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veals the situation of such people:
And they repudiated them wrongly and haughtily, in spite of
their own certainty about them. See the final fate of the cor-
rupters. (Surat an-Naml: 14)

ADMISSIONS BY EVOLUTIONISTS
During their studies of life and nature, scientists have encountered
very different proofs of creation in not one or two, but hundreds, thou-
sands and even millions of species. Countless times, therefore, they’ve
had to admit their claims with regard to instinct are meaningless.
These words by the geneticist Gordon Taylor clearly reveal the
dilemma facing evolutionists:
When we ask ourselves how any instinctive pattern of behavior arose in the
first place and became hereditarily fixed, we are given no answer . . . . 9
In The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Darwin’s son Francis described
the difficulties faced by his father in this regard:
Chapter III. of the Sketch, which concludes the first part, treats of the varia-
tions which occur in the instincts and habits of animals . . . It seems to have
been placed thus early in the Essay to prevent the hasty rejection of the whole
theory by a reader to whom the idea of natural selection acting on instincts
might seem impossible. This is the more probable, as the Chapter on Instinct in
the Origin is specially mentioned (Introduction, page 5) as one of the “most ap-
parent and gravest difficulties on the theory.” 10

The situation that the theory of evolution found itself in with regard to
instincts was also admitted by Charles Darwin himself, in various ways.
For example, this is how Darwin confesses that animal instincts overturn
his theory in his The Origin of Species:
Many instincts are so wonderful that their development will probably appear
to the reader a difficulty sufficient to overthrow my whole theory. 11
Regarding the impossibility of instincts developing, Darwin had this to
say:
It seems to me wholly to rest on the assumption that instincts cannot graduate
as finely as structures. I have stated in my volume that it is hardly possible to