Page 27 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

The Lies of Darwinism Have Been Unmasked

The theory of evolution, first proposed under the primitive conditions of the 19th century, has

been disproved by advances in science and technology. It has been recognized that Darwin's claims
are totally unrealistic: Natural selection and mutations, cited as the mechanisms that drive the process
of evolution, have no effects of the kind envisaged by Darwinists. In short, it is impossible for them to
give rise to new species.

The final death blow to Darwinism was dealt by the fossil record. Darwin claimed that all the mil-
lions of different life forms had come into being through descent from a supposed single common an-
cestor. In order for his claim to be verified, there should be traces in the fossil record—an irrefutable
document of natural history—of this supposed primitive ancestor and of the various life forms that

developed from it. For example, if all mammals were descended from reptiles, as evolutionists main-
tain, then there would have to be fossil remains of a series of half-mammalian, half-reptilian life
forms. To date, millions of fossils, belonging to a great many species, have been unearthed during ex-
cavations. Yet not a single one showing a transition between species has ever been found. Every fossil

ever found shows that each living thing emerged suddenly, with all its characteristics complete. In
other words, every species of plant and animal was created.
Confronted by this fact, evolutionists have resorted to various falsehoods. They have produced
hoaxes—counterfeit, artificial fossils that have come to be regarded as disgraces to paleontology. They

Crocodiles are one example of living fos-
sils. They appeared with all their physical
structures fully formed and have survived
down to the present day without undergo-
ing any change at all over a period of
around 100 million years (there are croco-
dile fossils dating back 140 million years).
The fact that there is no difference between
the 100-million-year-old fossil crocodile in
the picture and those alive today once
again emphasizes this fact.

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