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[[Creationist]]s claim that transitional forms between different kinds of creatures are systematically absent.
[[Creationist]]s claim that transitional forms between different kinds of creatures are systematically absent.
Anti-creationists typically reject this claim. One such attempted rebuttal is that by [[Kathleen Hunt]] who created a Transitional Vertebrate Fossil FAQ.<ref>Hunt, Kathleen, [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional.html Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ] (Talk.Origins)</ref>
Anti-creationists typically reject this claim. One such attempted rebuttal is that by [[Kathleen Hunt]] who created a Transitional Vertebrate Fossil FAQ.<ref>Hunt, Kathleen, [http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-transitional.html Transitional Vertebrate Fossils FAQ] (Talk.Origins)</ref>
== The lack of transitional forms ==
Many scientists have admitted the lack of transitional fossils.
The late paleontologist [[Stephen Jay Gould]] said:
{{QuoteBox|The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution.<ref>Quoted in Sarfati, Jonathan, [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/3832 Refuting Evolution], chapter 3.</ref>}}
The senior palaeontologists at the [[British Museum of Natural History]], [[Colin Patterson]], agreed with Gould, when asked why he didn't have any illustrations of transitional forms in his book:
{{QuoteBox|I fully agree with your comments on the lack of direct illustration of evolutionary transitions in my book. If I knew of any, fossil or living, I would certainly have included them. ... Yet Gould and the American Museum people are hard to contradict when they say there are no transitional fossils. I will lay it on the line- there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.<ref>Sunderland, Lewis, ''Darwin's Enigma'', 1988, pp. 88-90 (Quoted in [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1918 Those fossils are a problem], ''Creation'' 14(4):44–45, September 1992).</ref>}}
==See also==
==See also==