If evolution were a fact, the fossil evidence would surely reveal a
gradual changing from one kind of life into another. And that would have
to be the case regardless of which variation of evolutionary theory is
accepted. Even scientists who believe in the more rapid changes
associated with the “punctuated equilibrium” theory acknowledge that
there would still have been many thousands of years during which these
changes supposedly took place. So it is not reasonable to believe that
there would be no need at all for linking fossils.