keep Darwinism alive
Most of the scientists who believe in evolution accept the
neo-Darwinist theory of slow, gradual evolution. In recent decades,
however, a different model has been proposed. Called "punctuated
equilibrium", this model rejects the Darwinist idea of a cumulative,
step-by-step evolution and holds that evolution took place instead in
big, discontinuous "jumps".
The first vociferous defenders of this notion appeared at the
beginning of the 1970s CE. Two American paleontologists, Niles
Eldredge and Stephen Nay Gould, were well aware that the claims of the
neo-Darwinist theory were absolutely refuted by fossil records.
Fossils proved that living organisms did not originate by gradual
evolution, but appeared suddenly and fully-formed. Neo-Darwinists were
living with the fond hope -- they still do -- that the lost
transitional forms would one day be found. Realising that this hope
was groundless, Eldredge and Gould were nevertheless unable to abandon
their evolutionary dogma, so they put forward a new model: punctuated
equilibrium. This is the claim that evolution did not take place as a
result of minor variations but rather in sudden and great changes.
This model was nothing but a model for fantasies. For instance,
European paleontologist O.H. Shindewolf, who led the way for Eldredge
and Gould, claimed that the first bird came out of a reptile egg as a
"gross mutation", that is, as a result of a huge "accident" that took
place in the genetic structure. According to the same theory, some
land-dwelling animals could have turned into giant whales having
undergone a sudden and comprehensive transformation. These claims,
totally contradicting all the rules of genetics, biophysics and
biochemistry are about as scientific as the fairy tales about frogs
turning into princes! Nevertheless, being distressed by the ``crisis
that the neo-Darwinist assertion was in'', some evolutionist
paleontologists embraced this theory, which had the distinction of
being even more bizarre than neo-Darwinism itself.
The only purpose of this model was to provide an explanation for the
unexplained gaps in fossil records that the neo-Darwinist model could
not explain. However, it is hardly rational to attempt to explain the
fossil gap in the evolution of birds with a claim that "a bird popped
all of a sudden out of a reptile egg", because by the evolutionists'
own admission, the evolution of one species to another requires a
great and advantageous change in genetic information. However, no
mutation whatsoever improves the genetic information or adds new
information to it. Thus the "gross mutations" imagined by the
punctuated equilibrium model would only cause "gross", that is "great"
reductions and impairments in the genetic information.
Moreover, the model of "punctuated equilibrium" collapses from the
very first step by its inability to address the question of the origin
of life, which is also the question that refutes the neo-Darwinist
model from the outset. Since not even a single protein can have
originated by chance, the debate over whether organisms made up of
trillions of those proteins have undergone a "punctuated" or "gradual"
evolution is senseless.
In spite of this, the model that comes to mind when "evolution" is
discussed today is still neo-Darwinism, we must first examine the
neo-Darwinist model and then look at the fossil record to test this
model. After that, we will dwell upon the question of the origin of
life, which invalidates both the neo-Darwinist model and all other
evolutionist models such as "evolution by leaps".
Before doing so, it may be useful to remind the reader that the
reality we will be confronting at every stage is that the evolutionary
scenario is a fairytale, a great deceit totally at variance with all
scientific facts and evidence. It is a scenario that has been used to
deceive the world for the past 140 years. Thanks to the latest
scientific discoveries, its continued defence has at last become
impossible.
The Quran states that Allaah will show us His signs, in the world
around us and within ourselves, at which the people of understanding
will have increased faith. Unlike what evolutionist scientists would
have us believe, Allaah has not created the world in vain, it has a
specific purpose and underlying design. In spite of misleading
obscurantist agendas, it is our duty to unravel the truth and expose
falsehood.
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