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wholesale restructuring of species, once it has become well established on earth” (“The New Evolution,”Johns Hopkins Magazine, June 1982, cited from Sunderland, Darwin’s Enigma, pp. 117, 118).Prominent evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould was equally candid:“Most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil recordlooking pretty much the same as when they disappear; morphological change is usually limited anddirectionless” (Gould, Wonderful Life, cited from Phillip Johnson, Darwin on Trial, p. 50)In February 1980, at a conference at Hobart and William Smith College in honor of MaryLeakey, Gould said:“The fossil record is imperfect, but I think that is not an adequate explanation ... one thing it does show thatcannot be attributed to its imperfection is that most species don’t change. ... They may get a little bigger orbumpier but they remain the same species and that’s not due to imperfection and gaps but stasis. ...“The fundamental reason why a lot of paleontologists don’t care much for gradualism is because the fossilrecord doesn’t show gradual change and every paleontologist has known that ever since Cuvier. If youwant to get around that you have to invoke the imperfection of the fossil record. Every paleontologist knowsthat most species don’t change. That’s bothersome if you are trained to believe that evolution ought to begradual. In fact it virtually precludes your studying the very process you went into the school to study. Again,because you don’t see it, that brings terrible distress” (Luther Sunderland, Darwin’s Enigma, pp. 121, 122).This statement is consistent with creation but entirely inconsistent with Darwinian evolution.Gould refused to believe in divine creation, though, so he invented a “theory” of evolution bygiant leaps through “punctuated equilibrium,” even though there is no scientific evidence forsuch a thing.Luther Sunderland, who was an aeronautics engineer with General Electric for 30 years,observed:“Frank statements like these by Dr. Gould are censored for school materials. Textbooks frequently containdogmatic statement about how well the fossil record documents evolution, so instead of experiencing ‘terribledistress,’ students develop a comforting faith that there must be some good evidence somewhere that wouldsubstantiate common-ancestry evolution” (Darwin’s Enigma, p. 122).Consider the bat. A fossil bat, Icaronycteris index, dated at 50 million years old, is on display atthe Museum of Natural History at Princeton University, and it looks the same as a “modern” bat.Consider plants. At the Burke Museum of Natural History in Seattle there is a display ofsupposed 50 million year old fossilized leaves of cedar, pine, ginkgo, birch, and dawn redwood,and they look exactly like the “modern” varieties. While living on an island in the PacificNorthwest for a decade I had a hobby of studying the regional trees, and in examining the fossilleaves at the Burke Museum it is evident to me that they simply haven’t changed.Not only do creatures look the same throughout their history, they act the same. In 2010,Discovery News ran a report on a supposed 100 million-year-old lizard and dragonfly fossilizedinto amber. The lizard had caught the dragonfly and bit off its head just before being frozen intime by tree rosin. The report quotes George Poinar, professor emeritus at Oregon State232