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HARUN YAHYA

similarities in the jaw joints. The fact is, however, that one single feature is not
sufficient to allow such a definition. 41
Studies on these creatures have concluded that they have nothing
in common with mammals. In 1973, for example, Morganucodon was de-
scribed by Dr. K. A. Kermack and other researchers from the University
of London as Cynodont, a so-called transitional form with advance rep-
tile features. A number of Morganucodon fragments were found in both
Wales and China, showing that the same “evolutionary” stages had
been undergone at more or less the same time, in two completely differ-
ent parts of the world, divided from one another by thousands of
miles—which is impossible. The researchers stated that from the point
of view of their jawbones, Morganucodon and the earlier discovered
Kuehneotherium, were both fully reptilian. 42
Another problem regarding these creatures, claimed to constitute
transitional forms between reptiles and mammals, has to do with tim-
ing. These mammal-like reptiles emerge not at the end of the great Age
of Reptiles, but at its beginning. This, according to the imaginary evolu-
tionary tree, means that they appeared
100 million years too early.
In his evolutionist article “The
Reptiles that Became Mammals,” pub-
lished in New Scientist magazine, Tom
Kemp admits that mammal-like reptiles
appear suddenly in the fossil record:
As is now well known, most fossil species
Roger Lewin
appear instantaneously in the fossil record
persist for some millions of years virtually
unchanged, only to disappear abruptly. 43
All of this shows that the assumption that reptiles evolved into
mammals has no scientific basis. The dilemma which forced the evolu-
tionist paleontologist Roger Lewin to admit, “The transition to the first
mammal . . . is still an enigma” still applies. 44

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