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Originally Posted by kingwilly  an article i found... Quote: |
.... All of the Harun Yahya arguments can be boiled down to one assertion: fossils discovered of numerous creatures show that they look just the same today as they did millions of years ago: hence life on earth did not evolve but instead each species was individually created in its present form....
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Although I believe that Christian and Islamic creationism are both nonsense (creatures do NOT look just the same as they did millions of years ago), the article suggests one powerful idea - the Darwinian theory of evolution is indeed full of missing links. Most species can be tracked backwards to an earlier form (larger, smaller, hairier, etc..), but transitional species are very rare. There was a brilliant professor named Arpad Elo who used to teach physics near my home (as a note of trivia, he also created the Elo chess rating system used today). Elo believed that the earth was 'seeded' by many varieties of genetic code at some stage of pre-history. Elo's theory sounds odd, but Darwin's idea that all of us evolved from the same primordial slime is even less supportable because of this lack of transitional life forms.