Are there transitional fossils?
As stated previously, one of the most difficult problems in evolutionary paleontology has been the almost abrupt appearance of the major animal groups–classes and phyla–in full-fledged form, in the Cambrian and Ordovician periods. This would suggest a sudden acquisition of skeletons by the various groups, in itself a problem. Paleontologists are not certain whether the soft-bodied forms of the Precambrian Ediacaran fauna are in fact ancestral to modern groups. Most species, are seen to appear abruptly, to maintain their typical form for most of their history, and to vanish as suddenly as they appeared. This failure to trace coherent lineages of ancestors and descendants is easily explained via the creation model. Many evolutionists will readily admit that the fossil evidence is NOT very supportive of the theory of evolution (this is why transitional fossil evidence has been removed from or largely abridged in most modern biology textbooks). These same individuals nearly always make s
