[TBC: The late Stephen J. Gould occasionally griped about Creationists using his words to critique evolution. Yet, his admissions do support the fact that evolution is a theory with a dismal lack of empirical support.]

"The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to construct functional intermediates in many cases, has been a persistent and nagging problem for gradualistic accounts of evolution."

(Gould, S.J., "Is a new and general theory of evolution emerging?", Paleobiology 6:119–130 (p.127), 1980.)