Page 161 - The Error of the Evolution of Species

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

The Modern Synthesis is a remarkable achievement.
However, starting in the 1970s, many biologists began
questioning its adequacy in explaining evolution. Genetics
might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but mi-
cro-evolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen
as able to turn a reptile into a mammal or to convert a fish
into an amphibian. Microevolution looks at adaptations
that concern only the survival of the fittest, not the arrival
of the fittest. As Goodwin (1995) points out, "the origin of
species—Darwin's problem—remains unsolved. 187

That the variations known as micro-evolution cannot ac-
count for the claim of macro-evolution, and cannot explain

the origin of species, is also admitted by other evolutionist
biologists. The well-known evolutionist paleontologist
Roger Lewin set out his conclusion at a four-day symposium
attended by 150 evolutionists at the Chicago Museum of
Natural History in November 1980:

The central question of the Chicago conference was
whether the mechanisms underlying microevolution can
be extrapolated to explain the phenomena of macroevolu-
tion ... The answer can be given as a clear, No. 188

The evolutionist biologists Fagerstrom, Schuster and
Szathmary stated the same thing in an article published in
Science magazine in 1996:

Major transitions in evolution—such as the origin of life,

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