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is actually written in a special language.
Evan Eichler, an evolutionist scien- 1 Ozer Bulut, Davut Sagdic, Selim Korkmaz,
Biyoloji Lise 3, (“Biology High School 3”) MEB
tist from Cleveland University, made the
Publishing, Istanbul, 2000, p. 182.
following admission:
2 From Rene Vallery-Radot, The Life of Pas-
The term “junk DNA” is a reflection of teur, 1920, Garden City, NY: Garden City Publis-
our ignorance. 234 hing Company, Inc., p.109. http://www.founder-
sofscience.net/interest1.htm
In fact, this concept is simply the la-
3 Grolier International Americana Encyclope-
test example of the “vestigial organs”
dia, Vol 2, Danbury:Grolier Incorporated, 1993,
that evolutionists have been proposing pp. 345-346.
since the beginning of the 20 th century. 4 Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 2nd
(See Vestigial Organs thesis, the.) At Edition, New York: A L. Burt Co., 1874, p.178.
that time, many evolutionists suggested 5 Jani Roberts, “How neo-Darwinism justifi-
that many organs whose functions had ed taking land from Aborigines and murdering
them in Australia”, http://www.gn.apc.org/inqui-
not yet been discovered (for example,
rer/ausrace.html.
the appendix and the coccyx) were use-
6 “Ancient Alga Fossil Most Complex Yet”,
less, vestigial organs and left behind in Science News, Vol. 108, 20 September 1975, p.
the course of evolution. Later medical 181.
research, however, revealed that these 7 Hoimar Von Ditfurth, The Silent Night of
organs imagined to be useless actually the Dinosaurs, Istanbul: Alan Publishing, Novem-
ber 1996, Trans: Veysel Atayman, p.199.
performed important functions. The ap-
8 N. Kroger, R. Deutzmann, M. Sumper,
pendix, for instance, was shown to be
“Polycationic Peptides from Diatom Biosilica That
part of the body’s immune system, and
Direct Silica Nanosphere Formation”, Science,
the coccyx to be an attachment point for 286, pp. 1129, 1999.
important muscles. 9 Cemal Yildirim, Evrim Kurami ve Bagnaz-
In the words of the evolutionist aut- lik (“The Theory of Evolution and Bigotry”), p.49.
hor Steven R. Scadding, “As our know- 10 Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of
Evolution, 1902, Chapter I, http://www.calres-
ledge has increased, the list of vestigial
structures has decreased,” 235 and co.org/texts/mutaid1.htm
11 Bilim ve Teknik magazine, No.190, p. 4.
eventually disappeared altogether.
12 Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid: A Factor of
Today the same thing applies to tho- Evolution, 1902, Part II.
se parts of the chromosome that some 13 John Maynard Smith, “The Evolution of
would like to consider vestigial DNA. Behavior”, Scientific American, December 1978,
Yet as our biological knowledge increa- Vol. 239, No.3, p. 176.
14 William R. Bird, The Origin of Species Re-
ses, so this claim is increasingly unfoun-
visited, Nashville: Thomas Nelson Co., 1991, p.
ded.
305.
15 Sarah Simpson, “Life’s First Scalding
NOTES Steps,” Science News, 155(2), 9 January 1999, p.

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