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Harun Yahya
One famous British palaeontologist, Derek V. Ager, admits this
fact, even though he is an evolutionist:
The point emerges that if we examine the fossil record in detail, whether
at the level of orders or of species, we find-over and over again-not gra-
dual evolution, but the sudden explosion of one group at the expense of
another. 314
This means that in the fossil record, all living species suddenly
emerge as fully formed, without any intermediate forms in between.
This is just the opposite of Darwin's assumptions. Also, this is very
strong evidence that all living things are created. The only explanation of
a living species emerging suddenly and complete in every detail without
any evolutionary ancestor is that it was created. This fact is admitted also
by the widely known evolutionist biologist Douglas Futuyma:
Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possible explanations
for the origin of living things. Organisms either appeared on the earth
fully developed or they did not. If they did not, they must have develo-
ped from pre-existing species by some process of modification. If they did
appear in a fully developed state, they must indeed have been created by
some omnipotent intelligence. 315
Fossils show that living beings emerged fully developed and in a
perfect state on the Earth. That means that "the origin of species," con-
trary to Darwin's supposition, is not evolution, but creation.
The Tale of Human Evolution
The subject most often brought up by advocates of the theory of
evolution is the subject of the origin of man. The Darwinist claim holds
that modern man evolved from ape-like creatures. During this alleged
evolutionary process, which is supposed to have started 4-5 million
years ago, some "transitional forms" between modern man and his
ancestors are supposed to have existed. According to this completely
imaginary scenario, four basic "categories" are listed:
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