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Living Fossils Refute Evolution
 he evolutionist magazine New Scientist described evolutionist
contradictions in the face of living fossils:
Some biologists marvel that there is any evolution at all, considering
the possible pitfalls of change. "The idea is that organisms are
so complex that it is very hard to change one aspect without wrecking
everything else," says [Yale paleontologist Elisabeth] Vrba. But
it is extremely difficult to show that this is why our supreme survivors
remain unchanged for millions of years.36
Niles Eldredge |
Of course it is hard for this fact to be explained in evolutionist terms,
because adherents are looking for an explanation within the theory of
evolution. Yet the living fossils reveal that living things did not descend
from one another in stages, nor have they evolved in any way. The fossil
record provides no examples of intermediate forms. Countless living things
have remained unchanged for millions of years, and their current anatomical
structures are exactly the same as they were millions of years ago. The
fossil record is almost complete with both animal and plant specimens
demonstrating this. It definitively and scientifically refutes evolution.
The evolutionist Niles Eldredge admits that no explanation exists with
regard to living fossils, which constitute one of the countless secrets
that evolution has been unable to unravel:
... there seems to have been almost no change in any part we can compare
between the living organism and its fossilized progenitors of the remote
geological past. Living fossils embody the theme of evolutionary stability
to an extreme degree. ... We have not completely solved the riddle of
living fossils.37
Bats have remained
unchanged for 50 million years, and are among the most important
proofs that demolish the theory of evolution. |
Pierre-Paul Grassé, one of France's best-known zoologists,
former editor of the 28-volume Traité de Zoologie (Treatise
of Zoology) and former president of the French Academy of Sciences, ends
the chapter "Evolution and Natural Selection" in his book Evolution
of Living Organisms with these words:
The "evolution in action" of J. Huxley and other biologists
is simply the observation of demographic facts, local fluctuations
of genotypes, geographical distributions. Often the species concerned
have remained practically unchanged for hundreds of centuries! Fluctuation
as a result of circumstances, with prior modification of the genome, does
not imply evolution, and we have tangible proof of this
in many panchronic species [i.e. living fossils that remain
unchanged for millions of years].38
Living fossils and the stasis in the fossil record could not be explained
in Darwin's time, much less afterwards. Scientists attempting to adapt
Darwin's theory of evolution by means of changes of form to modern scientific
findings have also admitted as much, no matter how reluctantly. Facts
revealed by the scientific data and the fossil record totally conflict
with the present-day theory of evolution, just as Darwin himself admitted
150 years ago:
... I am well aware that scarcely a single point
is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often
apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which
I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating
and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question;
and this cannot possibly be here done.39
With these words, Darwin states unhesitatingly that his claim does not
square with the facts—for which reason he has ignored them. That
is the same situation for those who support the theory of evolution today;
despite the truth revealed by the fossil record they blindly continue
in Darwin's wake and turn their backs on the facts. However, this deception
is a short-lived one. The facts are now far more evident, and far more
identifiable. The number of people who have seen the truth and preferred
it is rising, and the number of people who unquestioningly believe in
fairy tales is on the decrease. The facts cannot be concealed and ignored,
as widely as they were in Darwin's day. Genetics, microbiology, paleontology,
geology and all other branches of science constantly reveal a truth that
Darwin and his supporters never wanted, and that they perhaps never expected—the
fact of Creation.
That is because God is the Real and what you call on apart from Him
is false. God is the All-High, the Most Great.
Don't you see that God sends down water from the sky and then in the
morning the earth is covered in green? God is All-Subtle, All-Aware.
Everything in the heavens and everything in the Earth belongs to Him.
God is the Rich Beyond Need, the Praiseworthy.
Don't you see that God has made everything on the Earth subservient
to you and the ships running upon the sea by His command? He holds back the
heaven, preventing it from falling to the Earth—except by His permission.
God is All-Compassionate to humanity, Most Merciful.
It is He Who gave you life and then will cause you to die and then
will give you life again. Man is truly ungrateful. (Qur'an, 22:62-66)
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