Today in my school work I was studying the contrast between the evolution and the creation models and what predictions could be made concerning the fossil record.
Within the fossil record the creation model would predict to find:
- Sudden appearance in great variety of highly complex forms
- Sudden appearance of each created type with characteristics complete
- Sharp boundaries separating major taxonomic groups
- No transitional forms between higher categories
Within the fossil record the evolution model would predict to find:
- Gradual change of simple forms into more and more complex forms
- Transitional series linking all categories
- No systematic gaps
Scientifically speaking, the model which can best explain and correlate the data is the better model. As I look at the fossils I find along the ‘Jurassic Coast’, and as I look through museums and text books, what I see supports the creation model better than the evolution model. If evolution were the better model then surely the museums should be full of the transitional fossils. After 150 years of intense searching a large number of obvious transitional forms would have been found if the predictions of the evolution model were valid.
