Author: Harun Yahya
Publisher: Goodword Books
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 376
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8178981343
Description
Anyone who seeks an answer to the question of how living things came into existence, will encounter two distinct explanations. The first is "Creation", and the second explanation is the theory of "Evolution". This book analyses the scientific crisis faced by the theory of evolution.
For a century and a half now, the theory of evolution has received extensive support from the scientific community. The science of biology is defined in terms of evolutionist concepts. That is why, between the two explanations of creation and evolution, the majority of the people assume the evolutionist explanation to be scientific. Accordingly, they believe evolution to be a theory supported by the observational findings of science, while creation is thought to be a belief based on faith. As a matter of fact, however, scientific findings do not support the theory of evolution. Findings from the last two decades in particular openly contradict the basic assumptions of this theory. Many branches of science, such as paleontology, biochemistry, population genetics, comparative anatomy and biophysics, indicate that natural processes and coincidental effects cannot explain life, as the theory of evolution proposes.
"If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.'
So wrote Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species, where he made his theory of evolution public. The theory applied materialist philosophy to nature and challenged the consensus that life on earth is the artifact of the Creator. During the following 150 years, many in the scientific community assumed that Darwin had almost accomplished this task. Today, science demonstrates that they were mistaken. Findings in the last two decades alone have shattered the basis of the theory. Key branches of science, such as paleontology, biochemistry, population genetics, comparative anatomy, and biophysics, indicate one after another that natural laws and chance effects proposed by the theory cannot explain the origin of life. Life turns out to be infinitely more complex than Darwin imagined in his time demonstrating that his theory has absolutely broken down.
Contents
Foreword
A Short History
The Mechanisms of Darwinism
The True Origin of Species
True Natural History - I - (From Intervertebrates to Reptiles)
True Natural History - II - (Birds and Mammals)
The Invalidity of Punctuated Equilibrium
The Origin of Man
Molecular Biology and the Origin of Life
The Myth of Homology
Immunity, Vestigial Organs and Embryology
The Origin of Plants
Irreducible Complexity
Evolution and Thermodynamics
Information Theory and the End of Materialism
Distinguishing Between Science and Materialism
Conclusion
The Secret Beyond Matter
Timelessness and the Reality of Fate
Notes
Index