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8. . to answer. It appears impossible in the present
state of our knowledge to give a definition of the
species that applies to all plant and animal
Evolutionists maintain that the first single-celled groups. 3
organism emerged billions of years ago from inor- Mention the word species, and most people will
ganic substances, and that the glorious diversity think of life forms such as dogs, horses, spiders,
of life on Earth, emerged over the course of dolphins, wheat or apples. However, biologists
hundreds of millions of years. Note that according define the concept of species in a rather different
to the Darwinist claim, millions of species formed way. In modern-day biology, a living species in the
from one single species under the influence of most general sense consists of a population of in-
natural processes and coincidence. As this irrational dividuals able to mate and reproduce with one an-
and unscientific claim shows, the formation of other. This definition divides life forms that we
species—that is, speciation—represents the basis generally speak of as if they were one single
of the theory of evolution. It is particularly clear species into a number of different ones. For
that a claim not based on concrete evidence, ob- example, some 34,000 species of spiders have
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servations and scientific research is of no value at been described.
all. Darwinism's claim that one species turned into To better understand the evolution deception
millions of other species is a huge one that requires regarding speciation, we first need to define geo-
countless amounts of evidence and findings. In graphic isolation. Within any living species, there
fact, though, there is not a single piece of scientific will be differences stemming from genetic variation.
evidence for evolutionists' claims regarding speci- If geographical obstacles such as a mountain chain
ation ever since the time of Darwin, evolutionists or river arise between individuals of a species, and
have produced a conceptual confusion and depict if they become isolated from one another, then in
variations as evidence for speciation. all likelihood, within these two separated groups,
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First let's consider the concept of species to get different variations will begin to dominate. Assume
a better understanding of the evolutionist deception. that in one group (variation A), darker skin and
Descriptions have been produced by various experts longer fur begin to predominate; and that another
from different biological fields. As put by Troy group (variation B) has shorter fur and lighter color.
Wood and Loren Rieseberg of Indiana University, The longer the two populations remain separated
"Evolutionary biologists have proposed a diverse, from one another, the sharper variations A and B
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almost innumerable list of species concepts…" 1 will become. Variations like these, with clear mor-
Biologist John Endler explains the complication phological differences despite their belonging to
as follows: the same species, are known as subspecies.
Species are "tools that are fashioned for char- At this point, the speciation claim enters the pic-
acterizing organic diversity" (Lewin,1979). Just ture. Sometimes, after variations A and B have
as there are a variety of chisels made for different split away from one another due to geographic
purposes, different species concepts are best isolation and are brought back together again,
for different purposes; and just as it is inadvisable their members are unable to interbreed with one
to use a carving chisel to cut a mortise, problems another. Since they cannot mate, they cease being
arise when one species concept is used when it subspecies, according to the biological definition,
is inappropriate. Confusion and controversy have and become separate species. This is known as
often resulted because different people working speciation.
with different groups of organisms mean different Evolutionists take this concept and extrapolate
things by "species." 2 it "Look! There is speciation in nature. In other
Ali Demirsoy, one of Turkey's most prominent words, new species emerge through natural mech-
exponents of Darwinism, expresses the truth of anisms. So all species must have come into being
the matter this way: in this same way."
The question of by what bounds the species, In fact, however, a serious deception is being
the basic unit in the classification of plants and perpetrated here, because important points are
animals, should be separated from other being overlooked or ignored:
species—in other words, "Species Defini- 1) Variations A and B, after being isolated from
tion"— is one of the most difficult for biology one another, may be unable to mate when reunited
again. Yet this phenomenon generally stems from