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For some people the theory of evolution or Darwinism has only scientific connotations, with seemingly no direct implication in their daily lives. This is, of course, a common misunderstanding. Far beyond just being an issue within the framework of the biological sciences, the theory of evolution constitutes the underpinning of a deceptive philosophy that has held sway over a large number of people: Materialism. Materialist philosophy, which accepts only the existence of matter and presupposes man to be "a heap of matter", asserts that he is no more than an animal, with "conflict" the sole rule of his existence. Traces of this philosophy, which has a lot to answer as regards man-made disasters of the last two centuries, can be found in every ideology that perceives differences among people as a "reason for conflict". The theory of evolution, or Darwinism, comes in handy at this point by completing the jigsaw puzzle. It provides the myth that materialism is a scientific idea. However, that basis is rotten. Modern scientific discoveries reveal over and over again that the popular belief associating Darwinism with science is false. Scientific evidence refutes Darwinism comprehensively and reveals that the origin of our existence is not evolution but intelligent design, i.e., creation. God has created the universe, all living things and man.
Istanbul's Mimar Sinan University and philosophy at Istanbul University. Since the 1980s, the author has published many books on political, faith-related and scientific issues. His main focus has been the refutation of Darwinism and materialism, two modern myths presented under a scientific guise. Some of the books of the author have been translated into more than 20 languages and published in the countries concerned. Harun Yahya's books appeal to all people, Muslims and nonMuslims alike, regardless of their age, race, and nationality, as they center around one goal: to open the readers' mind by encouraging them to think about some critical issues such as the existence of God and His unity, and to display the decrepit foundations and perverted works of godless systems.
he author, who writes under the pen-name Harun Yahya, was born in Ankara in 1956. He studied arts at
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About The Author
The author, who writes under the pen-name HARUN YAHYA, was born in Ankara in 1956. Having completed his primary and secondary education in Ankara, he then studied arts at Istanbul's Mimar Sinan University and philosophy at Istanbul University. Since the 1980s, the author has published many books on political, faith-related and scientific issues. Harun Yahya is well-known as an author who has written very important works disclosing the imposture of evolutionists, the invalidity of their claims and the dark liaisons between Darwinism and bloody ideologies such as fascism and communism. His pen-name is made up of the names "Harun" (Aaron) and "Yahya" (John), in memory of the two esteemed prophets who fought against lack of faith. The Prophet's seal on the cover of the books is symbolic and is linked to the their contents. It represents the Qur'an (the final scripture) and the Prophet Muhammad, the last of the prophets. Under the guidance of the Qur'an and sunnah, the author makes it his purpose to disprove each one of the fundamental tenets of godless ideologies and to have the "last word", so as to completely silence the objections raised against religion. The seal of the final Prophet, who attained ultimate wisdom and moral perfection, is used as a sign of his intention of saying this last word. All author's works center around one goal: to convey the Qur'an's message to people, encourage them to think about basic faith-related issues (such as the existence of God, His unity and the Hereafter), and to expose the feeble foundations and perverted ideologies of godless systems. Harun Yahya enjoys a wide readership in many countries, from India to America, England to Indonesia, Poland to Bosnia, and Spain to Brazil. Some of his books are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Urdu, Arabic, Albanian, Russian, Serbo-Croat (Bosnian), Polish, Malay, Uygur Turkish, and Indonesian, and they are enjoyed by readers worldwide. Greatly appreciated all around the world, these works have been instrumental in many people recovering their faith in God and in many others gaining a deeper insight into their faith. The wisdom, and the sincere and easy-to-understand style gives these books a distinct touch which directly effects any one who reads or studies them. Immune to objections, these works are characterized by their features of rapid effectiveness, definite results and irrefutability. It is unlikely that those who read these books and
give serious thought to them can any longer sincerely advocate the materialistic philosophy, atheism or any other perverted ideology or philosophy. Even if they continue to do so, it will be only a sentimental insistence since these books refuted such ideologies from their very foundations. All contemporary movements of denial are now ideologically defeated, thanks to the collection of books written by Harun Yahya. There is no doubt that these features result from the wisdom and lucidity of the Qur'an. The author modestly intends to serve as a means in humanity's search for God's right path. No material gain is sought in the publication of these works. Considering these facts, those who encourage people to read these books, which open the "eyes" of the heart and guide them to become more devoted servants of God, render an invaluable service. Meanwhile, it would just be a waste of time and energy to propagate other books which create confusion in peoples' minds, lead man into ideological chaos, and which, clearly have no strong and precise effects in removing the doubts in peoples' hearts, as also verified from previous experience. It is apparent that it is impossible for books devised to emphasize the author's literary power rather than the noble goal of saving people from loss of faith, to have such a great effect. Those who doubt this can readily see that the sole aim of Harun Yahya's books is to overcome disbelief and to disseminate the moral values of the Qur'an. The success and impact of this service are manifest in readers' conviction. One point should be kept in mind: The main reason for the continuing cruelty, conflict, and all the ordeals the majority of people undergo is the ideological prevalence of disbelief. This state can only be ended with the ideological defeat of disbelief and by conveying the wonders of creation and Qur'anic morality so that people can live by it. Considering the state of the world today, which leads people into the downward spiral of violence, corruption and conflict, it is clear that this service has to be provided more speedily and effectively. Otherwise, it may be too late. It is no exaggeration to say that the collection of books by Harun Yahya have assumed this leading role. By the will of God, these books will be a means through which people in the 21st century will attain the peace, justice and happiness promised in the Qur'an.
and appreciate the rich source of material on faith-related issues.TO THE READER In all the books by the author. Those readers who are willing to profit from the books will find discussion very useful in that they will be able to relate their own reflections and experiences to one another. which are very useful and a pleasure to read. . it is a great service to the religion to contribute to the presentation and circulation of these books. and people are invited to learn God's words and to live by them. It is hoped that the reader will take time to look through the review of other books on the final pages of the book. so. and pessimistic accounts that create deviations in the heart. one will not find. which are written solely for the good pleasure of God. explanations based on dubious sources. Even those who rigorously reject spirituality are influenced by the facts recounted in these books and cannot refute the truthfulness of their contents. This effective and lucid narrative makes it possible to read them in a single sitting. The sincere. styles unobservant of the respect and reverence due to sacred subjects. one of the most effective methods is to encourage them to read these books. All the books of the author are extremely convincing. for those who want to communicate the religion to other people. as in some other books. In them. doubtcreating. faith-related issues are explained in the light of Qur'anic verses. plain and fluent style employed ensures that everyone of every age and from every social group can easily understand the books. In addition. All the subjects that concern God's verses are explained in such a way as to leave no room for doubt or question marks in the reader's mind. or hopeless. This book and all the other works by Harun Yahya can be read individually or discussed in a group. the personal views of the author.
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1 Wynne Road London SW9 OBB United Kingdom .THE EVOLUTION DECEIT The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism and Its Ideological Background HARUN YAHYA Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd.
................. BUT ITS SOLUTION ........................45 .......................20 God Condemns Mischief ...................................................21 Islam Defends Tolerance and Freedom of Speech ........................44 The Desperate Efforts of Neo-Darwinism..........................23 Conclusion .................................................................38 CHAPTER 2: A Brief History of the Theory .......17 Darwinism and Terrorism ..................................................14 The Darwinist Lie: 'Life is conflict'.........................................................................................................................................................15 What 'The Law of the Jungle' Led to: Fascism .........................................................................................................30 CHAPTER 1: To Be Freed FromPrejudice ........................36 Mass Evolutionist Indoctrination ...............................................42 Darwin's Racism ..........................................24 PART I THE REFUTATION OF DARWINISM INTRODUCTION: Why the Theory of Evolution?.........................................................27 FOREWORD: The Greatest Miracle of Our Times: Belief in the Evolution Deceit ..............................................................................................19 ISLAM IS NOT THE SOURCE OF TERRORISM.....22 God Commands Believers to be Compassionate and Merciful.............16 The Bloody Alliance: Darwinism and Communism.................21 God Has Made the Killing of Innocent People Unlawful .................................CONTENTS SPECIAL PREFACE: The Real Ideological Root of Terrorism: Darwinism and Materialism ................................................................14 Introduction ...41 Darwin's Imagination ....................................................................................................................................................23 God Has Commanded Tolerance and Forgiveness .....................................................34 Blind Materialism .............................................14 Darwin's Source of Inspiration: Malthus's Theory of Ruthlessness................................................................20 Islam is a Religion of Peace and Well-Being .............
.............................................86 Ota Benga: The African In The Cage ..................................84 Piltdown Man: An Orangutan Jaw and a Human Skull! ...............................65 Why Transition From Water to Land is Impossible......................................................................................................................................72 Archæopteryx and Other Ancient Bird Fossils.........81 CHAPTER 8: Evolution Forgeries ............87 .........61 Molecular Comparisons Deepen Evolution's Cambrian Impasse ............77 The Origin of Mammals .....64 CHAPTER 5: Tale of Transition from Water to Land .....................................46 The Primitive Level of Science in Darwin's Time ..................................53 Mutations ................51 Can Natural Selection Explain Complexity? ....76 What is the Origin of Flies? ........50 Natural Selection .....67 CHAPTER 6: Origin of Birds and Mammals...................................................................................................................................................84 Nebraska Man: A Pig's Tooth...................................................................................................................70 Speculations of Evolutionists: The Teeth and Claws of Archæopteryx .....................Trial and Error: Punctuated Equilibrium..................80 CHAPTER 7: Deceptive Fossil Interpretations ....50 "Industrial Melanism" ..................73 The Design of the Bird Feathers .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................69 Another Alleged Transitional Form: Archæopteryx ....47 CHAPTER 3: Imaginary Mechanisms of Evolution...........................................................................58 Life Emerged on Earth Suddenly and in Complex Forms .......................................................................74 The Imaginary Bird-Dinosaur Link ..........................................53 CHAPTER 4: The Fossil Record Refutes Evolution ....................................78 The Myth of Horse Evolution .....................................................................................................
........................................98 Homo Erectus and Thereafter: Human Beings ....................................................110 The Bipedalism Impasse of Evolution................................................................................................135 Primordial World Atmosphere and Proteins.......................................................... Homo Heilderbergensis and Cro-Magnon Man 105 Species Living in the Same Age as Their Ancestors........................133 Latest Evolutionist Sources Dispute Miller's Experiment .......................127 Zero Probability...............129 The Evolutionary Fuss About the Origin of Life.......................................................................................131 Miller's Experiment .................................116 The Tale of the "Cell Produced by Chance" ..............127 Is There a Trial and Error Mechanism in Nature? ...........................................137 Protein Synthesis is not Possible in Water......................................................................................................................100 Homo Erectus: An Ancient Human Race..................................119 Proteins Challenge Chance ........................................................................128 The Probability of a Protein Being Formed by Chance is Zero.....................................................................125 Correct Bond is Vital..................... 3..........................................121 Left-handed Proteins .116 Confessions from Evolutionists....101 Neanderthals .......7 Million Years Old ...................................................................................................................................................................................93 Homo Rudolfensis: The Face Wrongly Joined .....113 CHAPTER 10: The Molecular Impasse of Evolution....110 Footprints of Modern Man.....................118 The Miracle in the Cell and the End of Evolution ......89 The Imaginary Family Tree of Man...........................138 ............................................................................................................................CHAPTER 9: The Scenario of Human Evolution ....133 Miller's Experiment was Nothing but Make-believe ..............104 Homo Sapiens Archaic.108 A Hut 1.......107 The Secret History of Homo Sapiens ...........................................................92 Homo Habilis: The Ape that was Presented as Human ........................112 Evolution: An Unscientific Faith ...........................................................................................................................6 Million Years Old! ...............................90 Australopithecus: An Ape Species..............................................
............................................................................................................................................172 Similar Organs in Entirely Different Living Species ...............138 Inanimate Matter Cannot Generate Life .........................................186 ............................... False Religion and True Religion .....................................................170 The Myth of Homology ................................165 Antibiotic Resistance and DDT Immunity are not Evidence for Evolution ..................................174 Invalidity of the Claim of Molecular Homology .......159 The Theory of Evolution is the Most Potent Spell in the World.........................................182 The Death of Materialism ......................167 The Fallacy of Vestigial Organs.......152 The Myth of the "Self Organization of Matter"........................152 Darwinian Formula!.....................................................142 Another Evolutionist Vain Attempt: "The RNA World"...................................................................180 Materialist Confessions...............146 Life is a Concept Beyond Mere Heaps of Molecules ..........................................................................153 CHAPTER 12: Design and Coincidence ...175 The Myth of Embryological Recapitulation ....Another Desperate Effort: Fox's Experiment ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................140 The Miraculous Molecule: DNA .......................................185 Materialists.............178 CHAPTER 14: The Theory of Evolution: A Materialistic Liability ..........................................165 Variations and Species ...............................................150 The Myth of the "Open System" ..............148 CHAPTER 11: Thermodynamics Falsifies Evolution................173 The Genetic and Embryological Impasse of Homology ...............................................................................145 Confessions From Evolutionists ..............................................................................162 CHAPTER 13: Evolutionist Claims and the Facts ...............141 Can DNA Come into Being by Chance? .............................................158 Technology In The Eye and The Ear .............
