Do any Evolutionists admit that the fossil record does not match Darwinian predictions?
Yes. Dr. David Raup (Geologist, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago; believes in evolution) stated: “The evidence we find in the geologicl record is not nearly as compatible with darwinian natural selection as we would like it to be. Darwin was completely aware of this. He was embarassed by the fossil record because it didnt look the way he predicted it would and, as a result, he devoted a long section of his Origin of Species to an attempt to explain and rationalize the differences. There were several problems, but the principal one was that the geologic record did not then and still does not yield a finely graduated chain of slow and progressive evolution.” And… “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 hasnt changed much. The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions
