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As you know very well today, hundreds of millions of fossils were unearthed from geological layers.

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Many animal and plant fossils provide us scientific proofs on history of living things in great detail.

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What do the fossils tell us?

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With regard to what Darwin proposed in his theory, the fossil findings did not confirm what he claimed.

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On the contrary, the characteristics of some fossils, for example those found in a Cambrian layer,

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a layer that is described as the Cambrian explosion from a paleontological point of view, reveal a sudden appearance.

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This sudden appearance is not only of different species of living organisms,

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but also the order of more advanced systems such as the phylum.

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The occurrence of dozens of phyla happened instantaneously from a geological point of view.

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Therefore, there was not a gradual or progressive modification in the shape of organisms,

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but a sudden appearance.

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This sudden appearance, this explosion, reveals that the fact that there are no characteristics that were indicated by Darwin

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as the explanation of the complexity and variability of living organisms.

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In addition, the characteristic forms that are discovered in large beings,

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such as the complexity of the eyes in some organisms, are basically the same characteristics of today's species.

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There is a real preservation of the characteristics.

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Indeed, the theory of evolution often describes this trend as a stasis.

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That means that the forms do not change.

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Now, if the complexity appeared instantly and vastly, and if there were no gradual changes,

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we can ask ourselves, where is evolution?