............................................................................................................................196 Honey Bees and the Architectural Wonders of Honeycombs ....200 Hunting Birds with Keen Eyesight ......203 An Intelligent Plan on Animals: Camouflage ..........193 God Creates According to His Will .............................................................................................199 The Design in The Gnat ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................203 Cuttlefish ......................................................................................................210 Photosynthesis..................................................188 Wrapped-up Lies ..........209 The Design In Bird Feathers ................199 Whales .................202 Electrical Fish ...........................................................207 Koalas .........................................................................................................................................................CHAPTER 15: Media: Fertile Ground for Evolution .............192 The Theory of Evolution has Collapsed ........................208 Hunting Ability in Constant Position..................................................................192 Evolution Can Not Be Verified in the Future Either ............................................................198 The Woodpecker ....................................................................................211 .........................194 CHAPTER 17: The Fact of Creation .........................198 The Sonar System of Bats ....................................................................................................................................................................196 Amazing Architects: Termites..................201 Hibernating Animals.......201 The Thread of the Spider.............................................................................................................205 Special Freezing System ...........................................................................................................................................209 Basilisk: The Expert of Walking on Water ..............................204 Different Vision Systems...190 CHAPTER 16: Conclusion: Evolution Is a Deceit.............................................................................................................................................................207 An Arduous Migration .206 Albatrosses ............193 The Biggest Obstacle to Evolution: Soul ..................................................................................................................................
............................................................268 .........................................................256 The Worry Of The Materialists..............................................249 The Perception Of Time............................................................254 Destiny ......................................................................................................215 The World Of Electrical Signals.......................................................................... Hear.............................258 The Gain Of Believers .............................................................................................................................................................................................. And Taste? ..............237 The Formation Of Perceptions In The Brain Is Not Philosophy But Scientific Fact .............................................231 Logical Deficiencies Of The Materialists.........................226 The Real Absolute Being ..............................................................................................243 Conclusion ...............250 Relativity In The Qur'an ...................................................240 Materialists Have Fallen Into The Biggest Trap In History ................246 CHAPTER 19: Relativity of Time and the Reality of Fate ............235 The Example Of Dreams ...........239 The Great Fear Of The Materialists....................................259 CHAPTER 20: SRF Conferences: Activities for Informing the Public About Evolution ........................................................261 NOTES...................................236 The Example Of Connecting The Nerves In Parallel ...............................................................................................249 The Scientific Explanation Of Timelessness ...........................................................................................................................................................................228 Everything That You Possess Is Intrinsically Illusory...................217 "The External World" Inside Our Brain ............................................222 Is The Existence Of The "External World" Indispensable? ..225 Who Is The Perceiver? ...............PART II THE REFUTATION OF MATERIALISM CHAPTER 18: The Real Essence of Matter ....................216 How Do We See............
and is an animal who developed by means of the fight for survival. have now begun to think that "Man came into being by chance. the answer to the question "What is a human being?" has changed. the truth is that Darwin was not its originator. the theory is blindly supported in the name of materialist philosophy. and neither does the theory rest on scientific proof. Together with the spread of Darwinism and the materialist philosophy it supports." There is a heavy price to pay for this great deception. observations and experiments." . The strong win the struggle.SPECIAL PREFACE The Real Ideological Root of Terrorism: Darwinism and Materialism Introduction Most people think the theory of evolution was first proposed by Charles Darwin. The theory consists of an adaptation to nature of the ancient dogma of materialist philosophy. one of the most important global problems of our time. Violent ideologies such as racism. This fanaticism has resulted in all kinds of disasters. The Darwinist Lie: 'Life is conflict' Darwin set out with one basic premise when developing his theory: "The development of living things depends on the fight for survival. The weak are condemned to defeat and oblivion. This article will examine the disaster Darwinism has visited on the world and reveal its connection with terrorism. Although it is not backed up by scientific discoveries. However. fascism and communism. and rests on scientific evidence. and many other barbaric world views based on conflict have all drawn strength from this deception. People who used to answer: "God creates human beings and they have to live according to the beautiful morality He teaches".
the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate. and some ape as low as a baboon. for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state. The subtitle he gave to his book The Origin of Species. Darwin proposed that the 'fight for survival' also applied between human racial groups. 'favoured races' were victorious in the struggle. there is a ruthless struggle for survival and an eternal conflict in nature. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes… will no doubt be exterminated. African or Asian races had lagged behind in the struggle for survival.The Real Ideological Root of Terrorism: Darwinism and Materialism 15 According to Darwin. encapsulates that view. By the second half of the nineteenth century racism was accepted as fact by the vast majority of Western scientists. famine and disease. instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla. not very distant as measured by centuries. Furthermore. and this enables development to take place. "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life".2 Darwin's Source of Inspiration: Malthus's Theory of Ruthlessness Darwin's source of inspiration on this subject was the British economist Thomas Malthus's book An Essay on the Principle of Population. Darwin went further. Left to their own devices. The strong always overcome the weak. and thus disappear: At some future period. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider. as we may hope. Favoured races.1 The Indian anthropologist Lalita Vidyarthi explains how Darwin's theory of evolution imposed racism on the social sciences: His (Darwin's) theory of the survival of the fittest was warmly welcomed by the social scientists of the day. and suggested that these races would soon lose the "struggle for survival" entirely. According to that fantastical claim. Malthus calculated that the human population increased rapidly. in Darwin's view. and replace the savage races throughout the world. and they believed mankind had achieved various levels of evolution culminating in the white man's civilization. even than the Caucasian. In short. were white Europeans. In his view. the main influences that kept populations under control were disasters such as war. ac- .
In the article "The Scientific Background of the Nazi 'Race Purification' Programme".3 As a result of this cruel policy. and court the return of the plague." Humanity has paid a heavy price in the 20th century for the dissemination of these callous views which lead people to acts of ruthlessness and cruelty. Malthus's ideas were widely accepted. and those who lost the struggle for survival would be eliminated. Darwin applied this concept of conflict to all of nature. and proposed that the strong and the fittest emerged victorious from this war of existence. The "struggle for survival" demanded by Malthus's theory led to millions of Britons leading lives full of suffering. he claimed that the so-called struggle for survival was a justified and unchangeable law of nature. and particularly encourage settlements in all marshy and unwholesome situations. This so-called "oppression of the poor" policy was actually carried out in 19th century Britain. the importance 19th century Europe attached to Malthus's views on population is described in this way: In the opening half of the nineteenth century. On the other hand. In the country we should build our villages near stagnant pools. to increase the mortality rate of the poor: "Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor. Influenced by these ideas. European upper class intellectuals in particular supported his cruel ideas. Existence came to mean "permanent war. he invited people to abandon their religious beliefs by denying the Creation. In our towns we should make the streets narrower. the weak. An industrial order was set up in which children of eight and nine were made to work sixteen hours a day in the coal mines and thousands died from the terrible conditions. it formed the basis of an ." In the 19th century." and so forth and so on. What 'The Law of the Jungle' Led to: Fascism As Darwinism fed racism in the 19th century. some people had to die for others to live. Moreover. crowd more people into the houses. and as a result the rapid rise in population would be balanced out. and thus undermined at all ethical values that might prove to be obstacles to the ruthlessness of the "struggle for survival. throughout Europe. members of the ruling classes gathered to discuss the newly discovered "Population problem" and to devise ways of implementing the Malthusian mandate. we should encourage contrary habits.16 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT cording to this brutal claim.
A strong Darwinist influence can be seen in Nazi ideologues. That the Nazis were influenced by Darwinism is a fact that almost all historians who are expert in the matter accept. "selective mating". Communists have always been among the fiercest defenders of Darwin's theory. particularly those emphasizing struggle. which was given shape by Adolf Hitler and Alfred Rosenberg. who emerged with these views. based on a new racial hierarchy ordained by nature herself. The historian Hickman describes Darwinism's influence on Hitler as follows: (Hitler) was a firm believer and preacher of evolution.The Real Ideological Root of Terrorism: Darwinism and Materialism 17 ideology that would develop and drown the world in blood in the 20th century: Nazism.5 Hitler. Many ethnic and political groups. Whatever the deeper. Hitler proclaimed that "a higher race subjects to itself a lower race… a right which we see in nature and which can be regarded as the sole conceivable right". cost 55 million lives. survival of the fittest and the extermination of the weak to produce a better society. one comes across such concepts as "natural selection". and "the struggle for survival between the races". World War II. the left wing is occupied by communists. This relationship between Darwinism and communism goes right . When one examines this theory. When calling his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle)." The Bloody Alliance: Darwinism and Communism While fascists are found on the right wing of Social Darwinism. dragged the world to violence that had never before been seen. He particularly talks about the struggle between the races: History would culminate in a new millennial empire of unparalleled splendour. complexities of his psychosis. it is certain that [the concept of struggle was important because]… his book.4 In the 1933 Nuremberg party rally. which began with the Nazi invasion. which are repeated dozens of time in the works of Darwin. were exposed to terrible cruelty and slaughter in the Nazi concentration camps. What lay behind the greatest tragedy in world history was Darwinism's concept of the "struggle for survival. and especially the Jews. clearly set forth a number of evolutionary ideas. Hitler was inspired by the Darwinist struggle for survival and the principle that victory went to the fittest. profound. Mein Kampf.
. there is an unbreakable link between the theory of evolution and communism. Marx and Engels. Moreover. If we think of the communist concept of "dialectical conflict". Trotsky and Stalin." 9 The Harvard University historian James Reeve Pusey goes into great detail regarding Darwinism's effect on Mao and Chinese communism in his research book China and Charles Darwin. Russian communists who followed in the footsteps of Marx and Engels. and tried to make his own contribution to the theory in the chapter "The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man". Communism.8 Mao. but became an atheist primarily because of Darwin's books. "Darwin's discovery is the highest triumph of the dialectic in the whole field of organic matter. In his book The Dialectics of Nature. Plekhanov. and were amazed at its 'dialectical materialist' attitude. which killed some 120 million people during the 20th century. The theory claims that living things are the product of chance.6 Trotsky said.10 In short. read Darwin's The Origin of Species as soon as it came out. historians note the fact that Stalin was religious in his youth. The correspondence between Marx and Engels showed that they saw Darwin's theory as "containing the basis in natural history for communism". as a "killing machine" then we can better understand the dimensions of the disaster that Darwinism visited on the planet." 7 'Darwinist education' had a major role in the formation of communist cadres. who is seen as the founder of Russian communism. the founders of communism.18 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT back to the founders of both these "isms". such as Plekhanov. openly stated that "Chinese socialism is founded upon Darwin and the theory of evolution. regarded marxism as "Darwinism in its application to social science". which he wrote under the influence of Darwin. For instance. Lenin. who established communist rule in China and killed millions of people. Engels was full of praise for Darwin. an atheist ideology. and provides a so-called scientific support for atheism. all agreed with Darwin's theory of evolution. the theory of evolution proposes that development in nature is possible thanks to conflict (in other words "the struggle for survival") and supports the concept of "dialectics" which is fundamental to communism. is for that reason firmly tied to Darwinism.
all oppose violence. However. "War is a virtue". Christianity and Judaism. What leads them to believe in the rightness of this view is such Darwinismbased slogans as "In this world. Actually. Individuals and groups who choose the way of conflict may never have heard of Darwinism and the principles of that ideology. if some people commit terrorism using the concepts . However. when Darwinism is taken away. employing a humane method. The horror we call terrorism is nothing other than a statement of the second view. The fundamental concept behind this understanding and method is "fighting whoever is not one of us. and "Man advances by waging war". to behave like a wild animal." We can explain this in the following way: There are different beliefs. Islam. and oppose innocent people being killed and suffering cruelty and torture. When we consider the difference between these two approaches. justified and correct concepts that have to exist. Darwinism is at the root of various ideologies of violence that have spelled disaster to mankind in the 20th century. in other words. and these are nothing but empty slogans. worldviews and philosophies in the world. This is a method employed by materialism. The three divine religions that most people in the world believe in. "Big fish swallow little ones". no philosophy of 'conflict' remains. this method conforms with the morality of the Qur'an. and to try to secure an advantage by damaging them. we can see that the idea of "man as a fighting animal" which Darwinism has subconsciously imposed on people is particularly influential. It is very natural that all these diverse ideas have traits opposing one another. that is. Conflict and violence violate the morality that God has set out for man. the strong survive".The Real Ideological Root of Terrorism: Darwinism and Materialism 19 Darwinism and Terrorism As we have so far seen. Darwinism sees and portrays conflict and violence as natural. irreligion. these different stances can look at each other in one of two ways: 1) They can respect the existence of those who are not like them and try to establish dialogue with them. 2) They can choose to fight others. For this reason. Indeed. But at the end of the day they agree with a view whose philosophical basis rests on Darwinism. Take Darwinism away. All three religions wish to bring peace and harmony to the world. and are abnormal and unwanted concepts.
