CHAPTER 7. CONFESSIONS REGARDING THE DEAD-END OF MOLECULAR EVOLU
CHAPTER 7.
CONFESSIONS REGARDING THE DEAD-END
OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
To the question of how life on Earth originally emerged, the theory of evolution has no answers to give, even right from the very beginning of the debate. Evolutionists claim that life began with when one single cell that came into being by chance. According to this scenario, under the effects of lightning and earthquakes, various inanimate substances entered into a reaction in the primordial atmosphere of some 4 billion years ago; thus giving rise to the first cell.
This scenario cannot be true, because life is far too complex to have emerged in any chance manner. Even the very smallest organism has literally millions of biochemical components that interact with it, each one of them vital for the organism to survive at all.
W. H. Thorpe, an evolutionist scientist admits as much: “The most elementary type of cell constitutes a ‘mechanism’ unimaginably more complex than any machine yet thought up, let alone constructed, by man.” 88 There is absolutely no chance of the components of this exceedingly complex system to form all at once, in the right place, at the right time, in total compatibility with one another.
It is also impossible for such a complex system to have come into being gradually, as Darwin maintained, because it can function only when all its parts are ready and operative. More primitive stages would serve no purpose at all. Indeed, the thesis that inanimate substances can combine together in such a way as to give rise to life is an unscientific one that has never been verified by any experiment or observation. On the contrary, all the scientific findings show that life can only originate from life.
Every living cell is the result of the division of another, earlier cell. No one on Earth, not even in the most advanced laboratories, has ever managed to combine inanimate substances and produce a living cell.
The theory of evolution, however, maintains that the living cell—which cannot be replicated as the result of human intelligence, science and technology—assembled itself under the conditions on the primeval Earth.
 The Intelligent Universe, the book in which Fred Hoyle admitted that life could not emerge spontaneously from inanimate matter. |
But the meaninglessness of this claim is made obvious by evolutionists’ own admissions. Various evolutionists have explained, with the use of different analogies, the impossibility of life appearing spontaneously from inanimate matter:
Prof. Fred Hoyle:
A junkyard contains all the bits and pieces of a Boeing 747, dismembered and in disarray. A whirlwind happens to blow through the yard. What is the chance that after its passage a fully assembled 747, ready to fly, will be found standing there? So small as to be negligible, even if a tornado were to blow through enough junkyards to fill the whole Universe. 89
At all events, anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the Rubik’s cube will concede the near-impossibility of a solution being obtained by a blind person moving the cubic faces at random. Now imagine 1,050 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik’s cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random shuffling of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers, but the operating programme of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order. Life must plainly be a cosmic phenomenon. 90
If there were a basic principle of matter which somehow drove organic systems toward life, its existence should easily be demonstrable in the laboratory. One could, for instance, take a swimming bath to represent the primordial soup. Fill it with any chemicals of a non-biological nature you please. Pump any gases over it, or through it, you please, and shine any kind of radiation on it that takes your fancy. Let the experiment proceed for a year and see how many of those 2,000 enzymes [proteins produced by living cells] have appeared in the bath.
I will give the answer, and so save [you] the time and trouble and expense of actually doing the experiment. You will find nothing at all, except possibly for a tarry sludge composed of amino acids and other simple organic chemicals. How can I be so confident of this statement? Well, if it were otherwise, the experiment would long since have been done and would be well-known and famous throughout the world. The cost of it would be trivial compared to the cost of landing a man on the Moon. . . . 91
Prof. Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, who is a professor of applied mathematics and astronomy at Cardiff University:
. . . troops of monkeys thundering away at random on typewriters could not produce the works of Shakespeare, for the practical reason that the whole observable universe is not large enough to contain the necessary monkey hordes, the necessary typewriters, and certainly the waste paper baskets required for the deposition of wrong attempts. The same is true of living material . . . One to a number with 1040.000 noughts after it. . . is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence. 92
Prof. Malcolm Dixon, a British biochemist, at the University of Cambridge:
Enzyme systems are doing every minute what battalions of full-time chemists cannot. . Can anyone seriously imagine that naturally occurring enzymes realized themselves, along with hundreds of specific friends, by chance? Enzymes and enzyme systems, like the genetic mechanisms whence they originate, are masterpieces of sophistication. Further research reveals ever finer details of design. 93
Prof. Michael Pitman is the Chief Scientist of Australia:
There are perhaps, 1080 atoms in the universe, and 1017 seconds have elapsed since the alleged ‘Big Bang.’ More than 2,000 independent enzymes are necessary for life. The overall probability of building any one of these polypeptides can hardly be greater than one in 1020. The chance of getting them all by a random trial is one in 1040000, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. 94
 The number of possible Rubik’s cube configurations is 4 x 1019'. (10 billion, billion!) |
Prof. Ali Demirsoy is a biologist at Hacettepe University and specializes in zoogeography:
In essence, the probability of the formation of a cytochrome-C sequence is as likely as zero. That is, if life requires a certain sequence, it can be said that this has a probability likely to be realized once in the whole universe. Otherwise some metaphysical powers beyond our definition must have acted in its formation. To accept the latter is not appropriate for the scientific cause. We thus have to look into the first hypothesis. 95
Harold F. Blum is Professor of Biology at Princeton University:
The spontaneous formation of a polypeptide of the size of the smallest known proteins seems beyond all probability.96
Andrew Scott is an evolutionist biochemist and science writer:
Take some matter, heat while stirring and wait. That is the modern version of Genesis. The ‘fundamental’ forces of gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces are presumed to have done the rest. . . . But how much of this neat tale is firmly established, and how much remains hopeful speculation? In truth, the mechanism of almost every major step, from chemical precursors up to the first recognizable cells, is the subject of either controversy or complete bewilderment. 97
Dr. Christian Schwabe is Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Medical University of South Carolina:
Molecular evolution is about to be accepted as a method superior to paleontology for the discovery of evolutionary relationships. As a molecular evolutionist, I should be elated. Instead, it seems disconcerting that many exceptions exist to the orderly progression of species as determined by molecular homologies: so many in fact, that I think the exception, the quirks, may carry the more important message. 98
Prof. Cemal Yıldırım is a Turkish evolutionist, and Professor of Philosophy at Middle East Technical University:
One suggestion made in order to prove that life cannot appear by chance is the unbelievably low probability of a functional enzyme emerging. A typical enzyme consists of 100 amino acids. Since there are 20 kinds of amino acid, we are looking at 20,100 possible combinations The possibility of a specific enzyme forming by chance in a single step from among so many possible combinations is 1 in 10130. The point that is ignored is that molecular kinetics are not random, and that functional enzymes appear all the time. 99
Prof. Dr. Ali Demirsoy is a biologist at Hacettepe University and specializes in zoogeography:
An enzyme consists of an average of 100 amino acids. The number of possible combinations of an enzyme consisting of 100 amino acids of 20 different types is 20100. Bearing in mind that the total number of atoms in the universe is 1080, and that the number of seconds that have gone by since the formation of the universe is 1016, one can better appreciate how low the odds of an enzyme with a specific sequence forming really are. So how did enzymes emerge? 100
Scientific American is a well-known American scientific magazine with strongly pro-evolution views:
Even the simpler molecules are produced only in small amounts in realistic experiments simulating possible primitive earth conditions. What is worse, these molecules are generally minor constituents of tars: It remains problematical how they could have been separated and purified through geochemical processes whose normal effects are to make organic mixtures more and more of a jumble. With somewhat more complex molecules, these difficulties rapidly increase. In particular, a purely geochemical origin of nucleotides [the subunits of DNA and RNA] presents great difficulties. 101
Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University and Director of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology:
The likelihood of the spontaneous formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 noughts after it. . . . It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor on any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence. 102
Carly P. Haskins is an evolutionist biologist. The following is excerpted from an article published in American Scientist magazine:
But the most sweeping evolutionary questions at the level of biochemical genetics are still unanswered. How the genetic code first appeared and then evolved and, earlier even than that, how life itself originated on earth remain for the future to resolve. . . . Did the code and the means of translating it appear simultaneously in evolution? It seems almost incredible that any such coincidence could have occurred, given the extraordinary complexities of both sides and the requirement that they be coordinated accurately for survival. By a pre-Darwinian (or a skeptic of evolution after Darwin), this puzzle would surely have been interpreted as the most powerful sort of evidence for special creation. 103
Alexander I. Oparin is a Russian evolutionist biochemist at Moscow University and director of Moscow's A. N. Bakh Institute:
Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is perhaps the most obscure point in the whole study of the evolution of organisms. 104
Loren Eiseley, anthropologist:
To grasp in detail the physio-chemical organization of the simplest cell is far beyond our capacity. 105
Prof. Dr. Ali Demirsoy is a biologist at Hacettepe University:
In essence, no satisfactory explanation for the development of groups of cells with very different structures and functions has yet been provided. 106
Prof. Dr. Klaus Dose is president of the Johannes Gutenberg University Biochemistry Institute in Germany:
More than 30 years of experimentation on the origin of life in the fields of chemical and molecular evolution have led to a better perception of the immensity of the problem of the origin of life on Earth rather than to its solution. At present, all discussions on principal theories and experiments in the field either end in stalemate or in a confession of ignorance. 107
In spite of many attempts, there have been no breakthroughs during the past 30 years to help to explain the origin of chilarity in living cells. 108
David A. Kaufman has PhD from University of Florida):
Evolution lacks a scientifically acceptable explanation of the source of the precisely planned codes within cells, without which there can be no specific proteins and hence, no life. 109
Jeffrey Bada is Professor of Marine Chemistry at the San Diego State University:
Today, as we leave the twentieth century, we still face the biggest unsolved problem that we had when we entered the twentieth century: How did life originate on Earth? 110
Hoimar Von Ditfurth studied medicine, psychology and philosophy at the universities of Berlin and Hamburg, where he attained his Ph.D. in medicine:
Our present knowledge shows that the general principle of the universe does not apply here; there is no question of a primitive cell gradually turning into one with a nucleus and organelles. 111
The cell has to have exactly the right amount of enzymes from the moment it is born— in other words, before it comes into direct contact with the oxygen in the atmosphere. Is it really possible for such a compatibility to have emerged solely by chance? Thinkers who answer that question are divided into two groups. To say Yes, it is possible, is like a confirmation of belief in modern science. Adopting a more pessimistic viewpoint, we may say that non-supporter of modern science has any alternative but to reply Yes. Because such a person will have the intention of coming up with an explanation by way of comprehensible natural phenomena and to produce these on the basis of natural laws without the assistance of any supernatural interventions.
