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Fossils and Collapse of Evolution at Fatih University
Mart 2008
The “Fossils Have Discredited Evolution” conference and the Fossil Exhibition organized by the Nature and Human Health Association on 17-21 March 2008 represented a platform on which the theory of evolution was subjected to scientific examination and duly demolished.
Dr. Cihat Gündoğdu, chairman of the Nature and Human Health Association, was the conference speaker.
Summary of Dr. Cihat Gündoğdu’s Address
The foundations of the theory of evolution were first laid by Lamarck in the 1800s, and subsequently by Darwin.
Lamarck produced the first comprehensive theory of evolution at the beginning of the 19th century. In his eyes, the evolutionary mechanism operated in the form of “the transmission of acquired characteristics from one generation to another.” In other words, organisms were supposedly able to pass on changes they underwent during their lives. Giraffes, for examples, were once a life form resembling the gazelle, but the movements they made in order to reach the leaves on high branches supposedly caused their necks to lengthen.
Darwin reinforced this theory of Lamarck’s with a second account known as “natural selection,” thus putting forward the theory of evolution as we know it today. At its simplest, natural selection means the survival of those organisms that are the strongest and best able to adapt to their environments. According to Darwin, all life forms shared a common origin and diversified in the manner proposed by Lamarck, following which that change was selected through natural selection.
The fact is, however, that neither Lamarck nor Darwin had any knowledge of the science of genetics as they made these claims. The structure of genes and chromosomes was only discovered right at the beginning of the 1900s, thus constituting the basis of genetic science. It was then realized that acquired characteristics could not be handed on. These all went to demolish Darwin’s claims.
With the collapse of these theories, evolutionists set about revising their claims and tried to produce new theses. One of these revisions was what is known as the “synthetic theory of evolution,” based upon mutations.
Mutations were damages that occurred in organisms’ genetic material. These affected the DNA in the cell nucleus. The main factors leading to such damage were chemicals such as mustard gas and nitric acid, x-rays and radiation. However, both detailed examination of the structure of DNA and the formation of mutations definitively refuted evolutionists’ claims.
First and foremost, “damage” occurred in DNA as a result of mutations, 99% of which were lethal. The mutations that arose inevitably damaged the organism in question. On the other hand, there was no question of new information being added to DNA due to mutation. This meant that no new organelle or feature could be accounted for in this way.
One very important point was that living organs had many components and the organ could not function in the absence of any of these. For example, some 40 different structures had to work together and in a perfect manner in order for the eye to see. It was impossible for all these structures to form at the same time as a result of mutation.
Finally, in order for a mutation to be able to be passed on to a subsequent generation it had to arise in the reproductive cells. A human body, for example the eye, could change from its original form but it was impossible for this to be handed on to later generations.
The conclusion to which all these things point was that it is absolutely impossible for life to emerge by chance and to develop through mutations, which may be thought of as “biological accidents.” Living things have highly complex structures and such a complex system can only emerge through a conscious creation. Evolution seeks to conceal this reality but has been constantly discredited by science. This is clear proof of the existence of Allah and His creation.
The Fossil Record Refutes Evolution
The most concrete evidence to which one can turn in order to investigate the origin of life is the fossil record. If evolution were true there should have been hundreds of millions of “transitional forms” to verify this process. In the evolutionary transition from an (more primitive) invertebrate to a (more complex) vertebrate, for instance, there must have been a great many semi-vertebrate and semi-invertebrate life forms. Yet not a single such fossil exists. All the fossil specimens unearthed have shown that life never evolved, and that on the contrary living things had the same perfect features when they were first created as they do today.
The first traces of life on Earth date back to the time known as the Cambrian Period. Life forms appear “suddenly” at this time in the fossil record.
Seeing that the fossils he hoped for had not been found, and in order to explain the contradiction between the fossil record and his theory, Darwin looked for a solution by claiming that the fossil record was deficient. However, 150 years have gone by since Darwin’s time and the fossil record has grown enormously during that period. We have fossil specimens of 250,000 different species, but the situation still remains the same. There is still no sign of the fossils Darwin expected would be found. The fossil record reveals that it is Creation that represents the scientific reality, not evolution.
Faced by this huge gap in the fossil record, evolutionists resorted to distorting and twisting the evidence to depict various fossils as intermediate forms. All the fossils that evolutionists portrayed as transitional forms between apes and humans belonged either to extinct or surviving species of ape or else to particular human races. No semi-ape and semi-human creatures have ever lived. Such life forms exist only in evolutionists’ imaginations and on drawings and models based on that power of the imagination.
Evolutionary Hoaxes
The best known of these are Piltdown Man and Nebraska Man.
Piltdown Man consisted of a combination of a present-day ape jawbone and a few teeth and a human cranium, these being aged by chemical means. This forgery, made in 1912, was for decades regarded as one of the major proofs of evolution. The truth finally emerged in 1949, however, when Kenneth Oakley of the British Museum applied a new dating technique, known as fluoride testing, to Piltdown Man. This showed that the cranium belonged to a human being who had died around 500 years previously and the jawbone to a recently deceased monkey. The teeth had been added to reinforce the impression that the fossil was human.
The idea of Nebraska Man was based on a single tooth discovered in 1922, and drawings of this “half-man, half-ape” creature’s family and the tools it used were even manufactured. However, other parts of the fossil to which the tooth belonged were discovered in 1927. The fossil actually belonged to an extinct species of American wild pig known as Prosthennops. In the wake of this, all the reconstructions of Nebraska Man and his family were removed from the literature. These hoaxes, which evolutionists resorted to in order to confirm their claims, went down as major scandals in the history of science.
At the end of Dr. Gündoğdu’s address, which was accompanied by a slide show, it was once again seen that evolutionists had no consistent claims, that the fossil record does not support those claims, that evolution is a “belief” and a far cry from reality, and that the truth lies in Creation.
The “Fossils Have Discredited Evolution” conference and the Fossil Exhibition organized by the Nature and Human Health Association on 17-21 March 2008 represented a platform on which the theory of evolution was subjected to scientific examination and duly demolished.
