Kenneth R. Miller on Fossils
"Scientific Creationism versus Evolution" in Science and Creationism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 22.The fact of the matter is that the fossil record not only documents evolution, but that it was the fossil record itself which forced natural scientists to abandon their idea of the fixity of species and look instead for a plausible mechanism of change, a mechanism of evolution. The fossil record not only demonstrates evolution in extravagant detail, but it dashes all claims of the scientific creationists concerning the origin of living organisms.