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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar) 157

W. L. Johannsen, a Danish scientist:

The variations upon which Darwin and Wallace placed their emphasis
cannot be selectively pushed beyond a certain point, that such variability
does not contain the secret of "indefinite departure." 399
The biologist Edward Deevey states that variation always takes
place within specific genetic bounds:
Remarkable things have been done by cross-breeding ... but wheat is still
wheat, and not, for instance, grapefruit. We can no more grow wings on
pigs than hens can make cylindrical eggs." A more contemporary exam-
ple is the average increase in male height that has occurred the past cen-
tury. Through better health care males have reached a record adult height
during the last century, but the increase is rapidly disappearing, indicat-
ing that we have reached our limit. 400

Variation is caused by dif fer ent char ac ter is tics with in the gene pool of a liv ing spe cies
and oc curs as these are man i fest ed in life forms' phys i cal ap pear ance. For ex am ple, all
hu man be ings on Earth pos sess es sen tial ly the same ge net ic da ta, but through the di ver si -
ty per mit ted by that in for ma tion, some have ori en tal eyes, or red hair, and dif fer ent skin
col ors. Variation con sti tutes no ev i dence for ev o lu tion, be cause var i a tion con sists of the
emer gence of ex ist ing ge net ic in for ma tion and be stows no new char ac ter is tics up on the
in di vid u al. Evolutionists to day agree that var i a tion is no proof of ev o lu tion.