‘Nobody seriously denies that apes and humans share some physical characteristics, but that is a long way from proving a direct link between the two species. There is a huge gap between similarities and direct relationship. (…) There is no clear-cut and inexorable pathway from ape to man. Having spent twenty-five years researching the fossil record, the American scholar Marvin Lubenow opened his book ‘Bones of Contention’ with the words: ‘The human fossil record is strongly supportive of the concept of Special Creation. On the other hand, the fossil record is so contrary to human evolution as to effectively falsify the idea that humans evolved.’ Later he added, ‘Human evolution allegedly took place in the past over vast periods of time. Evolutionists readily admit that evolutionary processes work so slowly that they are not observable over the lifetime of one individual or even over successive lifetimes of hundreds of generations. In other words, there are no direct observations or experiments that can confirm the process of human evolution.’

John Blanchard, 2004, Has Science Got Rid of God, Darlington UK: Evangelical Press, p.57, p.60-61