanged for millions of years, these marine fish, members of the suborder Syngathodei, are a challenge to the theory of evolution. Even if Darwinists continue to make every effort to distort the facts or resort to hoaxes, they can no longer conceal the facts revealed by the fossil records. Fossils state that living things did not evolve, but were created.

HORSESHOE CRAB Age: 150 million years Period: Jurassic Location: Solnhofen Formation, Germany With their characteristics that have gone unaltered for millions of years, horseshoe crabs, members of the family Chelicerata, are among those life forms regarded as "living fossils," even by evolutionists. Horseshoe crabs living in the Jurassic Period, approximately 150 million years ago, are identical to those living along seacoasts today. This lack of differences demolishes evolutionist claims and once again proves that the thesis of living things' evolution of is a ridiculous myth. Science irrefutably reveals that living things are the work of Almighty and All-Powerful God.

SANDFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon In claiming that all species multiplied by having evolved from one another over long periods of time, Darwinists never stop to consider that almost all the main categories of species known today emerged suddenly and at the same time in the geological age known as the Cambrian Period, 530 to 520 million years ago. They fail to understand that none of the living things whose remains are preserved in the fossil record underwent any change, and that this fundamentally demolished the theory of evolution. Yet even if evolutionists refuse to think and understand, fossil findings such as the 95-millionyear-old sand fish pictured here reveal the invalidity of evolution for all to see.

LADY FISH (Elopidae) (with its pair) Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Michael Ruse sums up evolutionists' difficulties in the face of the fossil record in these terms: "He [Darwin] had to show not only why he thought there would be few if any transitional forms but also why the fossil record starts so suddenly. The record does not go very gradually from the most primitive up to the most complex but starts off with a bang with really quite complex and sophisticated forms." (Michael Ruse, The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates, Rutgers University Press, 2001, p. 49) Darwinists insist on refusing to see this groundlessness. The theory of evolution has been defeated by fossil findings, which have in turn demolished evolution. The 95-million-year-old fossil Elopidae pictured here is one of these discoveries that invalidate evolution.

NEEDLEFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon All the needlefish fossils discovered to date are completely developed, together with all their structures. There is no fossil evidence to suggest that needlefish are descended from any other species or that they gradually assumed their present-day form. This is one finding that invalidates Darwinist claims and reveals that Creation is a manifest truth.

BRITTLESTAR

Age: 95 million years
Period: Cretaceous
Location: Haqel, Lebanon

Evolutionists constantly refer to hypotheses and engage in various forms of conjecture regarding the origin of life. Yet they are unable to support that conjecture with any scientific findings. When those findings are comprehensively examined, they reveal that all branches of science refute the idea of evolution.

Brittlestar fossils are one of these findings that refute evolution. Brittlestars have remained unchanged despite the enormously long passage of time. The brittlestar fossil pictured here is 95 million years old, but is identical to present-day brittlestars.

FOSSIL SPECIMENS OF MARINE CREATURES

MENE (Mene maculata) Age: 54 to 37 million years Period: Eocene Location: Monte Bolca,  Italy This species of fish, a member of the family Menidae, is most frequently found in the Pacific Ocean. Many fossils have been acquired of this vertebrate, dating back to the Cenozoic era (65 million years ago, down to the present). Fossils of the species Mene maculata from the Monte Bolca Formation in particular are important examples showing that these fish have never changed over millions of years.    Despite the presence of many fossils such as this, showing that mene fish have always remained the same, there are no fossils that show they are descended from other life forms, as evolutionists claim. J. R. Norman, one of the administrators of the British Museum of Natural History, describes how Darwinists’ claims regarding the emergence of fish are not based on any evidence: "The geological record has so far provided no evidence as to the origin of the fishes . . ." (J. R. Norman, "Classification and Pedigrees: Fossils," in A History of Fishes, 3rd ed., ed. Dr. P. H. Greenwood, London: British Museum of Natural History, 1975, p. 343)

