I followed up on all the claims Harun Yahya makes on
this page. It wasn't surprising to find that the article was at the very least misleading and definitely pointless. What was the point of it, scientist disagree about how evolution exactly happened, or that
scientists makes blunder which other
scientists correct? None of these say anything about the validity of evolution. Scientists referred to in this article all believe in the Darwinian Synthesis. What ever problems they have, are with the exact details of how 5 billion years of evolution happened and not with the Darwinian process as a whole.
What this website fails to announce is the mountain of corroborating
evidence for Natural Selection
Some of those statements are true the
Archeaoraptor is clearly a fake, so was the Nebraska man. While others were distortions of truth at best, and outright lies at worst. And some statements were empty platitudes that makes no sense what so ever. Firstly, the format of the article is misleading. Statements are presented under the theme 'they said' and responses as 'what happened'. Giving the impression that 'they', the scientific community as a whole ,made a statement which was debunked by some evidence later on. however, if one scrutinizes these statements the 'they' are for the most part individuals while 'what happened' is only an opinion of an individual. Most of these examples are not evidence of any kind, but examples of scientific disputes. As i said earlier people argue, that is how we arrive at resolutions. It is fraudulent to take one side of an unresolved and ambiguous argument and claim that as unequivocal fact. Furthermore, 'they' refers to the plural while persons like Liang Bua are singular. This leads to the tantalizing conclusion that,
Adnan Oktar, the owner of Harun Yahya, on top of being a
convicted felon, does not understand basic grammar.
1)
Junk DNA
What They Said:
Prof. Beyazıt Çırakoğlu: "It is thought that these DNA sequences are no-longer-used junk DNA sequences.”
What Happened:
Evan Eichler, an evolutionist scientist from Washington University " The term ‘junk DNA’ is a reflection of our ignorance."
WTF, so two scientists disagree. that is what people do, big deal. This doesn't show any thing. If you are interested in finding out what '
Junk DNA' just follow the link.
2)
Neanderthals:
What They Said:
Darwinists claimed that Neanderthals were a more primitive human race.
What Happened:
Erik Trinkaus: “Detailed comparisons of Neanderthal skeletal remains with those of modern humans have shown that there is nothing in Neanderthal anatomy that conclusively indicates locomotor, manipulative, intellectual, or linguistic abilities inferior to those of modern humans.” (Erik Trinkaus, "Hard Times Among the Neanderthals," Natural History, vol. 87, December 1978, p. 10; R. L. Holloway, "The Neanderthal Brain: What Was Primitive," American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement, vol. 12, 1991, p. 94. )
“What was considered a major piece of evidence showing that the Neanderthals once lived in northern Europe has fallen by the wayside. We are having to rewrite prehistory.” (Tony Paterson, “Neanderthal Man ‘never walked in northern Europe”, 22 August 2004)
This is another piece of misinformation
here is the original article. What was going on was Professor Reiner Protsch von Zietenhad made a dubious claim about one particular Neanderthal fossil and Oxford University had called him out. what this doesn't prove is that Neanderthals didn't exist, there are hundreds of fossils of them, or that they never coexisted with humans,
Erik Trinkaus himself has found 28,000 year old Neanderthal. He also consequently argues that Neanderthals and humans interbred as well. No wonder some of us are ugly. In summation, another meaningless blurb.
3)
Homo Floresiensis (Flores Man – Hobbit):
What They Said:
BBC: Australian archaeologists unearthed the bones while digging at a site called Liang Bua, one of numerous limestone caves on Flores. The remains of the partial skeleton were found at a depth of 5.9m (19ft).
The bones unearthed by Australian scientists in the Liang Bua province excavations opens a new era in the history of archaeology. The examinations made on tooth, coccyx and skull revealed that the living being was no different than human beings and walked upright. This new living being (Homo floresiensis) was named after the island (Flores island) where the skeleton was found.
What Happened:
It came out that these remains belonged to deformed individuals of Homo sapiens.
The conclusion drawn here is a lie. The scientific community is bitterly divided on this fossil. Laing et al, maintain that this is a pigmy human being. Pigmyfication or microcephaly is when a species is forced to shrink in size due to evolutionary forces, this is well documented in elephants and mammoth. Another group maintains that the fossil is a deformed human. the third
group says that this is an entirely different spiece.
4)This
link deals with the Horse issue much better than I can.
5)
Lucy:
What They Said:
Darwinist Berhane Asfaw from California University said: “We just found the chain of evolution, the continuity through time.”
“One form evolved to another. This is evidence of evolution in one place through time.”
What Happened:
On May 1999 Science et Vie put Lucy on its cover. The following quotation is from the article, "Adieu Lucy": “…that apes of the species Australopithecus did not represent the origin of man.”
Albert W. Mehlert (evolutionist and paleoanthropology researcher
: “The evidence given above makes it overwhelmingly likely that Lucy was no more than a variety of pygmy chimpanzee, and walked the same way (awkwardly upright on occasions, but mostly quadrupedal). The “evidence” for the alleged transformation from ape to man is extremely unconvincing.”
Once again we see dusinformation. The humerofemoral ratio, or length of humerus divided by length of femur, is 84.6 for Lucy, compared to 71.8 for humans, and 97.8 and 101.6 for the two species of chimpanzee. In other words, humans have much shorter arms compared to their legs than chimpanzees do, and Lucy falls roughly in the middle.
I can go on, but whats the point. I'm going to leave things as it is with a wonderful picture of
Adnan Oktar, author of
Harun Yahya.