tolerance and peace. Islam is a Religion of Peace and Well-Being The word Islam is derived from the word meaning "peace" in Arabic. Islam is a religion revealed to mankind with the intention of presenting a peacable life through which the infinite compassion and mercy of God manifest on earth. BUT ITS SOLUTION Some people who say they are acting in the name of religion may misunderstand their religion or practice it wrongly. The best way to understand a religion is to study its divine source. humility. sacrifice. security can only be ensured by 'entering into Islam'. harmony and the joy of living all around him. tolerant." ISLAM IS NOT THE SOURCE OF TERRORISM. He is an outright enemy to you. Christianity or Judaism in the name of those religions. respect. and in such a way as to blacken religion in peoples' eyes. God addresses the believers as follows: You who believe! Enter absolutely into peace (Islam). They are real Social Darwinists. compassion. Christians or Jews. Do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. they are actually enemies of religion and of believers. you can be sure that those people are not Muslims. tolerance and peace can be experienced all over the world. but in atheism. mercy. considerate. In Surat al-Baqara verse 208. For that reason. and the expression of atheism in our times: "Darwinism" and "materialism.20 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT and symbols of Islam. As the verse makes clear. compassion. and a Muslim who lives by that morality in its true sense will be most polite. God calls all people to Islamic morals through through which mercy. For this reason. The Qur'an is based on the concepts of morality. The holy source of Islam is the Qur'an. They hide under a cloak of religion. the root of the terrorism that plagues our planet is not any of the divine religions. That is because they are ruthlessly committing a crime that religion forbids. He will spread love. but they are not genuine believers. Even if they claim to be serving religion. trustworthy and accomodating. love. living by the values of the Qur'an. . and the model of morality in the Qur'an-Islam-is completely different from the image of it formed in the minds of some westerners. it would be wrong to form ideas about that religion by taking these people as an example. that is.
aggressiveness. disputes. (Surat al-Baqara: 256) So remind. true faith is only possible with free will and freedom of conscience. They will have the Evil Abode. Of . It has issued commands to prevent and forbid tension. immorality. A few of the many verses on this matter in the Qur'an read: But as for those who break God's contract after it has been agreed and sever what God has commanded to be joined. Anyone who rejects false gods and believes in God has grasped the Firmest Handhold. cruelty. and cause corruption in the earth. He has forbidden disbelief. slander and even negative thinking among people. thought and life. God is AllHearing. You cannot compel them to believe.The Real Ideological Root of Terrorism: Darwinism and Materialism 21 God Has Condemned Wickedness God has commanded people to avoid committing evil. God does not love mischief makers. (Surat al-Ghashiyah: 22) Forcing people to believe in a religion or to adopt its forms of belief is completely contrary to the essence and spirit of Islam. In the same way that it is determinedly opposed to terrorism and all acts of violence. He describes those who fail to obey this command as "following in Satan's footsteps" and adopting a posture that is openly revealed to be sinful in the Qur'an.' (Surat al-Qasas: 77) As we can see. and condemned those who commit such deeds. All-Knowing. which will never give way. murder and bloodshed. the curse will be upon them. According to Islam. And do good as God has been good to you. And do not seek to cause mischief on earth. rebellion. God has forbidden every kind of mischievous acts in the religion of Islam including terrorism and violence. you need only to remind. without forgetting your portion of the world. Islam Defends Tolerance and Freedom of Speech Islam is a religion which provides and guarantees freedom of ideas. it has also forbidden even the slightest ideological pressure to be put on them: There is no compulsion in religion. (Surat ar-Ra'd: 25) Seek the abode of the hereafter with what God has given you. Right guidance has become clearly distinct from error. A Muslim lends beauty to the world and improves it.
That is why believers. but they will never resort to compulsion. it is as if he had given life to all mankind. except with the right to do so.. and do not fornicate. Our Messengers came to them with Clear Signs but even after that many of them committed outrages in the earth. (Surat al-Ma'ida: 32) Those who do not call on any other deity together with God and do not kill anyone God has made inviolate. Those who assume that they can avoid justice and thus punishment in this world will never succeed. let alone massacre thousands of innocent people.. are very meticulous to observe God's limits. Muslims can advise and encourage each other about the features of Qur'anic morality. for they will have to give an account of their deeds in the presence of God.22 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT course. a world in which people are forced by law to practice religion. If a system imposes belief and worship on people. one of the greatest sins is to kill a human being who has committed no fault. From the religious point of view. Let us imagine a completely opposite model of society. God has revealed that killing even a single person is as evil as murdering all mankind. anyone who does that will receive an evil punishment. . Neither will they use any worldly privilege to turn someone towards religion. Such a model of society is completely contrary to Islam because faith and worship are only of any value when they are directed to God by the free will of the individual. . what really counts is that religion should be lived for God's good pleasure in an environment where peopls' consciences are totally free. A person who observes God's limits can do no harm to a single human. a person who kills innocent people for no reason is threatened with a great torment. For example. (Surat alFurqan: 68) As the verses suggest. God Has Made the Killing of Innocent People Unlawful According to the Qur'an. nor any kind of physical or psychological pressure.If someone kills another person – unless it is in retaliation for someone else or for causing corruption in the earth – it is as if he had murdered all mankind. then they will become religious only out of fear of that system. who know that they will give an account of their deeds after death. And if anyone gives life to another person.
He shows respect for every idea and he values art and aesthetics. approaches everyone with the love that Islam expects. justice. was the atmosphere of tolerance and understanding that . Those are the Companions of the Right. the way that Muslims have translated this important feature of Qur'anic morality into the life of society can be seen quite clearly. knowledgeable about art and science and civilized.To be one of those who believe and urge each other to steadfastness and urge each other to compassion. security.. He is conciliatory in the face of every event. God Has Commanded Tolerance and Forgiveness The concept of forgiveness and tolerance. enlightened. cultured. 'Make allowences for people' (Surat al-A'raf: 199). and provided peace and harmony for its own members. Muslims have always brought with them an atmosphere of freedom and tolerance and destroyed unlawful practices wherever they have gone. one of the most important moral precepts that God has sent down to His servants so that they may receive salvation and mercy and attain Paradise. which spread over an enormous region. described in the words. honest. is to "urge each other to compassion". In societies composed of individuals such as this. One of the most important reasons for the centuries-long existence of the Ottoman Empire. more joy. Islam as described in the Qur'an is a modern. A Muslim educated in the fine moral teaching of the Qur'an. a higher social morality. A Muslim is above all a person of peace.. is one of the most fundamental tenets of Islam. diminishing tension and restoring amity. happiness. enlightened. progressive religion. abundance and blessings than in the most modern nations of the world today. languages and cultures are completely different from one another to live together in peace and harmony under one roof.The Real Ideological Root of Terrorism: Darwinism and Materalism 23 God Commands Believers to be Compassionate and Merciful Islamic morality is described in one verse as: . (Surat al-Balad: 17-18) As we have seen in this verse. there will be a more developed civilization. They have enabled people whose religions. he is tolerant with a democratic spirit. When we look at the history of Islam.
Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt. 51–52. Darwinian Evolution and Human History. K. Kampf um Mao's Erbe. The Long war Against God. Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi. p. (Surat al-Fussilat: 34) Conclusion All of this shows that the morality that Islam recommends to mankind brings to the world the virtues of peace. 178 2. p. Cambridge. 54 3. James Reeve Pusey. harmony and justice. Mehnert. 2nd edition. Glasgow. 1. Muslims. True tolerance can only bring peace and well-being to the world when implemented along the lines set out in the Qur'an. Robert M.. London: 1993 8. Young. p. not supporters of it. Gann. The Complete Totalitarian". if there is enmity between you and someone else. Worthington. The Intercollegiate Review. Science and Pseudo-Science. 1983. cited in Henry M. p. Baker Book House. "Darwinism and the Nazi Race Holocaust". who have been known for their tolerant and loving natures for centuries. 1983 . 1977 10. Historical Studies on Science and Belief. The Descent of Man. that is so preoccupying the world at present. Alan Woods and Ted Grant. Morris. Islam and Qur'anic morality are solutions to the scourge of terrorism. Biocreation. have always been the most compassionate and just of people. 1987. 24. 78 5.. 1980 7. R.24 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Islam brought with it. Attention is drawn to this fact in a verse which reads: A good action and a bad action are not the same. Alex de Jonge. Vendôme. 1989. Reason in Revolt: Marxism and Modern Science. completely estranged from Qur'anic morality. "Adolf Hitler. Stalin and The Shaping of the Soviet Uninon.trufax. France. is the work of ignorant and fanatical people. The Scientific Background of the Nazi "Race Purification" Program. Fall 1985. Hickman.html 4. http://www. Jerry Bergman. Charles Darwin. The barbarism known as terrorism. 1983. China and Charles Darwin. Massachusetts. p. William Collins Sons & Limited Co. and who have absolutely nothing to do with religion. 22 9. 1874. Science Press. Theodore D. Repel the bad with something better and.org/avoid/nazi..H. Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal 13 (2): 101-111. Within this multi-national structure. and their own rules. 1999 6. In other words. New York. A L. Unesco. pp. Burt Co. L. he will be like a bosom friend. The solution to these people and groups who try to carry out their savagery under the mask of religion is the teaching of true Qur'anic morality. all ethnic groups have been free to live according to their own religions. OH. Racism. Hall.
materialism is in fact an ancient dogma with no scientific basis.INTRODUCTION Why the Theory of Evolution? or some people the theory of evolution or Darwinism has only scientific connotations. modesty. which accepts only the existence of matter and presupposes man to be 'a heap of matter'. mercy. Communism. Besides these two bloody ideologies. despite pretending to be an alternative to the materialistic world-view. massacres. This is. responsible for the death of 120 million people. Materialist philosophy. the dogma was rediscovered by the atheistic philosophers of the 18th century. Fascism. Far beyond just being an issue within the framework of the biological sciences. world wars and genocide. self-sacrifice. a common misunderstanding. In other words science was distorted to make room for materialism. asserts that he is no more than an animal. individual and social ethics have also been corrupted by materialism. with 'conflict' the sole rule of his existence. accepted the fundamental materialist concept of progress though conflict and sparked off oppressive regimes. yet sharing its basic tenets) have brought permanent violence. The past two centuries have been a bloody arena of materialism: Ideologies based on materialism (or competing ideologies arguing against materialism. Charles Darwin and Sigmund Freud. of course. It was then implanted in the 19th century into several science disciplines by thinkers such as Karl Marx. Conceived in Ancient Greece. demolished moral pillars such as love. is the direct outcome of materialistic philosophy. Although propagated as a modern philosophy based on science. people came to see their lives as nothing more than a clash of in- F . reducing man to an animal whose existence is coincidental and with no responsibility to any being. the theory of evolution constitutes the underpinning of a deceptive philosophy that has held sway over a large number of people: Materialism. The deceptive message of materialism. Having been misled by the materialists' motto "life is a struggle". honesty and justice. war and chaos to the world. with seemingly no direct implication in their daily lives.
Harun Yahya was the subject of a New Scientist article called "Burning Darwin". originally in Turkey and then in many other countries. all living things and man. Malay and Indonesian. It provides the myth that materialism is a scientific idea. that basis is rotten. In the German edition of the book. God has created the universe. That includes the terrorists of the present day who claim to uphold religion. to him. led to life according to the law of the jungle. comes in handy at this point by completing the jigsaw puzzle. which has a lot to answer as regards manmade disasters of the last two centuries. The theory of evolution. This book has been written to make this fact known to people.28 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Karl Marx made it clear that Darwin's theory provided a solid ground for materialism and thus also for communism. Traces of this philosophy. This leading popular Darwinist periodical noted in its 22 April 2000 issue that Harun Yahya "is an interna- . Bosnian. he wrote: "From a devoted admirer to Charles Darwin" terests which. Russian. Modern scientific discoveries reveal over and over again that the popular belief associating Darwinism with science is false. Karl Marx. Spanish. Arabic. in turn. That is why. Since its first publication. millions of people have read and appreciated the book. In addition to Turkish. Scientific evidence refutes Darwinism comprehensively and reveals that the origin of our existence is not evolution but creation. yet commit one of the greatest sins by murdering innocent people. or Darwinism. it has been printed in English.evolutiondeceit. (The text of the book is freely available in all these languages at www. He also showed his sympathy to Darwin by dedicating Das Kapital.com. can be found in every ideology that perceives differences among people as a 'reason for conflict'.1 However. the founder of communism and dialectical materialism. wrote that Darwinism was "the basis in natural history" for his worldview. which is considered as his greatest work.) The impact of The Evolution Deceit has been acknowledged by standard-bearers of the opposing view. Italian.
