Lack of transitional forms - still the major problem with the evolutionary theory

Darwin struggled to understand the absence of intermediates and his questions remain fruitful

https://scientificinquirer.com/2018/06/07/humans-are-about-as-genetically-diverse-as-any-other-animal/

Excerpts: "Another intriguing insight from the study, says Mr. Ausubel, is that “genetically, the world is not a blurry place. It is hard to find ‘intermediates’ – the evolutionary stepping stones between species. The intermediates disappear.”

Dr. Thaler notes: “Darwin struggled to understand the absence of intermediates and his questions remain fruitful.”

“The research is a new way to show that species are ‘islands in sequence space.’ Each species has its own narrow, very specific consensus sequence, just as our phone system has short, unique numeric codes to tell cities and countries apart.”
Adds Dr. Thaler: “If individuals are stars, then species are galaxies. They are compact clusters in the vastness of empty sequence space.” "

Professionals expose the problems with Darwin's theory:

D.S. WOODROFF, Univ. of CA, San Diego: "But fossil species remain unchanged throughout most of their history and the record fails to contain a single example of a significant transition."< Science>, Vol.208, 1980, p.716

David M. Raup, Curator of Geology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago: "Darwin... was embarrassed by the fossil record... we are now about 120-years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species but the situation hasn't changed much. The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, ... some of the classic cases of Darwinian change in the fossil record, such as the evolution of the horse in North America, have had to be discarded or modified as a result of more detailed information." "Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology" Field Museum of Natural History Vol. 50, No. 1, (Jan, 1979), p. 25

ORDERS, CLASSES, & PHYLA , GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON, Harvard: "Gaps among known species are sporadic and often small. Gaps among known orders, classes, and phyla are systematic and almost always large.", , p. 149

ARBITRARY ARRANGEMENT , R.H. DOTT, U. of Wis. & R.L. BATTEN, Columbia U., A.M.N.H.: "We have arranged the groups in a traditional way with the 'simplest' forms first, and progressively more complex groups following. This particular arrangement is arbitrary and depends on what definition of 'complexity' you wish to choose. ...things are alike because they are related, and the less they look alike, the further removed they are from their common ancestor." , p.602

SEPARATE LIVING KINDS , STEPHEN JAY GOULD, Harvard: "Our modern phyla represent designs of great distinctness, yet our diverse world contains nothing in between sponges, corals, insects, snails, sea urchins, and fishes (to choose standard representatives of the most prominent phyla).", , p.15, Oct. 1990

FOSSILS INDICATE CREATION! E.J.H. CORNOR, Cambridge: "Much evidence can be adduced in favor of the Theory of Evolution from Biology, Biogeography, and Paleontology, but I still think that to the unprejudiced the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation." , p.61

"TREES" NOT FROM FOSSILS , S. J. GOULD, Harvard: "The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of the fossils.", ., V.86, p.13

STORY TIME , COLIN PATTERSON, Senior Paleontologist, British Museum of Nat. History: "You say I should at least 'show a photo of the fossil from which each type or organism was derived.' I will lay it on the line-there is not one such fossil for which one could make a watertight argument." "It is easy enough to make up stories of how one form gave rise to another. ... But such stories are not part of science, for there is no way of putting them to the test. ... I don't think we shall ever have any access to any form of tree which we can call factual."< HARPER'S>, Feb. 1984, p.56

Darwin's Enigma: Fossils and Other Problems, 4th edition, Master Books, Luther D. Sunderland: "Now, after over 120 years of the most extensive and painstaking geological exploration of every continent and ocean bottom, the picture is infinitely more vivid and complete than it was in 1859. Formations have been discovered containing hundreds of billions of fossils and our museums are filled with over 100-million fossils of 250,000 different species. The availability of this profusion of hard scientific data should permit objective investigators to determine if Darwin was on the right track. What is the picture which the fossils have given us? ... The gaps between major groups of organisms have been growing even wide and more undeniable. They can no longer be ignored or rationalized away with appeals to imperfection of the fossil record."  1988, p. 9