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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)


                                     According to the theory of evolution, wings
                                    emerged independently of each other four times:
                                    in insects, flying reptiles, birds, and flying
                                    mammals (bats). The fact that wing with very
                                    similar structures developed four times—which
                                    cannot be explained by the mechanisms of
                                    natural selection/mutation—is yet another
                                    headache for evolutionary biologists.
                                         One of the most concrete examples of such
                                    an obstacle in the path of evolutionary theory can
                                    be seen in mammals. According to the accepted
                                    view of modern biology, all mammals belong to
              Starting with         one of three basic categories:  placentals,
              kangaroos, all mammals
              in the continent of   marsupials and  monotremes. Evolutionists
              Australia belong to the  consider this distinction to have come about
              "pouched" or marsupial
              subclass. According to  when mammals first appeared, and that each
              evolutionists, they have  group lived its own evolutionary history totally
              no evolutionary       independent of the other. But it is interesting that
              relationship with
              placental mammals in  there are "pairs" in placentals and marsupials
              the other regions of the  which are nearly the same. Placental wolves, cats,
              world.
                                    squirrels, anteaters, moles and mice all have their
             marsupial counterparts with closely similar morphologies. 276
                 In other words, according to the theory of evolution, mutations
             completely independent of each other must have produced these creatures
             "by chance" twice! This reality is a question that will give evolutionists
             problems even worse than dizzy spells.
                 One of the interesting similarities between placental and marsupial
             mammals is that between the North American wolf and the Tasmanian
             wolf. The former belongs to the placental class, the latter to the marsupials.
             Evolutionary biologists believe that these two different species have
             completely separate evolutionary histories. 277  (Since the continent of
             Australia and the islands around it split off from Gondwanaland (the
             supercontinent that is supposed to be the originator of Africa, Antarctica,
             Australia, and South America) the link between placental and marsupial
             mammals is considered to have been broken, and at that time there were
             no wolves). But the interesting thing is that the skeletal structure of the


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