THE FALL OF

DARWINISM

Science Shatters The Greatest Myth of

The Modern AgeAli Sadun Engin HARUN YAHYA INTERNATIONAL

George Gaylord Simpson, The Meaning of Evolution , rev.

ed.Yale University Press, 1967, p.

344-45.

““Man is the Man is the result of a result of a purposeless and purposeless and natural process natural process that did not that did not have him in have him in mind.” mind.”

According to According to Darwinism, Darwinism, life should life should

have have diversified diversified over time.over time.

The Alleged ‘Tree of Life’

Phyla: The Most Distinct CategoriesPhyla: The Most Distinct Categories

Richard Monastersky:

A half-billion years ago, the

remarkably

complex forms of animals we see

today

Suddenly appeared. This moment, right

at the start of the Earth's Cambrian

Period, some 530 million years ago,

marks the evolutionary explosion that

filled the seas with the earth's first

complex creatures. …

The large animal phyla of today were

present

already in the early Cambrian and they

were

as distinct from each other as they are

today.

Richard Monastersky, "Mysteries of the Orient,” Discover, April 1993, p. 40.

““The animal fossil record more The animal fossil record more resembles such a cone turned upside resembles such a cone turned upside down, with the phyla present at the down, with the phyla present at the start and thereafter decreasing.” start and thereafter decreasing.”

Phillip E. Johnson, Phillip E. Johnson, Darwinism: Science or PhilosophyDarwinism: Science or Philosophy, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, 1994, p. , Foundation for Thought and Ethics, 1994, p. 1212

Darwinian theory predicts a ‘cone of increasing Darwinian theory predicts a ‘cone of increasing diversity’…diversity’…

THE TRILOBITE FOSSILTHE TRILOBITE FOSSIL

“The trilobites used an optimal design which would require a well trained and imaginative optical engineer to develop today.”

David Raup, "Conflicts Between Darwin and Paleontology", Bulletin, Field Museum of Natural History, Vol 50, p. 24.

Richard Dawkins:The Cambrian strata of rocksare the oldest ones in which we find most of the major invertebrate groups. And we find many of them already in an advanced state of evolution, the very first time they appear. It is as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history.

•Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, London, 1986, p. 229.

“Why, if species have descended from other species by fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms?… As by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?…This difficulty for a long time quite confounded me.”

Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, The Modern Library, New York, p. 124-125.

Robert Carroll:

“Despite more than a hundred years

of intense collecting efforts since the time of

Darwin’s death, the fossil record still does not

yield the picture of infinitely numerous

transitional links that he expected…

Most groups appear to originate and diversify

over geologically very short durations, and to

persist for much longer periods without major

morphological change.”

Robert L. Carroll, Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution, Cambridge, 1997, p. 25, 146.

Living Fossils: No Evolution At AllLiving Fossils: No Evolution At All

135 MYR. OLD DRAGONFLY135 MYR. OLD DRAGONFLY

100 MYR. OLD ANT100 MYR. OLD ANT50 MYR. OLD BAT50 MYR. OLD BAT

400 MYR. OLD COELACANTH400 MYR. OLD COELACANTH

??Why do people

believe in evolution

Why do people

believe in evolution

Beware of the

icons

Beware of the

icons !

ICON 1Haeckel’s Embryos

ICON 1Haeckel’s Embryos

Science, 5 September 1997Science, 5 September 1997

““The impression [Haeckel’s drawings] give, The impression [Haeckel’s drawings] give, that the embryos are exactly alike, is wrong, that the embryos are exactly alike, is wrong, says Michael Richardson, … ‘The embryos says Michael Richardson, … ‘The embryos often looked surprisingly different.’often looked surprisingly different.’

Not only did Haeckel add or omit features, Not only did Haeckel add or omit features, but he also fudged the scale to exaggerate but he also fudged the scale to exaggerate similarities among species, even when there similarities among species, even when there were 10-fold differences in size. were 10-fold differences in size.

