Ben Levi and WIY,
You are both simply wrong on many levels.
1.)Evolution does make predictions about what will be found in the fossil record. For example a prediction that it makes is that you will find different species living at different times in the strata. This is what you find. As they say to disprove evolution all that you would have to find is a fossilized rabbit in Precambrian rock.
2.) There are thousands and thousands of “transitional” fossils. Nobody disputes this fact. You can physically see many of them in the Natrual History Museum in New York or do a simple google search.
3.)Your Hoyle qoute is talking about the processes that Darwin suggested caused common descent. Hoyle never disputed the evidence for common descent. This is a distinction that those who have not actually studied evolution fail to grasp fairly often, and applies to the vast majority of qoutes people bring from scientists that they think are saying that there is no proof to evolution.
There is common descent and there is the Darwinian theory as to how that descent came about. They are two totally different things.