Page 207 - The Transitional Form Dilemma

HARUN YAHYA

new generation means the copying of DNA. Bearing in mind the number of
times the copying process takes place over millions of years, a very interesting
picture emerges. In theory, various elements of pressure such as changing envi-
ronmental conditions, hostile species and competition between species should
lead to natural selection, the selection of species advantaged by mutation, and
for these species to undergo greater change over such a long period of time. YET
THE FACTS ARE OTHERWISE. Let us consider cockroaches, for example.
These reproduce very quickly and have short life spans, yet they have remained
the same for approximately 250 million years. Archaeobacteria are an even
more striking example. These emerged 3.5 billion years ago, when the Earth
was still very hot, and are still alive today in the boiling waters in Yellowstone
National Park. 202

The fact that living fossils such as the coelacanth have remained
unchanged between the day they first appeared and the present is com-
patible not with evolution—which mandates constant change—but
with the fact of creation, which reveals that species are individually cre-
ated and have come down unchanged to our own time. Living fossils
are all proofs of creation. God has created all the millions of living
species in a miraculous manner.

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