The
Triassic Period (248 to 206 million years ago)
The Mesozoic Era began with the Triassic Period. A large
number of Triassic fossils from all over the world show
a wide variety of both marine and terrestrial life forms.
As is the case with all other periods, there appears not
a single intermediate fossil of the kind that evolutionists
hope for.
The Jurassic Period (206 to 144
million years ago)
This part of the Mesozoic saw large numbers and varieties
of dinosaurs. At the end of the Jurassic, some ammonites,
sea sponges, oyster and mussel species had become extinct.
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But many life forms have survived unchanged since the
Jurassic—in other words, without undergoing any form
of evolution. The fossil record is full of examples of
such creatures. One of the earliest known fossil crocodiles,
for instance, is around 200 million years old. There are
also examples of fossilized Tuatara lizards that are more
than 200 million years old. The many fossil shrimp dating
back to the Jurassic Period all possessed exactly the
same perfect systems and complex structures as they do
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2C. The Cenozoic Era (65 million
years ago to the present day)
The Cenozoic Era, in which we are still living, began
with the end of the Cretaceous Period. Until recently,
geologists and paleontologists divided the Cenozoic into
two separate periods of unequal length: the Tertiary and
the Quaternary. The Tertiarycomprised a time frame from
65 million to 1.8 million years ago, and the Quaternary
encapsulated the last 1.8 million years. Recently, however,
the Cenozoic Era has been divided into three separate
periods. Under this new system, its three components are
the Paleogene, the Neogene and the Quaternary.
The Cretaceous Period (146 to
65 million years ago)
This,
final stage of the Mesozoic, is known as the age in which
the dinosaurs became extinct, as did a large number of
terrestrial reptiles and plant species.
On the other hand, a great many species of aquatic animals
such as starfish, crabs, some species of fish, water scorpions,
spiders, dragonflies, turtles and crocodiles, and various
plant species managed to survive down to the present day.
Fossil specimens such as a 135-million-year-old starfish,
a 140-million-year horseshoe crab, and a 125-million-year
ginkgo tree leaf are just a few of the proofs of this.
Despite the intervening millions of years, these life
forms still possess the same complex systems, totally
invalidating Darwinist claims regarding natural history.
The
Cenozoic Era's fossil record contains large numbers of specimens
that, just as with other ages, show that the theory of evolution—which
maintains that living things descended by chance from a
common ancestor—is not true.
One distinguishing feature of the fossil specimens obtained
from all these geological periods is that the species
in question never underwent any changes. To put it another
way, whenever a species first appears in the fossil record,
it preserves its same structure for tens of millions of
years, until it becomes extinct or else survives until
the present day—again, without experiencing any change.
This is clear evidence that living things never underwent
evolution.
The fossil history of species definitively and clearly
refutes the theory of evolution. It is Almighty God, with
His sublime power and boundless knowledge, Who creates
completely different living species out of nothing and
makes the world suitable for life. This article is based on the works of Harun
Yahya
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INTRODUCTION
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proposed a theory based on various observations
made during his travels, but which could not be
supported by any subsequent scientific findings.
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