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HARUN YAHYA
n article in the February 8, 2003, edition of
the British magazine New Scientist carried
speculation by an evolutionist researcher
called Christian Straus, who suggested that
A hiccupping in human beings was a feature
left over from evolution. He claimed there was a similarity be-
tween respiration in frogs and hiccupping, and suggested that
this might be a feature stretching from 370 million years ago to
modern man. However, Strauss offered not one piece of evi-
dence to back this claim up, and merely engaged in speculation
along the lines of "it might possibly be." In fact, Allan Pack, an
expert in respiratory neurobiology at the University of
Pennsylvania, stated that the claim was "very tough to prove." 1
This claim is therefore no evidence for the theory of evolu-
tion. It merely consists of mental gymnastics, in other words
speculation, in a manner compatible with the theory of evolu-
tion by a number of people who have unreservedly accepted
the theory beforehand. Such speculation is valueless, since their
starting point—the theory of evolution—is itself invalid.
The way that some media organizations have unquestion-
ingly reported such speculation, and even portrayed it as
proven fact, is nothing but an indication of their superficiality,
ignorance, and prejudice. The sensationalist style used in these
The article in New
Scientist includes
many misleading ex-
pressions and
Darwinist claims.
Yet it lacks any sub-
stantial evidence to
support these
claims.
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