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HARUN YAHYA

n the December 2002 edition of Scientific American maga-
zine, an article under the headline "Food for Thought," by
William R. Leonard, appeared which spoke of man's being
a so-called evolved species of animal and attempted to
I form a link between his nutritional needs and traditions,
on the one hand, and evolution, on the other. By means of this article,
which was based solely on the speculation of evolutionist scientists
and offered no scientific evidence whatsoever, it was suggested that
man is a species of animal that has come about by chance.
This article in Scientific American contains deceptions ill-befitting
a serious scientific journal. When we look at the kind of exposition
prevailing in the article and the pictures offered alongside the text,
the fantastical style employed is striking. In one of the pictures, an
ape-man and his family are depicted moving through an area cov-
ered in trees. Despite their hairy bodies, the figures are portrayed as
having a human posture and appearance, although this is nothing
more than a work of imagination. Scientific American is employing a
familiar tactic of evolutionist propaganda: filling the gaps left by
lack of evidence with pictures.
The article claims that by studying the methods employed by
living things to find and use energy we can understand how the
evolutionary changes of natural selection came about. It then moves
on to such elements of the imaginary evolutionist scenario as the
transition to bipedalism, the increasing growth in the size of the
brain, and Homo erectus' departure from Africa once he had com-
pleted his evolution.
What people need to be aware of is that, contrary to what is
maintained in this article, natural selection has no evolutionary ef-
fect. This matter has already been explained in detail in the works
of Harun Yahya, so we shall not repeat ourselves here. (See Harun
Yahya, The Evolution Deceit, Darwinism Refuted, The Collapse of the
Theory of Evolution in 20 Questions, at www.harunyahya.com)

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