Transitional Forms That Never Existed If a process of evolution
had really taken place on Earth, and had all living species
actually descended from a single common ancestor, then some
clear evidence of this would be discovered in the fossil record.
The well-known French zoologist Pierre Grassé says this:
Naturalists must remember that the process of evolution is
revealed only through fossil forms... only paleontology can
provide them with the evidence of evolution and reveal its
course or mechanisms.2 In order to see why this should be so, we
need a brief look at the theory of evolution’s fundamental
claim: that all living things are descended from one another. A
living organism, which previously came into existence in a
random manner, gradually turned into another, with all ensuing
species coming into being—or evolving—that same way. According
to this unscientific claim, all plants, animals, fungi and
bacteria came into being in the same manner. The 100 or so
different animal phyla (comprising such basic cat