Page 193 - The Error of the Evolution of Species

Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar)

tale of Darwin's finches known to everyone; their so-called

evolution has since been studied more than the other bird
families. 227

Research After Darwin

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As early as the late 19 century, a flood of visitors began
arriving at the Galapagos Islands. The visitors and re-
searchers, most of them American, collected thousands of
bird specimens. For example, the California Academy of
Sciences alone added more than 8,000 birds (including
228
Darwin's finches), to its collection in 1905-1906. Galapagos
finches soon found their way into many museum collec-

tions—not without an objective, of course. The aim was to
complete the work that Darwin had left half-finished and to
rescue evolution from its predicament by finding valid evi-
dence.
There was another important reason for the last centu-
ry's evolutionary research into the Galapagos finches. In The
Origin of Species, Darwin had written that a new species'
emergence by way of natural selection was a very slow
process, for which reason it could not be observed, but on-

ly deduced. This was not acceptable by the standards of de-
veloping science. Neo-Darwinists embarked on a search for

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