VARIOUS FOSSILS

BINTURONG SKULL Age: 88 million years old Location: Yun Nan, China Period: Cretaceous Darwin imagined that living things changed slowly. In his view, all living things, humans included, were descended from other species and thus arrived at their modern-day appearances. Given that 19th-century science provided no evidence to support his hypothesis, Darwin believed that the intermediate-form fossils that should exist would be found at a later date. Darwin’s closest followers inherited this legacy of belief. Ever since that time, they have ceaselessly looked for the intermediate forms that Darwin believed would eventually be forthcoming. However, it did not take long to realize that Darwin had been mistaken. The unaltered life forms in the fossil record definitively refuted Darwinism. One blow to this superstitious belief, sought to be kept alive solely as an ideology, is the 88-million-year-old binturong skull illustrated.

TASMANIAN DEVIL SKULL Age: 32 million years old Location: An Hui, China Period: Oligocene The British paleontologist Derek W. Ager describes how the fossil record poses a major difficulty for the theory of evolution: 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 A. Ager, “The Nature of the Fossil Record”, Proceedings of the British Geological Association, Vol. 87, 1976, p. 133) One fossil that proves that its species never passed through any intermediate stages is the 32-million-year-old Tasmanian devil skull pictured here.

TURTLE Age: 98 million years old Location: Shan Li Mountain, China Period: Cretaceous Darwinists, who maintain that living species are descended from another and develop by constant small changes, are at a loss to explain the stasis, or total stability, observed within those same species. The theory of evolution, which maintains that human beings are descended from apes, must explain why no other life forms underwent the imaginary transition similar to the one from ape to human. Evolutionists have no rational and logical answer to give. Birds never changed. Rhinoceroses, foxes and hyenas never changed; and neither did the 98-million-year old turtle shown here. Neither did human beings. The idea that Darwinists seek to impose on the public—that living things make progress by small changes and eventually develop into other life forms entirely—is a massive lie.

POLAR BEAR SKULL Age: 74 million years old Location: Liaoning, China Period: Cretaceous The Atlas of Creation series and this book offer important evidence that can only add to Darwinists’ panic, showing them that evolution is dead and that they can no longer deceive the world. This 74-million-year-old polar bear skull, for instance, is identical to the skulls of polar bears alive today—sufficient on its own to undermine Darwinists’ arguments. As the evidence increases declaring that Darwinism is invalid, the more Darwinists seek to give the impression that “We are alive and well.” They try to use propaganda techniques to fight an intellectual struggle that they were unable to wage with science. They attempt to cover up studies that demolish Darwinism. But this behavior does not prevent them from seeing, albeit subconsciously, the scale of the collapse that has taken place.

COYOTE SKULL Age: 65 million years old Location: Qing Hai, China Period: Cretaceous When a living thing first appears in the fossil record, it then continues on in the same form for the millions of years that follow. All the fossils illustrated in this book, such as this 65-million-year-old coyote skull, are just a few examples. Like all other life forms, coyotes of 65 million years ago possessed the same appearance and structures as they do today. This totally demolishes the whole concept of evolution. This state of affairs, which applies to all living things, inevitably applies to human beings as well. Humans have always existed as human beings, ever since the moment they were first created, and have never undergone the slightest change. Given that so many life forms clearly refute all claims of evolution, there can be no scientific foundation to the scenarios concerning human evolution dreamed up by Darwinists. The teeth of the fossil illustrated can be seen in full detail, offering significant proof that coyotes living 65 million years ago were identical to those alive today.

SASSAFRAS LEAF Age: 54-37 million years old Location: Cache Creek Formation, British Columbia, Canada Period: Eocene One of the most familiar forms of Darwinist propaganda are groundless slogans along the lines of “Rejection of the theory of evolution is a dogma,” or “Denying the theory of evolution is unscientific.” In fact, however, such statements are preconceptions based on evolutionists’ biased conception of science. “Science,” according to the Darwinist definition, is not a discipline that researches, investigates and analyses its findings in a neutral manner and then accepts the results of those findings. According to Darwinists, scientific inquiries must first confirm their own beliefs and ideas and in the process, which findings must be interpreted by distorting them in line with evolutionist dogma. To put it another way, evolutionists portray their biased interpretations, rather than the evidence itself, as science. Darwinist science is an attempt not to uncover the facts, but to interpret them selectively and distort them.

