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Harun Yahya

record has definitively
demolished the theory of
evolution's basic claim, that

species descended from one
another by undergoing changes
over long periods of time.
In addition to the
information that fossils provide

concerning life forms, they also
supply significant data
regarding the history of the

planet, such as how the
movements of continental plates
have altered the surface of the
Earth and what kind of climatic
changes took place in past eras.

Fossils have attracted the
interest of researchers ever since
A fossil researcher working at the Ediacara Formation in
the days of ancient Greece, Australia.

although their study as a
distinct branch of science began
only in the middle of the 17th century. This followed the works of the researcher Robert Hooke (author of
Micrographia, 1665, and Discourse of Earthquakes, 1668) and Niels Stensen (better known as Nicolai Steno).
At the time when Hooke and Steno carried out their investigations, most thinkers did not believe that

fossils were actually the remains of living things that had existed in the past. At the heart of the debate
over whether fossils were the actual remains of living things lay the inability to explain where fossils
were discovered, in terms of geological data. Fossils were frequently found in mountainous regions,

although at the time, it was impossible to account for how a fish, for example, could have been fossilized
in a stratum of rock so high above sea level. Just as Leonardo da Vinci had previously suggested, Steno
maintained that sea levels must have declined over the course of history. Hooke, on the other hand, said

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