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HARUN YAHYA
he second installment of the documentary, The
Human Body, again consisted of evolutionist
propaganda devoid of any scientific credibility.
The errors in the documentary prepared by BBC
T are scientifically explained below.
BBC's Tall Tale about "Fish Gills
Becoming Human Cars"
The BBC documentary maintained that human beings and fish
had a common ancestor, and that traces can still be found in the
human body which prove this. According to BBC, the human ear
is one example of such a trace, and its origin is to be found in the
bones beside the gills in the fish, with which we share (!) a com-
mon ancestor.
This BBC claim rests on the theory of "recapitulation," which
has long since been discredited in the scientific literature. Since
this matter has already been dealt with in the article "Evolutionary
Tall Tales from BBC - I," there is no need to repeat it here.
The subject to be considered here is that the human ear pos-
sesses such a complex structure that it could never have evolved
from a fish bone.
The Human Car Possesses Irreducible Complexity
The significance of the irreducible complexity possessed by the
human ear is this: The human ear is made up of several separate
parts all coming together, and we are able to hear as a result of all
these parts' working in harmony together. If one of these compo-
nents is deficient, then we either become deaf or else our sense of
hearing suffers serious damage. It is impossible for an organ pos-
sessing irreducible complexity to develop by stages, by chance, in
a process of evolution. A brief résumé of how hearing actually
takes place will enable this fact to be more clearly understood.
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