The reason is. Asia Meet". which has initiated "one of the world's strongest anti-evolution movements outside of North America". of course." Science. that it is simply not possible. Although such evolutionist periodicals note the impact of The Evolution Deceit. dated 18 May 2001. And it will remind people of the crucial facts of our lives. such as how we came into being and what our duties to our Creator are. despite counter evidence and outright refutation.. The theory of evolution is in complete deadlock. The reporter then goes on to assess Harun Yahya's work. have become more influential than textbooks in certain parts of the country". The book will help you realise that Darwinism is not a scientific theory but a pseudo-scientific dogma upheld in the name of materialist philosophy. The Science article "Creationism Takes Root Where Europe. observed that in Turkey "sophisticated books such as The Evolution Deceit and The Dark Face of Darwinism.. a fact you will discover as you read the following chapters. . emphasized the impact and sophistication of Harun Yahya's works. they do not offer any scientific replies to its arguments. It is our hope that The Evolution Deceit will for a long time continue its contribution towards the refutation of materialist-Darwinist dogma which has been misleading humanity since the 19th century. the leading periodical of the general scientific community.Why the Theory of Evolution 29 tional hero" sharing its concern that his books "have spread everywhere in the Islamic world.
itself too small to be seen with the naked eye. enzymes. cells and organs that make up these living things all came about by a string of coincidences. surprisingly claim that all these miraculous features are the product of blind chance. and they witness the infinite knowledge and wisdom involved. Every one of these living things has been created with its own unique detail and beauty. Others. It is quite amazing that such people. These then also combined by chance in an organised manner. that research every detail of those living things. uncover the miraculous aspects of those details and try to provide an answer to the question of how they came into being. but DNA. Then. were all created with great knowledge and art. According to these professors.which is no more possible than a randomly scattered collection of letters coming together to form a poem. Not just proteins. Plants. animals. and man above all. The chain of coincidences such eminent professors believe in so flies in the face of reason that their doing so leaves outside observers utterly amazed. unique behavioural patterns and flawless physical structures. however. and tens of thousands of scientists working in those branches. In their view. the proteins. Some of these scientists are astonished as they discover the miraculous aspects of these structures they study and the intelligence behind that coming into existence. all of which A . can think that these extraordinary structures came about by chance. RNA. These scientists believe in the theory of evolution.FOREWORD The Greatest Miracle of Our Times: Belief in the Evolution Deceit ll the millions of living species on the earth possess miraculous features. a number of simple chemical substances first came together and formed a protein . hormones and cell organelles. Today there are a great many branches of science. other coincidences led to the emergence of other proteins. from their external appearances down to their cells. invisible to the naked eye. carried out lengthy studies and written books about the miraculous functioning of just one organelle within the cell. who have studied for long years.
the first cell came into being. Here too the blind process known as coincidence entered the equation: It first opened two holes of the requisite size and in the best possible place in the skull. even though there was not one example of .The Greatest Miracle of Our Times: Belief in the Evolution Deceit 31 are very complex structures within the cell. and then cells that happened by chance to find themselves in those places coincidentally began to construct the eye. as these cells then just happened to begin to multiply. As we have seen. According to the claim in question. another coincidence then organised these cells and produced the first living thing from them. The miraculous ability of blind chance did not stop there. coincidences acted in the knowledge of what they wanted to produce. "chance" knew what seeing. hearing and breathing were. Right from the very start. Billions of "chance events" had to take place together for just one eye in a living thing to form. As a result of these billions of coincidences. coincidentally happened to emerge and come together.
accusing them of being unscientific and bigoted. fanatical and ignorant medieval mentality that punished those who claimed the earth was not flat. they exclude anyone who refuses to believe in such fairy tales. and constructed life step by step. fanatical and ignorant medieval mentality that punished those who claimed the earth was not flat. There is really no difference between this and the bigoted. and yet are quite able to believe instead that saying. It displayed great intelligence and awareness. "Look. exhibited considerable forward planning. Such people find saying. with a childish stubbornness. is no different from the bigoted. scientists and researchers whose names are greatly respected and whose ideas are so influential have devoted themselves. Yet despite that The mentality of those who claim that life formed from nonliving matter by random gradual changes and who defend this with a childish stubbornness despite all scientific evidence to the contrary. What is more. "It came about in an unconscious process consisting of billions of miraculous coincidences" is scientific. "God created all of life" unscientific. this idol created this room and everything in it" they would say that was utterly stupid and refuse to believe it. If you put a carved stone or wooden idol in front of these people and told them. . some of these people claim to be Muslims and believe in God. Even now. This is the totally irrational scenario to which these professors.32 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT such things anywhere in the world at that time.
intelligent and knowledgeable people can as a group believe in the most irrational and illogical claim in history. . who created all living things. And you will also see that as well as being a theory that has totally collapsed in the face of the scientific facts. unintelligent. these people regard chance as a god. these evolutionist professors refuse to accept the fact. is really a great miracle.The Greatest Miracle of Our Times: Belief in the Evolution Deceit 33 they declare the nonsense that "The unconscious process known as chance gradually brought this world and all the billions of wonderful living things in it into being with enormous planning" to be the greatest scientific explanation. The fact that educated. Darwinism is a great deceit that is utterly incompatible with reason and logic. and maintain that unconscious. When told that it was God. powerless billions of coincidences with no will of their own are actually a creative force. and claim that it is intelligent. conscious and powerful enough to create living things and all the sensitive balances in the universe. In the same way that God miraculously creates something like the cell. and which belittles those who defend it. this people are just as miraculously so blind and devoid of understanding as to be unable to see what is under their very noses. It is one of God's miracles that evolutionists are unable to see facts that even tiny children can. and fail to grasp them no matter how many times they are told. You will frequently come across that miracle as you read this book. with its extraordinary organization and properties. as if under a spell. In short. the possessor of infinite wisdom.
that not only one. anyone who did make such an assertion would be considered insane. The fact of the matter is that evolutionist scientists impose their own prejudices and philosophical views on the public under the guise of science. Nevertheless. If the same scientist were to find three bricks resting on top of one another while walking along a flat road. he also claims. he would never suppose that these bricks had come together by chance and then climbed up on top of each other. such a biologist easily grasps that there is an incomprehensible harmony in a protein molecule. Moreover. How then can it be possible that people who are able to assess ordinary events rationally can adopt such an irrational attitude when it comes to thinking about their own existence? It is not possible to claim that this attitude is adopted in the name of science: scientific approach requires taking both alternatives into consider- M . he defends his view with a blind stubbornness. For instance. He does not stop there. For instance. without hesitation. they still claim that the marvellous order. plan. This person is an "evolutionist" scientist. Indeed. and design seen both in the universe and in living organisms arose by chance. he alleges that this protein came into existence under primitive earth conditions by chance billions of years ago.CHAPTER 1 To Be Freed From Prejudice ost people accept everything they hear from scientists as strictly true. again by chance. although they are aware that random events do not cause anything other than irregularity and confusion. the building block of life. It does not even occur to them that scientists may also have various philosophical or ideological prejudices. but millions of proteins formed by chance and then incredibly came together to create the first living cell. and that there is no probability that this might have come about by chance.
random coincidences. His attitude can be explained with a single word: "faith". probabilistic calculations also confirm this many times over. This means that the first view has a "one hundred percent" probability of being true. . stubbornness. life has been consciously brought into being. There are two views that can be set forth regarding how living beings came into being on earth. our "evolutionist" scientist ought to withdraw his claim and adhere to a fact that is both obvious and proven. whose likelihood is 99 percent. and dogma rather than being a true scientist. wisdom. and prejudices of our "scientist" increase more and more every time he confronts reality. for example if it is only one percent. To do otherwise is to demonstrate that he is actually someone who is sacrificing science on behalf of his philosophy. we can see that there is no chance whatsoever that a single living cell-or even one of the millions of proteins present in this cell-could have come into existence by chance as the evolutionists claim. and knowledge. it is the normal conclusion that wisdom. That is. to be the valid one. ideology. keeping this scientific basis in mind. And if the likelihood of one of the two alternatives is much lower. it was "created". Under these circumstances. Let us continue. then the rational and scientific thing to do is to consider the other alternative. This reality is not simply a matter of conviction. As we will illustrate in the following chapters. The first is that God creates all living beings in their present complex structure. So the evolutionist view on the emergence of living beings has zero probability of being true. The anger. since there can be no other explanation for one's disregard of all the facts or for a lifelong devotion to the preposterous scenario that he has constructed in his imagination. logic and science take one to. To put it in another way. The second is that life was formed by unconscious.To Be Freed From Prejudice 35 ation wherever there are two alternatives equally possible concerning a certain case. The latter is the claim of the theory of evolution. When we look at the scientific data. Yet it is a blind superstitious faith. that of molecular biology for instance. All living beings have come into existence by the design of a Creator exalted in superior power.
Behe. American biochemist Dr Michael J. This dogmatic materialistic point of view is the reason why many prominent names in the scientific community are atheists. To accept the latter is not appropriate to the goals of science. We therefore have to look into the first hypothesis. which is one of the most essential enzymes for life. The theory of evolution is the so-called "scientific foundation" for this materialistic philosophy and that theory is blindly defended in order to uphold this philosophy. When science invalidates the claims of evolution-and that is the very point that has been reached here at the end of the 20th century-it then is sought to be distorted and brought into a position where it supports evolution for the sake of keeping materialism alive. as follows: The probability of the formation of a Cytochrome-C sequence is as likely as zero. if life requires a certain sequence. People who believe and trust these scientists also become enthralled and blinded by the same materialistic spell and they adopt the same insensible psychology when reading their books and articles. A few lines written by one of the prominent evolutionist biologists of Turkey is a good example that enables us to see the disordered judgement and discretion that this blind devotion leads to. However the dogmatic materialistic approach forbids the admittance of a superior Creator. if there are two alternative explanations concerning an event and if one of them has "as likely as zero" a possibility of realisation. However according to the rules of science.36 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Blind Materialism The faith that we are talking about is the materialistic philosophy. it can be said that this has a probability likely to be realised once in the whole universe. some metaphysical powers beyond our definition should have acted in its formation. one of those prominent names who support the theory of .2 This scientist finds it "more scientific" to accept a possibility "as likely as zero" rather than creation. This prohibition drives this scientist-and many others who believe in the same materialist dogma-to accept claims that are completely contrary to reason. then the other one is the correct alternative. This scientist discusses the probability of the coincidental formation of Cytochrome-C. Those who free themselves from the thrall of this spell and think with an open mind do not hesitate to accept the existence of a Creator. That is. which argues that matter has existed for all eternity and there is nothing other than matter. Otherwise.
Caught up in an ignorant self-confidence caused by their insensitivity. clear.To Be Freed From Prejudice 37 "intelligent design" that has lately become very accepted. In the Qur'an it is described thus: . People who steadily neglect the clear signs and evidences of the Creator become totally insensitive." 4 The psychology of the unbeliever has existed throughout history. Why does the scientific community not "An embarrased silence greedily embrace its startling discovery? surrounds the stark complexity of the cell" Why is the observation of design handled with intellectual gloves? The dilemma is that while one side of the [issue] is labelled intelligent design. The result is so unambiguous and so significant that it must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in the history of science… Instead a curious.3 This is the predicament of the atheist evolutionist scientists you see in magazines and on television and whose books you may be reading. According to Dawkins. A good case in point is the prominent evolutionist Richard Dawkins who calls upon Christians not to assume that they have witnessed a miracle even if they see the statue of the Virgin Mary wave to them. "Perhaps all the atoms of the statue's arm just happened to move in the same direction at once-a low probability event to be sure. It has required tens of thousands of people to dedicate the better parts of their lives to the tedious work of the laboratory… The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell. embarrassed silence surrounds the stark complexity of the Michael Behe: cell.to investigate life at the molecular level-is a loud. the other side must be labelled God. describes the scientists who resist believing in the "design" or "creation" of living organisms thus: Over the past four decades. piercing cry of "design!". Yet they have become so insensitised and blinded by the dogmatic materialist education they have absorbed that they still persist in their denial. but possible. All the scientific research carried out by these people demonstrates to them the existence of a Creator. modern biochemistry has uncovered the secrets of the cell. they may even end up supporting an absurdity as a virtue.
starts to perceive the realities not as they are but as they have been indoctrinated. It is the same "spell" that underlies the world-wide acceptance of the theory of evolution. being under a continuous indoctrination. nor is it even peculiar to them. This phenomenon can be observed in other examples. which show the efficiency and the power of the mechanism of indoctrination. and the dead did speak unto them. are scientific realities that have been verified by countless ex- . he perceives the bed as a car after the hypnosis session. In fact. the brain. if someone is hypnotised and indoctrinated that the bed he is lying on is a car. (Surat al-Anaam : 111) As this verse makes clear. People are exposed to such an intense indoctrination about the correctness of the theory of evolution that they often do not even realise the distortion that exists.38 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Even if We did send unto them angels. what the evolutionist scientist maintains is not a modern scientific thought Richard Dawkins. busy with but an ignorance that has persevered since propagating evolution the most uncivilised pagan communities. Eventually. we have been bewitched by sorcery. For instance." (Surat Al-Hijr : 14-15) Mass Evolutionist Indoctrination As indicated in the verses cited above. and We gathered together all things before their very eyes. This indoctrination creates a negative effect on the brain and disables the faculty of judgement. they would only say: "Our eyes have been intoxicated: Nay. But most of them ignore (the truth). they are not the ones to believe. The same psychology is defined in another verse of the Qur'an: Even if We opened out to them a gate from heaven and they were to continue (all day) ascending therein. one of the reasons why people cannot see the realities of their existence is a kind of "spell" impeding their reasoning. the dogmatic thinking of the evolutionists is not an original way of thinking. He thinks that this is very logical and rational because he really sees it that way and has no doubt that he is right. What we mean by spell is a conditioning acquired by indoctrination. unless it is in God's plan. Such examples as the one above.
the critics are denied funding by government agencies.. This system drives these scientists so far as to spend their whole lives and scientific careers for the sake of a dogmatic belief. their articles are rejected by mainstream journals. to receive academic recognition. Enchanted by this spell. the dogmatists announce that there is scientific debate about their theory. a scientist has to observe some standards in order to be promoted. In the process. A straightforward acceptance of evolution is the number-one criterion. Once critics have been silenced and counter-evidence has been buried. fail to realise that accepting this theory is in fact contrary to the most basic principles of reason. evidence against the Darwinian view simply disappears. In Western countries. and no evidence against it. academic sources. Or the evidence is buried in specialized publications. many evolutionist scientists go on searching for scientific confirmation of 19th century's irrational and outdated evolutionist claims that have long since been refuted by scientific evidence. The theory of evolution and the materialistic world view that relies on it are imposed on the masses by such indoctrination methods.5 This is the reality that continues to lie behind the assertion "evolution . Young names stepping up in their scientific careers adopt the materialist world view more and more as time passes.Dogmatic Darwinists begin by imposing a narrow interpretation on the evidence and declaring it the only way to do science.. The same indoctrination captures scientists as well. and "scientific" platforms. There are also additional mechanisms that force scientists to be evolutionist and materialist. where only a dedicated researcher can find. American molecular biologist Jonathan Wells refers to these pressure mechanisms in his book Icons of Evolution published in 2000: . like witnesses against the Mob. People who continuously encounter the indoctrination of evolution in the media. Critics are then labeled unscientific. who send grant proposals to the dogmatists for "peer" review. and eventually the critics are hounded out of scientific community altogether.To Be Freed From Prejudice 39 periments that have been reported in the scientific literature and are the everyday fare of psychology and psychiatry textbooks. or to have his articles published in scientific journals. whose editorial boards are dominated by the dogmatists.
