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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

gives the cetacean accurate information regarding the shape, size, speed
and position of the object in front of it. This sonic system is extremely
sensitive—for instance, a dolphin can sense a person jumping into the sea.
Sound waves are also used for determining direction and for
communication. For example, two whales hundreds of kilometers apart
can communicate via sound.
The question of how these animals produce the sounds that enable
them to determine direction or to communicate is still largely unresolved.
As far as we know, one particular feature in the dolphin's body deserves
particular attention: namely, the animal's skull is insulated against sound,
a feature that protects the brain from continuous and intensive noise
bombardment.
Let us now consider the question: Is it possible that all these
astonishing features in marine mammals came into existence by means of
natural selection and mutation? What mutation could result in the
dolphin's body's coming to possess a sonar system and a brain insulated
from sound? What kind of mutation could enable its eye to see in dark
water? What mutation could lead to the mechanism that allows the most
economic use of water?
There is no end to such questions, and evolution has no answer to
any of them. Instead, the theory of evolution makes do with an
unbelievable story. Consider all the coincidences that this story involves in
the case of marine mammals. First of all, fish just happened to come into
existence in the water. Next, they made the transition to land by pure
chance. Following this, they evolved on the land into reptiles and
mammals, also by chance alone. Finally, it just so happened that some of
these creatures returned to the water where by chance they acquired all
the features they would need to survive there.
Can the theory of evolution prove even a single one of these stages?
Certainly not. Far from being able to prove the claim as a whole, the theory
of evolution is unable to demonstrate how even one of these different
steps could have happened.

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