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There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known. . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but a tiny fraction of the diversity that [according to the theory] actually lived in the past. There are well over a million species living today and. . [it is] possible to predict how many species ought to be in our fossil record. That number is at least 100 times the number we have found.

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A large number of well-trained scientists outside of evolutionary biology and paleontology have unfortunately gotten the idea that the fossil record is far more Darwinian than it is. This probably comes from the oversimplification inevitable in secondary sources: low-level textbooks semipopular articles, and so on. Also, there is probably some wishful thinking involved. In the years after Darwin, his advocates hoped to find predictable progressions. In general. these have not been found-yet the optimism has died hard and some pure fantasy has crept into textbooks.

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We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much. . . We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.

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250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin.

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A new theory is guilty until proven innocent, and the pre-existing theory innocent until proven guilty. . . Continental drift was guilty until proven innocent.

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There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99. 9 percent failure!

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