What is to be hoped of the reader is that he will wake up from the spell that blinds people's minds and disrupts their ability to judge and he will reflect seriously on what is related in this book. how he has come into being from a drop of water. also demonstrated by modern science in all its aspects. In the rest of this book. If he rids himself of this spell and thinks clearly. we will be reviewing the findings of modern science against evolution which are either disregarded by evolutionists or "buried in specialized publications". freely. is that living organisms came into existence not by chance but as a result of creation. This inevitable truth. Very few of the scientists who are aware of this fact can risk pointing out that the king isn't wearing any clothes. he will soon discover the crystal-clear truth. and display of the clear evidence of God's existence. . Man can easily see the fact of creation when he considers how he himself exists. or the perfection of every other living thing. and without any prejudice. Evolution is kept alive not because it has a scientific worth but because it is an ideological obligation. The reader will witness that evolution theory is in fact a deceit-a deceit that is belied by science at every step but is upheld to veil the fact of creation.40 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT is still accepted by the world of science".
CHAPTER 2 A Brief History of the Theory he roots of evolutionist thought go back as far as antiquity as a dogmatic belief attempting to deny the fact of creation." 8 The theory of evolution is the outcome of the materialist philosophy that surfaced with the reawakening of ancient materialistic philosophies and became widespread in the 19th century. Most of the people who pioneered modern science believed in the existence of God. As we have indicated before. all studied science believing not only in the existence of God but also that the whole universe came into being as a result of His creation. but faith in God which has played a stimulating role in the birth and development of modern science. Most of the pagan philosophers in ancient Greece defended the idea of evolution. Cuvier. Since it denies creation right from the start.6 Albert Einstein. German physician Max Planck said: "Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. has appeared without an act of creation but rather T . it is not this ancient pagan philosophy. whether animate or inanimate. Astronomers such as Copernicus. was another devout scientist who believed in God and stated thus. materialism seeks to explain nature through purely material factors. it asserts that every thing. the pioneer of botany and zoology. "I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. Keppler. the father of paleontology. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame. Linnaeus. considered to be the greatest genius of our age. they sought to discover the universe God has created and to perceive His laws and the details in His creation. and Galileo. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with. and Isaac Newton. When we take a look at the history of philosophy we see that the idea of evolution constitutes the backbone of many pagan philosophies. However. and while studying science. who is referred to as the "greatest scientist who ever lived"." 7 One of the founders of modern physics.
he supposed that the origin of life and species lay in the concept of "adaptation to the environment". was an amateur English naturalist. He published these views in his book titled The Origin of Species. He . He thought he had found the "origin of species": the origin of one species was another species. He took only an amateur interest in the subject of nature and living things.M. According to Darwin. these advantageous qualities accumulated in time and transformed the individual into a species totally different from its ancestors. God did not create different living species separately but they rather came from a common ancestor and became differentiated from each other as a result of natural conditions. Charles Robert Darwin.S. produced "the theory of evolution" in the middle of the 19th century.) According to Darwin. The idea was that the individuals that adapted to the habitat in the best way transferred their qualities to subsequent generations. Young Darwin was greatly impressed by various living species. Beagle that set out from England in 1832 and travelled around different regions of the world for five years. (The origin of these "advantageous qualities" was unknown at the time.42 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT as a result of a coincidence that then acquired a condition of order. His interest spurred him to voluntarily join an expedition on board a ship named H. Materialistic philosophy. By Means of Natural Selection in 1859. Darwin's Imagination The person who put forward the theory of evolution the way it is defended today. Darwin was well aware that his theory faced lots of problems. especially by certain finches that he saw in the Galapagos Islands. which is contrary to this very basic characteristic of the human mind. man was the most developed outcome of this mechanism. He thought that the variations in their beaks were caused by their adaptation to their habitat. Darwin called this process "evolution by natural selection". Darwin had never undergone a formal education in biology. in time however he turned it into a pretentious theory with the support and encouragement he received from the famous materialist biologists of his time. The human mind however is so structured as to comprehend the existence of an organising will wherever it sees order. With this idea in mind. Darwin's hypothesis was not based on any scientific discovery or experiment.
The rea- . While the echoes of Darwin's book reverberated. Darwin was impressed by many evolutionist biologists preceding him.9 While developing his theory. Lamarck. in the 1950s. Scientific fields such as genetics and biochemistry did not exist even in name. These difficulties primarily consisted of the fossil record.A Brief History Of The Theory 43 confessed these in his book in the chapter "Difficulties of the Theory". an Austrian botanist by the name of Gregor Mendel discovered the laws of inheritance in 1865.10 According to Lamarck. giraffes evolved from antelope-like animals by extending their necks further and further from generation to generation as they tried to reach higher and higher branches for food. As a physicist. Darwin thus employed the thesis of "passing the acquired traits" proposed by Lamarck as the factor that made living beings evolve. the chapter entitled "Difficulties of the Theory" for example. The American physicist Lipson made the following comment on the "difficulties" of Darwin: On reading The Origin of Species. and primarily by the French biologist. shows considerable self-doubt. This was the birth of the science of genetics. But both Darwin and Lamarck were mistaken because in their day. the structure of the genes and the chromosomes was discovered. Darwin hoped that these difficulties would be overcome by new discoveries.g. I found that Darwin was much less sure himself than he is often represented to be. yet this did not stop him from coming up with a number of very inadequate explanations for some. Their theories therefore had to depend entirely on their powers of imagination. For instance. the eye). living creatures passed the traits they acquired during their lifetime from one generation to the next and thus evolved. life could only be studied with very primitive technology and at a very inadequate level. and the instincts of living beings. I was particularly intrigued by his comments on how the eye would have arisen. Mendel's discovery gained great importance in the early 1900s. Not much heard of until the end of the century. of the structure of the DNA molecule that incorporates genetic information threw Charles Darwin the theory of evolution into a great crisis. complex organs of living things that could not possibly be explained by coincidence (e. The discovery. Somewhat later.
pp. London: Sphere Books.. he surmised that some races developed more than others and that the latter still bore simian features. even than the Caucasian. The Descent of Man. the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. Darwinism was even At some future period. 1 In his book.2 adapted to the social sciences. p. While Darwin presumed that man evolved from ape-like creatures. In his book. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes.Darwin's Racism ne of the most important yet least-known aspects of Darwin is his racism: Darwin regarded white Europeans as more "advanced" than other human races. will no doubt be exterminated. New York: A. The Descent of Man. Darwin held blacks and Australian Aborigines to be equal to gorillas and then inferred that these would be "done away with" by the "civilised races" in time. and turned into a conception that came to be called "Social Darwinism". which he published after The Origin of Species. that the European races were the most "advanced" of all. 1971.L. instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla. and that many other races still bear "simian" features. Supposing that living beings evolved in the struggle for life. 54-56 2. but also brought into a position where they provided the most important "scientific ground" for racism. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider. He said: O only theorised. 178 Darwin's nonsensical ideas were not .Benjamin Farrington. 2nd ed.. Burt Co. not very distant as measured by centuries. Social Darwinism contends that existing human races are located at different rungs of the "evolutionary ladder". he boldly commented on "the greater differences between men of distinct races". What Darwin Really Said. for it will intervene in a more civilised state. as we may hope.. 1. 1874.Charles Darwin.. and some ape as low as baboon.
They also tried to prove that the first living organisms could have originated by chance under primitive terrestrial conditions that the theory . Ledyard Stebbins and Theodosius Dobzhansky. The following decades were to become an era of desperate attempts to prove neo-Darwinism. Nevertheless. They came together in a meeting organised by the Geological Society of America in 1941. which was formulated by adding the concept of mutation to Darwin's natural selection thesis. These developments ought to have resulted in Darwin's theory being banished to the dustbin of history. However. The idea was now "random mutations". after long discussions.A Brief History Of The Theory 45 son was the incredible complexity of life and the invalidity of the evolutionary mechanisms proposed by Darwin. a group of scientists who were determined to remain loyal to Darwin endeavoured to come up with solutions. Geneticists such as G. it was not. It was already known that mutations-or "accidents" -that took place in the genes of living organisms were always harmful. This cadre focused on the question of the origin of the advantageous variations that supposedly caused living organisms to evolve-an issue that Darwin himself was unable to explain but simply tried to side-step by depending on Lamarck. They named this new theory "The Modern Synthetic Evolution Theory". zoologists such as Ernst Mayr and Julian Huxley. Neo-Darwinists tried to establish a case for "advantageous mutation" by carrying out thousands of mutation experiments. Jepsen. and mathematical geneticists such as Ronald Fisher and Sewall Right. All their attempts ended in complete failure. and elevating the theory to a scientific platform. These efforts gain meaning only if we realise that behind the theory lay ideological intentions rather than scientific concerns. paleontologists such as George Gaylord Simpson and Glenn L. finally agreed on ways to "patch up" Darwinism. renewing. this theory came to be known as "neo-Darwinism" and those who put forward the theory were called "neo-Darwinists". because certain circles insisted on revising. In a short time. The Desperate Efforts of Neo-Darwinism Darwin's theory entered into a deep crisis because of the laws of genetics discovered in the first quarter of the 20th century.
One thing they cannot agree on however is which of the different models proposed for the realisation of evolution is the "right" one. could have originated by chance. but was an ideological dogma if not to say some sort of "religion". But neo-Darwinism was never a scientific theory anyway. One of the most important of these models is the fantastic scenario known as "punctuated equilibrium". Every experiment that sought to prove that life could be generated by chance failed. a different model has been proposed. comparative anatomy revealed that species that were supposed to have evolved from one another had in fact very different anatomical features and that they could never have been ancestors or descendants of each other. And the cell-which supposedly emerged by chance under primitive and uncontrolled terrestrial conditions according to the evolutionists-could not be synthesised by even the most sophisticated laboratories of the 20th century. In recent decades. Neo-Darwinist theory is also defeated by the fossil record. Trial and Error: Punctuated Equilibrium Most of the scientists who believe in evolution accept the neo-Darwinist theory of slow. this model maintains that living species came about not through a series of small changes. akin to being a secular religion .. which were supposed to show the gradual evolution of living organisms from primitive to advanced species as the neo-Darwinist theory claimed. Called "punctuated equilibrium".. gradual evolution. there's no doubt about it. And it seems to me very clear that at some very basic level. that in the past.11 This is why the champions of the theory of evolution still go on defending it in spite of all the evidence to the contrary. The Darwinist professor of philosophy and zoology Michael Ruse confesses this in these words: And certainly. evolution has functioned as something with elements which are. as Darwin had maintained.. have ever been found anywhere in the world. but by sudden. No "transitional forms". however. let us say. Probability calculations prove that not even a single protein. evolution as a scientific theory makes a commitment to a kind of naturalism. and I think also in the present..46 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT posited but the same failure attended these experiments too. the buildingblocks of life. . large ones. for many evolutionists. At the same time.
and biochemistry did not yet exist.The Primitive Level of Science in Darwin's Time hen Darwin put forward his assumptions. the disciplines of genetics. then he would have realised that not even a single protein molecule. He would have beheld with his own eyes that it would not be possible for such an intricate and complex system to occur through minor variations. The information determining the species already exists in the genes and it is impossible for natural selection to produce new species through alterations in the genes. he would have witnessed the great complexity and extraordinary structure in the organelles of the cell. Similarly. it was only possible to view the outside surface of the cell. Darwin might easily have recognised that his theory was totally unscientific and might not have attempted to advance such meaningless claims. with the primitive microscopes seen here. . let alone a whole cell. W Detailed studies of the cell were only possible after the discovery of the electron microscope. microbiology. If Darwin had had the chance to view the cell with an electron microscope. If he had known about bio-mathematics. the world of science in those days had a very shallow and crude understanding of the structure and functions of the cell. If they had been discovered before Darwin put forward his theory. In Darwin's time. could not have come into existence by chance.
and biochemistry are as scientific as the fairy tales about frogs turning into princes! Nevertheless. being distressed by the crisis that the neo-Darwinist assertion was in. These claims. it is hardly rational to attempt to explain the fossil gap in the evolution of birds with a claim that "a bird popped all of a sudden out of a reptile egg". European paleontologist O. because by the evolutionists' own admission. as a result of a huge "accident" that took place in the genetic structure. Realising that this hope was groundless. The only purpose of this model was to provide an explanation of the gaps in the fossil-record that the neo-Darwinist model could not explain. Thus the "gross mutations" imagined by the punctu- . NeoDarwinists were living with the fond hopeStephen Jay Gould they still do-that the lost transitional forms would one day be found. no mutation whatsoever improves the genetic information or adds new information to it.H. which had the distinction of being even more bizarre than neo-Darwinism itself. However. some land-dwelling animals could have turned into giant whales having undergone a sudden and comprehensive transformation. but appeared suddenly and fully-formed. Shindewolf. claimed that the first bird came out of a reptile egg. This is the claim that evolution did not take place as a result of minor variations but rather in sudden and great changes.12 According to the same theory. so they put forward a new model: punctuated equilibrium. that is. the evolution of a species to another species requires a great and advantageous change in genetic information.48 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT The first vociferous defenders of this notion appeared at the beginning of the 1970s. For instance. Fossils proved that living organisms did not originate by gradual evolution. totally contradicting all the rules of genetics. Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould. biophysics. Eldredge and Gould were nevertheless unable to abandon their evolutionary dogma. some evolutionist paleontologists embraced this theory. who led the way for Eldredge and Gould. However. were well aware that the claims of the neo-Darwinist theory were absolutely refuted by the fossil record. as a "gross mutation". Mutations only derange genetic information. This model was nothing but a model for fantasies. Two American paleontologists.