In reality, even closely related embryos such In reality, even closely related embryos such as those of fish vary quite a bit in their as those of fish vary quite a bit in their appearance and developmental pathway. appearance and developmental pathway.

‘‘It looks like it's turning out to be one of the It looks like it's turning out to be one of the most famous fakes in biology’ Richardson most famous fakes in biology’ Richardson concludes.”concludes.”Elizabeth Pennisi, "Haeckel's Embryos: Fraud Rediscovered,” Science, 5 September, 1997

ICON 2Peppered

Moths

ICON 2Peppered

Moths

Bernard Kettlewell

“Evolution experts are quitely admitting that one of their most cherished examples of Charles Darwin's theory, the rise and fall of the peppered moth, is based on a series of scientific blunders. Experiments using the moth in the 1950's and long believed to prove the truth of natural selection are now thought to be worthless, having been designed to come up with the ‘right’ answer. Scientists now admit that they do not know the real explanation for the fate of Biston betularia, whose story is recounted in almost every textbook on evolution.”

Robert Matthews, "Scientists Pick Holes in Darwin's Moth Theory", The Daily Telegraph, London, 18 March 1999

“Flawed science, dubious

methodology, and wishful

thinking…”

Natural History Museum, London

Natural History Museum, London

ICON 3‘Vestigial’ Organs

ICON 3‘Vestigial’ Organs

“Since it is not possible to unambiguously identify useless structures, and since the structureof the argument used is not scientifically valid, I conclude that ‘vestigial organs’ provide no special evidence for the theory of evolution.”

R. Scadding, "Do 'Vestigial Organs' Provide Evidence for Evolution?",

Evolutionary Theory, vol. 5, May 1981, p. 173.

Ultimate Icon: ‘Human Evolution’

Ultimate Icon: ‘Human Evolution’

Dogma-based artistry…Dogma-based artistry…

AustralophithecusAustralophithecus

Homo habilisHomo habilis

Homo erectus & ergasterHomo erectus & ergaster

Homo sapiensHomo sapiens

"We, like many others, interpret the anatomical evidence to show that early H. sapiens [H. erectus and H. ergaster] was significantly and dramatically different from earlier [species]."

(Hawks, J., Hunley, K., Sang-Hee, L., Wolpoff, M., "Population Bottlenecks and Pleistocene Evolution," Journal of Molecular Biology and Evolution, 17(1):2-22, January, 2000)

Bernard Wood:Bernard Wood:

“ “When I went to medical school When I went to medical school in in 1963, human evolution looked 1963, human evolution looked like a ladder. The ladder stepped like a ladder. The ladder stepped from monkey to man through a from monkey to man through a progression of intermediates, each progression of intermediates, each slightly less ape-like than the last. slightly less ape-like than the last. Now human evolution looks like a Now human evolution looks like a bush. bush. We have a menagerie of fossil We have a menagerie of fossil hominids... How they are related to hominids... How they are related to each other and which, if any of them, each other and which, if any of them, are human forebears is still are human forebears is still debated.”debated.”

Nature, 11 July 2002Nature, 11 July 2002

??Why do Why do

scientists scientists believe in believe in evolutionevolution

“There's no doubt about it, that in the past, and I think also in the present, for many evolutionists, evolution has functioned as something with elements which are, let us say, akin to being a secular religion... And it seems to me very clear that at some very basic level, evolution as a scientific theory makes a commitment to a kind of naturalism.”

Michael Ruse, "Nonliteralist Antievolution”, AAAS Symposium:

The New Antievolutionism, Boston, February 13, 1993

•“And Allah has created from water

every living creature: some of

them walk upon its belly, and some of

them walk upon two feet, and some of

them walk upon four.

•Allah creates what He pleases; surely

Allah has power over all things.”

•(Holy Qur’an, 24:45)

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