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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 37

Scientists of the nineteenth century were easily misled into adopting the
thesis that nature is a battlefield, because more often than not, they were
imprisoned in their studies or laboratories and generally didn't bother to
acquaint themselves with nature directly. Not even a respectable scientist
like Huxley could exempt himself from this error. 65
Another criticism from the scientific point of view concerns the claim
that the living world is in a constant fight for survival. Many reliable ob-
servations have revealed that organisms, particularly those at a more ad-

vanced level, display solidarity and behavior that can be defined as "co-
operation." A third, more important criticism concerns the way the inad-
equacy of natural selection serves as an explanatory principle. According
to this criticism, living things in all stages, from amoeba to human beings,
exhibit an extraordinary organization and purposefulness incompatible

with physical and chemical explanation. It is impossible to account for
this mechanical order based on random variations by way of natural se-
lection.
Take the human eye, for example. Is there any chance that such a delicate
and functional organ with such complex structures and workings could
have come about in a solely mechanical order with no purposeful creative
power? Is it sufficient to say that human beings, who create civilization
out of their artistry, philosophy and science evolved by way of natural
selection? Can a mother's love be explained by the blind process of nat-
ural selection, which has no spiritual aspects? For such questions, it's
hardly possible for Darwinist biologists to give satisfactory answers. 66
J. B. S. Haldane is a British geneticist and famous evolutionist bi-
ologist:

To sum up, no satisfactory cause of evolution other than the action of nat-
ural selection on fortuitous variations has ever been put forward. It is by
no means clear that natural selection will explain all the facts… 67
He will probably attempt to account for it as a result of natural selection,
but natural selection is more fitted to explain the origin of given adapta-
tions than the existence of living beings to which the term adaptation can
be applied with a meaning. 68