STARFISH Age: 490 to 443 million years Period: Ordovician Location: Kataoua Formation, Morocco Starfish generally live on the sea floor, and some species live at depths of 7,000 meters. Evolutionists are in a hopeless position when faced with these echinoderms, which have survived unchanged for around half a billion years. These creatures have remained exactly the same, not for 10 million or 100 million years, nor even for 200 million, but for roughly 500 million years. If evolutionists’ claims were true, then starfish should long since have turned into different life forms over the course of 500 million years, and the remains of many odd-looking creatures, half-starfish and partly some other invertebrate, should be visible in the fossil record. Yet the fossil record contains no such evidence for evolutionists’ claims. As the 500-million-year-old starfish pictured here proves, starfish have always existed as starfish, are not descended from any other life form, and never turned into any other species.

MACKEREL Period: Miocene Age: 5 million years old Region: Marecchia River Formation, Italy Looking at the 100 million fossils discovered to date reveals one single truth: those life forms never evolved. If they had evolved, if the mackerel had assumed its present form by gradual changes from another organism for instance, then there should be a great many differences between today's mackerel and those that lived millions of years ago. But there are no differences. Mackerel are the same today as they were 5 million years ago, and the meaning of this is clear: Scientific findings declare that "the evolution is a lie."

SQUID Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon Squid, members of the sub-class Coleoidea, are mollusks with eight or ten arms. As with other living things, evolutionists maintain that mollusks are descended from a supposed common ancestor, even though they are unable to back these theses up with any scientific findings. This fact is admitted by the Turkish evolutionist biologist Ali Demirsoy: "At the beginning of this discussion, we considered a hypothetical mollusk forerunner and attempted to present these classes’ stages of descent from it . . . . We were certainly unable to find the means of combining all these classes together in a common ancestor . . . . In essence, it seems impossible in the light of present-day knowledge to describe a mollusk forebear." (Ali Demirsoy, Yasamin Temel Kurallari [The Basic Rules of Life], Vol. II, Part I, pp. 623-624)

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STURGEON Age: 206 to 144 million years  Period: Jurassic Location: Volcanic Ash Beds, Liaoning, China Sturgeon, members of the order Acipenseriformes, the remains of which species date back to very early periods, are frequently encountered in the fossil record. They generally live in the fresh waters and seas of the northern hemisphere. With their structures, which have remained unchanged for tens and even hundreds of millions of years, sturgeon are one of the living things that refute the Darwinist claim that life forms evolved from the primitive to the more complex. The fossil record has revealed that even in very early geological periods, there were already living organisms possessed of complex systems such as eyes, gills and circulatory systems, as well as advanced physiological structures, identical to those in modern-day specimens. New findings obtained in 1999, for instance, show that in the Cambrian Period (490 to 543 million years ago), there were two separate species of fish known as Haikouichthys ercaicunensis and Myllokunmingia fengjiaoa. These findings deal a lethal blow to the theory of evolution’s claim that species develop from the primitive to the more complex.

NEEDLEFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Needlefish, which belong to the family Belonidae, have a long, thin body structure. They can leap from the surface of the water and return to it, tail-first—a method they employ to escape predators. The fossil record shows that all species of fish have their own unique features; that there is no evolutionary link between different species; and that the concept of a "forerunner of fish" is nothing more than a fantasy. The Turkish evolutionist biologist Ali Demirsoy admits that claims that different fish species emerged from one another are based on an assumption: "We have no more than assumptions on the subject of bony fish separating from the known early Paleozoic vertebrates with jaws." (Ali Demirsoy, Yasamin Temel Kurallari [The Basic Rules of Life], Vol. III, Part I, p. 248) In fact, all Darwinist claims regarding the origin of life are based on assumptions, not just those concerning the origin of fish. And none of these is supported by scientific findings, which have revealed that life is the work not of blind coincidences, but of our Lord God.

