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In 1978, Mary Leakey discovered a number of footprints in a layer of volcanic ash in Laetoli in Kenya. These prints were employed as an important part of the evolutionist propaganda regarding the well-known fossil…

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Though the theory of evolution’s philosophical roots go back as far as Ancient Greece, it entered the agenda of the scientific world in the 19th century. In his book Zoological Philosophy , the French biologist Jean…

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Charles Darwin made use of Lamarck’s thesis of the “transmission of acquired traits” as a factor giving rise to evolution. ( See Lamarck, Jean B .)

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— See Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny

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In the period during which Darwin developed the theory of evolution, the question of how living things transmitted their characteristics to later generations was unknown. Therefore, primitive conjectures such as…

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As amino acids chemically combine to form a protein, they build what is known as the peptide bond. In building this bond, a water molecule is released. This totally invalidates the evolutionist account of primitive…

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As well as being an anthropologist and paleontologist, Richard Leakey is also a well known evolutionist writer. He is best known for his fossil-hunting activities, having discovered a great many fossils, particularly…

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The appropriate amino acids being arranged in the correct sequence is not sufficient to form a protein molecule in a living organism. In addition, each one of the 20 varieties of amino acid in a protein’s structure…

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Richard Lewontin, a well known geneticist and evolutionist from Harvard University, admits that he is “a materialist first, a scientist second”:

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The best-known of the claims regarding intermediate forms in the context of reptile-bird evolution is the fossil known as Archaeopteryx . However, it is now known that Archaeopteryx is not an intermediate form at…

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— See Biogenesis.

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In 1735, the Swedish natural historian Carolus Linnaeus published his Systema Naturae (“System of Nature”), in which he classified all living species. He believed that species did not change, that the species he had…

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“Lucy” is a fossil that Donald Johanson discovered in 1973. Its scientific name, Australopithecus afarensis , derives from the Afar region of Ethiopia, where it was discovered. For years, Lucy was portrayed as the…