Time to recap some of the famous quotes made by researchers lionized by secularists everywhere...
Robert Barnes:
“The fossil record tells us almost nothing about the evolutionary origin of phyla and classes. Intermediate forms are non-existent, undiscovered, or not recognized.” Robert Barnes, “Invertebrate Beginnings,” Paleobiology 6 1980): 365-70.
Stephen Jay Gould:
“All paleontologists know that the fossil record contains precious little in the way of intermediate forms; transitions between major groups are characteristically abrupt.” Stephen Jay Gould, “The Return of Hopeful Monsters,” Natural History 86 (June/July 1977): 24, 22-30.
David Raup :
Raup:
“Darwin predicted that the fossil record should show a reasonably smooth continuum of ancestor-descendant pairs with a satisfactory number of intermediates between major groups Darwin even went so far as to say that if this were not found in the fossil record, his general theory of evolution would be in serious jeopardy. Such smooth transitions were not found in Darwin’s time, and he explained this in part on the basis of an incomplete geologic record and in part on the lack of study of that record. We are now more than a hundred years after Darwin and the situation is little changed. Since Darwin a tremendous expansion of paleontological knowledge has taken place, and we know much more about the fossil record than was known in his time, but the basic situation is not much different.”
David M. Raup, “Geological and Paleontological Arguments,” in Scientists Confront Creationism, ed. Laurie R. Godfrey, 156 (New York: W.W. Norton, 1983).
Jeffrey Schwartz:
“[We] are still in the dark about the origin of most major groups of organisms. They appear in the fossil record as Athena did from the head of Zeus – full-blown and raring to go, in contradiction to Darwin’s depiction of evolution as resulting from the gradual accumulation of countless infinitesimally minute variations, which, in turn, demands that the fossil record preserve an unbroken chain of transitional forms.” Jeffrey H. Schwartz, Sudden Origins: Fossils, Genes, and the Emergence of Species (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999)
George Gaylord Simpson:
“This regular absence of transitional forms is not confined to mammals, but is an almost universal phenomenon, as has long been noted by paleontologists.” George Gaylord Simpson, Tempo and Mode in Evolution (New York: Columbia University Press, 1944), 105, 107.
Things haven't changed much regarding the Fossil Records since the great Charles Darwin himself observed ....
“Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain . . .”
Origin of Species, chapter 6.