But at this point, accounting for what has happened in terms of natural laws, and therefore coincidences, shows that the person in question has been backed into a corner. Because what are they left with under such circumstances other than to believe in coincidence. How is it possible to account for the existence of a single breathing cell without violating scientific understanding when it comes to evolution continuing development?
If we wish to account in a scientific manner for a single cell, capable of behaving compatibly with oxygen, forming in a moment in exactly the required form, and to account not just for that significant event but also the way that such a complex chemical reaction is essential for the survival of life on Earth, then what alternative have we other to shelter behind the idea of coincidence? . . .
But the accumulation of coincidences that serve a specific purpose brings our credibility into question. 112
. . . In the absence of a plan setting out where and when construction is to commence and in what order the various projects will be brought together, even the best blueprint will serve no purpose. We know that if we are dealing with a building, we need to start with the foundations and move onto the roof once the walls have been finished. We cannot move on to the plastering before the wiring and plumbing are completed. Every building site has a time frame to which construction work adheres, in addition to the construction blueprint.
This also applies to what nature builds, and of course to cells. However, we know next to nothing about this before-and-after relationship in the ordering of the cell. Biologists have still been unable to find who told the cell what part of the blueprint to build, and when. How it is that some genes are cut off at just the right moment, how the embargos on some genes are lifted, and who instructs the suppressor genes and those that lift such suppression are all questions shrouded in darkness and waiting to be answered. . . . 113
When we look back, we see that there is no call for surprise at the total failure to find those transitional forms, so long almost painfully sought. Because in all probability, such a stage never took place. Our current knowledge shows that the general principle of evolution does not apply here, and that there is no question of the primitive cell gradually turning into one with a nucleus and organelles. 114
G.A. Kerkut, is an evolutionist and zoologist in the Department of Physiology and Biochemistry at University of Southampton:The first assumption was that non-living things gave rise to living material. This is still just an assumption…. There is, however, little evidence in favor of biogenesis and as yet we have no indication that it can be performed….
David E. Green is an American biochemist at University of Wisconsin, Madison and Robert F. Goldberger is Professor Emeritus of biochemistry and molecular biophysics and former Provost of Columbia University:
The popular conception of primitive cells as the starting point for the origin of the species is really erroneous. There was nothing functionally primitive about such cells. They contained basically the same biochemical equipment as do their modern counterparts. 115
Prof. Dr. Ali Demirsoy is a biologist at Hacettepe University:
Complex cells never developed from primitive cells by a process of evolution. 116
Dr. Alfred G. Fisher, who is an evolutionist, mentions in the fossil section of Grolier multimedia encyclopedia:
Both the origin of life and the origin of the major groups of animals remain unknown. 117
Prof. Dr. Ali Demirsoy:
In fact, the probability of the random formation of a protein and a nucleic acid (DNA- RNA) is inconceivably small. The chances against the emergence of even a particular protein chain are astronomic.118
One of the most difficult stages to be explained in evolution is to scientifically explain how organelles and complex cells developed from these primitive creatures. No transitional form has been found between these two forms. One- and multicelled creatures carry all this complicated structure, and no creature or group has yet been found with organelles of a simpler construction in any way, or which are more primitive. In other words, the organelles carried forward have developed just as they are. They have no simple and primitive forms. 119
The heart of the problem is how the mitochondria have acquired this feature, because attaining this feature by chance even by one individual, requires extreme probabilities that are incomprehensible. . . . The enzymes providing respiration and functioning as a catalyst in each step in a different form make up the core of the mechanism. A cell has to contain this enzyme sequence completely, otherwise it is meaningless. Here, despite being contrary to biological thought, in order to avoid a more dogmatic explanation or speculation, we have to accept, though reluctantly, that all the respiration enzymes completely existed in the cell before the cell first came in contact with oxygen. 120
However, there is a major problem here. Mitochondria use a fixed number of enzymes during the process of breaking (with oxygen). The absence of only one of these enzymes stops the functioning of the whole system. Besides, energy gain with oxygen does not seem to be a system which can proceed step by step. Only the complete system performs its function. That is why, instead of the step-by-step development to which we have adhered so far as a principle, we feel the urge to embrace the suggestion that, all the enzymes (Krebs enzyme) needed to perform the reactions of the mitochondria entered a cell all at once by coincidence or, were formed in that cell all at once. That is merely because those systems failing to use oxygen fully, in other words, those systems remaining in the intermediate level would disappear as soon as they react with oxygen. 121
Harold F. Blum is Professor of Biology at Princeton University:
The spontaneous formation of a polypeptide of the size of the smallest known proteins seems beyond all probability. 122
Britannica Encyclopedia of Science, which is an outspoken defender of evolution, states that the amino acids of all living organisms on earth, and the building blocks of complex polymers such as proteins, have the same left-handed asymmetry. It adds that this is tantamount to tossing a coin a million times and always getting heads. The same encyclopedia states that it is impossible to understand why molecules become left-handed or right-handed, and that this choice is fascinatingly related to the origin of life on earth. 123
Wendell R. Bird is the author of The Origin of Species Revisited:
This unique sequence represents a choice of one out of 102,000,000 alternative ways of arranging the bases! We are compelled to conclude that the origin of the first life was a unique event, which we cannot be discussed in terms of probability. 124
Evolutionist George Gaylord Simpson is Professor of Zoology at Columbia University:
Above the level of the virus, the simplest fully living unit is almost incredibly complex. It has become commonplace to speak of evolution from amoeba to man, as if the amoeba were the simple beginning of the process. On the contrary, if, as must almost necessarily be true, life arose as a simple molecular system, the progression from this state to that of the amoeba is at least as great as from amoeba to man. 125
Prof. Michael Pitman is Chief Scientist of Australia and Foreign Secretary of the Australian Academy of Science:
Time is no help. Bio-molecules outside a living system tend to degrade with time, not build up. In most cases, a few days is all they would last. Time decomposes complex systems. If a large ‘word’ (a protein) or even a paragraph is generated by chance, time will operate to degrade it. The more time you allow, the less chance there is that fragmentary ‘sense’ will survive the chemical maelstrom of matter. 126
Evolutionists’ Confessions That DNA Cannot Form by Chance
Mathematics has now proven that chance plays no role in the formation of the data encoded in DNA. The word “impossible” fails to do justice to the probability of just one of the 200,000 genes making up DNA forming by chance, let alone a DNA molecule consisting of billions of components.
Some evolutionists admit that such is the case:
Carly P. Haskins is an evolutionist biologist. The following is excerpted from an article published in American Scientist magazine:
But the most sweeping evolutionary questions at the level of biochemical genetics are still unanswered. How the genetic code first appeared and then evolved and, earlier even than that, how life itself originated on Earth remain for the future to resolve . . . . Did the code and the means of translating it appear simultaneously in evolution? It seems almost incredible that any such coincidence could have occurred, given the extraordinary complexities of both sides and the requirement that they be coordinated accurately for survival. By a pre-Darwinian (or a skeptic of evolution after Darwin) this puzzle would surely have been interpreted as the most powerful sort of evidence for special creation. 127
Leslie E. Orgel is a senior fellow and researcher Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in San Diego:
We do not understand even the general features of the origin of the genetic code . . . [It] is the most baffling aspect of the problem of the origins of life and a major conceptual or experimental breakthrough may be needed before we can make any substantial progress. 128
Paul Auger is an evolutionist and French scientist:
It is extremely improbable that proteins and nucleic acids, both of which are structurally complex, arose spontaneously in the same place at the same time. Yet it also seems impossible to have one without the other. And so, at first glance, one might have to conclude that life could never, in fact, have originated by chemical means. 129
Douglas R. Hofstadter Pulitzer Prize winner and Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science at Indiana University:
How a single egg cell divides to form so numerous differentiated cells, and the perfect natural communication and the cooperation between these cells top the events that amaze scientists. 130
 Francis Crick |
Francis Crick is the Nobel Prize-winning evolutionist geneticist who, together with James Watson, discovered DNA:
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that, in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle. 131
John Maddox is the former editor of Nature magazine:
It is disappointing that the origin of the genetic code is still as obscure as the origin of life itself. 132
Pierre Grassé is the renowned French evolutionist and zoologist:
Any living being possesses an enormous amount of “intelligence,” very much more than is necessary to build the most magnificent of cathedrals. Today, this “intelligence” is called information, but it is still the same thing. It is not programmed as in a computer, but rather it is condensed on a molecular scale in the chromosomal DNA or in that of every other organelle in each cell. This “intelligence” is the sine qua non of life. Where does it come from? . . . This is a problem that concerns both biologists and philosophers, and, at present, science seems incapable of solving it. 133
Confessions Regarding the Impossibility of the “RNA World” Thesis
In the 1970s, scientists realized that the gasses actually contained in the primeval Earth’s atmosphere made protein synthesis impossible. This came as a grave blow to the theory of evolution, when the primeval atmosphere experiments conducted by evolutionists such as Miller, Fox and Ponnamperuma were proved to be totally invalid.
