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Rating: Every now and then, it's healthy to engage in a demanding read. These days, I'm beginning to take an interest in the subject of evolutionism and all its "derivatives" (Eugenics, Nazism...), so while reading my go-to blog, I discovered a somewhat controversial author (at first glance an Islamic fundamentalist of dubious authority) like Harun Yahya, who instead turns out to be a well-prepared writer/philosopher/publicist, mainly due to his enviable number of studies on scientific, philosophical, and historical topics, especially related to Darwin.
Before diving into the actual review, it's necessary to make a note: I don't have an in-depth knowledge of molecular biology nor a historical/cultural background vast enough to discredit books like "The Blind Watchmaker" and similar, but reading a book like "The Evolution Deceit" (a rather pretentious title, by the way) was comparable only to that time when you thought you got a 9 on the last physics test and instead ended up with a nice 3. Started enthusiastically, solved the exercise in a flash and then found yourself at the sound of the bell realizing you got everything wrong. Your entire life, from "Once Upon a Time... Life" to "Superquark" and the high school biology book, has systematically fed (imposed?) the theory of evolution as a proven fact, 100% certain, historically accepted, proposing studies and connections on it, and you, as a good student, never questioned how possible it is that this theory actually harbors flaws, scientific blunders, literal ideologies.
This book actually originates not as the dictation of a religious fanatic enraged with science for having destroyed his ideology (note: I am NOT a religious person, in the stereotypical sense of the term), as in, your truth is wrong but mine is right, but as a collection of articles, essays, investigations by anti-evolutionist scientists (but ESPECIALLY by evolutionist scientists!) in which every cornerstone of the theory is completely dismantled from its inception to today, i.e., at a time when neo-Darwinism holds sway in university chairs around the world. However, beware, this is not a total attack on the theories of species evolution, but only on Darwinism and its related ideologies. Why isn't there talk about the historical fallacies associated with it due to the gaps paleontologists have found in "proving" the theory? (Piltdown Man, for example, a fossil purposefully constructed as a supposed human-ape link) Why is there still no accredited fossil definable as a transitional species? Why do anachronisms exist in the human species presented as descendants? (homo sapiens, homo habilis, homo erectus...) How does one explain the so-called "Cambrian explosion"? How does one explain, in scientific terms, the incongruence of the thermodynamic law with natural selection and random variations? How does one explain the mathematical impossibility of the random formation of life, so praised by all the scientists in the world? (the probability for the formation of ONE amino acid chain under the declared conditions is 1 in 1 * 10^950) Why is it not told in history books that Miller's experiment produced nothing but INORGANIC amino acids in differing conditions from those of the Earth in the beginning (where life supposedly formed)? How do we explain the findings of modern human fossils dated back 800,000 years? How do we explain the formation of complex molecules like DNA and especially its replication mechanism? Why did Darwin become a celebrity and J. Lamarck remain unknown to the masses? Why are the connections with Malthus and his economic/social theories and Darwinism even more hidden? (essay on the principle of population, which gave rise to eugenics, Nazism, imperialism) Why does no one know of colossal historical frauds like Ernst Haeckel, who admitted to having falsified scientific evidence to support his theory and admitted he was not the only one? How do we explain the formation of organisms and so-called "irreducibly complex" devices? How do we explain the formation of language, the loss of hair, the upright position in humans hypothetically evolved from apes?
These and other dark points will have an exhaustive exploration in each chapter of the book, written with evident passion, dedication, and ability, which seriously manages not to bore and to engage the reader despite the complexity of the topics. Particularly impressive are the statements from many evolutionist scientists, admitting the colossal flaws in their theory (including famous ones like Dawkins, Gould, and others), and the remarkable collection of quotations, photos, diagrams, articles drawn from any type of source, forming a bibliography that is decidedly enviable for an essay of this kind. Avoiding giving weight to the ideological/religious statements so dear to the author, truly childish and out of place, especially in the last 60/70 pages of the book (part where the empiricist philosophical view is praised), one will find an interesting book, never misleading and with shocking revelations, which will fuel the interest of those who already have a background knowledge on the subject and will spark important questions for those (like myself) who have never had the opportunity to question a certain type of so-called "acquisitions" so touted, advertised, talked about.
Keep out of the reach of prejudices, obviously.
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