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Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

rance. In "Do 'Vestigial Organs' Provide Evidence for
Evolution?," an article in the magazine Evolutionary Theory,
the evolutionist biologist S.R. Scadding writes:

As our knowledge has increased, the list of vestigial structures has
decreased. . . Since it is not possible to unambiguously identify use-
less structures, and since the structure of the argument used is not
scientifically valid, I conclude that "vestigial organs" provide no
special evidence for the theory of evolution. 76

Even though it has taken evolutionists about one and a half
century to reach this conclusion, another myth of Darwinism has
evaporated.

The Panda's Thumb

The beginning of this chapter invalidated Richard Dawkins'

claim that the vertebrate retina is faulty. Another evolutionist,
supporting the same ideas, is the late Stephen J. Gould, a paleon-
tologist at Harvard University. Before his death in 2002, he had be-
come one of America's leading evolutionists.
Like Dawkins, Gould also wrote about an example of "faulty"
characteristics—the thumb of the panda.
Unlike a human hand, a panda does not have an opposable

thumb apart from its other four fingers that lets it hold objects eas-
ily. Its five digits extend out side by side. But besides these five
parallel digits, there is also a projection in its wrist called the
"radial sesamoid bone." The panda sometimes uses this
bone as a finger, and so biologists call it the panda's
thumb.

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