Dr John Blanchard in his book, ‘Has science got rid of God?’, makes another valid point: ‘The facts tells us that whenever we discover human fossils – and thousand have been found – they are already fully human, with no signs of transition from a more primitive creature. Distinguished anatomist Lord Zuckerman, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Government, concluded that, ‘… if man evolved from an apelike creature, he did so without leaving a trace of evolution in the fossil record.’ There are no apes in human history. The ‘missing links’ are still missing! Darwin admitted that this was ‘the most obvious and serious objection that could be urged against his theory, but decided that this could be explained by ‘the extreme imperfection of the geological record’. (…) Darwin had hoped that the discovery of further fossils would reveal the missing links needed to confirm his theory’ [of evolution by natural selection]. Although we now have a staggering number of fossils to examine, Darwin’s own conclusion – ‘Not one change of species into another is on record… we cannot prove that a single species has been changed’ – remains essentially correct.

John Blanchard, 2004, Has Science Got Rid of God, Darlington UK: Evangelical Press, p.61-66