STARFISH Age: 490 to 443 million years Period: Ordovician Location: Kataoua Formation, Morocco Evolutionists claim that mollusks, echinodermata, arthropods, birds, insects, fish—and, in short, all living things—came into being from a single cell, as the result of blind chance, by undergoing small changes over millions of years. Yet they can never provide any scientific explanation of the stages by which these organisms, all with very different organs, structures and ways of feeding and totally different systems descended from one another. They have no fossils with which they can confirm this imaginary process. The countless fossils discovered to date show that every living species came into being with its own particular characteristics and that it preserved these features for so long as it remained in existence (for tens or even hundreds of millions of years). One example is the 500-million-year-old starfish fossil in the picture. Starfish, which have remained unchanged over the intervening 500 million years, have dealt a major blow to evolution.

SOLDIER FISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon The fact that soldier fish living 95 million years ago were identical to those in existence today shows that these fish have never changed over millions of years. This state of affairs, which refutes the Darwinist claim that living things evolved by changing, puts evolutionists in an impossible position. Concrete scientific findings such as the fossil record have proved that evolution never happened.

NEEDLEFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: en-Nammoura, Lebanon If Darwinists’ claims that living things descended from one another were true, then we should encounter a large number of fossil specimens bearing the characteristics of two different life forms (such as a half-needlefish and half-herring, or a half-whale and half-shark, or a half-trout and half-crocodile). But no such fossil has ever been found. In fact, Darwin saw that this absence of proof posed a major dilemma for him even when he first launched his theory. For that reason, he wrote the following in the chapter "Difficulties on Theory" in his book The Origin of Species: "Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see them, well defined? . . . But, as by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?" (Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 140, 141) Some 150 years after Darwin’s time, the problem facing evolutionists is exactly the same. Although millions of fossils have been unearthed to date, why has not one intermediate-form fossil been found? The answer is obvious for anyone who does not think along the lines of Darwinist preconceptions: because no "intermediate forms" ever existed! Life forms did not come into being by descent from one another. Almighty God has created all living things, together with the magnificent characteristics they possess.

COELACANTH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Hjoula, Lebanon Up to 1938, it was believed that coelacanth fossils represented the solution to a serious problem for evolutionists, who needed evidence documenting the imaginary emergence of living things from the sea onto dry land. They therefore took fossils of the coelacanth, which they believed was well suited to this scenario, and began making propaganda regarding them. They interpreted the animal’s fins as "feet about to walk" and another unidentified organ as "a primitive lung." Yet striking proof soon emerged that none of these interpretations had any validity at all. The capture by fisherman of a living coelacanth in 1938 came as a terrible disappointment to evolutionists. James Leonard Brierley Smith, a professor in the Rhodes University Chemistry Faculty, expressed his amazement in these words: "Although I had come prepared, that first sight hit me like a white-hot blast and made me feel shaky and queer, my body tingled. I stood as if stricken to stone. Yes, there was not a shadow of doubt, scale by scale, bone by bone, fin by fin, it was a true Coelacanth." (Samantha Weinberg, A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth, New York: Perennial Publishing, 2001, p. 20) Detailed examinations were conducted of the coelacanth’s structure and internal organs, which had no primitive features as had been imagined and bore no intermediate-form characteristics of any imaginary primitive forebear. The structure that evolutionists imagined to be a primitive lung was actually a swim bladder filled with fat in the creature’s body. In addition, this creature, depicted as a prospective reptile preparing to emerge onto dry land, was actually a bottom-dwelling fish inhabiting deep waters and not rising above depths of 180 meters. Therefore, according to Dr. Millot, who conducted the investigation, this life form, which should have represented the "missing link," they were seeking, lacked the primitive features of the living thing they claimed had evolved. (S. Weinberg, Op cit, p. 102) Very simply, it was no intermediate form, but had existed with the same complex characteristics in deep waters for 400 million years.

