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complete wings to be completed through fossils and thus identified the remains of
minute mutations. extinct life forms. Since Cuvier believed
that animals possessed certain fixed and
natural characteristics, he thus opposed
Cuvier, Georges both the theory of evolution and La-

The French scientist Georges Cuvier marck’s theory that “species could pass
(1769-1832), now regarded as the foun- on to their offspring characteristics that
der of paleontology, was at the same ti- they had acquired during their lives.”
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me a geologist and comparative anato-
mist. He conducted wide-ranging rese-
arch into the zoology and paleontology
Cytochrome-C
of vertebrates and invertebrates and wro-
te about the history of science. At the sa- Professor Ali Demirsoy, a leading
me time, Cuvier definitively revealed proponent of evolution in Turkey, has
that some organisms that had existed in this to say about cytochrome-C, one of
the past had become extinct and accoun- the proteins which must be present in the
ted for this in a way diametrically oppo- body and which is essential for respirati-
sed to the theory of evolution. 105 on, and the chances of its coming into
Moreover, Cuvier grouped relevant being by chance: “as low as those of a
classes into phyla and thus broadened monkey sitting at a typewriter and wri-
Linnaeus’s classification. (See Linnaeus, ting the history of mankind.” 107
Carolus.) He also applied this system to Yet it is extremely interesting that Pro-
fessor Demirsoy, an evolutionist scientist,
should admit the impossibility of this:

The probability of forming a cytochrome-
C string is so low as to be zero. In other
words, we may say that if life requires a
specific sequence there is a very low pro-
bability of this occurring once in the
whole universe. Or else supernatural for-
ces that we cannot define played a role in
this formation. It is incompatible with
science to admit the latter possibility,
which means we need to investigate the
first hypothesis. 108
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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)