Page 243 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

This being the case, evolutionists should arrive at the conclusion that,
in evolutionary terms, man is more closely related to the kangaroo than to
the horse, or to the pig than to the lemur. But these results conflict with all
the "evolutionary family tree" plans that have so far been accepted. Protein
similarities continue to produce astounding surprises. For example:
Adrian Friday and Martin Bishop of Cambridge have analyzed the available
protein sequence data for tetrapods… To their surprise, in nearly all cases,
man (the mammal) and chicken (the bird) were paired off as closest
relatives, with the crocodile as next nearest relative… 288
Again, when these similarities are approached from the point of view
of evolutionist logic, they lead us to the ridiculous conclusion that man's
closest evolutionary relative is the chicken. Paul Erbrich stresses the fact
that molecular analyses produce results that show very different groups of
living thing to be closely related in this way:
Proteins with nearly the same structure and function (homologous proteins)
are found in increasing numbers in phylogenetically different, even very
distinct taxa (e.g., hemoglobins in vertebrates, in some invertebrates, and
even in certain plants). 289

Dr. Christian Schwabe, a biochemical researcher from the University
of South Carolina's Faculty of Medicine, is a scientist who spent years
trying to find evidence for evolution in the molecular field. He first tried
to establish evolutionary relationships between living things by carrying
out studies on proteins such as insulin and relaxin. But Schwabe has
several times been forced to admit that he has not been able to come by
any evidence for evolution in his studies. He says the following in an
article in Science:
Molecular evolution is about to be accepted as a method superior to
paleontology for the discovery of evolutionary relationships. As a molecular
evolutionist I should be elated. Instead it seems disconcerting that many
exceptions exist to the orderly progression of species as determined by
molecular homologies: so many in fact that I think the exception, the quirks,
may carry the more important message. 290
Schwabe's studies on relaxins produced rather interesting results:
Against this background of high variability between relaxins from
purportedly closely related species, the relaxins of pig and whale are all but

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