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d. �The insect fossil record has many gaps.� �Insects: Insect Fossil Record,� Britannica CD, Version 97 (Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 1997).

e. Speaking of the lack of transitional fossils between the invertebrates and vertebrates, Smith admits:

�As our present information stands, however, the gap remains unbridged, and the best place to start the evolution of the vertebrates is in the imagination.� Homer W. Smith, From Fish to Philosopher (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1953), p. 26.

�How this earliest chordate stock evolved, what stages of development it went through to eventually give rise to truly fishlike creatures we do not know. Between the Cambrian when it probably originated, and the Ordovician when the first fossils of animals with really fishlike characteristics appeared, there is a gap of perhaps 100 million years which we will probably never be able to fill.� Francis Downes Ommanney, The Fishes, Life Nature Library (New York: Time, Inc., 1963), p. 60.

�Origin of the vertebrates is obscure�there is no fossil record preceding the occurrence of fishes in the late Ordovician time.� Arthur N. Strahler, Science and Earth History: The Evolution/Creation Controversy (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1987), p. 316.

f. �...there are no intermediate forms between finned and limbed creatures in the fossil collections of the world.� Taylor, p. 60.