Nature

[brotherlylove]

There was a time when the complexity of lifeforms was a quite plausible argument for the existence of a creator. However after the publication of the Origin of the Species it ceased to be a legitimate argument for the existence of a creator. Since the Origin of the Species outlined a plausible and scientifically supported explanation for the complexity of lifeforms.

Those who still use this argument are either ignorant of evolution by natural selection or they understand it, thereby are being dishonest and hypocritical.

I commend Darwins discovery, which is that species adapt over time to their environment. Speciation is proven by the empirical evidence. However, to say that all life descended from a common ancestor requires a bit more proof, and Darwin knew it. That is why he said this:

innumerable transitional forms must have existed but why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth? ..why is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?

Geologoy assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain, and this perhaps is the greatest objection which can be urged against my theory.

Charles Darwin
Origin of the Species

The situation hasn't changed. In fact, we have less examples of a transitional series than we did in Darwins time, due to most of them being debunked. In horse evolution, for instance, they found modern horse fossils buried under their most ancient relatives.

So, according to darwin himself, without the fossil evidence his theory about common descent has a valid objection. You also have the fact that what we do find in the fossil record actually contraidcts all of the predictions of neo-darwinism. Instead of simple to complex, we find complex and diverse right out of the gate. The highest order (phylum cordata) and as all its major divisions were there in the cambrian. We have less diversity today than we did then. The tree of life simply does not reflect reality.

So without the fossil evidence, and evidence actually contradicting the predictions of the theory, macro evolution is dead in the water.