Page 57 - The Dark Spell of Darwinism

Harun Yahya - Adnan Oktar

rational claim, this kind of sudden
change would leave no fossil traces,
so the problem of having to come
"That is Allah,
up with any proof was overcome.
your Lord, the
One would expect that such an em-
Truth, and what is
barrassing claim had to be covered
there after truth ex-
up, but in later years, some evolu-
cept misguidance?
tionists accepted it and even elabo-
So how have you
rated on it. In 1940, the Berkeley
been distracted?"
University geneticist Richard
(Surah Yunus,
Goldschmidt announced his new
theory: a megaevolution in which 10:32)
one life form suddenly emerged
completely out of a different one. He
called these suddenly emerging new
creatures "hopeful monsters." With this
theory, he showed his acceptance of Schindewolf's extreme example of the first
bird hatching from a reptile egg. 28
According to the "hopeful monster" theory, a feathered creature
hatched from an egg laid by a reptile, and thus became the first bird. But the
proponents of this theory give no proof or logical explanation whatsoever
for this story; they simply accept it.
Let's assume that the first chapter of this impossible story actually took
place. Let us accept the proposition that, one day and for no reason, a bird
hatched out of a reptile's egg. Could it survive under such conditions? There
would be no other birds around to feed it and look after its needs. But even
supposing this did occur, could a bird that hatched by chance from a reptile
egg become the ancestor of all subsequent generations of birds? For this to
happen, for our story to continue, yet another such chance event has to take
place: This first bird must find a mate also hatched suddenly by chance from
another reptile egg. Otherwise, the "bird" characteristics would become re-
cessive, and eventually, be bred out of existence by constant cross-breeding

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