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unwittingly proven by their own hands that evolution cannot have
happened at all!
The person who originally put forward the theory of evolution, es-
sentially in the form that it is defended today, was an amateur English
biologist by the name of Charles Robert Darwin. Darwin first published
his ideas in a book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection in 1859. Darwin claimed in his book that all living beings had
a common ancestor and that they evolved from one another by means
of natural selection. Those that best adapted to the habitat transferred
their traits to subsequent generations, and by accumulating over great
epochs, these advantageous qualities transformed individuals into total-
ly different species from their ancestors. The human being was thus the
most developed product of the mechanism of natural selection. In short,
the origin of one species was another species.
Darwin's fanciful ideas were seized upon and promoted by certain
ideological and political circles and the theory became very popular. The
main reason was that the level of knowledge of those days was not yet
sufficient to reveal that Darwin's imaginary scenarios were false. When
Darwin put forward his assumptions, the disciplines of genetics, micro-
biology, and biochemistry did not yet exist. If they had, Darwin might
easily have recognised that his theory was totally unscientific and thus
would not have attempted to advance such meaningless claims: the in-
formation determining species already exists in the genes and it is im-
possible for natural selection to produce new species by altering genes.
While the echoes of Darwin's book reverberated, an Austrian botanist
by the name of Gregor Mendel discovered the laws of inheritance in
1865. Although little known before the end of the century, Mendel's dis-
covery gained great importance in the early 1900s with the birth of the
science of genetics. Some time later, the structures of genes and chro-
mosomes were discovered. The discovery, in the 1950s, of the DNA mol-
ecule, which incorporates genetic information, threw the theory of evo-
lution into a great crisis, because the origin of the immense amount of
information in DNA could not possibly be explained by coincidental
happenings.
Besides all these scientific developments, no transitional forms,
which were supposed to show the gradual evolution of living organisms

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