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== The Fossil Record and Evolutionary Theory ==

== The Fossil Record and Evolutionary Theory ==

[[Creationism|Creationists]] can cite quotations which assert that no solid fossil evidence for the theory of evolution position exists:

[[Creationism|Creationists]] can cite quotations which assert that no solid fossil evidence for the theory of evolution position exists:

 

{{cquote|"...I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favour of special creation. - E.J.H. Corner (Professor of Botany, Cambridge University, England), “Evolution” in Anna M. MacLeod and L. S. Cobley (eds.), Contemporary Botanical Thought (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961), p. 97<ref>Christian Answers Network, [http://www.christiananswers.net/creation/orb-fossil-ref.html The Fossil Record - References]</ref><ref>Dr. [[Walt Brown]], [http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes23.html Notes and References: Fossil Gaps]</ref>}}

{{cquote|"...I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favour of special creation. - E.J.H. Corner (Professor of Botany, Cambridge University, England), “Evolution” in Anna M. MacLeod and L. S. Cobley (eds.), Contemporary Botanical Thought (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1961), p. 97<ref>Christian Answers Network, [http://www.christiananswers.net/creation/orb-fossil-ref.html The Fossil Record - References]</ref><ref>Dr. [[Walt Brown]], [http://www.creationscience.com/onlinebook/ReferencesandNotes23.html Notes and References: Fossil Gaps]</ref>}}

{{cquote|"We then move right off the register of objective truth into those fields of presumed biological science, like extrasensory perception or the interpretation of man's fossil history, where to the faithful anything is possible - and where the ardent believer is sometimes able to believe several contradictory things at the same time." - Lord Solly Zuckerman (professor of anatomy at Birmingham University in England and chief scientific adviser to the British government from the time period of 1964 to 1971), Beyond The Ivory Tower, Toplinger Publications, New York, 1970, p. 19.<ref>Sean Pitman, M.D., [http://www.detectingdesign.com/earlyman.html Early Man]</ref><ref>[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jzuckerman.htm Solly Zuckerman: Biography]</ref>}}

{{cquote|"We then move right off the register of objective truth into those fields of presumed biological science, like extrasensory perception or the interpretation of man's fossil history, where to the faithful anything is possible - and where the ardent believer is sometimes able to believe several contradictory things at the same time." - Lord Solly Zuckerman (professor of anatomy at Birmingham University in England and chief scientific adviser to the British government from the time period of 1964 to 1971), Beyond The Ivory Tower, Toplinger Publications, New York, 1970, p. 19.<ref>Sean Pitman, M.D., [http://www.detectingdesign.com/earlyman.html Early Man]</ref><ref>[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jzuckerman.htm Solly Zuckerman: Biography]</ref>}}