KATSURA TREE LEAF Age: 65-54 million years Location: Spain Period: Paleocene One of the most significant facts revealed by the fossil record is that living species appeared in a single moment, together with all their characteristics. In other words, there is no sign any species that developed from a primitive form and slowly began to acquire all its limbs. All living species were flawless and fully formed from the moment they emerged, and those species that have survived are still identical to their original form. The book The Origin of Species Revisited describes how this represents a serious dilemma for Darwinism: The abrupt manner in which whole groups of species suddenly appear in certain formations, has been urged by several palaeontologists—for instance, by Agassiz, Pictet, and Sedgwick—as a fatal objection to the belief in the transmutation of species. If numerous species, belonging to the same genera or families, have really started into life at once, the fact would be fatal to the theory of evolution through natural selection. (The Origin of Species Revisited, p. 46)

ASH LEAF Age: 23-5 million years old Location: Spain Period: Miocene If Darwinists think scientifically, as they claim to, then they should act not in the light of their ideology—their imaginings, in other words—but rather according to facts and the concrete findings. The concrete fact revealed by paleontologists today is that each living species appeared suddenly and has never changed so long as as it has survived. The meaning of this is evident: life never evolved. Like the universe itself, life is the work of God, the Creator. The 23- to 5-million-year-old ash leaf in the picture once again serves as a reminder to everyone.

MYRICA LEAF Age: 30 million years old Location: Cereste, France Period: Oligocene Rather than debate the meaning of scientific findings, Darwinists prefer to resort to psychological propaganda techniques, to restrict freedom of thought by banning works that refute evolution, and to influence the public by adopting a mocking style. They usually employ psychological warfare techniques for that purpose. Evolutionists should not turn a deaf ear to others and resort to slander, insult and flase accusations without even a glance at the available evidence and documentation. If they are truly confident in their theory and possess scientific evidence, they should display it to silence their opposition on an intellectual level. However, they have never yet done so, and it is impossible for them to do so, because Darwinists have not a single piece of evidence to support their theory.

DIOSPYROS Age: 40 million years old Location: France Period: Eocene According to Darwinists’ unscientific claims, date trees, pine trees, cacti, orchids, carnations, roses, cherry trees, grasses, ferns—in short, all plants share the same imaginary forebear. But when asked about the nature of this common forebear, or by what stages different plants diverged from one another and finally assumed their present forms, evolutionists have no scientic response to give. E. J. H. Corner, an evolutionist botanist from Cambridge University, admits that evolutionists have no answers on the subject of the origin of plants: The words of widely recognized evolutionist botanist E.J.H. Corner of Cambridge University still ring true 40 years after he wrote them: “But I still think that, to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favour of special creation . . . Can you imagine how an orchid, a duckweed, and a palm have come from the same ancestry, and have we any evidence for this assumption? The evolutionist must be prepared with an answer, but I think that most would break down before an inquisition.” ( E.J.H. Corner, Prof of Botany, Cambridge University, England, Evolution in Contemporary Botanical Thought, Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961, p. 97) The level of science and technology of the 21st century has made Corner’s concerns more valid. Countless scientific findings, and the fossil record in particular, have placed Darwinism in an insoluble dilemma—not in the field of botany alone, but in all branches of science. In their intellectual death throes, Darwinists are trying to keep their theory alive and to prepare for questions they may be faced with. Yet they still have not a single scientific answer to give.

ARAUCARIAN CONE Age: 170 million years old Location: Patagonia, Argentina Period: Jurassic The fossil illustrated here, which proves aucarias have undergone not the slightest alteration over the last 170 million years, condemns Darwinists to profound silence. The late evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould expressed the silence and “embarrassment” of Darwinists before the fossil record: "The overwhelming prevalence of stasis became an embarrassing feature of the fossil record.”(Stephen Jay Gould, “Cordelia's Dilemma,” Natural History, February 1993, p.15) Darwinists’ embarrassment in the face of the fossil record arises from the lie they have propagated for the last 150 years. They spent decades describing how life forms supposedly assumed their present forms by a series of gradual changes and misled the public in what has become a major fraud in the history of science, and are entirely justified in feeling embarrassed by the reality revealed by the fossil record. They should now let that embarrassment lead them to the truth and stop knowingly espousing a lie.

TURKEY OAK LEAF Age: 5-1.8 million years old Location: Sofia, Bulgaria Period: Pliocene Most evolutionist books or articles present a great many fantastical tales. These describe processes that could never have taken place and that are scientifically impossible. You’ll read how the first cell emerged from a pool of mud, how fish one day decided to move onto dry land and turned into hundreds of different species and how reptiles one day took to the air as birds. But all these tales are science fiction, and far frombeing scienctific. The main hero of these tales is blind chance. In his book The Great Evolution Mystery, Gordon Rattray Taylor says this on the subject: Evolutionary history is a mass of such modifications; one could almost say it consists of them. Scales become feathers. Legs become wings. Stomachs become swim bladders. Even at the level of biochemical processes, substitutions and elaborations occur. All Darwinism has to say about such miracles is that they are due to chance. (Gordon Rattray Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery, New York: Harper & Row, 1983, p.10) The fact is, however, that chance can never produce an order requiring intelligence and consciousness. No logical person can accept that the variety and complexity displayed by living things are the work of chance. Coincidence can never give rise to bright flowers, delicious fruits and vegetables, leopards, rabbits, tigers, birds, ants and human beings able to found whole civilizations. Life and everything we see around us is the work of Almighty God, the Omniscient Lord of sublime artistry.

JUNIPER LEAF Age: 5-1.8 million years Location: Sofia, Bulgaria Period: Pliocene Since the early 20th century, the theory of evolution, constantly depicted as a scientific reality by some circles, has received a string of lethal blows—which, however, have been carefully concealed from the public. Darwinists constantly issue propaganda suggesting that nothing has changed, but they never mention the countless fossils that serve as evidence of Creation and continue relating the same, familiar tales. One of the most notable aspects of evolutionist propaganda is that they almost never feel the need to back up their tales with any scientific findings. Phillip Johnson describes the position: There is no requirement that any of this speculation be confirmed either experimental or fossil evidence. To Darwinists, just being able to imagine the process is sufficient to confirm that something like that must have happened. (Phillip Johnson, Objection Sustained, p. 23) On its own, in fact, this situation is proof of Darwinists’ despair. They are obliged to rely on their own imaginations, because scientific data offer their theory no support. Countless fossils, such as the juniper leaf illustrated, prove that evolution never took place. For that reason, Darwinists prefer to seek refuge in speculation rather than seek to explain the evidence.

MOUNTAIN ASH LEAF Age: 50 million years old Location: Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada Period: Eocene Mountain ash trees are the same today as they were 50 million years ago. In other words, in the past the Earth was not inhabited by primitive, semi-developed and odd-looking animals and plants, as evolutionists would have us believe. The Earth of 50 million years ago was not filled with life forms busily developing stage by stage. All living things then had the same physical features, limbs and fully formed structures as those living today, and were identical to them in appearance. The fossil pictured is an obvious evidence of that.

APPLE LEAF Age: 50 million years old Location: Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada Period: Eocene Just as sourcherries have always existed as sourcherries, apples also have always been apples. The apple did not emerge by descent from some other peculiar fruit. Darwin’s claim, proposed some 150 years ago, that living things are descended from one another through very small changes, still lacks any confirmatory evidence, despite the passage of all those years. The evolutionist Richard Darwkins admits this “painful” fact for evolutionists: One hundred and twenty five years on, we know a lot more about animals and plants than Darwin did, and still not a single case is known to me of complex organs that could not have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications. I do not believe that such a case will ever be found. (Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, p.91)

CHERRY LAUREL LEAF Age: 50 million years old Location: Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada Period: Eocene Cherry laurel trees in the past lived in the same manner as today’s. Were Darwinists telling the truth, then present-day cherry laurel trees should bear no resemblance, or only a partial one, to those of the past. In addition, other fossils should be able to show how the cherry laurel trees of the past turned into the trees of today. But over the last two centuries or so, Darwinists have been unable to obtain any evidence of this process, which exists solely in their imaginations. All the findings made reveal that cherry laurels have always existed as cherry laurels, that they have not evolved, and that they were therefore created.

