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from which groups could have branched, are all opposed 

 to the theory of evolution. 



The absence of progress in structure in the various 

 •classes of the animal kingdom within the geological 

 period, indicates a sudden and general arrest of 

 progress inconsistent with the theory of evolution. 

 Enormous progress is implied, the record of which in 

 every instance is lost, in order to reach the oldest 

 known members of any class, yet the rule is that 

 from the time when such fossils are found till the 

 present, little, if any, advance in structure has taken 

 place. Evolution must assume enormous advance in 

 structure, but lost record, in the history of almost 

 •every class till the times of the oldest known fossils, 

 and then a sudden halt in progress through all subse- 

 quent geological time. 



The suddenness with which many kinds of highly 

 organized fishes appeared, with no geological record 

 showing their evolution and the appearance of most 

 of the orders of mammals in the Tertiary, with no 

 geological evidence as to their method of evolution, 

 are remarkable facts. 



The evolutionist must assume that the early his- 

 tory of every class and order of vertebrates has been 

 wholly lost, although each must have begun within 

 the authentic geological record, and at times when 

 fossils are abundant. 



The survival through long periods and geological 

 ages of the lowest members of classes has been dwelt 

 upon to show the inability of such forms to progress 

 or to produce offspring which could. make the enor- 

 mous strides of progress implied in the evolution of 

 man. Forms which are pointed out by evolutionists 

 as being extremely archaic and closely like certain 

 links in the chain of the evolution of man are still 

 living, having made little change and no progress 



