Page 625 - Atlas of Creation Volume 2

Harun Yahya

METAMORPHOSIS

Frogs are born in water, live there for a
while, and finally emerge onto land in a
process known as "metamorphosis." Some
people think that metamorphosis is evi-
dence of evolution, whereas the two actually
have nothing to do with one another.

The sole innovative mechanism proposed by
evolution is mutation. However, metamor-
phosis does not come about by coincidental
effects like mutation does. On the contrary,

this change is written in frogs' genetic code.
In other words, it is already evident when a
frog is first born that it will have a type of
body that allows it to live on land. Research
carried out in recent years has shown that
metamorphosis is a complex process gov-
erned by different genes. For instance, just

the loss of the tail during this process is gov-
erned, according to Science News magazine,
by more than a dozen genes (Science News,
July 17, 1999, page 43).

The evolutionists' claim of transition from
water to land says that fish, with a genetic
code completely created to allow them to
live in water, turned into land creatures as a
result of chance mutations. However, for
this reason metamorphosis actually tears
evolution down, rather than shoring it up,

because the slightest error in the process of
metamorphosis means the creature will die
or be deformed. It is essential that metamor-
phosis should happen perfectly. It is impos-
sible for such a complex process, which
allows no room for error, to have come about
by chance mutations, as is claimed by evolu-

tion.

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