Problem 5: Abrupt Appearance of Species in the Fossil Record Does Not Support Darwinian Evolution

Editor's note: This is Part 5 of a 10-part series based upon Casey Luskin's chapter, "The Top Ten Scientific Problems with Biological and Chemical Evolution," in the volume More than Myth, edited by Paul Brown and Robert Stackpole (Chartwell Press, 2014). Previous installments can be found here: Problem 1, Problem 2, Problem 3, Problem 4. When the series is complete, the full chapter will be posted online.

The fossil record has long been recognized as a problem for evolutionary theory. In the...