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An Outdated View:

The Theory of Evolution

The idea that life is the product of an uncontrolled,
purposeless process of coincidence is a 19th century
myth. Looking at the matter from the primitive level of
the science of the period, evolutionists assumed that life
Jean B. Lamarck:
Science brought his was very "simple".
theory down.
here are more than a million species living on the earth. How did
these creatures with entirely distinct features and perfect designs
T come into being? Anyone who uses his reason would understand
that life is the work of a perfect and supreme creation.
However, the theory of evolution denies this explicit truth. It holds that all
species on earth evolved from one another through a process based on
random occurrences.
The first person to seriously take up the issue of evolution – an idea which
originated in Ancient Greece – was the French biologist Jean Baptiste
Lamarck. Lamarck's theory, which he postulated in the early 19th century,
maintained that "living things transferred the traits they acquired during
their lifetime to subsequent generations." In Lamarck's view, for instance,
giraffes had evolved from antelope-like animals who extended their necks
further and further as they tried to reach higher branches for food. The advent of the science of
genetics, however, refuted Lamarck's theory once and for all.
The second important name to defend the theory after Lamarck was a British
amateur naturalist, Charles Darwin. In his book The
Origin of Species, published in 1856, he claimed that
all species descended from a common ancestor
through coincidences. According to Darwin, for
instance, whales evolved from bears that tried to
hunt in the sea. 1

DARWIN'S DIFFICULTIES
Charles Darwin, an amateur
naturalist, advanced his theory
in his book, The Origin of
Species, published in 1859. He
confessed to many points
which defied explanation in
the chapter "Difficulties On
Theory", and hoped that these
problems would be solved in
the future. This hope, however,
came to nothing.

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