The Fossil Record Verifies Creation: Stasis In The Fossil Record
Paleontologists conducting research in ancient strata encounter
very important fossils that are millions of years old, yet the
duplicates of living spiders, flies, frogs, turtles and fish.
According to the theory of evolution, these life forms should
have exhibited changes over the course of millions of years.
They lived in the most ancient periods in the most complex
forms, and have come down unchanged to the present day. In other
words, they never evolved. There is a stasis or stability in the
fossil record, which—according to evolutionists—should not be
there at all. Darwin foresaw that life forms that had remained
the same for untold millions of years would represent a major
difficulty for his theory, and he frequently referred to this.
These special species were even given the name of "living
fossils" by Darwin himself! The evolutionist paleontologist
Peter Douglas Ward emphasizes this problem of Darwin's: Still,
Darwin's central tenet was