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The evolutionist magazine New Scientist described
evolutionist contradictions in the face of living fossils:
Some biologists marvel that
there is any evolution at all, considering the possible pitfalls
of change. "The
idea is that organisms are so complex that it is very hard to
change one aspect without wrecking everything else," says
[Yale paleontologist Elisabeth] Vrba. But it is extremely difficult
to show that this is why our supreme survivors remain unchanged
for millions of years.36

Niles Eldredge |
Of course it is hard for this fact to be explained in evolutionist
terms, because adherents are looking for an explanation within
the theory of evolution. Yet the living fossils reveal that living
things did not descend from one another in stages, nor have they
evolved in any way. The fossil record provides no examples of intermediate
forms. Countless living things have remained unchanged for millions
of years, and their current anatomical structures are exactly the
same as they were millions of years ago. The fossil record is almost
complete with both animal and plant specimens demonstrating this.
It definitively and scientifically refutes evolution.
The evolutionist Niles Eldredge admits that no explanation exists
with regard to living fossils, which constitute one of the countless
secrets that evolution has been unable to unravel:
... there seems to have been almost no change
in any part we can compare between the living organism and its
fossilized progenitors of the remote geological past. Living
fossils embody the theme of evolutionary stability to an extreme
degree. ... We have not completely solved the riddle of living
fossils.37

Bats have remained
unchanged for 50 million years, and are among the most important
proofs that demolish the theory of evolution. |
Pierre-Paul Grassé, one of France's best-known
zoologists, former editor of the 28-volume Traité de
Zoologie (Treatise
of Zoology) and former president of the French Academy of Sciences,
ends the chapter "Evolution and Natural Selection" in
his book Evolution of Living Organisms with these words:
The "evolution in action" of
J. Huxley and other biologists is simply the observation of
demographic facts, local fluctuations of genotypes, geographical
distributions. Often the species concerned have remained practically
unchanged for hundreds of centuries! Fluctuation as a result
of circumstances, with prior modification of the genome, does not imply
evolution, and we have tangible proof of this
in many panchronic species [i.e. living fossils that
remain unchanged for millions of years].38
Living fossils and the stasis in the fossil record could not
be explained in Darwin's time, much less afterwards. Scientists
attempting to adapt Darwin's theory of evolution by means of changes
of form to modern scientific findings have also admitted as much,
no matter how reluctantly. Facts revealed by the scientific data
and the fossil record totally conflict with the present-day theory
of evolution, just as Darwin himself admitted 150 years ago:
... I am well aware that scarcely a single
point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced,
often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to
those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained
only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on
both sides of each question; and this cannot possibly be here
done.39
With these words, Darwin states unhesitatingly
that his claim does not square with the facts—for which reason he has ignored
them. That is the same situation for those who support the theory
of evolution today; despite the truth revealed by the fossil record
they blindly continue in Darwin's wake and turn their backs on
the facts. However, this deception is a short-lived one. The facts
are now far more evident, and far more identifiable. The number
of people who have seen the truth and preferred it is rising, and
the number of people who unquestioningly believe in fairy tales
is on the decrease. The facts cannot be concealed and ignored,
as widely as they were in Darwin's day. Genetics, microbiology,
paleontology, geology and all other branches of science constantly
reveal a truth that Darwin and his supporters never wanted, and
that they perhaps never expected—the fact of Creation.
That is because God is the Real and what you call on
apart from Him is false. God is the All-High, the Most Great.
Don't you see that God sends down water from the sky
and then in the morning the earth is covered in green? God
is All-Subtle, All-Aware.
Everything in the heavens and everything in the Earth
belongs to Him. God is the Rich Beyond Need, the Praiseworthy.
Don't you see that God has made everything
on the Earth subservient to you and the ships running upon
the sea by His command? He holds back the heaven, preventing
it from falling to the Earth—except by His permission.
God is All-Compassionate to humanity, Most Merciful.
It is He Who gave you life and then
will cause you to die and then will give you life again.
Man is truly ungrateful. (Qur'an, 22:62-66)
36. Dicks, "The
Creatures Time Forgot," New Scientist, 23 October
1999
37. Niles Eldredge, Fossils:The Evolution and Extinction of Species,
Princeton University Press, New Jersey, 1991, pp. 100, 108
38. Phillip E. Johnson, Darwin On Trial, Intervarsity Press, Illinois,
1993, p. 27
39. Darwin, The Origin of Species, p. 66 |