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HARUN YAHYA
documentary called Built for the Kill has been
screened on National Geographic TV. Its aim
was twofold. On the one hand, the program de-
scribed some of the techniques used by sea crea-
A tures to hunt or evade capture. On the other, it
sent out a Darwinist message by describing some creatures as "pro-
grammed to kill" or "ruthless killers."
The flawless design in the creatures described in the documen-
tary were portrayed as mechanisms "developed for survival," al-
though no evidence of this was offered. This is a technique fre-
quently encountered in broadcasts by National Geographic TV and
similar Darwinist institutions. However, it is obvious that these de-
scriptions lack any scientific basis, since looking at the features pos-
sessed by the creatures and saying "they developed these in order
to survive" or sticking an evolutionary label on the design in living
things is itself of no scientific value.
For instance, attempting to account for the shiny skin on the un-
derside of the blue shark and the dark skin on the top by means of
evolution, while failing to provide any evidence, merely reveals
National Geographic TV's prejudices. Another fish, looking down,
cannot make out the shark against the dark tones of the sea bottom
thanks to the dark color of the shark's skin. The shark will similarly
be camouflaged against the brightness of the sea surface stemming
from the rays of the sun. If this is to be explained by evolution, then
it must also be explained how the information for this camouflage
design emerged by chance in the creature's DNA, and scientific
proof must be given. Maintaining that this information came about
by natural selection and random mutations, in the absence of any
scientific evidence whatsoever, is merely Darwinist dogma.
On the other hand, this feature of the shark can be perfectly
convincingly accounted for by intelligent design: the information
regarding which areas of the shark's skin are to be which colors is
present in its DNA. It is utterly rational and scientific to maintain
that the encoding of this information came about not by chance but
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