In the 1980s, therefore, evolutionists began looking elsewhere. As a result, the thesis of the RNA world was put forward by the chemist Walter Gilbert in 1986. He suggested that proteins did not form first, but rather the RNA molecule that carries protein data.
Billions of years ago, according to this scenario, an RNA molecule somehow capable of replicating itself came into being in a chance manner. Under the effect of environmental conditions, this RNA molecule subsequently began suddenly producing proteins. The need then arose to store these data in another molecule, and in some way, the DNA molecule was formed.
This scenario is difficult even to imagine, and every stage of it consists of a separate impossibility. Instead of explaining the origin of life, it actually expanded the problem and gave rise to a number of unanswerable questions. Since it’s impossible to account for even one of the nucleotides making up RNA having formed by chance, how could nucleotides have come to make up RNA by combining in just the correct imaginary sequence?
Even if we assume that by coincidence, it somehow did, then with what awareness could this RNA, consisting of just one nucleotide chain, have decided to copy itself? And with what mechanism did it succeed in doing so? Where did it find the nucleotides it would need during the replication process?
Even if we assume that, no matter how impossible, all these things actually happened, they are still not enough to form a single protein molecule. Because RNA is merely data regarding protein structure; amino acids are the raw materials. Yet there is no mechanism here for producing proteins. To say that the existence of RNA is enough for the production of protein is no less ridiculous than saying that throwing the blueprint for a car onto the thousands of its components is enough for that car to eventually assemble itself— spontaneously.
There are no factories or workers around to let production take place. Even Jacques Monod, the Nobel Prize-winning French zoologist and fanatical adherent of evolution, states that it is impossible to reduce protein manufacture solely to the information contained in nucleic acid:
The code is meaningless unless translated. The modern cell's translating machinery consists of at least 50 macromolecular components, which are themselves coded in DNA: the code cannot be translated otherwise than by products of translation themselves. It is the modern expression of omne vivum ex ovo [Latin for “All that lives arises from an egg”] . When and how did this circle become closed? It is exceedingly difficult to imagine. 134
 Dr. Leslie Orgel |
Gerald Joyce is a researcher at The Scripps Research Institute, and Dr. Leslie Orgel is an evolutionist microbiologists at the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in San Diego:
This discussion. . . has, in a sense, focused on a straw man: the myth of a self-replicating RNA molecule that arose de novo from a soup of random polynucleotides. Not only is such a notion unrealistic in light of our current understanding of prebiotic chemistry, but it would strain the credulity of even an optimist's view of RNA’s catalytic potential. 135
Dr. Leslie Orgel:
This scenario could have occurred, we noted, if prebiotic RNA had two properties not evident today: A capacity to replicate without the help of proteins and an ability to catalyze every step of protein synthesis. 136
Manfred Eigen is a German biophysicist and former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen:
One can safely assume that primordial routes of synthesis and differentiation provided minute concentrations of short sequences of nucleotides that would be recognized as ‘correct’ by the standards of today’s biochemistry. 137
John Horgan is a writer for Scientific American magazine:
DNA cannot do its work, including forming more DNA, without the help of catalytic proteins, or enzymes. In short, proteins cannot form without DNA, but neither can DNA form without proteins. 138
88 W.R. Bird, The Origin of Species Revisited, Nashville: Thomas Nelson Co., 1991, pp. 298-99.
89 Fred Hoyle, The Intelligent Universe, Dorling Kindersley Limited, 1983, p. 19.
90 Sir Fred Hoyle, “The Big Bang in Astronomy,” New Scientist, Vol. 92 (19 November 1981), pp. 526-527.
91 Sir Fred Hoyle, The Intelligent Universe, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983, pp. 20-21.
92 Sir Fred Hoyle and Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984, p. 148.
93 Michael Pitman, Adam and Evolution (1988), p. 144.
94 Ibid., p.148.
95 Ali Demirsoy, Kalitim ve Evrim [“Inheritance and Evolution”], Ankara: Meteksan Publishing Co., 1984, p. 61.
96 W. R. Bird, The Origin of Species Revisited, p. 304.
97 Andrew Scott, “Update on Genesis,” New Scientist, Vol. 106, May 2, 1985, p. 30.
98 Christian Schwabe, “On the Validity of Molecular Evolution,” Trends in Biochemical Sciences, Vol. 11, July 1986, p. 280.
99 http://yolgezer.fisek.com.tr/ renkler/evrim.html - Cemal Yıldırım, Evrim Kuramı ve Bağnazlık, Ankara 1998
100 Prof. Dr. Ali Demirsoy, Yaşamın Temel Kuralları [“Basic Rules of Life”], Genel Biyoloji/Genel Zooloji, Vol. 1, Chapter 1, 5th edition, p. 569.
101 Cairns-Smith, Alexander G., “The First Organisms,” Scientific American, 252: 90, June 1985.
102 Sir Fred Hoyle, Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space, p. 148.
103 Caryl P. Haskins, “Advances and Challenges in Science in 1970,” American Scientist, Vol. 59, May-June, 1971, p. 305.
104 Alexander I. Oparin, Origin of Life, New York: Dover Publications, 1936, 1953 (reprint), p. 196.
105 Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey (1957), p. 206 (Quoting German biologist Von Bertalanffy.
106 Prof. Dr. Ali Demirsoy, Kalıtım ve Evrim, [Inheritance and Evolution], p. 158.
107 Klaus Dose, “The Origin of Life: More Questions Than Answers,” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Vol. 13, no. 4, 1988, p. 348.
108 Klaus Dose, “The Origin of Life: More Questions than Answers,” Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, p. 352.
109 http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/SBS777/vital/evolutio.html
110 Jeffrey Bada, “Life's Crucible,” Earth, February 1998, p. 40.
111 Hoimar Von Ditfurth, Dinozorların Sessiz Gecesi 2, [“The Silent Night of the Dinosaurs 2”), p. 22.
112 Ibid.
113 Ibid.
114 Ibid.
115 Green, David E., and Robert F. Goldberger, Molecular Insights into the Living Process, New York: Academic Press, 1967, p. 403.
116 Prof. Dr. Ali Demirsoy, Kalıtım ve Evrim [“Inheritance and Evolution”], Ankara: Meteksan Publications, p. 79.
117 http://www.icr.org/headlines/ darwinvindicated.html; “Was Darwin
Really ‘Vindicated’?”, Frank Sherwin, Institute for Creation Research,
April 30, 2001.
118 Ali Demirsoy, Kalitim ve Evrim [“Inheritance and Evolution”], p. 39.
119 Ibid, p. 79.
120 Ibid., p. 94.
121 Prof. Dr. Ali Demirsoy, The Basic Laws of Life: General Zoology, Volume 1, Section 1, Ankara, 1998, p. 578.
122 W. R. Bird, The Origin of Species Revisited, p. 304.
123 Fabbri Britannica Bilim Ansiklopedisi [“Fabbri Britannica Science Encyclopaedia”], Vol. 2, no. 22, p. 519.
124 W. R. Bird, The Origin of Species Revisited, p. 303.
125 Michael Anthony Corey, Back to Darwin, Rowman and Littlefield, 1994, p. 32.
126 Michael Pitman, Adam and Evolution, p. 233.
127 Caryl P. Haskins, “Advances and Challenges in Science in 1970,” American Scientist, Vol. 59, May-June, 1971, p. 305.
128 Leslie E. Orgel, “Darwinism at the Very Beginning of Life,” New Scientist, vol.94 (April 15, 1982), p. 151.
129 Paul Auger, De La Physique Theorique a la Biologie, 1970, p. 118.
130 Douglas R. Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, New York: Vintage Books, 1980, p. 548.
131 Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981, p. 88.
132 “The Genesis Code by Numbers,” Nature, 367:111, January 1994.
133 Pierre P. Grassé, The Evolution of Living Organisms, 1977, p. 168.
134 Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity, New York, 1971, p. 143.
135 G.F. Joyce, L. E. Orgel, “Prospects for Understanding the Origin of the RNA World,” In the RNA World, Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Laboratory Press, 1993, p. 13.
136 Leslie E. Orgel, "The Origin of Life on the Earth," Scientific American, October 1994, vol. 271, p. 78
137 Manfred Eigen, William Gardiner, Peter Schuster and Ruthild Winkler-Oswatitsch, “The Origin of Genetic Information,” Scientific American, Vol. 244, (April 1981), p. 91.
