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THE END OF
                                                                                                     DINOSAURS
                                                                                                   Dinosaurs were the
                                                                                                 greatest land-dwelling
                                                                                             animals that have ever lived.
                                                                                              With their perfectly designed
                                                                                              bodies, they lived on Earth for
                                                                                              a long time. According to a
                Moreover, there are also                                                      consensus among scientists,
                                                                                                they have become extinct
                insurmountable boundaries
                                                                                                  because of a meteor
                between reptile species such as                                                   disaster. This
                reptiles, dinosaurs or lizards. All                                               phenomenon was
                                                                                                 divinely planned so as to
                of these distinct species arose
                                                                                                 make the Earth fit for
                suddenly and distinctly on the Earth,                                           mammals and in particular
                because God so created them. This fact is thus stated in the                    human beings, which were
                                                                                           created subsequently (according
                Qur'an:
                                                                                           to geological records).
                  God created every animal from water. Some of them go on their bellies,
                  some of them on two legs, and some on four. God creates whatever He
                  wills. God has power over all things. (Surat an-Nur: 45)





                                                              THE DIFFERENCE
                                                                  IN THE EGGS
                                                         One of the contradictions
                               TURTLES ARE                of the amphibian-reptile
                             ALWAYS THE SAME           evolutionary scenario is the
                           There is no difference            structure of the eggs.
                            between the ancient fossil     Amphibian eggs, which
                              reptiles and their       develop in water, have a jelly-
                               counterparts today.       like structure and a permeable
                                The 100 million-year-   membrane. Reptile eggs, however,
                                old sea turtle on the    have a solid and water-proof structure
                               left is exactly the same     adapted to land conditions, as we see in the dinosaur egg
                              as its modern                 reconstruction here. In order for an amphibian to become
                             counterpart.                    "reptilian", its eggs must turn into reptile eggs. Yet this is
                                                                                                   impossible.



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