Darwinism Refuted: How the Theory of Evolution Breaks Down in the Light of Modern Science

by Harun Yahya, Carl Nino Rossini (Translator), James Barham (Editor)

This book is the most comprehensive scientific challenge from Harun Yahya to Darwinism. As the book explains in detail, findings from the last two decades in particular openly contradict the basic assumptions of the evolutionary 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.

378 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Adnan Oktar (born Ankara, 1956), also known by his pen name Harun Yahya, is a prominent advocate of Islamic creationism in the creation-evolution debate. He is considered to be the leading Muslim advocate of creationism. He subscribes to Old Earth creationism. He is against Zionism and Freemasonry and sees them as very interrelated movements, though he denounces anti-Semitism and terrorism, which he says is a product of Darwinism, not religious fanaticism.

Adnan Oktar founded the Science Research Foundation (SRF, or BAV in Turkish), whose objective is "to [establish]...peace, tranquility and love..."

Reviews

[Owlseyes · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have bought the issue of the "Le Nouvel Observateur" in 2006. Ever since, I would never forget about the cover and the possible meanings it elicited. Now, I have the chance to read from a creationist, in the Islamic vein.

Well, the monkey was just holding a Bible. Yes, with an American hat.

There are 2 possible explanations for life: (1) it was created by design --by Allah [or God]; (2) by evolution, appearing out of "natural processes". Yet there's a "scientific crisis" in the field of the "evolution theory", according to Harun.

In 1809, Lamarck spoke of a "Zoological Philosophy" thinking about life as evolving towards greater complexity; yet, his views were invalidated by Genetics.

Louis Pasteur's experimental results showed that life cannot come from inanimate substance, yet some refused accepting his findings.

Darwin, who in his writings ("The Origin of Species") expressed a considerable amount of "self-doubt", never mentioned the question of the Origin of Life.

So, Harun raises several questions on Darwinism:

(1) it doesn't explain the diversity of animal and plant life; what's the meaning of those "natural and coincidental variations"?
(2) the "transitional forms" (of evolution) are yet to appear in fossils (*)
(3) natural selection cannot explain complex organs such as eye, wings or ears.
(4) how the ancestor of all species came into existence?

Richard Dawkins, the author of "The God delusion", thinks Harun is a "naive" and a "very unpleasant man". Harun's views are "pseudo-science".


Not reading yet, just checking on the cartoons

One should ever wonder why so many species kept unchanged for millions of years. The list Harun provides is long (which includes: the scorpion, the starfish, fish, frogs, salamanders, turtles, snakes, flies and other insects, cockroaches, bats, the oyster, ammonites, the horseshoe crab..., termites, even some bacteria). Take a look at those next 2 pictures. One, of a 140-million-year-old dragonfly found in Bavaria, Germany; it is like the living one, presently. The other, of a 170-million-year-old schrimp from the Jurassic Age, remains the same like today's species. As the author says, those species remained "static" for millions of years.



Another strong argument Harun uses has to do with the Cambrian explosion of life. Different groups of living beings (some 100 phyla) emerged, though this number later on diminished, due to extinction.


Fossils reject the "Tree of Life"; picture by Ernst Haeckel in 1866




The emergence of complex living beings in the Cambrian Age invalidates Darwin's theory and the Tree of Life view.

How about flying reptiles? The mechanism of Darwin's evolution just cannot account for it, says Harun.


Having mastered reading, we, too, shall do GR reviews! And then we shall rule over you!

Regarding HUMAN EVOLUTION (as Darwin conceived it, in 1871, "the descent of man from some lower form"), Harun smashes all hope of continuity between man and apes. That is, Australopitecus and Homo habilis were reclassified as APES in 1994, while Homo erectus was reclassified as fully modern human. Therefore, human evolution, is a "complete fiction".


And then you'll read from our Plato. Are you listening?

Conclusion

Well, it's been a ride full of fun and surprises. Harun's view surely presents many challenges to the Darwinists. And some have scientific validity, worth considering.

The last chapters are philosophical in nature while approaching topics such as The secret beyond matter and Relativity of Time and the Reality of Fate. Harun's take is of a "creationist" and a very religious one: "Allah creates whatever He will"
(Surat An-Nur 24:45). He denounces the Darwinists as materialists.

Harun considers Science to be different from Materialism. Materialism denies the evident existence of a Creator. In the materialist viewpoint there can't happen any interference of the supernatural. And yet, it's a "shock" when people realize the universe was created by God, one who had the power to do it.

The Bible and the Qur'an tell about the Creation. Man was created from clay. Materialists have their "inventions".

The book made me go into the words of another creationist (this time around an American Christian) named Kent Hovind and made me also realize that there's one "detail" Harun doesn't take into consideration, (while Hovind does), namely Noah's Ark and the Flood, which, nonetheless, has several implications on the Creation versus Evolution debate.



If you watch Hovind you'll have a lot of fun too, and, maybe, some new insights and perspectives on the issues at stake.

The debate is meant to continue, I guess.


(The Economist, July 26th, 1995)

That was The Economist in 1995, on books about Darwin's theory and much more. Can we still admit it as "the most successful scientific theory of all time"? The fittest?
Hmmmm.Can it become extinct?

(*) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/reli...

[Darmaila Wati · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is excelent book for everybody who looks for an answer and explanation how living things.

[Wendy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely phenomenal. More comments when I'm finished.