138 John Horgan, "In the Beginning," Scientific American, Vol. 264, February 1991, p. 119.
CHAPTER 6. EVOLUTIONISTS’ CONFESSIONS THAT MUTATIONS HAVE NO EVO
CHAPTER 6.
EVOLUTIONISTS’ CONFESSIONS THAT MUTATIONS
HAVE NO EVOLUTIONARY POWER
Along with natural selection, the second supposed mechanism proposed by the theory of evolution is mutations. Radiation and chemical effects result in breakages and dislocations in the DNA molecule, carrying genetic data, that’s located in the cell nucleus. Mutations are accidental and either damage the nucleotides that make up DNA or else dislocate them. They typically give rise to irreparable damage and alterations in the cell.
For that reason, the mutations that evolutionists depend on for biological development are not, as is popularly thought, some magic wand that transports living things to a more advanced and perfect state. Mutations’ net effects are harmful. The only changes caused by mutations are similar to those suffered by humans in Hiroshima, Nagasaki or Chernobyl: in other words, birth defects, illness, or death.
For the sake of proving evolution, the results obtained from subjects exposed to radiation in the laboratory go no further than fruit flies with legs protruding from their heads. No instance of a beneficial mutation has ever been observed. All the mutations observed to date have been harmful.
During an interview, Richard Dawkins—one of the best-known evolutionists of our time—was asked if any mutations were known to be beneficial. He could not answer the question, but openly showed his discomfort in not being able to give any facts to support evolution. 70
 Both pictures show the damage in living bodies caused by the negative impact of mutations. |
Prof. Richard Goldschmidt is a zoologist at the University of California:
It is true that nobody thus far has produced a new species or genus, etc., by macromutation [a combination of many mutations]; it is equally true that nobody has produced even a species by the selection of micromutations [one or only a few mutations]. In the best-known organisms, like Drosophila, innumerable mutants are known. If we were able to combine a thousand or more of such mutants in a single individual, this still would have no resemblance whatsoever to any type known as a [new] species in nature. 71
Kevin Padian is Professor in Department of Integrative Biology at University of California, Berkeley and Curator of Paleontology at UC Museum of Paleontology:
How do major evolutionary changes get started? Does anyone still believe that populations sit around for tens of thousands of years, waiting for favorable mutations to occur (and just how does that happen, by the way?), then anxiously guard them until enough accumulate for selection to push the population toward new and useful change? There you have the mathematical arguments of Neo-Darwinism that Waddington and others rightly characterized as “vacuous.”72
Pierre-Paul Grassé is a French biologist and former President of the French Academy of Sciences:
No matter how numerous they may be, mutations do not produce any kind of evolution. 73
The opportune appearance of mutations permitting animals and plants to meet their needs seems hard to believe. Yet the Darwinian theory is even more demanding: A single plant, a single animal would require thousands and thousands of lucky, appropriate events. Thus, miracles would become the rule: events with an infinitesimal probability could not fail to occur. . . . There is no law against daydreaming, but science must not indulge in it. 74
Francisco J. Ayala is University Professor of Biological Sciences, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at University of California:
High-energy radiations, such as X-rays, increase the rate of mutation. Mutations induced by radiation are random, in the sense that they arise independently of their effects on the fitness of the individuals which carry the m. Randomly induced mutations are usually deleterious. In a precisely organized and complex system like the genome of an organism, a random change will most frequently decrease, rather than increase, the orderliness or useful information of the system. 75
James F. Crow is president of the Wisconsin University Medical Genetics Department and an expert on radiation and mutation:
Almost every mutation is harmful, and it is the individual who pays the price. Any human activity that tends to increase the mutation rate must therefore raise serious health and moral problems for man. 76
A random change in the highly integrated system of chemical processes which constitute life is certain to impair—just as a random interchange of connections [wires] in a television set is not likely to improve the picture. 77
Frederick Seymour Hulse is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona and a member of the National Academy of Sciences:
Mutations occur at random, not because it would be convenient to have one. Any chance alteration in the composition and properties of a highly complex operating system is not likely to improve its manner of operation, and most mutations are disadvantageous for this reason. There is a delicate balance between an organism and its environment which a mutation can easily upset. One could as well expect that altering the position of the foot brake or the gas pedal at random would improve the operation of an automobile. 78
David L. Stern is an evolutionist zoologist at University of Cambridge:
One of the oldest problems in evolutionary biology remains largely unsolved. Which mutations generate evolutionarily relevant phenotypic variation? What kinds of molecular changes do they entail? 79
Stephen Jay Gould is the evolutionary theorist at Harvard University:
You don't make new species by mutating the species. . . . A mutation is not the cause of evolutionary change. 80
Hoimar Von Ditfurth is a German Professor of Neurology and a well-known evolutionist science writer:
In seeking an answer to the question of whether an infinitely complex biological process, an organic order, can emerge as the result of aimless, purposeless and random mutations, our power of judgment will remain fairly pedestrian. . . . Indeed, would we not be going much too far and corrupting those who think otherwise to claim that even if evolution had sufficient time for the emergence of new orders, new mechanisms of the kind we are discussing, and that new organization and order was the product of coincidences? If it is not inappropriate to say so, these strange entities were like a deformed neonate. They were the result of a mutation. The results of mutation have almost always given birth to a catastrophe. 81
At this point, objectors tend to propose a counter-thesis to the idea that the number of mutations will not be sufficiently large from the point of view of providing a sufficient quantity of significant and fit for purpose characteristics by entirely coincidental means. In fact, according to the laws of probability, not even large numbers of mutations can avoid being harmful and even deadly, let alone support development.
 1-The head of a normal fruit fly. |
Dr. Mahlon B. Hoagland is faculty member at Harvard Medical School and former President and Scientific Director of the Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research:
The information that resides in organisms that are alive today . . . is far more refined than the work of all the world’s great poets combined. The chance that a random change of a letter or word or phrase would improve the reading is remote; on the other hand, it is very likely that a random hit would be harmful. It is for this reason that many biologists view with dismay the proliferation of nuclear weapons, nuclear power plants, and industrially generated mutagenic (mutation-producing) chemicals. 82
You’ll recall we learned that almost always, a change in an organism’s DNA is detrimental to it; that is, it leads to a reduced capacity to survive. By way of analogy, random additions of sentences to the plays of Shakespeare are not likely to improve them! . . . The principle that DNA changes are harmful by virtue of reducing survival chances applies whether a change in DNA is caused by a mutation or by some foreign genes we deliberately add to it. 83
 Stephen Jay Gould |
Warren Weaver, an evolutionist scientist, wrote the following in a report prepared by the Committee on Genetic Effects of Atomic Radiation, established in the wake of the Second World War to investigate the mutations arising as the result of the use of nuclear weapons:
Many will be puzzled about the statement that practically all known mutant genes are harmful. For mutations are necessary parts of the process of evolution. How can a good effect—evolution to higher forms of life—result from mutations practically all of which are harmful? 84
Moreover, the mutant genes, in the vast majority of cases, and in all the species so far studied, lead to some kind of harmful effect. In extreme cases the harmful effect is death itself, or loss of the ability to produce offspring, or some other serious abnormality.85
Michael Pitman is Chief Scientist of Australia and Foreign Secretary of the Australian Academy of Science:
Morgan, Goldschmidt, Muller, and other geneticists have subjected generations of fruit flies to extreme conditions of heat, cold, light, dark, and treatment by chemicals and radiation. All sorts of mutations, practically all trivial or positively deleterious, have been produced. Man-made evolution? Not really: Few of the geneticists’ monsters could have survived outside the bottles they were bred in. In practice, mutants die, are sterile, or tend to revert to the wild type. 86
Gordon Rattray Taylor is an evolutionist author and Chief Science Advisor at BBC:
It is a striking, but not much mentioned fact that, though geneticists have been breeding fruit-flies for sixty years or more in labs al l around the world—flies which produce a new generation every eleven days—they have never yet seen theemergence of a new species or even a new enzyme. 87
70 “Biological Evidence of Creation: From a Fog to a Prince,” Keziah, American Portrait Films, Cleveland, OH, 1998.
71 Richard B. Goldschmidt, “Evolution, as Viewed by One Geneticist,” American Scientist, Vol. 40 (January 1952), p. 94.
72
Kevin Padian, “The Whole Real Guts of Evolution,” Review of Genetics, Paleontology and Macroevolution, by Jeffrey S. Levinton, p. 77.
73
Pierre-Paul Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms, p. 88.
74 Ibid., p. 103.
75
Francisco J. Ayala, “Genotype Environment and Population Numbers,” Science, Vol. 162 (27 December 1968), p. 1456.
76
James F. Crow, “Ionizing Radiation and Evolution,” Scientific American, Vol. 201 (September 1959), p. 138.
77 “Genetic Effects of Radiation,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Vol. 14, pp. 19-20.
78
Frederick S. Hulse, The Human Species, New York: Random House, 1971, pp. 61-62.
79
D. Stern, “Evolutionary developmental biology and the problem of
variation,” Evolution Int J Org Evolution. 2000 Aug;54(4):1079-91.
80
Stephen J. Gould, speech at Hobart College, February 14, 1980.
81
Hoimar Von Ditfurth, Dinozorların Sessiz Gecesi 2, [“The Silent Night of the Dinosaurs 2”], Alan Yayıncılık, Kasım 1996, İstanbul, Translation: Veysel Atayman, pp. 66-69.
