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HARUN YAHYA
he documentary Humans: Who Are We?, one of the
documentaries being broadcast on the National
Geographic Channel (NGC), consists of the best-
known scenarios of the myth of evolution. The sci-
T entific errors and deceptions in the documentary
are explained below.
The NGC's Contradictions and
the Larmarckian View of Evolution
In the documentary on the NGC, there is first of all an address
by the anthropologist Ian Tattersall. Among his first statements is
the idea, "Human evolution did not happen as the result of needs,
it was entirely coincidental." Yet the needs which might have caused
ape-men to evolve into human beings are then described several
times in the minutes which follow. This is one of the most obvious
contradictions in the whole program.
Actually, this is a contradiction experienced by many evolution-
ists, not just the NGC or Ian Tattersall. In order to shed more light
on this subject, let us summarize the difference between the con-
cepts of "evolution as a response to need" and "evolution as the re-
sult of chance alone" (even though both are in fact unscientific fairy
tales).
Before Darwin, another important figure put forward an evolu-
tionary model on the subject of the origin of living things: the
French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Lamarck's claim was rather
different from the contemporary evolutionist view. In his opinion,
requirements or needs gave rise to their own organs. Let us illus-
trate Lamarckism with the example of the giraffe's neck. According
to this theory, the necks of the first giraffes were the same length as
those of deer or gazelles. However, giraffes experiencing food short-
ages wanted to be able to reach the rich sources of food in the upper
levels of trees. A need was thus born. As a result of that need, the
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