TARPON Age: 110 million years old Location: Ceara, Brazil Period: Cretaceous In his book Missing Links, Robert A. Martin says: If the creationist model is correct, there can be no ancestor-descendant relationships, no evolutionary progression of any kind. If the evolution model is correct and with a dense enough fossil record, intermediates at all structural and chronological scales should be found. (Robert A. Martin, Missing Links: Evolutionary Concepts and Transitions Through Time, Jones and Barlett Publishers, UK, 2004, p. 8) Without exception, all fossil specimens, of which this book describes only a few show that there is no line of descent between life forms, and that every species emerged suddenly with its own particular characteristics. Excavations have failed to turn up even one semi-developed life form or intermediate form fossil. Given this evidence, it is clear that evolution is invalid, and Creation is an undeniable fact.

FILEFISH Age: 4 million years old Location: Marecchio River Formation, Italy Period: Pliocene Filefish, members of the Monacanthidae family, live in tropical or subtropical waters. There are 107 known species within that family. One of the most important characteristics of most of these species is that they are masters of camouflage, able to conceal themselves by changing color to match their surroundings and thus protect themselves from predators. This Monacanthus fossil is 4 million years old, evident proof that this species never evolved. Living things are not descended from one another by undergoing constant change in the manner suggested by Darwinists. Almighty God created the universe and all the life forms within it.

OCTOPUS Age: 95 million years old Location: Hjoula, Lebanon Period: Cretaceous Octopi, whose high capacity for learning has been tested in the laboratory, are also masters of camouflage. This ability depends upon specially created skin cells. Thanks to their skin cells’ ability to change color, become opaque and reflect light, they can protect themselves from danger and also warn other octopi of potential danger. Some octopi do even more: They camouflage themselves by imitating other sea creatures. These, known as “mimic octopi,” assume the appearance of frightening-looking life forms such as lionfish and sea snakes. But could octopi have acquired these features in stages over the course of time, as evolutionists maintain? Were the first octopi strange-looking, semi-developed creatures with rudimentary organs, very different from those living today? One of the main ways of determining this is by examining the fossil record. When we do that, no matter how far back in time we go we encounter fossil octopi exactly the same as their counterparts living today. This is one of the main proofs of the invalidity of evolutionist claims. Octopi did not evolve, but were created by Omniscient and Almighty God, together with all their characteristics.

SEAHORSE Age: 4 million years old Location: Marecchio River Formation, Italy Period: Pliocene The seahorse’s head stands at a right angle to its body, a feature is not present in any other fish. That is why seahorses swim upright and can move their heads up and down. However, they cannot move their heads from side to side. Were other living things to have this inability to move their heads from side to side, it would represent a problem exposing them to all kinds of threats. But thanks to the special structure of their body, seahorses never experience any such problem. They have been created able to move their eyes in all directions, independently of one another, and can easily see all round them, even without being able to move their heads from side to side. If Darwinists’ claims were true, then the seahorse should have been eliminated long before it developed this appropriate eye structure, and it should never have survived down to the present day. It should be impossible for a seahorse with an upright head, unable to see behind it, to survive, so seahorses should have become extinct. This means that, like all other living things, seahorses did not evolve, but were in fact created in a single moment, with their heads are attached to their bodies at a right angle, able to move their eyes independently in all directions, and with all their other characteristics.

POLYIPNUS Age: 35 million years old Location: Sobniow, Poland Period: Oligocene Fish of the polyipnus species, members of the family Sternoptychidae are some of the living things that prove that Darwinism is nothing more than speculations. There is no difference between polyipnus living 35 million years ago and those alive today.

KILLFISH Age: 3 million years old Location: Lahontan Beds, Nevada, USA Period: Pliocene Evolutionists claim that Darwin’s theory answered the question of how life and living species emerged. Indeed, that’s the reason behind for materialists’ and atheists’ blind devotion to the theory of evolution: They imagine that it gives them an alternative answer to Creation. But this is a grave error. Darwin’s claims have never been verified by any scientific data, neither in his own day or afterwards. On the contrary, science has proved that Darwin’s scenario is impossible. In short, there is no other scientific and rational answer to the question of the origin of life than Creation. The evolutionist paleontologist George Simpson admits how Darwin’s theory fails to answer any questions: Darwin was always utterly helpless to answer any valid objections to his theory. (Gordon Rattray Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery, p. 140)

