(cont'd from yesterday's post)
Despite the lack of much evidence from the fossil record, some scientists wanted to find a way to make sense of Darwin's theory of macro-evolution (that all species of life developed by way of natural selection working on random variations, not by the work of a Designer).
Charles Darwin himself had a suggestion. When he published the book (1859), he knew that most of earth's fossil record had not been investigated yet. So he suggested that future fossil research would reveal those slowly evolving animal forms in between species. They had to be there.
But another 163 years of paleontological progress since Darwin's time has found that . . they are not there. Species do evolve in the sense of minor changes over time. (That's micro-evolution and it's been observed. It is not disputed.) But innumerable intermediates forming a gradual trail of animals turning into other species since life began? No.
For more attempts to get around the fossil problem that worried Charles Darwin, view yesterday's video or go here.
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