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Even evolutionists admit that penta- similar to the forelimbs in bone structure
dactylism is a characteristic found in dif- and in their detailed embryological deve-
ferent living groups among which they lopment. Yet no evolutionist claims that
cannot construct any evolutionary relati- the hind limb evolved from the forelimb,
or that hind limbs and forelimbs evolved
onship. For example, in two separate ar-
from a common source. . . . Invariably, as
ticles published in 1991 and 1996, the
biological knowledge has grown, com-
evolutionist biologist M. Coates states
mon genealogy as an explanation for si-
that the phenomenon of pentadactylism
milarity has tended to grow ever more te-
emerged on two separate occasions, in-
nuous. . . . Like so much of the other cir-
dependently of one another. According cumstantial “evidence”" for evolution,
to Coates, a pentadactyl structure emer- that drawn from homology is not convin-
ged in both Anthracosaurs and in amphi- cing because it entails too many anoma-
bians, quite independently of each ot- lies, too many counter-instances, far too
her. 164 This finding indicates that pen- many phenomena which simply do not fit
tadactylism cannot represent any eviden- easily into the orthodox picture. 165
ce for the hypothesis of a common an- The real blow to the claim of five-di-
cestor. (See Common ancestor.) git homology, so long propagated in
Another difficulty for the evolutio- evolutionist publications, was dealt by
nists is that these vertebrates have five molecular biology. The hypothesis col-
digits on both their front and hind feet. lapsed when it was realized that finger
Yet nowhere in the evolutionist literature structure was controlled by different ge-
is it suggested that front and back feet nes in different species with a penta-
developed from a common ancestor and dactyl digit structure.
it is not hypothesized that they then de- The biologist John Randall describes
veloped independently. Therefore, we the collapse of the evolutionist thesis re-
would expect front and back feet to have garding pentadactylism:
different structures as a result of diffe-
The older textbooks on evolution make
rent random mutations.
much of the idea of homology, pointing
Michael Denton has this to say on out the obvious resemblances between
the subject: the skeletons of the limbs of different ani-
[T]he forelimbs of all terrestrial verteb- mals. Thus the ‘pentadactyl’ [five bone]
rates are constructed according to the limb pattern is found in the arm of a man,
same pentadactyl design, and this is at- the wing of a bird, and flipper of a whale,
tributed by evolutionary biologists as and this is held to indicate their common
showing that all have been derived from origin. Now, if these various structures
a common ancestral source. But the hind were transmitted by the same gene coup-
limbs of all vertebrates also conform to les, varied from time to time by mutations
the pentadactyl pattern and are strikingly and acted upon by environmental selecti-

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)