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Sentences such as “According to a Time and from it a very concrete picture emer-
magazine report, a very significant fossil ges: different living species appeared
filling a gap in the chain of evolution has suddenly and separately on Earth, with
been discovered,” or “According to a re- all their different structures, and with no
port in Nature, scientists have clarified transitional forms between them.
the final missing parts in the evolutio-
nary puzzle” are printed in large, bold
Evolutionary humanism
face. However, nothing has actually be-
en proven at all for the final missing link Julian Huxley, one of Darwin’s lea-
in the evolutionary chain to have been ding supporters, sought to place the lat-
found. All the evidence put forward is ter’s biological argument onto a philo-
false. sophical footing and constructed a new
On the other hand, despite there be- religion under the name of evolutionary
ing millions of fossils of living things in humanism.
perfectly formed states, no transitional The aim of this religion was to “en-
form fossil that might confirm an evolu- sure that the evolutionary process on
tionary development has ever been fo- Earth reached its maximum conclusi-
und. In his 1991 book Beyond Natural on.” This was not restricted to strong or-
Selection, the American paleontologist ganisms living longer and trying to rep-
R. Wesson describes the significance of roduce more offspring. In addition, “it
the real and concrete gaps in the fossil was foreseen that man would develop his
record: own abilities to the highest level.” To

The absence of a record of any important put it another way, efforts were to be ma-
branching is quite phenomenal. Species de to enable mankind to proceed to sta-
are usually static, or nearly so, for long ges more advanced than the one that hu-
periods, species seldom and genera ne- man beings are in today. Huxley offered
ver show evolution into new species or
a full definition of the term Humanism:
genera but replacement of one by anot-
I use the word ‘Humanist’ to mean so-
her, and change is more or less ab-
rupt. 155 meone who believes that man is just as
much a natural phenomenon as an ani-
This shows that the argument that mal or a plant, that his body, his mind,
“Transitional-form fossils have not been and his soul were not supernaturally
found yet, but may be in the future,” put created but are all products of evolution,
forward by evolutionist for the last cen- and that the is not under the control or
tury and a half, no longer has any vali- guidance of any supernatural Being or
dity. The fossil record is sufficiently rich beings, but has to rely on himself and his
for us to understand the origin of life, own powers. 156

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)