Letter: The fossil record does not support theory of evolution

, as I did not mention fossils at all! My question was, how could paintings, petroglyphs, stone carvings and brass plates have been produced by people hundreds of years before dinosaur bones were even discovered if they had not seen the real thing and knew what they looked like?

The present popular view of the fossil record as showing a development of creatures from simple to complex over millions of years is seriously flawed. If it was true, we would not expect to find living fossils today as they should have become extinct.

Darwin saw fossils as a very serious problem with his evolutionary view. It does not stand up to examination. He suggested that as more and more fossils were discovered we would find transitional and intermediate forms.

However, not a single such species has been discovered. On the contrary, every unearthed fossil specimen has possessed features and characteristics that prove its species has never changed!

Many years ago I was sent a large, very heavy book by a Muslim scholar showing photographs of fossils and their living counterparts. The accompanying letter said: "Charles Darwin and his followers asserted that the millions of different species, living and extinct on the earth have evolved from one another by coincidence.

"But the fossil record, 99 per cent of which has been excavated over the last 150 years, documents that organisms have not undergone the slightest change for even hundreds of millions of years.

"Within the roughly hundred million fossils relating to 250,000 species catalogued by scientists so far (New Scientist, 15.01.1981, p 129) there exists not a single example that supports evolution."

Sadly, despite the increasing body of evidence to the contrary, Darwinian evolution continues to be taught as the only theory of origins allowed in our education system, to the detriment of real scientific study and the ability to reason properly.

David Burton, Calverhall

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