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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 25

I was beginning to think that perhaps I was wholly in the wrong and that
(Richard Owen) was right when he said the whole subject would be for-
gotten in ten years. 17

You ask about my book, and all that I can say is that I am ready to com-
mit suicide; I thought it was decently written, but find so much wants
rewriting... 18
... but so much has been published since the appearance of the 'Origin of
Species,' that I very much doubt whether I retain power of mind and
strength to reduce the mass into a digested whole. 19
From a letter to Charles Lyell, the British geologist:

For myself, also, I rejoice profoundly; for, thinking of so many cases of
men pursuing an illusion for years, often and often a cold shudder has
run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may not have devot-
ed my life to phantasy. 20

I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The
mystery of the beginning of all thing is insoluble by us; and I for one must
be content to remain an agnostic. 21
Darwin saw that the greatest dilemma facing his theory was the ab-
sence of any transitional forms. That is why he wrote in 1859, 150 years
ago, in the chapter “Difficulties on Theory” in his book The Origin of

Species:
... Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine
gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms?
Why is not all nature in confusion instead of the species being, as we see
them, well defined?… But, as by this theory innumerable transitional
forms must have existed, why do we not find them embedded in count-
less numbers in the crust of the earth?… Why then is not every geolog-
ical formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links?
Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic
chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection
which can be urged against my theory. 22