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HARUN YAHYA

DNA and the cell, all possess irreducible complexity and cannot have
come into being by chance, as the theory of evolution originally main-
tained. That impossibility has also been calculated mathematically.
2. It has now been accepted that natural selection and mutation, long pro-
posed as the mechanisms of evolution, have no power to cause living species to

evolve. Natural selection may weed out weak or sickly individuals, but
brings no new genetic information to living organisms, and mutations
merely damage existing genetic information.
3. The transitional forms that evolutionists expected to find in the fossil

record— and which might be regarded as proof that species evolved
from one another—have not been found. Fossils emerge suddenly and
with all their particular features fully present, and the fossil record
demonstrates that no species experienced any process of gradual
change leading to its eventual disappearance.
This book deals with the third of these scientific developments
which have undermined the theory of evolution—the fossil record.
Before moving forward, we need to stress that the absence of transi-
tional forms from the fossil record is by itself sufficient to undermine the
whole theory of evolution. Charles Darwin, the founder of the theory, ac-
tually admitted the truth of this! After inquiring into the absence of such
forms, he wrote that “this, perhaps is the most obvious and gravest ob-
jection which can be urged against my theory.” 1
And today, one of the main objections to Darwin’s theory of evolu-
tion indeed, concerns the fossil record. Even among evolutionists, there
is a serious dispute over how to interpret the fossil record. Fossils, one
important source of scientific evidence regarding natural history,
clearly refute the theory of evolution and show that life on Earth ap-
peared suddenly, with no evolutionary process behind it—in other
words that life forms were created.

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