This fossil is a mirror-image one that has left its imprint visible on both surfaces of the layered rock. VIPERFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Hjoula, Lebanon No matter how much Darwinists today attempt to conceal or deny the fact, it has nevertheless been known since Darwin’s day that the fossil record does not support the theory of evolution. That is why Charles Darwin sought to extricate himself from that dilemma by coming up with deliberate misinterpretations in his book. He devoted particular attention to this matter in his book in the chapter "Difficulties on Theory". The fossils that so disquieted him at the time still constitute one of the main difficulties facing evolutionists today, because the fossil findings indisputably refute evolution and confirm the fact of Creation. One proof of the fact of Creation is the 95-million-year-old viperfish pictured here, which is completely identical to specimens alive today.

GUITARFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon No matter what period they may belong to, guitarfish fossils are all identical to one another. These fossils, which resemble present-day guitarfish in all respects, refute the claim that living things developed gradually by way of very small changes. God has created all living things from nothing, using no earlier models, together with all their perfect features. Fossils, which are the physical traces of God’s sublime creation, dramatize evolutionist falsehoods ever more strongly with every passing day. Pictured here is a mirror-image fossil, leaving its imprint on both sides of the sedimentary rock.

NEEDLEFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon The theory of evolution claims that in order for species to be able to evolve from one form to another, it must be in a constant state of change. In order for an invertebrate organism to turn into a fish—a needlefish, for example—it needs to undergo a succession of small changes over a very long period of time. Similar processes then have to take place in order for other species of fish to then emerge from the needlefish. In the fossil record, however, there is not the slightest indication that such a process ever happened. As the 95-million-year-old needlefish fossil pictured here shows, life forms retain the same features they had when they first came into existence for as long as they survive.

EEL Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Lebanon The fossil record shows that not just some, but all the fossil species that have been discovered have remained unchanged throughout the course of their existence. This fact was stated in the April 2003 of the magazine Focus, despite its being an evolutionist publication, which dealt with the subject of the coelacanth. ". . . the number of organisms which bear the closest of similarities to fossil specimens from millions of years ago is actually quite large. For instance, the shellfish known as neopilina has not changed for 500 million years, the scorpion for 430 million years, the limulus, an armored sea creature with a sword-like tail, for 225 million years, and the tuatara, a reptile found only in New Zealand, for 230 million years. Many arthropods, crocodiles, turtles and many species of plant can also be added to the list." One of those living things that have remained unchanged for millions of years is the eel pictured here. Aged 95 million years, it is proof that living things do not change—in other words, that they do not evolve.

SQUID (with its pair) Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon The 95-million-year-old fossil pictured here is proof that squid have always existed as squid throughout geologic history, defying evolutionist claims. Unable to provide the slightest evidence that squid evolved from an earlier life form or developed any further, evolutionists are completely undermined by the fossil record.

CATSHARK Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon According to Darwinists’ unscientific claims, plants, animals, fungi and bacteria all share a common origin. The 100 or so different animal phyla (basic taxonomic categories, such as mollusks, arthropods, worms and sponges) have all descended from one imaginary common ancestor. According to the theory, invertebrate organisms gradually (and by chance) turned into fish by acquiring a backbone; fish then turned into amphibians, amphibians into reptiles, some reptiles into birds and others into mammals. Again according to the theory, this transition encompassed a long period of time—hundreds of millions of years—and was carried forward in stages. That being the case, countless intermediate species should have emerged and existed during the long transition in question. Yet no sign of any such intermediate forms has ever been encountered in the fossil record. Like that 95-million-year-old catshark fossil pictured here, the fossil record shows that living things came into being fully formed with all their features, and survived unchanged for millions of years. The remains of living things can be seen on both surfaces of this double-sided fossil.

LOBSTER, FLYING FISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon This specimen contains the remains of two creatures—a lobster alongside a flying fish. These lobsters, members of the family Nephropsidae, have never changed since the first day they came into existence. The same applies to flying fish. This stasis in the fossil record represents a major quandary for Darwinists. It is no longer possible for Darwinist propaganda to have any lasting effect in the face of these concrete findings from the fossil records. Darwinists must realize the impossibility of concealing the fact of Creation and stop insisting on their dogmas.

GUITARFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Having remained exactly the same for 95 million years, guitarfish clearly prove one very important point: the stasis in the structures of living things refutes evolution. The theory of evolution is a scenario unsupported by any scientific facts. Fossils make abundantly apparent the unrealistic nature of this scenario and have revealed that Creation can no longer be denied.

NEEDLEFISH Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon The eyes, fins, gills, digestive systems, reproductive systems—in short, all the features of all the guitar fish that have ever lived throughout the course of history—have been fully formed, unique and ideally structured. In addition, these structures’ present-day forms are identical to what they were tens of millions of years ago. According to Darwinist claims, however, these fossils should present a diametrically opposite picture. The fossil record should be full of "half-needlefish." The fact that fossils do not fit the Darwinian picture, and actually exhibit structures that argue the exact opposite, is an expression of the dire straits into which the theory of evolution has fallen.

SQUID (with its pair) Age: 95 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Haqel, Lebanon Darwin knew that his theory could be verified only by the fossil record, for which reason he pinned great hopes on paleontological research. In one part of his book he said: ". . . if my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking closely together all the species of the same group, must assuredly have existed. . . . Consequently evidence of their former existence could be found only amongst fossil remains . . ." (Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 179) Yet no intermediate-form fossil has been found over the 150 or so years since Darwin’s day. So his claims have never been verified and confirmed. Fossils have buried Darwin’s theory of evolution, whose invalidity is now a proven fact. One such fossil is this 95-million-year-old fossil squid, identical to living present-day specimens.

FOSSIL SPECIMENS OF LAND ANIMALS

FOSSIL SPECIMENS OF LAND ANIMALS

HYENA SKULL Age: 80 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Gui Zhou, China Evolutionists who came after Darwin, who said, "I cannot conceive any existing reptile being converted into a mammal" (Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. II, New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1888), have also been unable to provide any convincing scientific account of the origin of mammals, despite all the advances in science and technology. Roger Lewin admits as much in the words "The transition to the first mammal, ... is still an enigma." (Roger Lewin, "Bones of Mammals’ Ancestors Fleshed Out," Science, Vol. 212, 26 June, 1981, p. 1492) Like this 80-million-year-old hyena fossil pictured, countless fossil specimens have condemned Darwinists to the hopeless position they are in now.

HYENA SKULL Age: 9.5 million years Period: Miocene Location: Shan Dong Zi Bo City, China One of greatest difficulties Darwinists face in accounting for the origin of mammals is the enormous diversity within that group. No findings support their imaginary family relations between mammals, which biologists now divide into very different groups—a fact admitted by the great majority of scientists. For example, the evolutionist zoologist Eric Lombard admits: "Those searching for specific information useful in constructing phylogenies of mammalian taxa will be disappointed." (R. Eric Lombard, "Review of Evolutionary Principles of the Mammalian Middle Ear, Gerald Fleischer," Evolution, Vol. 33, December 1979, p. 1230)

WEASEL SKULL Age: 60 million years Period: Paleocene Location: Shan Dong, China In examining evolutionist publications, one reads a great many stories adorned with plentiful scientific terminology on the subject of how reptiles turned into mammals. But one never finds there any rational, scientific explanation of how cold-blooded reptiles began manufacturing their own body heat and thus changed into warm-blooded mammals, or how they managed to exchange their scales for fur, or how they managed to begin producing milk in the absence of the necessary glands. That’s because evolutionists have no answers to such questions. If you ask a Darwinist if there are any fossils that demonstrate such a change, you will receive a profound silence. Because despite all their endeavors, evolutionists have never discovered any such fossil.