Above are a few examples. the debate over whether organisms made up of trillions of those proteins have undergone a "punctuated" or "gradual" evolution is senseless. After that. we will dwell upon the question of the origin of life. In spite of this. its continued defence has at last become impossible. tens of thousands of scientists around the world. It is a scenario that has been used to deceive the world for 140 years. Since not even a single protein can have originated by chance. particularly in the USA and Europe. In the chapters that follow. reductions and impairments in the genetic information. we will first examine two imaginary mechanisms of the neo-Darwinist model and then look at the fossil record to test this model. which is also the question that refutes the neo-Darwinist model from the outset. defy the theory of evolution and have published many books on the invalidity of the theory. ated equilibrium model would only cause "gross". that is "great". a great deceit that is totally at variance with the real world. the model of "punctuated equilibrium" collapses from the very first step by its inability to address the question of the origin of life. which invalidates both the neo-Darwinist model and all other evolutionist models such as "evolution by leaps".A Brief History Of The Theory 49 Today. Moreover. . it may be useful to remind the reader that the reality we will be confronting at every stage is that the evolutionary scenario is a fairy-tale. Before doing so. the model that comes to mind when "evolution" is at issue today is still neo-Darwinism. Thanks to the latest scientific discoveries.
The origin of evolutionary modifications lies in random mutations that take place in the genetic structures of living things. we find that there is no such evolutionary mechanism. However since Darwin's time. who defined it as a "mechanism that keeps species unchanging without being corrupted".CHAPTER 3 Imaginary Mechanisms of Evolution T he neo-Darwinist model. there has not been a single shred of evidence put forward to show that natural selection causes living things to evolve.. The traits brought about by mutations are selected by the mechanism of natural selection. which we shall take as the mainstream theory of evolution today. by means of Natural Selection. The name he gave to his book indicates that natural selection was the basis of Darwin's theory: The Origin of Species. Colin Patterson. Natural Selection As process of nature. stresses that natural selection has never been observed to have the ability to cause things to evolve: No one has ever produced a species by mechanisms of natural selection.. natural selection was familiar to biologists before Darwin. and by this means living things evolve. No one has ever got near it and most of the current argument in neo-Darwinism is about this question. When we look further into this theory. the senior paleontologist of the British Museum of Natural History in London and a prominent evolutionist. Neither natural selection nor mutations make any contribution at all to the transformation of different species into one another. Darwin was the first person to put forward the assertion that this process had evolutionary power and he then erected his entire theory on the foundation of this assertion. argues that life has evolved through two natural mechanisms: "natural selection" and "mutation". The theory basically asserts that natural selection and mutation are two complementary mechanisms. and the claim that they do is completely unfounded.13 .
Evolutionists believe this to be a great piece of evidence for their theory.Imaginary Mechanisms of Evolution 51 Natural selection holds that those living things that are more suited to the natural conditions of their habitats will prevail by having offspring that will survive. As a result. Fifty years later. When we look at the few incidents the evolutionists have put forth as observed examples of natural selection. Dark colored moths had existed in the moth population before the Industrial Revo- . It is possible to find the story of the Industrial Melanism in almost all evolutionist biology books. we see that these are nothing but a simple attempt to hoodwink. around the onset of the Industrial Revolution in England. The story is based on a series of experiments conducted by the British physicist and biologist Bernard Kettlewell in the 1950s. the proportion of light-coloured moths to dark-coloured moths decreased. naturally those that can run faster will survive. dark-coloured (melanic) moths resting on those trees could easily be noticed by the birds that fed on them and therefore they had very little chance of survival. since they were the most easily noticed. and can be summarised as follows: According to the account. "Industrial Melanism" In 1986 Douglas Futuyma published a book. and now the light-colored moths became the most hunted. Because of this. For example. the colour of the tree barks around Manchester was quite light. it will not transform those deer into another living species. in woodlands where industrial pollution has killed the lichens. The most famous of his examples on this subject is about the colour of the moth population. whereas those that are unfit will disappear. in a deer herd under the threat of wild animals. The Biology of Evolution. showing how light-coloured moths "evolved" into darkcoloured ones. However. But no matter how long this process goes on. since no new form arose that had not existed before. it should be quite clear that they can in no way be used as evidence for the theory of evolution. They take refuge and solace in window-dressing. although we believe these facts to be correct. That is true. which is accepted as one of the sources explaining the theory of evolution by natural selection in the most explicit way. the barks of the trees had darkened. which appeared to darken during the Industrial Revolution in England. The deer will always remain deer. not just in Futuyma's book.
The moths had not acquired a new trait or organ. As molecular biologist Jonathan Wells explains in his book Icons of Evolution. The selection was only among already existing varieties. there is a more interesting side to the story: Not just its interpretation. Wells discusses in his book how Bernard Kettlewell's experiment. However. Some basic elements of this scandal are: • Many experiments conducted after Kettlewell's revealed that only one type of these moths rested on tree trunks. which would cause "speciation". The textbook pictures above (portrayed as genuine photos) are in fact of dead specimens glued or pinned to tree trunks by evolutionists. but the story itself is flawed. horizontal branches. does not reflect the truth. which is known as the "experimental proof" of the story. a bird for example.52 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Industrial Melanism is certainly not an evidence for evolution because the process did not produce any new species of moths. become an "icon" in this sense. That is. Moreover. This is the answer to be given to the evolutionist story of Industrial Melanism. and all other types preferred to rest beneath small. which is included in every evolutionist biology book and has therefore. lution. is actually a scientific scandal. the classical story of melanism is deceptive. In order for one moth species to turn into another living species. an entirely separate genetic program would have had to be loaded so as to include information about the physical traits of the bird. new additions would have had to be made to its genes. the story of the peppered moths. Since 1980 it has be- . Only the relative proportions of the existing moth varieties in the population changed.
"the most famous example of natural selection" was relegated to the trash-heap of history as a scientific scandal which was inevitable. the dark moths there numbered four times as many as the light ones. Tony Liebert. In truth. which had been one of the most treasured subjects in "Introduction to Evolution" courses in universities for decades. many scientists such as Cyril Clarke and Rory Howlett. and Paul Brakefield concluded that "in Kettlewell's experiment. greatly disappointed evolutionists. One of them. because natural selection is not an "evolutionary mechanism. because this mechanism can never increase or improve the ge- . therefore. nor of removing one. the scandal changed dimension: "The moths on tree trunks" photographed by Kettlewell." contrary to what evolutionists claim. In 25 years of fieldwork. remarked: My own reaction resembles the dismay attending my discovery. the test results could not be accepted as scientific". • As the research deepened.Imaginary Mechanisms of Evolution 53 come clear that peppered moths do not normally rest on tree trunks. This meant that there was no correlation between the moth population and the tree trunks as claimed by Kettlewell and repeated by almost all evolutionist sources. Can Natural Selection Explain Complexity? There is nothing that natural selection contributes to the theory of evolution. It is capable neither of adding a new organ to a living organism. Jerry Coyne. moths were forced to act atypically. were actually dead moths.14 These facts were uncovered by the scientific community only in the late 1990s. at the age of six.15 Thus. Michael Majerus. Kettlewell used dead specimens glued or pinned to tree trunks and then photographed them. • Scientists who tested Kettlewell's conclusions came up with an even more interesting result: Although the number of light moths would be expected to be larger in the less polluted regions of England. The collapse of the myth of Industrial Melanism. that it was my father and not Santa who brought the presents on Christmas Eve. nor of changing an organism of one species into that of another. there was little chance of taking such a picture as the moths rested not on tree trunks but underneath the leaves.
natural selection cannot explain biological systems and organs that possess the feature of "irreducible complexity". Darwinian theories require that it create the fit as well. it can do no such thing. Therefore. No one denies that selection will play a negative role in eliminating the unfit. Stephen Jay Gould. Since natural selection has no consciousness or will. The essence of Darwinism lies in a single phrase: natural selection is the creative force of evolutionary change. a frog into a crocodile. the human eye does not function unless it exists with all its components intact). and are of no use if even one of these parts is missing or defective. my theory would absolutely break down. refers to this impasse of natural selection as follows.16 Another of the misleading methods that evolutionists employ on the issue of natural selection is their effort to present this mechanism as a conscious designer. also worried Darwin. Beyond that. it has no capability of transforming one species to another. Neither can it transform one species into another: a starfish into a fish. It is a conservative force which preserves the existing species from degeneration. natural selection has no consciousness. which demolishes the foundations of the theory of evolution. a fish into a frog. (For example.54 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Natural selection serves as a mechanism of eliminating weak individuals within a species. or a crocodile into a bird. This fact. It does not possess a will that can decide what is good and what is bad for living things. which could not possibly have been formed by numerous. slight modifications. successive." 17 . who wrote: "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed. These systems and organs are composed of a great number of parts cooperating together. netic information of a species. As a result. the will that brings all these parts together should be able to foresee the future and aim directly at the advantage that is to be acquired at the final stage. However. The biggest defender of punctuated equilibrium.
The direct effect of mutations is harmful. and random effects can only damage it.Imaginary Mechanisms of Evolution 55 Natural selection only selects out the disfigured. The evolutionist scientist Warren Weaver comments on the report prepared by the Committee on Genetic Effects of Atomic Radiation. or new organs. in all probability. they cause so much damage and modification that the cell cannot repair them. and freaks of nature… The reason for this is very simple: DNA has a very complex structure. The changes effected by mutations can only be like those experienced by people in Hiroshima. and Chernobyl: that is. most mutations are harmful since they are random. However as we shall see. Secondly. Most of the time.G. or unfit individuals of a species. death. These breaks or replacements are the result of external effects such as radiation or chemical action. Mutations Mutations are defined as breaks or replacements taking place in the DNA molecule. Mutation. it cannot make anything evolve. there would be a random change in the framework of the building which. Ranganathan states: First. For example. if an earthquake were to shake a highly ordered structure such as a building. 19 Not surprisingly. not for the better. would not be an improvement. which had been formed to investigate mutations that might have been caused by the nuclear weapons used in the Second World War: . any random change in a highly ordered system will be for the worse. Every mutation is an "accident" and either damages the nucleotides making up the DNA or changes their locations.18 This is why neo-Darwinism has had to elevate mutations next to natural selection as the "cause of beneficial changes". That is. rather than orderly changes in the structure of genes. weak. genuine mutations are very rare in nature. no useful mutation has been so far observed. which evolutionists frequently hide behind. All mutations have proved to be harmful. is not a magic wand that transforms living organisms into a more advanced and perfect form. mutations can only be "the cause for harmful changes". new genetic information. It cannot produce new species. disability. which is found in the nuclei of the cells of a living organism and which contains all its genetic information. Nagasaki. Darwin accepted this reality by saying: "Natural selection can do nothing until favourable variations chance to occur". B.
A disastrous effect of mutations on the human body. light.ALL MUTATIONS ARE HARMFUL Eye Antenna Leg Left: A normal fruit fly (drosophila). practically all trivial . evolutionists carried out many experiments to produce mutations in fruit flies as these insects reproduce very rapidly and so mutations would show up quickly. Many will be puzzled about the statement that practically all known mutant genes are harmful. Goldschmidt. Muller. For decades. though geneticists have been breeding fruit-flies for sixty years or more in labs all around the worldflies which produce a new generation every eleven days-they have never yet seen the emergence of a new species or even a new enzyme. The boy at left is a Chernobyl nuclear plant accident victim. but not much mentioned fact that. All sorts of mutations. Right: A fruit fly with its legs jutting from its head.results from mutations practically all of which are harmful? 20 Every effort put into "generating a useful mutation" has resulted in failure. yet no useful mutation was ever observed. How can a good effect . dark.21 Another researcher. a mutation induced by radiation. Michael Pitman. For mutations are a necessary part of the process of evolution.evolution to higher forms of life . comments on the failure of the experiments carried out on fruit flies: Morgan. and other geneticists have subjected generations of fruit flies to extreme conditions of heat. Generation upon generation of these flies were mutated. The evolutionist geneticist Gordon Taylor writes thus: It is a striking. and treatment by chemicals and radiation. cold.
