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Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
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FOSSILS

(See also Evolution; Geology)

(Note centered heading below: Quotations)

amber: g67 11/22 26

ape-men: ce 83-98; g81 6/22 13-15; g73 10/22 18-21; ev 9, 78-94; g67 11/22 20

Archaeopteryx: ce 79-80; g82 3/8 28; g78 1/22 24; ad 235; nh 56; g52 12/8 6-7

Australopithecus: ce 93-94; w77 424; w76 71; g76 6/8 29

Cambrian: ce 60-63; ev 41-44; g60 9/8 20; g51 3/8 15; ew 12-17; g49 3/8 5

completeness of record: ce 57-59

determining age: g64 9/22 4; g63 4/22 18; g62 10/22 9-11; g56 11/22 8-11; g54 11/22 20; g52 2/8 14-15

dinosaur: ce 64; g75 6/8 7

distinct life-forms: ce 19-21; g60 9/8 20; g56 2/8 16-21; bn 25; lg 80, 85; ew 12-17; g49 2/22 7

horse: ce 66-67

lack of transitional forms and features: ce 62-69

platypus: g85 11/22 20

evidence of Flood: g57 2/8 25-26; g53 6/8 8; g52 8/22 5-13; g42 9/2 16

shark and whale remains found at high altitude: g77 2/22 29-30

evidence of one climate in ancient world: g57 2/8 25; g53 6/8 7-8; g42 9/2 16; w39 269

evolution: ce 54-70, 79-80, 82; w84 7/15 21; w83 2/1 8; g83 2/22 17-20; g83 3/8 13; g82 1/8 29; g81 9/22 8-9, 22-24; w79 5/15 28; w78 6/15 11; w77 423-424; g76 1/8 28; g75 6/22 30; g75 12/8 30; g74 4/8 29; g74 9/22 19-22; g74 11/22 30

failure to support gradual evolution: ce 19-21

fossil record anticipated by: ce 55-56

importance of fossil record: ce 54-55

frozen mammoth: ce 203; g73 8/22 31

‘geologic column’: g70 9/22 8-12

mammoth in China: g74 4/22 31

Peking man: g81 11/22 15

radioactive dating of: g81 11/22 13-15

same forms as today: g72 6/8 29; g60 9/8 20; g56 2/8 16-21; nh 56; bn 25; ew 12-17; g49 2/22 6-7; g49 3/8 5-8; g30 5/28 561

sudden appearance of life: ce 59-66; g74 9/22 20-21; g74 11/22 30; g73 10/22 17-18; ev 41-49; g67 4/22 10-13; ms 182; g65 1/8 13; g63 4/22 8-10; g58 10/8 14-15; g56 2/8 16-21; bn 25; lg 80, 85; g51 3/8 15-16; w50 420-421; ew 12-17; g49 3/8 5-8

teratorn (extinct giant bird): g80 12/8 30

Tibet:

sea creatures: g78 1/22 30

Quotations

basic facts of the fossil record support creation, not evolution: ce 70

crustacean fossils exist only in zoological textbooks: g81 1/22 30

fossil record does not convincingly document a single transition: ce 65

general failure of the record to display gradual transitions from one major group to another: ce 21

general picture consistent with the idea of a special creation: ce 61-62

groups of both plants and animals appear suddenly in the fossil record: ce 65-66

intermediate forms are missing from the fossil record, because there were no intermediate forms: ce 82

in the fossil record, missing links are the rule: ce 87

known fossil record is not, and never has been, in accord with [slow evolution]: ce 21

known fossil species do indeed appear not to evolve even over millions of years: ce 65

missing in all the important places: ce 71

no fine analysis of biogeographic distribution or of the fossil record can directly support evolution: ce 70

not even possible to make a caricature of an evolution out of palaeobiological facts: ce 59

paleontology looks back upon a colorful history of falsified fossils: g82 11/8 6

some of the classic cases of darwinian change have had to be discarded or modified: ce 20

the geologic record did not then and still does not yield a finely graduated chain of slow and progressive evolution: ce 20

the pattern that we were told to find for the last 120 years does not exist: ce 21

there is not a trace of a common ancestor: ce 65-66

there was a complete absence of intermediate fossils: ce 62

we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin’s time: ce 20

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