Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny—Embarrassing and Suppressed Facts

On May 20, 2002, the late Stephen Jay Gould, a leading spokesperson for evolution, stated: “The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference . . . not the evidence of fossils.” We have already quoted Colin Patterson declaring, “There is not one [transitional] fossil for which one could make a watertight argument.” Such facts should be honestly admitted in high school and college textbooks rather than suppressed. In spite of the lack of evidence, evolutionists continue to publish and lecture as though the hopeful scenario they present is actually factual. The very “artistic license” shunned by Patterson has been, for more than 100 years, a major means of promoting evolution by natural selection as an established fact of science.