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FOREWORD:
Anyone who seeks an answer to the question of how living things,
including himself, came into existence, will encounter two distinct
explanations. The first is "creation," the idea that all living
things came into existence as a consequence of an intelligent design.
The second explanation is the theory of "evolution," which asserts
that living things are not the products of an intelligent design,
but of coincidental causes and natural processes.
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 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.
In this book, we will analyze this scientific crisis
faced by the theory of evolution. This work rests solely upon scientific
findings. Those advocating the theory of evolution on behalf of
scientific truth should confront these findings and question the
presumptions they have so far held. Refusal to do this would mean
openly accepting that their adherence to the theory of evolution
is dogmatic rather than scientific.
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