Bible Q & A

Would Darwin be an evolutionist if he were alive today?

I think I'll let Darwin answer this question himself:

"If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking closely together all the species of the same group, must assuredly have existed . . . The number of intermediate and transitional links between all living and extinct species, must have been inconceivably great . . . An interminable number of intermediate forms must have existed." (Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, 6th ed., 1872, chapters 6,10,15)

Darwin went on to say that "geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely-graduated organic chain" because of the "extreme imperfection of the geological record." There are over 250,000 fossil species in museums today yet the number of supposed "missing links" are only a few dozen (which are not really missing links at all).

It appears that Darwin would not be an evolutionist if he were alive today.

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