WOLVERINE SKULL Age: 60 million years Period: Paleocene Location: Gan Su, China Evolutionists’ scenarios regarding the origin of mammals are nothing more than stretching of their imaginations. There is not the slightest evidence for any of their claims, and it is scientifically impossible for reptiles to turn into mammals. As revealed by the 60-million-year-old fossil pictured, no mammal with its own unique characteristics came into being from a common ancestor. All mammalian species have survived unchanged throughout their time on Earth.

TIGER SKULL Age: 80 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Gan Su, China In his book Shattering the Myths of Darwinism, the science writer Richard Milton describes how Darwinists, despite all their misleading efforts, lack any scientific evidence to support their theory: "It is impossible for the genuinely objective person to say, 'Here is the conclusive scientific proof that I have been looking for.’" (Richard Milton, Shattering the Myths of Darwinism, p. 14.) As Milton states, anyone seeking hard evidence for the theory of evolution will return empty-handed. One subject that will cause such a person the greatest disappointment is the fossil record. Research over the last 150 years or so has unearthed not a single specimen to support the theory of evolution. All fossil findings unanimously declare that living things did not evolve, but were created.

WEASEL SKULL Age: 23 to 5 million years Period: Miocene Location: China Weasels, members of the family Mustelidae, are another life form that, with their structures that have remained unchanged for millions of years, refutes the claims of evolution. Like all branches of science, geological research reveals the invalidity of the theory of evolution and demonstrates the fact of Creation. Edmund J. Ambrose, a London University professor of cell biology, notes this state of affairs in these words: "At the present stage of geological research, we have to admit that there is nothing in the geological records that runs contrary to the view of conservative creationists, that God created each species separately…" (Edmund J. Ambrose, The Nature and Origin of the Biological World, John Wiley & Sons, 1982, p. 164)

SPOTTED DEER SKULL Age: 78 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Xin Jiang, China The idea that all of life is the product of an aimless, coincidental process is 19th -century nonsense. All the concrete findings obtained to date confirm that evolution is nonsense. One such finding is the fossil record itself. The process that only exists in evolutionists’ imaginations has never been supported by fossils. As can be seen in this 78-million-year-old spotted deer specimen, living things have remained the same over millions of years. This is one of the greatest proofs that evolution never occurred.

FEMALE BINTURONG SKULL Age: 88 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: South Yunnan, China These creatures, members of the family Viverridae, belong to the class Carnivora. Evolutionists are unable to account for the origins of the binturong, as they are with all other living things. These animals have no supposed forerunner in the fossil record, and there are no fossils to show that they came into being gradually. As revealed by the 88-million-year-old fossil illustrated here, these animals have had the same features ever since they first came into existence. They have never changed over millions of years—in other words, they have never evolved; they have created.

BOAR SKULL Age: 87 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Yunnan, China There are three known different species of boars, members of the family Suidae. Like all other life forms, boars have always existed as wild pigs and are not descended from any other species. Nor have they ever developed into any "later" one. Fossil findings prove this. Evolutionist demagoguery and propaganda are worthless in the face of the skull fossil pictured, which shows that wild pigs 88 million years ago had exactly the same features as their counterparts today. Evolutionists may have been able to deceive themselves, but they can no longer mislead rational, logical people by deceit.

WOLVERINE SKULL Age: 23 to 5 million years Period: Miocene Location: China Darwinists’ 150-year quest for an "intermediate" form fossil has so far proved fruitless. Modern-day evolutionists have no findings they can point to as evidence. The anthropologist Jeffrey H. Schwartz describes how the fossil record works against Darwinism: "... Instead of filling the gaps in the fossil record with so-called missing links, most paleontologists found themselves facing a situation in which there were only gaps in the fossil record, with no evidence of transformational intermediates between documented fossil species." (Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Sudden Origins, 1999, p. 89)

ANTELOPE SKULL Age: 83 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: He Zheng, Gan Su, China The fossil record deals a lethal blow to Darwinism, but evolutionists constantly seek to ignore this. Instead of talking about their fossil findings, evolutionists prefer to conjure up imaginary scenarios and engage in demagoguery to maintain their own propaganda. Yet no matter how much evolutionists flee from the facts, millions of fossils like the 83-million-year-old antelope skull pictured proclaim that evolution never happened.

