Saturday 21 March 2009

Evolution theory's weaknesses

- There is no proof of the existence of a common ancestor.

- Fossil records do not necessarily prove that life evolved into other organisms, it only shows that certain animals were present within a certain part of the world during a certain time period. That's all. Creationists can just argue that God made these animals within a certain location during that time period.


- If there was so much animals which became extinct (and were the intermediaries between two species) - their fossils should have been in the thousands, remaining in the ground to prove their past existence. But these intermediary specie fossils are not always present underground [and due to this, some scientists even said that there probably wasn't intermediate species but massive jumps from one specie to another.]

So one has to question why so little fossils of such species are present if the process took thousands/millions of years [because surely there would be thousands of the extinct specie during that time period so thousands of these fossils should be found atleast to prove the case.] But this just doesn't happen.


(Slide 35): Fossil Record Refutes Evolution - A famous British paleontologist, Derek V. Ager, admits this embarrassing fact: The point emerges that if we examine the fossil record in detail, whether at the level of orders or of species, we find – over and over again – not gradual evolution, but the sudden explosion of one group at the expense of another. - A half-billion years ago the remarkably complex forms of animals that we see today suddenly appeared. This moment, right at the start of Earth's Cambrian Period, some 550 million years ago, marks the evolutionary explosion that filled the seas with the world's first complex creatures. The large animal phyla of today were present already in the early Cambrian and they were as distinct from each other then as they are today.

1) Derek A. Ager. \"The Nature of the Fossil Record.\" Proceedings of the British Geological Association, vol. 87, no. 2, )1976), p. 133.
2) Richard Monestarsky, Mysteries of the Orient, Discover, April 1993, p.40

http://www.slideshare.net/speed2kx/3-atheism-and-materialism-refutations-presentation


more points can be found here;
My paradigm | Because everyone is entitled to have my opinion.
http://www.slideshare.net/speed2kx/3-atheism-and-materialism-refutations-presentation



Even then, micro or macro evolution doesn't contradict Islam based on an article by IslamToday.com;

Islamtoday.com: Biological Evolution – An Islamic Perspective

with the exception of Adam evolving from them.

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