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(From Leicester Mercury)
Like most people, I accepted evolution until I was prompted to ask questions after reading a paper about DNA.
If Darwin was right, the fossil record would have been liberally littered throughout with transitional forms, yet the fervent evolutionist, Stephen Jay Gould, said "all palaeontologists know that the fossil record contains very little in the way of intermediate forms. Transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt".
Instead, the fossil record shows specimens of creatures that are alive today or that have become extinct, with "missing links" dismissed as fakes.
The so-called gill slits of a human embryo have nothing to do with gills, and the human embryo does not pass through a fish stage or any other evolutionary stage.
Another favourite "proof" of evolution still found in school textbooks is peppered moths, which supposedly evolved from light to dark in response to industrial pollution in England.
In 1959, H B Kettlewell heralded this as "Darwin's missing evidence". Then the awkward fact ...