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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 89

To sum up, we've taken looks at eight planets and not one of them, in-
cluding their fifty-three satellites offers anything that might serve as a haven
for life. Each of them is lifeless ball of gas, ice, or rock.
But the blue planet Earth, that we skipped over a while ago? That one's
very different from the others. With its hospitable atmosphere, surface fea-
tures, ambient temperatures, magnetic field, and supply of elements and set
just the right distance from the Sun, it is evident that it was specially creat-
ed to be a home for life.

A Brief Digression and Warning About "Adaptation"
In the rest of this chapter we will be examining features of earth that
make it clear that our planet was created specifically for the support of life.
But before we do that, we need to make a brief digression in order to avoid
the possibility of any misunderstanding. This digression is especially for
those who are in the habit of recognizing the theory of evolution as a sci-
entific truth and who strongly believe in the concept of "adaptation".
"Adaptation" is the noun form of the verb "adapt". "Adapt" implies a
modification according to changing circumstances. As used by evolution-
ists, it means a "modification of an organism or its parts that makes it more
fit for existence under the conditions of its environment". The theory of
evolution claims that all life on earth is derived from a single organism (a
single common ancestor) that itself came into being as a result of chance
and the theory makes heavy use of this sense of the word "adaptation" to
support its case. Evolutionists hold that living organisms change into new
species by adapting to their environment. We have discussed the invalidi-
ty of this claim, that mechanisms of adaptation to natural conditions in liv-
ing beings come into play only under certain circumstances and it can nev-
er transform one species into another in detail in our other books. 55 (This
is summed up in the appendix "Evolution Deceit" in this book) The theo-
ry of evolution with its concept of "adaptation" is really just a form of
Lamarckism, a theory of organic evolution that holds that environmental
changes cause structural changes in animals and plants that can be trans-