SOLDIER FISH Age: 95 million years old Location: Lebanon Period: Creataceous The fossil record shows that living things have not changed over tens or usually hundreds of millions of years. This evident truth represents a major dilemma for Darwinists, as many evolutionists are aware. For example, the evolutionist paleontologist Steven M. Stanley describes how Darwinist accounts are incompatible with fossils: More generally, any topsy-turvy sequence of fossils would force us to rethink our theory. . . (Steven M. Stanley, The New Evolutionary Timetable, New York, 1981, p. 3) One of the countless fossils imposing a review of the facts on evolutionists is the 95-million-year-old soldier fish pictured. Soldier fish have never changed over 95 million years and thus refute evolution.

SQUIRREL FISH Age: 50 million years Location: Monte Bolca, Italy Period: Eocene The fossil record shows no gradual, stage-by-stage development of the kind claimed by evolutionists. There’s no evidence that living things are descended from any supposed common ancestor. Findings have revealed that living things are not descended from one another and that no species ever changed for as long as it survived. In other words, species never evolved, as is described by the Oxford University zoologist Mark Pagel: But instead of finding the slow, smooth and progressive changes Lyell and Darwin had expected, they saw in the fossil records rapid bursts of change, new species appearing seemingly out of nowhere and then remaining unchanged for millions of years-patterns hauntingly reminiscent of creation. (Mark Pagel, "Happy Accidents?," Nature 397:665, 25 February 1999)

WOLF HERRING Age: 95 million years old Location: Haqel, Lebanon Period: Cretaceous Because fossils demolish the claims of evolution, Darwinists usually ignore them, or else attempt to use them as tools for propaganda by means of various distortions. However, the recent exhibition of hundreds of fossils in displays, books and websites has made apparent for all to see the quandary facing evolutionists. When you can compare fossils and living specimens side by side, you have no difficulty in realizing that evolution is a lie, and need no further explanation. That is why evolutionists are in a state of panic. They are helplessly watching the global collapse of their theory, from which there can be no return. One proof of the collapse of the theory of evolution is the 95-million-year-old wolf herring fossil illustrated.

TANG Age: 95 million years old Location: Haqel, Lebanon Period: Cretaceous In The Origin of Species Revisited, Wendell R. Bird states that the theory of evolution’s claim of intermediate forms is a fantasy: The geological record . . . tells now what it has told from the beginning, that the supposed intermediate forms between the species of different geological periods are imaginary beings, called up merely in support of a fanciful theory. (Wendell R. Bird, The Origin of Species Revisited, Thomas Nelson Inc, December 1991, p. 44) To date, the fossil research has never produced any intermediate-form specimen to support evolutionist claims. No fossil indicating a line of descent between species has ever been unearthed. Tang fish fossils, for instance, never have any semi- or half-developed organs. No matter how far back in time one searches, every fish fossil has exactly the same characteristics as those fish living today. The 95-million-year-old tang fish fossil in the picture is just one example.

SHRIMP Age: 150 million years old Location: Solnhofen Formation, Germany Period: Jurassic If shrimps really had an evolutionary forebear of the kind that Darwinists maintain, then there should be fossilized examples of what kind of a creature that alleged “proto-shrimp” looked like. Yet the fossil record provides not the slightest evidence that any such ancestor ever lived. Moreover, the fossil record contains no trace at all of any evolutionary stages that shrimps supposedly went through. No “shrimp-like” fossil has ever been found that that has not yet acquired all the particular characteristics of modern-day shrimps. No matter how old they are, all fossilized shrimps are identical to those still living today. The 150-million-year-old shrimp pictured here also possesses all of present-day shrimps’ flawless features. Under these circumstances, no one can speak logically of “shrimp evolution.” Like all other living species, shrimps never evolved at all. Life is the work of our Glorious and Majestic God.

BLUE WHITING Age: 5 million years old Location: Marecchia River Formation, Italy Period: Miocene The Swedish scientist Søren Løvtrup states that evolution is the greatest deceit of science as thus: I believe that one day the Darwinian myth will be ranked the greatest deceit in the history of science. And countless scientific findings, such as the blue whiting in the picture, have already shown that evolution never happened and that it is a great deceit. It is pointless for evolutionists to try to ignore such findings. Running from the truth changes nothing.