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pressure." (For example, the need to stand up on two feet in
the high grass of the savannah is a so-called "evolutionary
pressure.")

Only those who blindly accept Darwinism can possibly
suppose that the necessary mutations are ready at hand.
Everyone not caught up in such blind dogmatism can see that
just-so stories are inventions with no relation to science.
Indeed, the nature of such conjectures is now openly ad-
mitted by evolutionist scientists. A new example is the com-
ment by Ian Tattersall, curator in the Division of

Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History,
on an article in The New York Times, titled "Why Humans and
Their Fur Parted Ways." The answer proposed was the sce-
nario of having various advantages. Tattersall said, "There are
all kinds of notions as to the advantage of hair loss, but they are all
just-so stories." 120
In his 1999 book, evolutionist Henry Gee, science editor
of Nature magazine, wrote that it is wrong to attempt to ex- Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)
plain an organ's origin in terms of what is advantageous for

it:
. . . our noses were made to carry spectacles, so we have spec-
tacles. Yet evolutionary biologists do much the same thing
when they interpret any structure in terms of adaptation to
current utility while failing to acknowledge that current utility
needs tell us nothing about how structure evolved, or indeed
how the evolutionary history of a structure might itself have
influenced the shape and properties of that structure. 121

These statements are very important because in future,

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