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HARUN YAHYA

Fossil Sufficiency
In Darwin’s day, the living cell was thought of as merely a sac
filled with liquid. Scientists of the Victorian era were ignorant of the
organelles in the cell and its other microscopic structures. Nobody
knew that the DNA molecule contained enough information to fill
many volumes of an encyclopedia. It was thought that if a baby was
born handicapped, that was because of fears the mother had experi-
enced during the gestation process.
In Darwin’s time it was believed that the soil of a land being
plowed away could change that region’s climate. People imagined
that outer space was a colorless fluid known as ether and that if peo-
ple’s hands were severed over the course of a few generations even-
tually children without any hands would be born. The electron mi-
croscope did not yet exist in 1859. Neither did the refrigerator
(which was invented only in 1938), the telephone (1876), the type-
writer (1867), or even the ballpoint pen (1863). Researchers of the
time tried to understand natural phenomena by means of such rudi-
mentary equipment as compasses, thermometers and the like.
Accordingly, in the days when Darwin was making his studies
and conjectures, research into biology and the knowledge resulting
from that research were very limited.
In Darwin’s day, it was estimated that the Cambrian Period ex-
tended no further back than 60 million years. According to this view,
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the Earth was estimated to be only around 200 million years old. (It
is now estimated to be 4.6 billion years old.)
In Darwin’s day, all branches of science were in a relatively
primitive state. For that reason, conjectures regarding the imaginary
evolutionary process were left dependent upon advancing science
and technology and the opportunities that these were expected to
provide. The expectation that future fossil discoveries would shed

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