What is a Fossil?

A fossil is a part of an animal or a plant that has been dead a long time-usually thousands of years. It is preserved in rock formations in the earth's crust. In order for a plant or an animal to become a fossil, it must be buried almost immediately after it dies. For example, if there was a bird on the ground and a heap of sand suddenly fell on it causing it to die, the remains of this bird could have survived to the present day. Similarly, there is a resin of some trees that becomes fossilised by geological processes and is then called "amber". Sometimes this resin flowed over bugs, and the bugs died inside the resin. In this way, it solidified, and amber and bugs have been preserved without damage for millions of years until our time. Thus, we can learn about creatures that lived long ago. These remains of the creatures are called fossils. You can see some of these fossils within this site.

What Does "A Transitional Form" Fossil Mean?

The most important falsehood that evolutionists invent is the "transitional forms". In some evolutionist books, these are sometimes called "intermediate transitional forms".

As you know, evolutionists claim that creatures evolve from each other. They state that the first creature came about by chance. In time, that creature changed into another, and that other creature turned into another creature and so on. Let us illustrate this with an example: Evolutionists say that fish, for example, have come from a creature that resembles a starfish. This means that one day, due to mutation, a starfish lost one of its arms, and during the next millions of years it lost all of its arms except for some that started by themselves to develop into fins. Meanwhile and simultaneously, all the other changes that are necessary for a starfish to change into a fish took place. (It is impossible for something like this to happen but we are just putting together a scenario!). According to the tale of evolutionists, a starfish has to go through many phases to turn into a fish. If you look at the drawing below you will understand better just how absurd this claim is.

Creatures that were passing phases between definite species are called transitional forms. Moreover, according to the theory of evolution, these creatures all ought to have had half-complete organs. Furthermore, there ought to have been many later transitional forms such as fish that turned into reptiles, as they suggest. These in-between species would have to have had half feet, half fins, half lungs and half gills. If these creatures had really existed then we should be able to find their remains, namely their fossils, but it is extremely interesting that so far we have been unable to find fossils of any of the transitional forms that evolutionists claim existed.