Creationist Dr. Duane Gish discussed this absence of vital transitional fossils in his book Creation Scientists Answer Their Critics. It is too embarrassing to evolutionary theory even to discuss in their anti-creation polemics. If all of these expert evolutionists, to whom Gish was replying, and who had written specifically to try and discredit creationism, knew of any way to refute Gish's claims about the huge gap in the ancestry of fishes, and the Cambrian explosion, they would certainly have done so. That they have all remained silent on this tremendously important point shows their tacit agreement that the gap is real. These two cavernous gaps alone should be enough to absolutely disprove evolutionism.
Many elementary textbooks make claims about transitional fossils proving evolution.
These claims are nonsense. The only transitional fossils that have ever been found are those that show tiny changes, that lead to a new species. These certainly exist, and this principle is used by many plant and animal breeders in their everyday activities. But these changes are tiny Never have there been transitions above the Family level. Archeopteryx is often called the missing link between dinosaurs and birds.