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Harun Yahya

1. Stasis. Most species exhibit no directional change during their tenure on earth. They appear in the fossil
record looking much the same as when they disappear; morphological change is usually limited and direc-
tionless. 2. Sudden appearance. In any local area, a species does not arise gradually by the steady transfor-
mation of its ancestors; it appears all at once and "fully formed." 11

Had evolution really taken place, the Earth should be full of billions of intermediate fossils. What is
more, because of the effects of mutations, these life forms, numbering in the millions, should be ex-
tremely abnormal in appearance.

According to evolutionist claims, all living things—and all the organs they possess—formed as a result
of random mutations. If that were so, an organ beginning with an abnormal structure should have
been subjected to many mutations while its functions were developing. Any such organ should have
assumed one abnormal state after another at each and every stage. Before assuming the perfect and
pleasing appearances they display today, the living things in question must have endured abnormal

structures and looked very ungainly. For example, before the highly symmetrical human face emerged
with its two ears, two eyes, nose and mouth, there must have been a very large number of abnormal
faces with imperfect symmetry, with several ears and eyes, a nose between the eyes or on the jaw, with
some eyes on the back of the head or on the cheeks, with a nose where an ear ought to be, extending as
far as the neck, and millions or even billions of other defects. Indeed, be-
fore that stage was ever reached, there must have been odd life
forms with an ear on the soles of their feet or an eye in

their back, their mouths on their stomachs, with two or
three brains, unable to stand because they had not
yet developed knee caps, with three or five arms
on one side of their body instead of one, or
whose foot bones ran from side to side instead
of back to front to enable them to stand prop-
erly.

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