Page 165 - The Error of the Evolution of Species

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

cepts are best for different purposes; and just as it is inad-
visable to use a carving chisel to cut a mortise, problems
arise when one species concept is used when it is inappro-
priate. Confusion and controversy have often resulted be-
cause different people working with different groups of or-
ganisms mean different things by "species." 195

Ali Demirsoy, one of Turkey's most prominent expo-
nents of Darwinism, expresses the truth of the matter this

way:
The question of by what bounds the species, the basic unit
in the classification of plants and animals, should be sep-
arated from other species—in other words, "Species
Definition"— is one of the most difficult for biology to an-
swer. It appears impossible in the present state of our
knowledge to give a definition of the species that applies to
all plant and animal groups. 196

Mention the word species, and most people will think of
life forms such as dogs, horses, spiders, dolphins, wheat or
apples. However, biologists define the concept of species in
a rather different way. In modern-day biology, a living

species in the most general sense consists of a population
of individuals able to mate and reproduce with one anoth-
er. This definition divides life forms that we generally speak
of as if they were one single species into a number of dif-

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