Creation - The Fossils Say Yes

No one has devoted himself more wholeheartedly than Simpson (Gaylord) to

what Dobzhansky has called "the mechanistic materialist philosophy

shared by most of the present establishment in the biological sciences."

- T. Dobzhansky, Science 175:49

Simpson asserts that most paleontologists "find it logical, if not

scientifically required, to assume that the sudden appearance of a new

systematic group is not evidience for creation..." -G.G. Simpson, "The

Major Features of Evolution, Columbia University.

Simpson has thus expended considerable effort in attempts to bend and

twist every facet of evolution theory to explain away the deficiences of

the fossil record. - Simpson, "The Major Features of Evolution" p 360;

Tempo and Mode in Evolution pp. 105-124; The Evolution of Life pp.

360-376.

One needs to be reminded, however, that if evolution is adopted

as priori principle, it is always possible to imagine auxiliary

hypotheses-unproved and by nature unprovable-to make it work in any

specific case. By this process biological evolution degenerates into

what Thorpe calls one of his "four pillars of unwisdom" --mental

evolution that is the reslut of random tries preserved by

reinforcements. -W. Thorpe, New Scientist.

In reference to the nature of the record, Arnold has said:

It has long been hoped that extinct plants will

ultimately reveal soem of the stages through which exisiting

groups have passed during the course of their development, but

it must freely be admitted that this aspiration has been

fulfilled to a very slight extent, even though paleobotanical

research has been in progress for more than one hundred years. -

C.A. Arnold, "An Introduction To Paleobotany"

The following remarks of Professor E.J.H Corner of the Cambridge

univerity botany school were quite candid:

Much evidence can be adduced in favor of the theory of

evolution - from biology, biogeography, and palentology, but I

still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of

plants is in favor of special creation. - Corner, "Contemporary

Botanical thought", p. 97

"In the beginning God Created the Heavens and the earth..."