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TThe roots of evolutionist thought go back as far asantiquity as a dogmatic belief attempting to denythe fact of creation.

The theory of evolution is the outcome of the materialistphilosophy that surfaced with the reawakening of ancientmaterialistic philosophies. Materialism seeks to explainnature through purely material factors. Since it deniescreation right from the start, it asserts that every thing,whether animate or inanimate, has appeared without anact of creation but rather as a result of a coincidence that

then acquired a condition of order. The human mindhowever is so structured as to comprehend the existenceof an organising will wherever it sees order. Materialisticphilosophy, which is contrary to this very basiccharacteristic of the human mind, produced "the theoryof evolution" in the middle of the 19th century.

The person who put forward the theory of evolutionthe way it is defended today, was an amateur Englishnaturalist, Charles Robert Darwin.

Darwin had never undergone a formal education in biology. He took only an amateur interest in the subject of 

nature and living things. His interest spurred him tovoluntarily join an expedition on board a ship namedH.M.S. Beagle that set out from England in 1832 andtravelled around different regions of the world for fiveyears. Young Darwin was greatly impressed by variousliving species, especially by certain finches that he saw inthe Galapagos Islands. He thought that the variations intheir beaks were caused by their adaptation to theirhabitat. With this idea in mind, he supposed that theorigin of life and species lay in the concept of "adaptationto the environment". According to Darwin, differentliving species were not created separately by God but

rather came from a common ancestor and becamedifferentiated from each other as a result of naturalconditions.

Darwin called this process "evolution by naturalselection". He thought he had found the "origin of species": the origin of one species was another species.

Darwin was well aware that his theory faced lots of problems. He confessed these in his book “The Origin of Species”. These difficulties primarily consisted of thefossil record, complex organs of living things that couldnot possibly be explained by coincidence (e.g. the eye),

and the instincts of living beings. Darwin hoped thatthese difficulties would be overcome by new discoveries.The American physicist Lipson made the followingcomment on the "difficulties" of Darwin:

On reading The Origin of Species, I found that Darwinwas much less sure himself than he is often represented tobe; the chapter entitled "Difficulties of the Theory" forexample, shows considerable self-doubt. As a physicist, I 

was particularly intrigued by his comments on how theeye would have arisen.1

While developing his theory, Darwin was impressed  by many evolutionist biologists preceding him, andprimarily by the French biologist, Lamarck.2 Accordingto Lamarck, living creatures passed the traits theyacquired during their lifetime from one generation to thenext and thus evolved. For instance, giraffes evolvedfrom antelope-like animals by extending their necksfurther and further from generation to generation as they

tried to reach higher and higher branches for food.Darwin thus employed the thesis of "passing the acquiredtraits" proposed by Lamarck as the factor that madeliving beings evolve.

But both Darwin and Lamarck were mistaken because in their day, life could only be studied with veryprimitive technology and at a very inadequate level.Scientific fields such as genetics and biochemistry did notexist even in name. Their theories therefore had todepend entirely on their powers of imagination.

While the echoes of Darwin's book reverberated, an

Austrian botanist by the name of  Gregor Mendeldiscovered the laws of inheritance in 1865. Not muchheard of until the end of the century, Mendel's discoverygained great importance in the early 1900s. This was the  birth of the science of genetics. Somewhat later, thestructure of the genes and the chromosomes wasdiscovered. The discovery, in the 1950s, of the structure of the DNA molecule that incorporates genetic informationthrew the theory of evolution into a great crisis. Thereason was the incredible complexity of life and theinvalidity of the evolutionary mechanisms proposed byDarwin.

These developments ought to have resulted inDarwin's theory being banished to the dustbin of history.However, it was not, because certain circles insisted onrevising, renewing, and elevating the theory to a scientificplatform. These efforts gain meaning only if we realisethat behind the theory lay ideological intentions ratherthan scientific concerns. (For further reading, see “TheEvolution Deceit” by Harun Yahya)

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1 H. S. Lipson, "A Physicist's View of Darwin's Theory",Evolution Trends in Plants, Vol 2, No. 1, 1988, p. 6.

2 Although Darwin came up with the claim that his theory wastotally independent from that of Lamarck's, he gradually started torely on Lamarck's assertions. Especially the 6th and the last editionof The Origin of Species is full of examples of Lamarck's "inheritanceof acquired traits". See Benjamin Farrington, What Darwin ReallySaid, New York: Schocken Books, 1966, p. 64.

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