82
Mahlon B. Hoagland, The Roots of Life: A Layman's Guide To Genes, Evolution, and the Ways of Cells, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1981, p. 64.
83 Ibid., p. 145.
84
Warren Weaver, “Genetic Effects of Atomic Radiation,” Science, Vol. 123, June 29, 1956, p. 1159.
85 Ibid., p. 1158.
86
Michael Pitman, Adam and Evolution, London: River Publishing, 1984, p. 70.
87
Gordon R. Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery, New York: Harper & Row, 1983, p. 48.
CHAPTER 5. EVOLUTIONISTS’ CONFESSIONS THAT NATURAL SELECTION HAS
CHAPTER 5.
EVOLUTIONISTS’ CONFESSIONS THAT NATURAL SELECTION
HAS NO EVOLUTIONARY POWER
The theory of evolution suggests that living things evolved thanks to two fundamental mechanisms: natural selection and mutation. Evolutionists maintain that the characteristics brought about by mutations in living things are then chosen by the mechanism of natural selection and thus survive to reproduce. Close inspection, however, shows that neither mechanism has any evolutionary force at all, not giving the slightest support to the idea that living things evolve and gradually turn into new species.
Charles Darwin, founder of the theory of evolution, first claimed that natural selection was an evolutionary force. The title he gave to his book emphasizes that natural selection represented the basis of his theory: The Origin of Species, by Means of Natural Selection. . .
Natural selection predicts the survival of living things possessing the most appropriate characteristics for the conditions prevailing in the natural locations they inhabit, and the extinction of those individuals that lack these advantages. For example, in a herd of deer threatened by wolves, those deer able to run the fastest will naturally survive. The others will be hunted down and eliminated. The result will be a remaining herd of swift-running deer.
Yet the one important point is that no matter how long this process continues, it will never transform deer into any other species. A deer cannot turn into a horse, for instance. Deer always remain deer, no matter how swift.
In fact, Darwinists have been unable to reveal a single finding to show that natural selection causes living things to evolve. Evolutionists are aware of this and starting with Darwin himself, have many times admitted that natural selection cannot cause new species to develop, much less new life forms.
Charles Darwin:
Is it possible that an animal having, for instance, the structure and habits of a bat, could have been formed by the modification of some other animal with widely different habits and structure? Can we believe that natural selection could produce, on the one hand, an organ of trifling importance, such as the tail of a giraffe, which serves as a fly-flapper, and, on the other hand, an organ so wonderful as the eye? 55
I shall know that the theory of Natural Selection, is, in the main, safe; that it includes, as now put forth, many errors, is almost certain, though I cannot see them. 56
 Alfred Russell Wallace |
Alfred Russell Wallace is a British naturalist and co-formulator with Charles Darwin of the theory of biological evolution via natural selection:
I found this argument [natural selection] convincing until I attempted to explain the advanced state of human faculties. 57
The late Professor Stephen Jay Gould was a professor of geology and paleoanthropology at Harvard University and the main spokesman for evolution in the second half of the 20th century:
Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin’s argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life’s history, yet to preserve our favored account of evolution by natural selection. We view our data as so bad that we almost never see the very process we profess to study. 58
The essence of Darwinism lies in a single phrase: natural selection is the creative force of evolutionary change. No one denies that selection will play a negative role in eliminating the unfit. Darwinian theories require that it create the fit as well. 59
Prof. Cemal Yıldırım is, as you saw, a Turkish evolutionist, and Professor of Philosophy at Middle East Technical University:
Yet various aspects of natural selection have never managed to avoid being the subject of debate, neither today nor when it was first put forward. We know that theologians on the one hand and also biologists find evolution unsatisfying as an explanation. 60
Scientists of the nineteenth century were easily misled into adopting the thesis that nature is a battlefield, because more often than not, they were imprisoned in their studies or laboratories and generally didn’t bother to acquaint themselves with nature directly. Not even a respectable scientist like Huxley could exempt himself from this error. 61
Another criticism from the scientific point of view concerns the claim that the living world is in a constant fight for survival. Many reliable observations have revealed that organisms, particularly those at a more advanced level, display solidarity and behaviour that can be defined as “cooperation.” A third, more important criticism concerns the way the inadequacy of natural selection as an explanatory principle. According to this criticism, living things in all stages from amoeba to human beings exhibit an extraordinary organization and purposefulness incompatible with physical and chemical explanation. It is impossible to account for this mechanical order based on random variations by way of natural selection.
Take the human eye, for example. Is there any chance that such a delicate and functional organ with such complex structures and workings could have come about in a solely mechanical order with no purposeful creative power? Is it sufficient to say that human beings, who create civilization out of their artistry, philosophy and science evolved by way of natural selection? Can a mother’s love be explained by the blind process of natural selection, which has no spiritual aspects? For such questions, it’s hardly possible for Darwinist biologists to give satisfactory answers. 62
J. B. S. Haldane is a British geneticist and famous evolutionist biologist:
To sum up, no satisfactory cause of evolution other than the action of natural selection on fortuitous variations has ever been put forward. It is by no means clear that natural selection will explain all the facts…63
He will probably attempt to account for it as a result of natural selection, but natural selection is more fitted to explain the origin of given adaptations than the existence of living beings to which the term adaptation can be applied with a meaning. 64
J. Hawkes:
I have difficulty in believing that the dazzling beauty in birds, fish, flowers, etc., came about by natural selection. Beyond that, he asks the question whether human consciousness can be the product of such a mechanism. In his article, finally, he concludes that the human mind that produced the blessings of civilization, and the creative imagination that immortalized those such as Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, Newton and Einstein cannot be the gift of the law of the jungle called the “struggle for survival” to us. 65
Roger Lewin is a prize-winning author and former News Editor of Science Magazine:
It [natural selection] may have a stabilizing effect, but it does not promote speciation. It is not a creative force, as many people have suggested. 66
Dr. Colin Patterson a senior palaeontologist at the British Museum of Natural History:
No one has ever produced a [new] species by mechanisms of natural selection. No one has ever got near it and most of the current argument in neo-Darwinism is about this question. 67
Arthur Koestler is a Hungarian-born British novelist, journalist, and critic:
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations plus natural selection—quite unaware of the fact that random mutations have turned out to be irrelevant and natural selection a tautology. 68
Pierre Paul Grassé is the former president of the French Academy of Sciences:
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. 69
55 Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, Chapter VI, “Difficulties of the Theory.”
56 Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. II, p. 10.
57 Roger Lewin, In the Age of Mankind, Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1988, p. 26.
58 Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda’s Thumb, 1982, pp. 181-182.
59 Stephen Jay Gould, “The Return of Hopeful Monsters,” Natural History, Vol. 86, July-August 1977, p. 28.
60 Cemal Yıldırım, Evrim Kuramı ve Bağnazlık, [“The Theory of Evolution and Bigotry”], p. 36.
61 Ibid., p. 49.
62 Ibid., p. 185.
63 J.B.S. Haldane, Possible Worlds, Chatto & Windus, 1928, p. 43.
64 Ibid., p. 128.
65 J. Hawkes, “Nine Tantalizing Mysteries of Nature,” New York Times Magazine, 1957, p. 33.
66 Science, 1982, No. 217, pp. 1239-1240.
67 Colin Patterson, “Cladistics,” BBC, Interview with Brian, Peter Franz, 4 March 1982.
68 Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up, Vintage Books; 1978, p. 185.
69 Pierre Paul Grassé, Evolution On Living Organisms: Evidence for a New Theory of Information, Academic Press, Jan. 1978.
CHAPTER 4. EVOLUTIONISTS’ CONFESSIONS THAT THEY ESPOUSE THE THEO
CHAPTER 4.
EVOLUTIONISTS’ CONFESSIONS THAT
THEY ESPOUSE THE THEORY FOR IDEOLOGICAL REASONS
Numerous scientific findings in the second half of the 20th century and the current century clearly, definitively revealed the invalidity of the theory of evolution. As stated earlier, even the world’s most prominent evolutionists are well aware of this. Indeed, despite their blind devotion to their theory, they still admit that the theory faces impossible quandaries. That being so, why are some scientists so determined to support the theory, even though they know full well that it is unscientific?
As discussed in the Introduction, the reason for scientists’ devotion to the theory of evolution lies in their ideology. Evolutionists do not behave like real scientists at all and persist with their ideology despite all their experiments, observations and research. The basis of their ideology is their belief in materialism, which obliges them to deny the existence of Allah. That is why, even though all the scientific data clearly and irrefutably show the existence of a sublime creator, a lord of all, these materialist and evolutionist scientists deny that Allah exists. However, they make unequivocal statements that all evidence points to the existence of a Creator and the flawless creation brought into being by Him, though their ideology makes it impossible for them to admit this.
Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at Cardiff University and Director of the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology:
From my earliest training as a scientist, I was very strongly brainwashed to believe that science cannot be consistent with any kind of deliberate creation. That notion has had to be painfully shed. At the moment, I can’t find any rational argument to knock down the view which argues for conversion to God. We used to have an open mind; now we realize that the only logical answer to life is creation—and not accidental random shuffling. 43
Prof. Fred Hoyle is a British astronomer and a mathematician at Cambridge University:
Indeed, such a theory (that life was assembled by an intelligence) is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific. 44
 François Jacob |
François Jacob is Professor of Cell Genetics and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Medicine:
All these debates raise serious questions, heading the list of which is; is it really possible to develop a concept of evolution independent of biologists’ preconceptions? 45
Dr. Michael Walker is an anthropologist at the University of Sidney in Australia:
One is forced to conclude that many scientists and technologists pay lip-service to Darwinian theory only because it supposedly excludes a Creator. 46
Robert Shapiro is Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Chemistry at New York University:
Another evolutionary principle is therefore needed to take us across the gap from mixtures of simple natural chemicals to the first effective replicator. This principle has not yet been described in detail or demonstrated, but it is anticipated, and given names such as chemical evolution and self-organization of matter. The existence of the principle is taken for granted in the philosophy of dialectical materialism. . . . 47
 Robert Shapiro |
Hubert Yockey is an evolutionist biologist in University of California at Berkeley:
Faith in the infallible and comprehensive doctrines of dialectic materialism plays a crucial role in origin of life scenarios, and especially in exobiology and its ultimate consequence: the doctrine of advanced extra-terrestrial civilization. That life must exist somewhere in the solar system on ‘suitable planets elsewhere’ is widely and tenaciously believed, in spite of lack of evidence or even abundant evidence to the contrary. 48
Paul R. Ehrlich, President of the Center for Conservation Biology at Stanford University and Fellow of the AAAS, and Richard W. Holm, Professor of Biological Sciences at Standard University:
Perpetuation of today’s theory [of evolution] as dogma will not encourage progress toward more satisfactory explanations of observed phenomena. 49
Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ukrainian-American geneticist and evolutionist:
The evidence has not satisfied quite everybody; a few people who are not ignorant of the pertinent facts are nevertheless antievolutionists. 50
Pierre Paul Grassé is, as you saw, a French zoologist and the former President of the French Academy of Sciences:
Chance becomes a sort of providence, which, under the cover of atheism, is not named but which is secretly worshipped. 51
 Prof. Cemal Yıldırım |
Prof. Cemal Yıldırım is a Turkish evolutionist, and Professor of Philosophy at Middle East Technical University:
There is no need to query Darwinism’s thesis of natural selection. It moves away from being a scientific concept to the extent that it regards the truth as an evident principle and acquires the nature of an ideological teaching. 52
Geoffrey Clark is an anthropologist at Arizona State University:
We select among alternative sets of research conclusions in accordance with our biases and preconceptions--a process that is, at once, both political and subjective. . . [paleoanthropology] has the form, but not the substance of a science. 53
From an address that the evolutionist Greg Kirby gave at a Biology Teachers Association meeting:
If you were to spend your life picking up bones and finding little fragments of head and little fragments of jaw, there is a very strong desire there to exaggerate the importance of those fragments. 54
43 Chandra Wickramasinghe, Interview in London Daily Express, August 14, 1981.
44 Fred Hoyle, Chandra Wickramasinghe, Evolution from Space, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984, p. 130.
45 François Jacob, Le Jeu des Possibles [“The Play of Possibilities'”], Paris: LGF, 1986.
46 Dr. Michael Walker, Quadrant, October 1982, p. 44.
47 Robert Shapiro, Origins: A Sceptic’s Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth, New York: Summit Books, 1986, p. 207.
48 Hubert Yockey, “Self-Organization Origin of Life Scenarios and Information Theory,” Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 91, 1981, pp. 27-28.
49 Paul R. Ehrlich and Richard W. Holm, “Patterns and Populations,” Science, Vol. 137 (August 31, 1962), pp. 656-7.
50 Theodosius Dobzhansky, “Evolution at Work,” Science, May 9, 1958, p. 1092.
51 Pierre Paul Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms, New York, Academic Press, 1977, p.107.
52 Cemal Yildirim, Evrim Kurami; ve Bağnazlık, [“The Theory of Evolution and Bigotry”] , p. 51.
53 G. A. Clark, C. M. Willermet, Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1997, p. 76.
54Paul S. Taylor, Origins Answer Book, 5th edition, 1995, p. 35.
CHAPTER 3. EVOLUTIONISTS’ CONFESSIONS REGARDING THE INVALIDITY O
CHAPTER 3.
EVOLUTIONISTS’ CONFESSIONS REGARDING
THE INVALIDITY OF THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION
As stated in the Introduction, evolutionist scientists know perfectly well that not one single branch of science has corroborated their theory and that the whole concept is totally groundless. Yet for the sake of ideology, they continue to defend the theory, even while some evolutionists confess that it’s invalid.
Pierre Paul Grassé is the former president of the French Academy of Sciences and author of the book Evolution of Living Organisms. As he writes:
Today our duty is to destroy the myth of evolution, considered as a simple, understood, and explained phenomenon which keeps rapidly unfolding before us. . . .The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge the inadequacies and falsity of their beliefs. 23
After setting out the impossibility of random mutations having met all the needs of the living world, Grassé goes on to say:
There is no law against daydreaming, but science must not indulge in it. 24
Prof. Derek Ager, who is the former president of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (and head of the department of geology and oceanography at University College of Swansea):
It must be significant that nearly all the evolutionary stories I learned as a student . . . have now been debunked.25
Dr. Robert Milikan is a Nobel Prize winner and renowned evolutionist:
The pathetic thing is that we have scientists who are trying to prove evolution, which no scientist can ever prove. 26
Dr. Lewis Thomas, the author of Lives of a Cell:
Biology needs a better word than error for the driving force in evolution. . . . I cannot make my peace with the randomness doctrine; I cannot abide the notion of purposelessness and blind chance in nature. And yet I do not know what to put in its place for the quieting of my mind. 27
Jerry Coyne is of the Chicago University Evolution and Ecology Department:
We conclude—unexpectedly—that there is little evidence for the neo-Darwinian view: its theoretical foundations and the experimental evidence supporting it are weak. 28
H. S. Lipson, the British physicist:
I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living beings (the long neck of the giraffe, for example).I have therefore tried to see whether biological discoveries over the last thirty years or so fit in with Darwin’s theory. I do not think that they do. To my mind, the theory does not stand up at all. 29
Gregory Alan Pesely is Professor of Philosophy:
One would immediately reject any lexicographer who tried to define a word by the same word, or a thinker who merely restated his proposition, or any other instance of gross redundancy; yet no one seems scandalized that men of science should be satisfied with a major principle which is no more than a tautology. 30
Dr. Colin Patterson is an evolutionist paleontologist and curator of London’s Natural History Museum, editor of the museum’s journal and author of the book Evolution:
Now, one of the reasons I started taking this anti-evolutionary view—well, let’s callt non-evolutionary—was [that] last year I had a sudden realization. For over twenty years, I had thought that I was working on evolution in some way. One morning I woke up, and something had happened in the night, and it struck me that I had been working on this stuff for twenty years, and there was not one thing I knew about it. That was quite a shock, to learn that one can be so misled for so long. . . So for the last few weeks, I’ve tried putting a simple question to various people and groups of people.
The question is this: ‘Can you tell me anything you know about evolution, any one thing, any one thing that you think is true? Is there one thing you can tell me about evolution?’ I tried this question on the geology staff at the Field Museum of Natural History and the only answer I got was silence. I tried it on the members of the Evolutionary Morphology seminar in the University of Chicago— a very prestigious body of evolutionists—and all I got there was silence for a long time. But eventually one person said, ‘I do know one thing—it ought not to be taught in high school.’31
Dr. Albert Fleischman, zoologist at the University of Erlangen:
The Darwinian theory of descent has not a single fact to confirm it in the realm of nature. It is not the result of scientific research, but purely the product of imagination. 32
W. R. Thompson is Head of the Commonwealth Institute of Biological Control in - Ottawa:
This situation, where scientific men rally to the defence of a doctrine they are unableto define scientifically, much less demonstrate with scientific rigour, attempting to maintain its credit with the public by the suppression of criticism and the elimination of difficulties, is abnormal and undesirable in science. 33
 Roger Lewin |
E. O. Wiley of City University of New York’s, Ichthyology Department and the American Museum of Natural History, expresses his thoughts on Norman Macbeth’s book Darwin Retried:
Macbeth suggests that we try to look at evolution with new eyes, that we admit to the public, and, if needed, to ourselves, that we have misgivings about Darwinism, and the synthetic theory, that we open debate. 34
Roger Lewin is a well-known evolutionist science writer and former editor of New Scientist magazine:
Our intelligence, our reflective consciousness, our extreme technological facility, our complex spoken language, our sense of moral and ethical values—each of these is apparently sufficient to set us apart from nature . . . this gap is an “embarrassment,” something to be explained away. 35
Dr. Nils Heribert-Nilsson, is a Swedish geneticist and Professor of Botany at the University of Lund in Sweden:
My attempts to demonstrate evolution by an experiment carried on for more than 40 years have completely failed. At least I should hardly be accused of having started from any preconceived anti-evolutionary standpoint. 36
Paul Lemoine, a former Director of the National Museum of Natural History at Paris:
The theories of evolution in which our student youth was cradled constitute a dogma that all the world continues to teach. But each in his own specialty, zoologist or botanist, comes to the conclusion that none of the available explanations is adequate. . . . The result of this summary is that the theory of evolution is impossible. 37
 Christopher Wills |
Norman Macbeth, a Harvard-trained lawyer, has made the study of Darwinian theory his avocation for many years:
Unfortunately, in the field of evolution most explanations are not good. As a matter of fact, they hardly qualify as explanations at all; they are suggestions, hunches, pipe dreams, hardly worthy of being called hypotheses. 38
Prof. Cemal Yıldırım, a Turkish evolutionist, is Professor of Philosophy at Middle East Technical University and visiting scholar at California State University in Northridge:
No scientist, whether be Darwinist or neo-Darwinist, can suggest the notion that the theory of evolution is proven. 39 That’s right, evolution theory is not proven. 40
It is far from being convincing to attribute this order in living things, which seems to have a particular purpose, to chance or coincidence. 41 François Jacob is a professor of cell genetics and winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Medicine:
But then again, we are far from having a final explanation regarding the mechanisms of evolution in particular. . . . In addition, we are a very long way from being able to know all the mechanisms at the basis of the universe, as revealed by various observations recently made regarding, for example, the structure of chromosomes. 42
23 Pierre Paul Grassé, Evolution of Living Organisms, New York: Academic Press, 1977, p. 8.
24 Ibid., p. 103.
25 Derek Ager, “The Nature of the Fossil Record.” Proceedings of the Geological Association, Vol. 87, No. 2, 1976, p. 132.
