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Harun Yahya - The Collapse of the Theory of Evolution
The Collapse of the Theory of Evolution
Tale of Transition from Water to Land
Evolutionists assume that the sea invertebrates that appear in the Cambrian
stratum somehow evolved into fish in tens of million years. However, just
as Cambrian invertebrates have no ancestors, there are no transitional
links indicating that an evolution occurred between these invertebrates
and fish. It should be noted that invertebrates and fish have enormous
structural differences. Invertebrates have their hard tissues outside
their bodies, whereas fish are vertebrates that have theirs on the inside.
Such an enormous "evolution" would have taken billions of steps to be
completed and there should be billions of transitional forms displaying
them.
Evolutionists have been digging fossil strata for about 140 years looking
for these hypothetical forms. They have found millions of invertebrate
fossils and millions of fish fossils; yet nobody has ever found even one
that is midway between them.
An evolutionist paleontologist, Gerald T. Todd admits this fact in an
article titled "Evolution of the Lung and the Origin of Bony Fishes":
All three subdivisions of the bony fishes first appear in the fossil
record at approximately the same time. They are already widely divergent
morphologically, and they are heavily armoured. How did they originate?
What allowed them to diverge so widely? How did they all come to have
heavy armour? And why is there no trace of earlier, intermediate forms?24
The evolutionary scenario goes one step further and argues that fish,
who evolved from invertebrates then transformed into amphibians. But this
scenario also lacks evidence. There is not even a single fossil verifying
that a half-fish/half-amphibian creature has ever existed. This fact is
confirmed by a well-known evolutionist authority, Robert L. Carroll, who
is the author of Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, though reluctantly
as: "We have no intermediate fossils between rhipidistian fish (his
favourite 'ancestors' of tetrapods) and early amphibians."25Two evolutionist paleontologists, Colbert and Morales,
comment on the three basic classes of amphibians-frogs, salamanders, and
caecilians:
410-million-year-old
Coelacanth fossil. Evolutionists claimed that it was the transitional
form representing the transition from water to land.
Living examples of this
fish have been caught many times since 1938, providing a good
example of the extent of the speculations that evolutionists
engage in.
There is no evidence of any Paleozoic amphibians combining the characteristics
that would be expected in a single common ancestor. The oldest known
frogs, salamanders, and caecilians are very similar to their living descendants.26
Until about fifty years ago, evolutionists thought that such a creature
indeed existed. This fish, called a Coelacanth, which was estimated to
be 410 million years of age, was put forward as a transitional form with
a primitive lung, a developed brain, a digestive and a circulatory system
ready to function on land, and even a primitive walking mechanism. These
anatomical interpretations were accepted as undisputed truth among scientific
circles until the end of the 1930's. The Coelacanth was presented as a
genuine transitional form that proved the evolutionary transition from
water to land.
However on December 22, 1938, a very interesting discovery was made in
the Indian Ocean. A living member of the Coelacanth family, previously
presented as a transitional form that had become extinct seventy million
years ago, was caught! The discovery of a "living" prototype of Coelacanth
undoubtedly gave evolutionists a severe shock. The evolutionist paleontologist
J.L.B. Smith said that he could not have been more surprised if he had
come across a living dinosaur.27
In the years to come, 200 Coelacanths were caught many times in different
parts of the world.
Living coelacanths revealed how far the evolutionists could go in making
up their imaginary scenarios. In contrary to claims, coelacanths had neither
a primitive lung nor a large brain. The organ that evolutionist researchers
proposed as a primitive lung turned out to be nothing but a lipid pouch.28
Furthermore, the Coelacanth, which was introduced as "a reptile candidate
getting prepared to pass from sea to land", was in reality a fish that
lived in the depths of the oceans and never approached to within less
than 180 metres of the surface.29
TURTLES WERE ALWAYS TURTLES
Turtle fossil aged 100 million years: No
different than its modern counter part. (The Dawn of Life,
Orbis Pub. London 1972)
Just as the evolutionary theory
cannot explain basic groups of living things such as fish and reptiles,
neither can it explain the origin of the species within these groups.
For example, turtles, which is a reptilian species, appear in the
fossil record all of a sudden with their unique shells. To quote
from an evolutionary source: "... by the middle of the Triassic
Period (about 175,000,000 years ago) its (turtle's) members were
already numerous and in possession of the basic turtle characteristics.
The links between turtles and cotylosaurs from which turtles probably
sprang are almost entirely lacking" (Encyclopaedia Brittanica,
1971, v.22, p.418)
There is no difference between the
fossils of ancient turtles and the living members of this species
today. Simply put, turtles have not "evolved"; they have always
been turtles since they were created that way.
24 Gerald T. Todd, "Evolution of the Lung and
the Origin of Bony Fishes: A Casual Relationship", American Zoologist, Vol 26,
No. 4, 1980, p. 757. 25 R. L. Carroll, Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, New
York: W. H. Freeman and Co. 1988, p. 4. 26 Edwin H. Colbert, M. Morales, Evolution of the Vertebrates,
New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1991, p. 99. 27 Jean-Jacques Hublin, The Hamlyn Encyclopdia of Prehistoric
Animals, New York: The Hamlyn Publishing Group Ltd., 1984, p. 120. 28 Jacques Millot, "The Coelacanth", Scientific American, Vol
193, December 1955, p. 39. 29 Bilim ve Teknik Magazine, November 1998, No: 372, p. 21.
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