Faithful to his believe, Darwin later blamed the imperfections of the record for the absence of intermediates. He argued that fossil formations, being only snapshots of history, were formed when no intermediaries existed. Johnson suggests that there are no transitional forms, as the evidence to date suggests. Darwinists, however, believe otherwise, and fill in the gaps with macromutations, the likes of which Darwin himself refuted. I would give nothing for the theory of natural selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
Most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth.
In any local area, a species does not arise gradually by the occurrence of mutations but is suddenly transformed. Although Gould is an evolutionist, he sounds like a creationist when he reports the evidence of the fossil record. From the rocks of this era paleontologists have found nearly every animal phyla and no evolutionary ancestors. The evidence says that during the Cambrian era nearly every animal phyla not only existed, but appeared suddenly. Richard Dawkins, noted Oxford zoologist and atheist, attests to the sudden emergence of animals in the Cambrian record.