26 SBS Vital Topics, David B. Loughran, April 1996, Stewarton Bible
School, Stewarton, Scotland, URL:http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/
sites/sbs777/vital/evolutio.html
27 Lewis Thomas, “On the Uncertainty of Science,” Key Reporter, Vol. 46 (Autumn 1980), p. 2.
28 H.A. Orr and Jerry Coyne (1992), “The Genetics of Adaptation: A Reassessment,” American Naturalist, pp. 140, 726.
29 H. S. Lipson, “A Physicist Look at Evolution,” Physics Bulletin, 31 (1980), p. 138.
30 G.A. Peseley, “The Epistemological Status of Natural Selection,” Laval Theologique et Philosophique, Vol. 38 (Feb. 1982), p. 74.
31 Dr. Colin Patterson, “Evolution and Creationism: Can You Tell Me Anything About Evolution?”
32 November 1981 Presentation at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City.
33 http://www.rmplc.co.uk/eduweb/sites/sbs777/vital/evolutio.html
34 Charles Darwin, Introduction to The Origin of Species, 6th Edition (1956) p. xxii.
35 E.O.Wiley, “Review of Darwin Retried by MacBeth.” Systematic Zoology, Vol. 24 (June. 1975), p. 270.
36 Roger Lewin, In the Age of Mankind, Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1988. p. 22.
37 Heribert Nilsson, Synthetische Artbildung (lund, Swewden: Verlag CWK Gleerup, 1953), p. 31.
38 Introduction: De (Evolution), Encyclopedie Française, Vol. 5 (1937) p. 6.
39 Norman Macbeth, Darwin Retried: An Appeal to Reason, Boston: Gambit, 1971, p. 147
40 Cemal Yildirim, Evrim Kurami ve Bagnazlik [“The Theory of Evolution and Bigotry”], Bilgi Publishing, January 1989, pp. 56-57.
41 Ibid., p. 131.
42 Ibid., p. 108.
CHAPTER 2. EVOLUTIONISTS’ CONFESSIONS REGARDING DARWIN
CHAPTER 2.
EVOLUTIONISTS’ CONFESSIONS REGARDING DARWIN
 A. Sedgwick |
Charles Darwin’s educational and scientific attainments were not exactly of the highest, particularly when compared to all the opportunities available in our own day. Darwin embarked on medical studies in Edinburgh, but failed to complete them and abandoned the course half-way through. For that reason, when he launched the theory of evolution, he was ignorant of many branches of science closely related to his theory.
Thomas Huxley was Darwin’s closest friend and greatest supporter in terms of the theory of evolution. He is even remembered as “Darwin’s bulldog” for his vociferous defense of the theory of evolution on Darwin’s behalf. But even he admitted of this friend:
Like the rest of us, he had no proper training in biological science. 21
From a letter written to Darwin by A. Sedgwick, his closest friend:
Parts of it I admired greatly, parts I laughed at till my sides were almost sore; other parts I read with absolute sorrow, because I think them utterly false and grievously mischievous. . . . Many of your wide conclusions are based upon assumptions. . . .22
Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. I, p. 315.
Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. II, p. 43.
CHAPTER I CHARLES DARWIN'S CONFESSIONS REGARDING HIS THEORY
CHAPTER I
CHARLES DARWIN'S CONFESSIONS REGARDING HIS THEORY
In 1859, Charles Darwin first published The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.
In this book, which he described as a “long argument,” he sought to
explain the origin of life in terms of evolutionary development.
Throughout his book, he dealt with the subject matter very amateurishly, not based on any experiment, relying upon conjecture and hypothesis. Later, Darwin set out his ideas regarding human evolution at the same scientific level in his book The Descent of Man. Yet in both books, he admitted the weaknesses and inconsistencies in his theory and frequently reiterated his doubts concerning the truth of these hypotheses in question.
The British physicist H.S. Lipson makes this comment about these fears of Darwin’s:
On reading The Origin of Species, I found that Darwin was much less sure himself than he is often represented to be; the chapter entitled “Difficulties of the Theory,” for example, shows considerable self-doubt. As a physicist, I was particularly intrigued by his comments on how the eye would have arisen. 4
In addition, Darwin made similar confessions that were later collected in the book Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, edited by his son, Francis Darwin. Most of the letters written by Darwin to close friends or eminent scientists of his time are full of his confessions regarding his theory. Indeed, Darwin even had no qualms about expressing his ignorance of the relevant subjects.
Yet even though the founder of this theory had strong doubts about its accuracy and his own level of scientific knowledge, and admitted as much in the very plainest language, today’s evolutionists still remain utterly convinced by his theory.
This chapter will examine only Darwin’s own general confessions concerning the theory of evolution and also, confessions regarding his state of mind in making these claims. Darwin was concerned that his theory was actually contradictory, inconsistent and unrealistic:
Long before having arrived at this part of my work, a crowd of difficulties will have occurred to the reader. Some of them are so grave that to this day I can never reflect on them without being staggered. 5
I have now briefly recapitulated the answers and explanations which can be given to them. I have felt these difficulties far too heavily during many years to doubt their weight. 6
Nevertheless, I doubt whether the work [of writing The Origin of Species] was worth the consumption of so much time. 7
Pray do not think that I am so blind as not to see that there are numerous immense difficulties in my notions. 8
From a letter to Asa Gray, a close friend and Professor of Biology at Harvard University:
I am quite conscious that my speculations run quite beyond the bounds of true science. 9
You will do a wonderful amount of good in spreading the doctrine of Evolution, supporting it as you do by so many original observations. . . . Has the problem of the later stages of reduction of useless structures ever perplexed you? This problem has of late caused me much perplexity. 10
From a letter to his second cousin William Darwin Fox:
All nature is perverse and will not do as I wish it, and just at present I wish I had my old barnacles to work at and nothing new.11
Sometimes I fear I shall break down, for my subject gets bigger and bigger with each month. . . .12
From a letter to his friend and botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker:
I sometimes suspect I shall soon entirely fail. 13
I fancy I have lately removed many great difficulties opposed to my notions, but God knows it may be all hallucination. 14
 The introduction of The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, edited by Darwin’s son Francis |
I was beginning to think that perhaps I was wholly in the wrong and that [Richard Owen] was right when he said the whole subject would be forgotten in ten years. 15
You ask about my book, and all that I can say is that I am ready to commit suicide; I thought it was decently written, but find so much wants rewriting. . . . 16
. . . but so much has been published since the appearance of the ‘Origin of Species,’ that I very much doubt whether I retain power of mind and strength to reduce the mass into a digested whole. 17
From a letter to Charles Lyell, the British geologist:
For myself, also, I rejoice profoundly; for, thinking of so many cases of men pursuing an illusion for years, often and often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may not have devoted my life to phantasy. 18
Robert Bingham Downs, an American author and librarian states:
As Darwin grew older, his views on religion changed. In his youth he accepted the idea of special creation without reservation. In the book Life and Letters, however, he said that mankind would be a far more perfect entity in the distant future. He then went on to add the following ideas:
Another source of conviction in the existence of God, connected with the reason, and not with the feelings, impresses me as having much more weight. This follows from the extreme difficulty or rather, impossibility of conceiving this immense and wonderful universe including man with his capacity of looking far backwards and far into futurity, as the result of blind chance or necessity. When thus reflecting, I feel ompelled to look to a First Cause having an intelligent mind in some degree analogous to that of man; and I deserve to be called Theist. This conclusion was strong in my mind about the time, as far as I can remember, when I wrote the Origin of pecies; and it is since that time that it has very gradually, with many fluctuations,become weaker. But then arises the doubt: Can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe, been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animals, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions? 19
At this point, Darwin raises his hands in despair and concludes by saying:
I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the beginning of all thing is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. 20
4 H. S. Lipson, “A Physicist's View of Darwin's Theory,” Evolution Trends in Plants, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1988, p. 6.
5 Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, Chapter 6 – “Difficulties on Theory.”
6 Ibid., Chapter 14 – “Recapitulation and Conclusion.”
7 Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. I, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888, p. 315.
