Encyclopedia Vol. 2 Appendix Part 1 FOSSILS AND STRATA The only
past evidence available to us of the evolution from one species
through transitional species to others is the fossil record in
the sedimentary *McLoughlin assures us that the proof of
evolution is available, and that it is to be found in the
evidence in the rocks. [After considering Archbishop Ussher's
famous chronology as being a search for the limits of time on
our planet:] "Today we continue Archbishop Ussher's search, but
we now use a far more accurate source of information than his
Bible. From the beginning of its history, the earth has
maintained a detailed geological journal . . " *J. C.
McLoughlin, Archosauria (1979), p. 1. The case for evolution
rests in the rocks. "If evolution has taken place, there [on the
rocks] will its mark be left: if it has not taken place, there
will be its refutation." H. Enoch, quoting T.H. Huxley in
Evolution or Creation, (1966), p. 51. *Pierre Grass agrees.
"Naturalists must remember that the process of evol