Atheism and Evolution has answers to the origin of life or is an illusion and ch

Teaching about Evolution and the Nature of Science discusses the fossil record in several places.
If living things had really evolved from other kinds of creatures, then there would have been many intermediate or transitional forms, with halfway structures. However, if different kinds had been created separately, the fossil record should show creatures appearing abruptly and fully formed.

THE TRANSITIONAL FOSSILS PROBLEM
Charles Darwin was worried that the fossil record did not show what his theory predicted:
"Why is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory."1
1.C.R. Darwin, Origin of Species, 6th edition, 1872 (London: John Murray, 1902), p. 413.

Do Atheists and Evolutionists clutch at straws yet again on the origin of life?