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HARUN YAHYA

"Evolution shapes our bodies. It is hard to believe that it could bring
all this about."

BBC's Time Error

One of the claims frequently repeated on BBC's documentary is
that minute changes combined over time to bring about major trans-
formations, and that this is how evolution, which looks to be impos-
sible at first sight, actually happens.
At the root of this argument, which is one of BBC's and other evo-
lutionists' fundamental refuges, lies the assumption that time is a
force that can do the impossible. According to this view, it is impos-
sible for a chemical mixture to randomly produce amino acids, pro-
teins, DNA, RNA, and other cell components, and thus a living cell—
or, alternatively, for a reptile to turn into a bird—in a short space of
time. As time goes on, however, for instance over millions of years,
the impossible suddenly becomes possible.
Evolutionists describe this time factor as "the accumulation of ad-
vantageous coincidences." In other words, a structure will gain a posi-
tive feature by means of an advantageous coincidence, another such co-
incidence will be added to it a few thousand years later, yet another one
will happen a few thousand years after that, and at the end, over the
course of millions of years, these advantageous coincidences will com-
bine to bring about a major and positive transformation.
Many people may accept this logic without examining it too
closely. Yet, it contains a simple but fundamental error. This lies in the
concept of "advantageous coincidences being added on to one an-
other." The fact is that there is no mechanism in nature that might be
expected to select advantageous coincidences and hold on to them in
order to add them to one another.
We can clarify what this means with an example that evolution-
ists also resort to. Some scientists say that the possibility of a protein
being synthesized by chance is "less than the probability of a monkey
typing out the history of mankind without any mistakes." 2

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