All mutations that take place in humans result in physical deformities. they almost always damage the living organism that undergoes them. destroyed.Imaginary Mechanisms of Evolution 57 or positively deleterious. or carried off to different places. In practice mutants die. evolutionists throw up a smokescreen and try to enlist examples of even such deleterious mutations as "evidence for evolution". have been produced. are sterile. These mutations are presented in evolutionist textbooks as examples of "the evolutionary mechanism at work". 2) Mutations add no new information to an organism's DNA: The particles making up the genetic information are either torn from their places. For example. All mutations that have been observed in human beings have had deleterious results. this conclusion agrees with the evidence of the fossil record. They only cause abnormalities like a leg sticking out of the back. Briefly. . but will rather impair it. albinism. Needless to say. a process that leaves people disabled or sick cannot be "an evolutionary mechanism"-evolution is supposed to produce forms that are better fitted to survive. it is impossible for living beings to have evolved. a human eye altered by the effects of radiation or by other causes will not be passed on to subsequent generations. Down syndrome. To summarise. Man-made evolution? Not really: Few of the geneticists' monsters could have survived outside the bottles they were bred in. or tend to revert to the wild type. which does not demonstrate the existence of a process of evolution. because there exists no mechanism in nature that can cause evolution. Indeed. there are three main reasons why mutations cannot be pressed into the service of supporting evolutionists' assertions: l) The direct effect of mutations is harmful: Since they occur randomly. Reason tells us that unconscious intervention in a perfect and complex structure will not improve that structure. On this issue. it has to have taken place in the reproductive cells of the organism: A random change that occurs in a cell or organ of the body cannot be transferred to the next generation. but rather just the contrary. Mutations cannot make a living thing acquire a new organ or a new trait.22 The same holds true for man. or an ear from the abdomen. no "useful mutation" has ever been observed. 3) In order for a mutation to be transferred to the subsequent generation. dwarfism or cancer. Furthermore. in infirmities such as mongolism.
do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms? Why is not all na- . numberless intermediate varieties. which had acquired some avian traits in addition to the reptilian traits they already possessed.23 Even Darwin himself was aware of the absence of such transitional forms. More importantly. He hoped that they would be found in the future. there should have lived in the past some half-fish/half-reptile creatures which had acquired some reptilian traits in addition to the fish traits they already had.. Darwin accepted this fact and explained: A If my theory be true. there would have been millions. even billions. the remains of these creatures should be present in the fossil record. of them. every living species has emerged from a predecessor. Evolutionists refer to these imaginary creatures. According to the theory. If this were the case. and their remains should be found all over the world. That is why he wrote the following in the chapter of the The Origin of Species entitled "Difficulties of the Theory": …Why. One species which existed previously turned into something else over time and all species have come into being in this way. this transformation proceeds gradually over millions of years. if species have descended from other species by fine gradations. then innumerable intermediate species should have lived during the immense period of time when these transformations were supposedly occurring. The number of these transitional forms should have been even greater than that of present animal species. he realised that these missing intermediate forms were the biggest stumbling-block for his theory. which they believe to have lived in the past. If such animals had really existed.CHAPTER 4 The Fossil Record Refutes Evolution ccording to the theory of evolution. linking most closely all of the species of the same group together must assuredly have existed. Consequently evidence of their former existence could be found only amongst fossil remains. For instance. Despite his optimism. as "transitional forms".. In The Origin of Species. Or there should have existed some reptile/bird creatures.
admits this fact even though he is an evolutionist: The point emerges that if we examine the fossil record in detail. but the sudden explosion of one group at the expense of another. as by this theory innumerable transitional forms must have existed. Another American scholar.instead species appear and disappear abruptly. the imprints of vanished species preserved in the Earth's geological formations. A famous British paleontologist. Robert Wesson.24 The only explanation Darwin could come up with to counter this objection was the argument that the fossil record uncovered so far was inadequate. Despite their best efforts. evolutionist paleontologists have been digging up fossils and searching for missing links all over the world since the middle of the 19th century. however. He asserted that when the fossil record had been studied in detail.25 Another evolutionist paleontologist Mark Czarnecki comments as follows: A major problem in proving the theory has been the fossil record. Trying to prove their theory. contrary to the beliefs of evolutionists. that "the gaps in the fossil record are real and meaningful". why do we not find them embedded in countless numbers in the crust of the earth?… But in the intermediate region. evolutionists have instead unwittingly caused it to collapse. instead of the species being. but that they one day will be. why do we not now find closely-linking intermediate varieties? This difficulty for a long time quite confounded me. All the fossils unearthed in excavations have shown that. whether at the level of orders or of species. for long periods. and this anomaly has fueled the creationist argument that each species was created by God. we find-over and over again-not gradual evolution. This record has never revealed traces of Darwin's hypothetical intermediate variants . life appeared on earth all of a sudden and fully-formed. the missing links would be found.26 These gaps in the fossil record cannot be explained by saying that sufficient fossils have not yet been found. Believing in Darwin's prophecy. Ager. He elaborates this claim in this way: The gaps in the record are real. Derek V. states in his 1991 book Beyond Natural Selection. Species are usually static. or nearly so. having intermediate conditions of life. as we see them. no transitional forms have yet been uncovered. The absence of a record of any important branching is quite phenomenal.The Fossil Record Refutes Evolution 59 ture in confusion. species seldom and genera never show evolution into . well defined?… But.
Living Fossils T he theory of evolution claims that species continuously evolve into other species. But when we compare living things to their fossils. A comparison of ant fossil aged 100 million years and an ant living in our day clearly indicates that ants do not have any evolutionary history. . The living honeybee is no different than its fossil relative. The 135 million year old dragon fly fossil is no different than its modern counterparts. we see that they have remained unchanged for millions of years. This fact is a clear evidence that falsifies the claims of evolutionists. which is millions of years old.
. The fossils found in Cambrian rocks belonged to snails. a professor of geology in Harvard. some 550 million years ago. This wide mosaic of living organisms made up of such a great number of complex creatures emerged so suddenly that this miraculous event is referred to as the "Cambrian Explosion" in geological literature. David Raup.27 Life Emerged on Earth Suddenly and in Complex Forms When terrestrial strata and the fossil record are examined. which were the only life forms on earth prior to them. exactly the same as those in modern specimens. marks the evolutionary explosion that filled the seas with the earth's first complex creatures. states the following about the "Cambrian Explosion".and they were as distinct from each other as they are today. earthworms. This moment. sea hedgehogs.The Fossil Record Refutes Evolution 61 new species or genera but replacement of one by another. and change is more or less abrupt. Rochester. gills. which has an estimated age of 500-550 million years. which is a deathtrap for evolutionary theory: A half-billion years ago. it is to be seen that all living organisms appeared simultaneously. sponges.. says: "the trilobites 450 million years ago used an optimal design which would require a well trained and imaginative optical engineer to develop today". The living creatures found in the strata belonging to the Cambrian period emerged all of a sudden in the fossil record-there are no pre-existing ancestors. a science journalist at Science News. and Chicago Universities. right at the start of Earth's Cambrian Period.the large animal phyla of today were present already in the early Cambrian . the remarkably complex forms of animals we see today suddenly appeared. For instance. trilobites. and other complex invertebrates.29 Deeper investigation into the Cambrian Explosion shows what a . jellyfish. one of the popular publications of evolutionist literature... and circulatory systems. The oldest stratum of the earth in which fossils of living creatures have been found is that of the Cambrian. Richard Monastersky. . Most of the creatures in this layer have complex systems have complex systems and advanced structures.28 These complex invertebrates emerged suddenly and completely without having any link or any transitional form between them and the unicellular organisms. the double-lensed. combed eye structure of trilobites is a wonder of design. such as eyes.
emerged abruptly in the Cambrian period. great dilemma it creates for the theory of evolution..30 The same article notes that for such complex and distinct living groups to be explained according to the theory of evolution. must have required a previous history of the group for which there is no fossil record. Recent findings indicate that almost all phyla. is a question that remains unanswered by evolutionists. some 545 million years ago. but this has not yet proved possible: This differential evolution and dispersal.. comments on this reality that undermines the very foundation of all the arguments he has been defending: . like eucrustaceans. An article published in Science magazine in 2001 says: "The beginning of the Cambrian period. are fairly advanced "twigs" on the arthropod tree. the most basic animal divisions.31 How the earth came to overflow with such a great number of animal species all of a sudden. Furthermore. very rich fossil beds showing a gradual developmental process should have been found. . and how these distinct types of species with no common ancestors could have emerged. cladistic analyses of arthropod phylogeny revealed that trilobites. But fossils of these alleged ancestral arthropods are lacking.Even if evidence for an earlier origin is discovered. The Oxford University zoologist Richard Dawkins. saw the sudden appearance in the fossil record of almost all the main types of animals (phyla) that still dominate the biota today". too. it remains a challenge to explain why so many animals should have increased in size and acquired shells within so short a time at the base of the Cambrian. no evolution took place and all species have been created separately in a perfect form.62 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT The fossil record proves that transitional forms never existed. one of the foremost advocates of evolutionist thought in the world.
"34 The Cambrian Period is nothing more or less than THE EYE OF THE TRILOBITE he trilobites that appeared in the Cambrian period all of a sudden have an extremely complex eye structure. And we find many of them already in an advanced state of evolution.Gregory. If they did not. they must have developed from pre-existing species by some process of modification. Oxford University Press.. Consisting of millions of honeycombshaped tiny particles and a doublelens system..32 As Dawkins is forced to acknowledge. Douglas Futuyma. the sudden appearance of such a wondrous design cannot be explained by evolution and it proves the actuality of creation. a prominent evolutionist biologist admits this fact: "Organisms either appeared on the earth fully developed or they did not. have really started into life all at once. the very first time they appear. are the oldest ones in which we find most of the major invertebrate groups. (*) R." 33 Darwin himself recognised the possibility of this when he wrote: "If numerous species.31 . the honeycomb eye structure of the trilobite has survived to our own day without a single change. No doubt. Some insects such as bees and dragon flies have the same eye structure as did the trilobite. a professor of geology. this eye "has an optimal design which would require a well-trained and imaginative optical engineer to develop today" in the words of David Raup. they must indeed have been created by some omnipotent intelligence.The Fossil Record Refutes Evolution 63 For example the Cambrian strata of rocks.* This situation disproves the evolutionary thesis that living things evolved progressively from the primitive to the complex. If they did appear in a fully developed state. the Cambrian Explosion is strong evidence for creation. Eye and Brain: The Physiology of Seeing. p. because creation is the only way to explain the fully-formed emergence of life on earth. This eye emerged 530 million years ago in a perfect state. It is as though they were just planted there. T Moreover. belonging to the same genera or families. without any evolutionary history. the fact would be fatal to the theory of descent with slow modification through natural selection.L. 1995.
In short. they were created. and the last common ancestor of bilaterians or "Urbilateria. ctenophores. cnidarians. makes the following comment: "Baffling (and embarrasing) to Darwin.. that only exists theoretically.. Foremost among them is the disappearance of "intermediate" taxa between sponges.37 . the fossil record indicates that living things did not evolve from primitive to the advanced forms. We have lost the hope. cnidarians and ctenophores can no longer be considered as such because of new genetic findings. This is why the Swiss evolutionist paleoanthropologist Stefan Bengtson." .. Molecular Comparisons Deepen Evolution's Cambrian Impasse Another fact that puts evolutionists into a deep quandary about the Cambrian Explosion is the comparisons between different living taxa.36 In the same article. but instead emerged all of a sudden and in a perfect state.64 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Darwin's "fatal stroke". This leaves no evolutionary "intermediates" and forces us to rethink the genesis of bilaterian complexity. An article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2000 reports that DNA analyses have displaced taxa that used to be considered "intermediate forms" in the past: DNA sequence analysis dictates new interpretation of phylogenic trees. this event still dazzles us"..A corollary is that we have a major gap in the stem leading to the Urbilataria. which puts the "intermediate form" hypothesis. so common in older evolutionary reasoning. who confesses the lack of transitional links while describing the Cambrian Age.35 As may be seen. The results of these comparisons reveal that animal taxa considered to be "close relatives" by evolutionists until quite recently. of reconstructing the morphology of the "coelomate ancestor" through a scenario involving successive grades of increasing complexity based on the anatomy of extant "primitive" lineages. into an even greater quandary. Taxa that were once thought to represent successive grades of complexity at the base of the metazoan tree are being displaced to much higher positions inside the tree. living beings did not come into existence by evolution. and that they have "lost hope" of constructing such evolutionary family trees: The new molecular based phylogeny has several important implications. are genetically very different. evolutionist writers note that some taxa which were considered "intermediate" between groups such as sponges.
