the failure of evolution theory

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The failure of evolution theory

During the past few days the news that scientists had found

nucleotides in the meteorites is appearing in media circles. The newfinding is intended to lend credence to a theory which postulates that

some of the basic components of living beings (cells) were formed

outside this earth and were transported to earth via the medium of

meteorites. (Earlier amino acids too have found on the meteorites.)

On reaching earth these building blocks somehow came together and

got assembled and gave rise to the first living cell which through

various stages of evolution gave rise to all the living creatures present

on the earth today. This article is the refutation of the claim, though it

deals with only one aspect regarding the appearance of life and its

continuation, otherwise the drawbacks of the theory would require

many volumes for proper elucidation.

Facts of life: In order to understand the theory of evolution an

understanding of the structure of the living beings is necessary.

Therefore a brief description is given here. Proteins, which are made

up of amino acids, are the basic components of a living cell. There are

twenty different amino acids and depending upon the sequence of

these amino acids, there are different kinds of proteins. A proteinmay consist of thousands of amino acids and every combination of

amino acids is not a protein; it is only the linking up of amino acids in

some particular sequence that is regarded as a protein.


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For life to continue, the information about various life processes

and modes of life must pass on from generation to generation. A

special molecule called DNA performs this function. DNA performs

this action by directing the protein synthesis, which in turn directs

various life processes. The basic unit of DNA is a nucleotide molecule

(which is now claimed to have been found on meteorites.) There are

four different types nucleotides depending upon the base molecule

attached to it. A combination of three different nucleotides stands as

a code for a particular amino acid and another sequence of three

nucleotides stands as a code for another amino acid and so on. The

segment of DNA which contains code for a particular protein is

called as a gene. In this way the information for the formation of

proteins is contained in the Genes. When a cell divides, DNA also

replicates and a complete set of DNA in the form of chromosomes is

passed on to each daughter cell. In this way each cell of living

organism receives complete information for carrying out its life

processes. And the process goes on.

The fairy tale: Until the early 19th century evolutionists believed in

the spontaneous generation of certain forms of life from non-living

matter. It was in this background that Darwin put forth his theory of

evolution, which would deceive a large portion of human beings.

However, Pasteur disproved the theory of spontaneous generation

i.e. the living organisms emerge only from living beings not from non

living beings.


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The finding of Pasteur gave a terrible bolt to the theory of

evolution. In response, Russian chemist, Oparin came out with a new

hypothesis that the basic organic building blocks of life could have

formed from simpler molecules in the primitive atmosphere of the

earth by lightning or similar kinds of energy. The complex organic

molecules created in the atmosphere would then rain into the

primitive ocean, forming an organic soup. as molecules came

together in this soup, they combined together and formed the basic

components of living cell i.e., amino acids which later linked together

in appropriate manner and ultimately proteins were formed and

subsequently a cell was formed. (How this combination of molecules

got life, he says nothing.) That is how, according to him, the single

celled animals came into existence.

The descendents of first single organism which was formed in the

first instant slowly adapted to their environment and underwent

changes and with the passage of time gave rise to various forms of

life i.e. different animals and plants were formed. For instance giraffe

got an elongated neck because it needed to eat the leaves of plants

from heights. The theory proposed that an animal gets changed as

per environment and as per its needs.

Later Mendels experiment and other findings established that

changes cannot occur in an organism by adapting to environment as

the different traits of animals were controlled by genes. Now the

evolutionist came up with new hypothesis that genes too underwent


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changes (mutation) with the passage of time giving rise to different

traits which finally leads to evolution of different kinds of animals.

Problems of the theory: the theory may appear simple but it isfraught with insurmountable problems; that is why the theory itself

is being continuously changed to keep it adapted to the new

environment.

First of all how were the amino acids (which are the building

blocks of the proteins) formed by coming together of various atoms

and molecules? Let us agree on this point too that amino acids

somehow got formed or were transported to earth from outer space

and on earth those different amino acids came together got linked to

form meaningful proteins (all chains of amino acids are not proteins).

Which thing directed the amino acids to assemble in a particular way

and sequence? If amino acids had not got linked up in a particular

way and sequence, it would not have been a protein. Even if it is

accepted that proteins were formed, how did those proteins obtain

other material for the formation of a cell? Did the inanimate proteins

themselves sought those other materials and got mixed up with

them. Now let us for arguments sake accept that all the components,

which constitute a cell, are brought together and got arranged in thesame sequence as in a living cell, it would still be a heap of atoms or

at the most a heap of molecules or of proteins. But the question is

how did it come to life? No evolutionist answers this point.


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Nothing can bring this heap to life. If the evolutionists were

true that life came into existence by the transfer of some materials

from the outer space to this earth and then those materials got

assembled and gave rise to a living cell then in our age it should not

have posed any problem to create a living cell in the laboratory. Why

should todays Man, who has invented so many things which didnt

previously exist and about which he knew nothing, fail to make a

living cell about which he knows many things and knows about the

material of which it is made.