TIBETAN SAND FOX SKULL Age: 86 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Du Lan County, Qing Hai, China Tibetan sand foxes, members of the order Carnivora, are also known simply as sand foxes. They generally feed on flightless birds, rabbits and other rodents. The fossil record proves that sand foxes have always existed as sand foxes and are not descended from any other life form. The 86-million-year-old sand fox skull fossil in the picture, being identical to that of sand foxes living today, is one of the proofs that evolutionists are simply giving tongue to their dreams. No process such as that claimed by Darwinists ever occurred, and evolutionist hypotheses are devoid of any supporting scientific evidence.

BROWN BEAR SKULL Age: 75 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Liao Yang, Liaoning, China Statements by George Gaylord Simpson, one of the 20th century’s leading evolutionists, show just howgreat the predicament facing the theory of evolution truly is: This is true of all thirty-two orders of mammals . . . The earliest and [allegedly ]most primitive known members of every order [of mammals] already have the basic ordinal characters, and in no case is an approximately continuous sequence from one order to another known. In most cases, the break is so sharp and the gap so large that the origin of the order is speculative and much disputed. . . .(George G. Simpson, Tempo and Mode in Evolution, New York: Columbia University Press,  1944, pp. 105, 107.) As evolutionists admit, Darwinism’s claims regarding the origin of life is no more than speculation. Concrete findings such as the 74-million-year brown bear skull illustrated show that Creation is a manifest reality.

PANDA SKULL Age: 96 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Xi Zang, China Pandas, which feed solely on bamboo shoots, are members of the family Ailuridae. Their homeland is the western regions of China. Pandas that lived 96 million years ago have all the features of present-day pandas. This fact, proved by fossils and which refute evolution, is plainly obvious for anyone to see. The fact that Darwinists insist on ignoring the evidence changes nothing. Living things did not emerge as the result of any evolutionary process. All things, living or otherwise, are created by God.

GRAY WOLF SKULL Age: 65 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: North East Ji Lin, China One of the findings in the face of the fossil record that make Darwinists despair is the 65-million-year-old gray wolf fossil pictured. Evolutionists are unable to offer a single finding to support the imaginary evolutionary process by which these animals supposedly emerged, even though countless fossils prove that these wolves never evolved, but were created.

FISHER SKULL Age: 78 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: He Zheng, Gan Su, China There is no difference between fisher s that lived 78 million years ago and those living today. If evolutionists' claims were true, then fishers should have undergone distinct changes over these intervening tens of millions of years and gradually turned into other life forms. Yet such a change never happened. The fact that living things have remained the same for millions of years is a lethal blow to the theory of evolution.

HYENA SKULL Age: 90 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Si Chuan, Gan Su, China The theory of evolution, for years propped up by false intermediate forms and speculation regarding the fossils of extinct life forms, has now reached the end of its days. Fossils that represent proof of Creation, so carefully concealed by Darwinists, have been placed before the public's gaze. Now, all evolutionists' lies regarding natural history have finally been exposed. The 90-million-year-old fossilized hyena skull pictured is another such finding. No one who sees how this fossil is identical to specimens alive today can believe in the myth of evolution any longer.

WOLVERINE SKULL Age: 90 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Zhou Kou Dian, Beijing, China Many Darwinists have led academic careers, read dozens of books, carried out countless pieces of research, and published many scientific papers. It is astonishing that they are still unable to see the most obvious truths. They are quite unable to understand, for instance, that the "living fossils"—living organisms that have never undergone the slightest change over the course of millions of years—represent a concrete refutation of Darwinism. They cannot bring themselves to admit the absence of any of the supposed "intermediate-form fossils" they need to confirm their theories. Despite Darwinists’ difficulties in admitting this truth, countless fossils such as the 90-million-year-old skull in the picture all demonstrate that evolution never occurred.