8 Ibid., p. 395.
9 N.C. Gillespie, Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation, University of Chicago, 1979, p. 2.
10 Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. II, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1888, p. 358.
11 Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. I, p. 413.
12 Ibid., p. 430.
13 Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. II, p. 152.
14 Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. I, p. 439.
15 Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. II, p. 117.
16 Ibid., p. 501.
17 Ibid., p. 388.
18 Ibid., p. 25.
19 Robert B. Downs, Books that Changed the World, Revised edition (March 2, 2004), New York: Signet Classics; p. 286.
20 Ibid
INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
Various circles regard the theory of evolution as ideologically indispensible. From the day it was first proposed right up to the present, they have defended it by means of intense propaganda. Certain scientific publications, schools and a number of media organs portray it as a proven fact in terms of the origin of life. Since some scientists espouse the theory of evolution with the greatest devotion, most people imagine that the theory is scientifically valid.
 Charles Darwin |
In fact, however, over the last 150 years the theory of evolution has been totally discredited by such branches of science as paleontology, genetics, microbiology, biochemistry and biophysics. Countless findings revealed by these different branches make it obvious that evolution never happened.
Anyone reading this book may well naturally conclude that the adherents of the theory of evolution are scientists. Yet since those who find evidence that the theory of evolution is invalid are also scientists, therefore scientists must be divided into two groups: those who support evolution, and others who present evidence disproving it.
Yet this does not fully represent the true picture—because the proponents of the theory of evolution have no evidence that it ever took place. And with their own efforts, they even discover evidence that discredits their theory.
No doubt, it is a most contradictory and dishonest to strongly
defend a theory while the evidence totally demolishes it. Yet that is
exactly their current position.
Indeed, ever since the theory of evolution was first put forward,
no scientist espoused because of the scientific evidence. What, then,
is evolutionists’ aim? And what can explain their inconsistent mindset?
The British zoologist D. M. S. Watson, himself an evolutionist, supplies the answer to those questions:
The theory of evolution (is) a theory universally accepted
not because it can be proved by logically coherent evidence to be true
but because the only alternative, special creation is clearly
incredible.1
This idea of Watson’s is shared by scientists who espouse the theory of evolution. These others are well aware that no evidence proves the theory, but if they abandoned the theory of evolution, they would have to admit the existence of a Creator. Such a thing is unacceptable for proponents of materialist ideology, which we will be examining in due course.
However, the great majority of people, being unaware of this, imagine that those scientists who support evolution have worked along exceedingly scientific lines, with methods based solely on experiment and observation. Therefore, they believe every word those scientists say, feeling no need to investigate any further.
- And by doing so, they commit a serious error. As their own admissions show, evolutionists espouse their theory in violation of science. They present evolution as the scientific foundation of the ideology they insist on, which is materialism.
Materialist philosophy regards matter as absolute. According to that definition, matter has existed forever, and everything that exists consists of matter alone. As that logic requires, materialism has opposed belief in Allah (God) and the true religions ever since the most ancient times.
Yet when examined, materialism emerges as a philosophy devoid of any scientific evidence, and one incompatible with the truth.
The way to test the truth of any philosophy is through investigating that philosophy’s claims regarding science. Using scientific methodology, we can investigate the claim of materialism. We can investigate whether or not matter has always existed, whether atoms and molecules can organize themselves in the absence of a super-material Creator, and whether or not they can give rise to life. When we do so, we see that materialism has effectively collapsed.
The idea that matter has existed for all time was demolished by the Big Bang theory, which indicated that the universe came into being from nothing. The claim that matter can organize itself-is essentially what we refer to as the—whose invalidity was made crystal clear by the scientific discoveries during the 20th century.
Yet contemporary materialists do not follow such a rational and scientific course. They have conditioned themselves never to abandon their materialist beliefs, no matter what the cost. These people are materialists first, scientists second. They refuse to abandon their belief in evolution, even though they clearly see that even their own experiments and research refute it. Instead, they try to keep materialism alive by supporting evolution in any way necessary.
Richard Lewontin, a well-known geneticist and evolutionist from Harvard University, confesses that he is a materialist first, and a scientist second:
It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine [intervention]… 2
The philosophical term “a priori” that Lewontin uses here is highly significant. Latin for “from the beginning,” it refers to any root assumption accepted as a given. If you believe in the truth of an idea without question and assume it to be accurate, then that idea is a priori. This is how evolutionists seek to adapt science to their own preconceptions. Since materialists absolutely reject the existence of a Creator, their only alternative is to cling tightly to the theory of evolution.
The materialist dogma underlying the evolutionist propaganda in prominent Western media organs and well-known scientific journals is the result of this kind of ideological and philosophical requirements. Since ideology makes abandoning of the theory of evolution impossible, questioning Darwinism has been declared taboo by those materialists who determine scientific standards.
This book is confessions about the theory of evolution made by scientists who espouse the theory for the sake of their materialist ideologies. As we made clear at the start of this chapter, the very scientists who support the theory of evolution also discover the evidence that demolishes it. And generally, these scientists confess that as a result of research in their own specialized fields:
* No such process as evolution could ever have taken place,
* T he theory of evolution has not been proven,
*The theory is espoused essentially for ideological reasons, and that
*The entire universe must be the work of an Omniscient Creator.
You can come across similar confessions in practically every book, academic study or lecture concerning evolution—for two reasons: First, when people do all they can to conceal an obvious fact, even resorting to lies and fraud in order to do so, still they will leave obvious clues behind them. Whenever they speak, they will unwittingly make open or implied confessions indicating the dilemma in which they find themselves. Indeed, all evolutionists—beginning with Charles Darwin, who first proposed the theory—make such confessions abundantly in all their books and lectures.
The facts of creation and the existence of a sublime Creator are perfectly obvious. No matter how unwilling people may be to accept the fact, if they possess even a small amount of rational thought, they will see around them, in all places and at all times, evidence of the existence of Allah (God), the Creator of all things. Yet these scientists have perhaps the very closest familiarity with the evidence of Allah’s creation in the world. None who study the complex structure of the cell and is astounded by the flawless characteristics, extraordinary planning, and amazing intelligence inside, can avoid expressing their feelings in the face of the miracles of Allah’s creation. Albeit for a brief moment, they will act according to the voices of their conscience and common sense.
One example of this is Francis Crick, a non-resident Fellow of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies before he died on 28 July 2004, who discovered DNA. In the face of the DNA’s extraordinary complexity, Crick was forced to admit that the origin of life cannot be explained in terms of chance. Despite being a convinced evolutionist, Crick had to admit what was apparent after he witnessed the miraculous structure of DNA:
An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that, in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle. 3
Having read these confessions, you might well imagine that these people had admitted the scientific facts with all sincerity and finally come to believe in the existence of Allah, as good conscience and reason demand.
However, no matter how much some scientists have seen the truth, the stirrings of their consciences have been very short-lived. They have never countenanced abandoning their ideology, but have continued in their denial despite the voice of their consciences.
Not only has our century witnessed people who, despite seeing the truth, refuse to abandon superstitious beliefs, because of their devotion to materialist dogma. People with such mindsets have existed at all times. The dialogues between materialists and Prophet Abraham (peace be upon him) in the Qur’an inform us of this. The materialists in his time worshipped idols that they had made with their own hands, adopting them as their deities. They claimed that certain effigies they themselves had created, which actually have no power to do anything, were in fact the creators, regulators, and lords of the entire universe.
You might imagine that such paganism is a feature of only ancient times, yet the logic of 21st century deniers is exactly the same. They too maintain that unconscious atoms and random events, with no ability to do anything, actually created the flawlessly ordered universe and the life within it. Absolutely nothing has changed in the mindset of denial.
In his time, too, the Prophet Abraham (pbuh) employed various means to show people how irrational and illogical their beliefs were. And they then saw how corrupt their earlier beliefs had been and admitted they had been despotic.
They said, “Did you do this to our deities, Abraham?” He said, “No, this one, the biggest of them, did it. Ask them if they are able to speak!” They consulted among themselves and said, “It is you yourselves who are wrongdoers.” (Surat; al-Anbiya’, 62-64)
However, these stirrings of their consciences were only short-lived, and they soon returned to their corrupt ways:
But then they relapsed back into their disbelief: “You know full well these idols cannot talk.” He said, “Do you then worship, instead of Allah, what cannot help or harm you in any way? Shame on you and what you worship besides Allah! Will you not use your intellect?” (Surat al-Anbiya’, 65-67)
We regard the evaluation of evolutionists’ own confessions as exceedingly useful to better understand this mindset described in the Qur’an 1,400 years ago. Any rational person of good conscience reading these confessions will inevitably wonder since they admit the theory is wrong, why do they still support it?
As has already been made clear, they believe in the theory because that is what their ideology demands. Otherwise they know they would need to admit the existence of Allah. Nor is this particular to our century alone. The Qur’an tells us that although their hearts realized the truth, some ignored the true facts because of their feelings of pride and arrogance, and still denied the existence of Allah:
And they repudiated them wrongly and haughtily, in spite of their own certainty about them. See the final fate of the corrupters. (Surat an-Naml, 14)
1- D.M.S. Watson, “Adaptation,” Nature, Vol. 123 [sic Vol. 124] (1929), p. 233.
2-Richard Lewontin, “The Demon-Haunted World,” The New York Review of Books, January 9, 1997, p. 28.
3-Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981, p. 88.