If it is assumed that all these problems were overcame and first

cell somehow go formed and got life, how did it survive? How did it

know how to divide and how to get material for further life? How it

could have transferred the information about the life processes to the

next generation or to next cell and for that purpose it needed to

develop the genetic system (DNA and RNA). Let us accept that the

basic components of genetic material i.e. nucleotides were formed in

the outer space and they were then transferred to earth, how did the

cell (if presumed to have been formed b itself) come about those

nucleotides and transform them to genetic material and how long

would it take to make DNA & RNA from nucleotides; would the cell

survive that long? Was this entire intelligent feat performed by the

inanimate molecules themselves?

Some witty evolutionists would argue that it was the genetic

material that formed first. But the problem still remains as it was.


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How long had the genetic material to wait before it got the other

materials for the formation of the cell and how did that genetic

material know for what purpose it was meant? Anyway who decided

that genetic code which is as intricate as would need volumes to

explain it? Who decide which combination of (three) nucleotides

would act as a code for a particular amino acid. And it is not just a

code for one amino acid, but for thousands of amino acids and that

too in a proper sequence, otherwise it would not be a protein. How

was all this arranged? Do codes appear themselves, does the code of

a computer language appear itself. Would anybody believe it?

Evolutionists also fail to explain why and how did the genes

undergo changes (mutation) to give rise to new traits in an organism

and ultimately produce a new organism. Evolutionists say that it just

happened by chance. But is it acceptable to any sane person?

Time limitation: Let us analyse the theory of evolution on the basis

of number of specie present on earth with respect to time factor.

Evolutionists say that life began on earth 3.45 billion years (3450

million years) ago in the form of simple cells (prokaryotes). With the

passage of time changes occurred in living beings through mutations

(change in genetic material/genes) and thus the simple single celledanimals progressed continuously till they turned into large number

of other animals with different properties and complexities. One

billion years ago these simple single celled animals turned into multi-

cellular organisms (Simple multi-cellular organisms mostly


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consisting of cell colonies of limited complexity) and 550 million

years ago they turned into complex animals. In simple arithmetic

terms we can say that simple cells changed into simple multi-cellular

animals in 2.45 billion (2450 million) years and in next about 450

millionyears complex animals appeared.

At the same time the evolutionists say that meaningful and

beneficial mutations (which bring about an appreciable change in an

animal) may take more than a million years and that to a change in a

single trait of a living organism. When we consider that it took 2450

million years for a simple cell to get changed into simple multi-

cellular organism and it took these simple multi-cellular organisms

450 million years to get changed into complex animals. It is difficult

to imagine how much time it would take for the first simple multi-

cellular organisms to evolve into millions of life forms that are

present today. It is common sense that change of a singe celled

organism into a simple multi-cellular animal with limited or no

complexity is not as big an affair as compared to change of a simple

multi-cellular animal into complex animals like whales, bats (with

sonar system) and other animals with complex organs like eyes, ears

and brain etc. Evolutionists do admit that it would take a million

years to produce just one species from its parent. When the former

took 2450 million years how much time the latter would take.

Apparently it would take millions millions of years (if it happens at

all). The transition of an organism into another organism is not a


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simple affair. The parent organism has to undergo millions of

transitions before evolving into another animal each organism

slightly different from its parent organism, so how many millions

millions of years this one transition would have taken. The age of the

earth is not that old to explain that much transition.

What is more startling, is that the lineages of almost all animals

living today appeared during a short span of time of 575 to 505

million years ago as is revealed by paleontology or fossil records; the

process being called as Cambrian explosion in scientific terms. In

other words it appears that all the major phyla (groups of animals as

per their classification) appeared on earth in a short period of 50 to 60

million years. Taking into consideration the rate of mutation and the

effects it produces, it is not even possible for a single animal to get

changed into another through evolution (if at all it happens) and the

possibility of appearance of so many phyla and then species in such a

short period of time is dead impossible. And it has been found that

mutations are generally detrimental to an organism, and that if too

much change took place over time, the organism would not be viable.

Conclusion: The new proposition that the building blocks of life

were formed outside the earth and were transferred to earth throughmeteorites reveals the frustration of evolutionists. It is an admission

on their part that they no longer believe in what they had been saying

till now. When it became established fact that the building blocks of

proteins could not have been formed in the way the evolutionists had


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envisaged, they came up with a new theory (i.e. components of living

beings (cells) were formed outside this earth and were transported to

earth.) The finding of the nucleotides and the amino acids on the

meteorite does not explain anything, but posits more problems and

leaves more questions to be answered.

Let me conclude with the words of Almighty Allah:

It is He Who brings out the living from the dead and brings out the

dead from the living and Who gives life to earth after it is dead

{Al-Quran. 30:19}

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