CROCODILE Age: 65 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: Shang Dong, China Darwinists maintain that marine life forms represent the ancestors of reptiles. According to this claim—which is uncorroborated by any scientific finding—fish left stranded without water were one day forced to emerge onto dry land, thus giving rise to reptiles. Yet not one single fossilized half-fish, half-reptile to support this scenario has ever been encountered. Among all the hundreds of thousands of fossils found so far, fish always appear as distinct fish, and reptiles as obvious reptiles. Every fossil discovered is identical to its counterparts alive today, or else belongs to a species that once existed, but has become extinct. One example is the 65-million-year-old fossil crocodile pictured, a proof that crocodiles have always existed as crocodiles.

FROG Age: 40 million years Period: Eocene Location: Shang Dong, China The evolutionist scenario claims that fish, which evolved from invertebrates, later turned into amphibians capable of living on dry land. Yet as with all other evolutionary tales, there is no evidence for this scenario. Not a single fossil suggestive of any half-fish, half-amphibian has ever been found. On the contrary, all the fossils unearthed to date prove that fish have always existed as fish, and amphibians as amphibians. The 40-million-year-old frog fossil pictured proves that frogs have never altered in all that time—in other words, that they never evolved.

SALAMANDER LARVA Age: 290 million years Period: Permian Location: Rheinpfalz, Germany Evolutionists claim that fish are the supposed forerunners of amphibians like the salamander, even though they are completely unable to substantiate those claims. There are three different types of fish that Darwinists point to as the ancestors of amphibians. One of these is the famous "living fossil," the coelacanth. However, when a living specimen was caught in the Indian Ocean in 1938, it was finally realized that all the evolutionists’ speculations regarding this creature had been invalid. Another fish group come from the class Rhipidistia which—like the coelacanth—have thick tissue and bones in their fins. On account of these different structures, evolutionists claimed that these appendages developed into feet. The fact is, however, that these structures bear not the slightest resemblance to the fore and hind legs of terrestrial animals. Evolutionists’ third candidate for the role of amphibian ancestor is the lungfish. In addition to breathing through gills, these fish can also come to the surface and breathe air. However, the structure of these fishes’ lungs again bears no similarity to that of terrestrial life forms. The fish’s skeletal structure is also completely different from that of amphibians. No matter which species of fish evolutionists may choose to regard as the supposed forebear of amphibians, an enormous number of changes would be needed in order for that fish to be able to transform itself into an amphibian. Therefore, there should be an equally vast number of intermediate forms between the two: There must have been odd-looking creatures with half-formed feet and half-fins, with both half-gills and half-developed lungs, or with semi-developed kidneys etc, numbering in the millions. However, not a single one has ever been encountered in the fossil record. Among the countless fossils in existence, there are fully formed fish and fully formed amphibians, but no intermediate forms. This is something that evolutionists do admit from time to time, even though it totally refutes their theory.

CROCODILE Age: 65 million years Period: Cretaceous Location: China Darwinists maintain that reptiles are descended from amphibians. Yet just as they cannot corroborate the claim that amphibians have a common forerunner, so are they unable to substantiate the claim that reptiles are descended from amphibians. Many scientists are well aware of this. For example, Robert L. Carroll, author of the book Problems of the Origins of Reptiles, writes: "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 amphibian-reptilian transition unanswered." (Robert L. Carroll, "Problems of the Origin of Reptiles," Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Vol. 44, No. 3, July 1969, p. 393) The 90-million-year-old crocodile fossil pictured is proof that crocodiles are not descended from any supposed ancestor, but have always existed as crocodiles, remaining unchanged over tens of millions of years.

AN ELEPHANT’S FRONT TOOTH Age: 60 million years Period: Paleocene Location: Yun Nan, China The fossil pictured is that of a 60-million-year-old elephant’s tooth. This fossil reveals that elephants living 60 million years ago had the same dental features as those living today, and is one of the findings that refute evolution.