It should be noted that invertebrates and fish have enormous structural differences.CHAPTER 5 Tale of Transition from Water to Land volutionists assume that the sea invertebrates that appear in the Cambrian stratum somehow evolved into fish in tens of million years. Gerald T. some fish felt the need to pass from sea to land because of feeding problems. there are no transitional links indicating that an evolution occurred between these invertebrates and fish. Such an enormous "evolution" would have taken billions of steps to be completed and there should be billions of transitional forms displaying them. Invertebrates have their hard tissues outside their bodies. Todd. They have found millions of invertebrate fossils and millions of fish fossils. How did they originate? What allowed them to diverge so widely? How did they all come to have heavy armour? And why is there no trace of earlier. However. An evolutionist paleontologist. and are heavily armored. . Evolutionists have been digging fossil strata for about 140 years looking for these hypothetical forms. They are already widely divergent morphologically. intermediate forms?38 According to the hypothetical scenario of "from sea to land". just as Cambrian invertebrates have no ancestors. whereas fish are vertebrates that have theirs on the inside. admits a similar fact in an article titled "Evolution of the Lung and the Origin of Bony Fishes": E All three subdivisions of bony fishes first appear in the fossil record at approximately the same time. yet nobody has ever found even one that is midway between them. This claim is "supported" by such speculative drawings.
Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution. providing a good example of the extent of the speculations that evolutionists engage in. Robert L. Carroll. Living examples of this fish have been caught many times since 1938. salamanders. comment on the three basic classes of amphibiansfrogs. salamanders. published in 1997. he admits that "The origin of the modern amphibian orders. is obliged to accept this.66 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT The evolutionary scenario goes one step further and argues that fish. that "The early reptiles were very different from amphibians and their ancestors have not been found yet. called a coelacanth. Patterns and Processes of Vertebrate Evolution.39 Two evolutionist paleontologists." In his newer book. was put forward as a transitional form with a primitive lung. and caecilians: There is no evidence of any Paleozoic amphibians combining the characteristics that would be expected in a single common ancestor. who evolved from invertebrates then transformed into amphibians. a digestive and a circulatory system ready to function on land. . Evolutionists claimed that it was the transitional form representing the transition from water to land. The oldest known frogs. He has written in his classic work. But this scenario also lacks evidence. evolutionists thought that such a creature indeed existed. which was estimated to be 410 million years of age. and caecilians are very similar to their living descendants. and even a primitive walking mechanism. an evolutionary palaeontologist and authority on vertebrate palaeontology.40 Until about fifty years ago. (and) the transition between early tetrapods" are "still poorly known" along with the origins of many other major groups. This fish. There is not even a single fossil verifying that a half-fish/half-amphibian creature has ever existed. a developed brain. Colbert and Morales. These 410-million-year-old coelacanth fossil.
Kidneys: Sea-dwelling organisms discharge waste materials. 2. However. In order to survive on land. However.. living things without a kidney would have had to develop a kidney system all at once. Water: Essential to metabolism. water needs to be used economically due to its relative scarcity on land. Creatures making the transition from water to land would at the same time have had to develop new muscular and skeletal systems (!) to meet this energy need. they would have to acquire a perfect lung system all of a sudden. in order for the passage from water to land to have occurred. It is most certainly impossible that all these dramatic physiological changes could have happened in the same organism at the same time. There are a number of obvious facts that render such a transition impossible: 1. most land-dwelling creatures consume 40% of their energy just in carrying their bodies around. by means of their aquatic environment. Respiratory system: Fish "breathe" by taking in oxygen dissolved in water that they pass through their gills. For instance. That is why land-dwelling creatures experience thirst. especially ammonia. In short. For this reason. and fluctuates over a wide range. the temperature can change quickly. and this could not have come about by chance mutations. the temperature changes slowly and within a narrower range. the skin of sea-dwelling animals is not suitable for a nonaquatic habitat. It is preposterous to claim that fish acquired such a system by random mutations as soon as they stepped onto land. the skin has to be able to permit a certain amount of water loss.Why Transition From Water to Land is Impossible dwelling in water somehow stepped onto land and was transformed into a land-dwelling species. Heat Retention: On land. Land-dwelling creatures possess a physical mechanism that can withstand such great temperature changes. This is why these living beings have a kidney system. while also preventing excessive evaporation. 5. and all by chance. Weight-bearing: Sea-dwelling creatures have no problem in bearing their own weight in the sea. On land. ammonia is stored by being converted into urea and the minimum amount of water is used during its excretion. . new systems are needed to provide the kidney's functioning. 4. water has to be used economically. A living organism with a body system regulated according to the constant temperature of the sea would need to acquire a protective system to ensure minimum harm from the temperature changes on land. something the land-dwelling creatures do not do. in the sea. a species 3. Thanks to the kidneys. They canot live more than a few minutes out of water. In addition. E volutionists claim that one day.
000.L. The coelacanth was presented as a genuine transitional form that proved the evolutionary transition from water to land. p.43 . Simply put. turtles. 1938. a very interesting discovery was made in the Indian Ocean. Smith said that "If I'd met a dinosaur in the street I wouldn't have been more astonished". the coelacanth. they have always been anatomical interpretations were accepted as undisputed truth among scientific circles until the end of the 1930's. which is a reptilian order. The organ that evolutionist researchers had proposed as a primitive lung turned out to be nothing but a lipid pouch.418) J There is no difference between the fossils of ancient turtles and the living members of this species today. coelacanths had neither a primitive lung nor a large brain. London 1972) classes. However on December 22. appear in the fossil record all of a sudden with their unique shells.68 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT TURTLES WERE ALWAYS TURTLES ust as the evolutionary Turtle fossil aged 100 miltheory cannot explain lion years: No different from basic classes of living its modern things such as fish and reptiles. turtles have not "evolved".41 In the years to come. A living member of the coelacanth family. Orbis of the orders within these Pub. was in reality a fish that lived in the depths of the oceans and never approached nearer than 180 metres from the surface. previously presented as a transitional form that had become extinct seventy million years ago. To quote from an evolutionary source: ". 200 coelacanths were caught many times in different parts of the world. For example. was caught! The discovery of a "living" prototype of the coelacanth undoubtedly gave evolutionists a severe shock.. v. Contrary to what had been claimed.by the middle of the Triassic Period (about 175.B.. which was introduced as "a reptile candidate getting prepared to pass from sea to land". counterpart. (The Dawn of neither can it explain the origin Life.22.. The links between turtles and cotylosaurs from which turtles probably sprang are almost entirely lacking" (Encyclopaedia Brittanica. Living coelacanths revealed how far the evolutionists could go in making up their imaginary scenarios.42 Furthermore.000 years ago) its (turtle's) members were already numerous and in possession of the basic turtle characteristics. 1971. The evolutionist paleontologist J.
Evolutionist paleontologist and an authority on vertebrate paleontology. In other words. A "step by step" evolution of an amphibian is out of the question. This scenario is again implausible.CHAPTER 6 Origin of Birds and Mammals ccording to the theory of evolution. confesses the impossibility of the evolution of wings: A The common trait of the eyes and the wings is that they can only function if they are fully developed. There still remains the problem of making these creatures fly! Since evolutionists believe that birds must somehow have been evolved. Moreover. due to the enormous structural differences between these two classes of animals. creatures living only on land. which have a completely different structure from land-dwelling animals. How these organs came into being has remained one of the mysteries of nature that needs to be enlightened. Robert L. a halfway-developed eye cannot see. they assert that they were transformed from reptiles. life originated and evolved in the sea and then was transported onto land by amphibians. a bird with half-formed wings cannot fly. none of the distinct mechanisms of birds. because without a perfect and fully-designed egg. For instance. there is no evidence of transitional forms that were supposed to link amphibians with reptiles. which are the exceptional traits of birds."44 Yet the hopelessly doomed scenarios of the evolutionists are not over yet. Carroll has to accept that "the early reptiles were very different from amphibians and that their ancestors could not be found yet. One of the Turkish evolutionists. as usual. the amphibian egg is designed for developing in water whereas the amniotic egg is designed for developing on land.45 The question of how the perfect structure of wings came into being as a result of consecutive haphazard mutations remains completely unan- . it is not possible for a species to survive. However. are a great impasse for the evolutionists. the wings. First of all. Engin Korur. This evolutionary scenario also suggests that amphibians evolved into reptiles. can be explained by gradual evolution.
swered. There is no way to explain how the front arms of a reptile could have changed into perfectly functioning wings as a result of a distortion in its genes (mutation). Moreover, just having wings is not sufficient for a land organism to fly. Land-dwelling organisms are devoid of many other structural mechanisms that birds use for flying. For example, the bones of birds are much lighter than those of land-dwelling organisms. Their lungs function in a very different way. They have a different muscular and skeletal system and a very specialised heart-circulatory system. These features are pre-requisites of flying needed at least as much as wings. All these mechanisms had to exist at the same time and altogether; they could not have formed gradually by being "accumulated". This is why the theory asserting that land organisms evolved into aerial organisms is completely fallacious. All of these bring another question to the mind: even if we suppose this impossible story to be true, then why are the evolutionists unable to find any "half-winged" or "single-winged" fossils to back up their story?
Another Alleged Transitional Form: Archæopteryx Evolutionists pronounce the name of one single creature in response. This is the fossil of a bird called Archæopteryx, one of the most widelyknown so-called transitional forms among the very few that evolutionists SPECIAL LUNGS FOR BIRDS
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The anatomy of birds is very different from that of reptiles, their supposed ancestors. Bird lungs function in a totally different way from those of land-dwelling animals. Land-dwelling animals breathe in and out from the same air vessel. In birds, while the air enters into the lung from the front, it goes out from the back. This distinct "design" is specially made for birds, which need great amounts of oxygen during flight. It is impossible for such a structure to evolve from the reptile lung.
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still defend. Archæopteryx, the so-called ancestor of modern birds according to evolutionists, lived approximately 150 million years ago. The theory holds that some small dinosaurs, such as Velociraptors or Dromeosaurs, evolved by acquiring wings and then starting to fly. Thus, Archæopteryx is assumed to be a transitional form that branched off from its dinosaur ancestors and started to fly for the first time. However, the latest studies of Archæopteryx fossils indicate that this creature is absolutely not a transitional form, but an extinct species of bird, having some insignificant differences from modern birds. The thesis that Archæopteryx was a "half-bird" that could not fly perfectly was popular among evolutionist circles until not long ago. The absence of a sternum (breastbone) in this creature was held up as the most important evidence that this bird could not fly properly. (The sternum is a bone found under the thorax to which the muscles required for flight are attached. In our day, this breastbone is observed in all flying and non-flying birds, and even in bats, a flying mammal which belongs to a very different family.) However, the seventh Archæopteryx fossil, which was found in 1992, caused great astonishment among evolutionists. The reason was that in this recently discovered fossil, the breastbone that was long assumed by evolutionists to be missing was discovered to have existed after all. This fossil was described in Nature magazine as follows:
The recently discovered seventh specimen of the Archaeopteryx preserves a partial, rectangular sternum, long suspected but never previously documented. This attests to its strong flight muscles.46
This discovery invalidated the mainstay of the claims that Archæopteryx was a half-bird that could not fly properly. Moreover, the structure of the bird's feathers became one of the most important pieces of evidence confirming that Archæopteryx was a flying bird in the real sense. The asymmetric feather structure of Archæopteryx is indistinguishable from that of modern birds, and indicates that it could fly perfectly well. As the eminent paleontologist Carl O. Dunbar states, "because of its feathers [Archæopteryx is] distinctly to be classed as a bird." 47 Another fact that was revealed by the structure of Archæopteryx's feathers was its warm-blooded metabolism. As was discussed above, reptiles and dinosaurs are cold-blooded animals whose body heat fluctuates with the temperature of their environment, rather than being homeostati-
cally regulated. A very important function of the feathers on birds is the maintenance of a constant body temperature. The fact that Archæopteryx had feathers showed that it was a real, warm-blooded bird that needed to regulate its body heat, in contrast to dinosaurs.
Speculations of Evolutionists: The Teeth and Claws of Archæopteryx Two important points evolutionist biologists rely on when claiming Archæopteryx was a transitional form, are the claws on its wings and its teeth. It is true that Archæopteryx had claws on its wings and teeth in its mouth, but these traits do not imply that the creature bore any kind of relationship to reptiles. Besides, two bird species living today, Taouraco and Hoatzin, have claws which allow them to hold onto branches. These creatures are fully birds, with no reptilian characteristics. That is why it is completely groundless to assert that Archæopteryx is a transitional form just because of the claws on its wings. Neither do the teeth in Archæopteryx's beak imply that it is a transitional form. Evolutionists make a purposeful trickery by saying that these teeth are reptile characteristics, since teeth are not a typical feature of reptiles. Today, some reptiles have teeth while others do not. Moreover, Archæopteryx is not the only bird species to possess teeth. It is true that there are no toothed birds in existence today, but when we look at the fossil record, we see that both during the time of Archæopteryx and afterwards, and even until fairly recently, a distinct bird genus existed that could be categorised as "birds with teeth". The most important point is that the tooth structure of Archæopteryx and other birds with teeth is totally different from that of their alleged ancestors, the dinosaurs. The well-known ornithologists L. D. Martin, J. D. Steward, and K. N. Whetstone observed that Archæopteryx and other similar birds have teeth with flat-topped surfaces and large roots. Yet the teeth of theropod dinosaurs, the alleged ancestors of these birds, are protuberant like saws and have narrow roots.48 These researchers also compared the wrist bones of Archæopteryx and their alleged ancestors, the dinosaurs, and observed no similarity between them.49
Origin of Birds and Mammals
Studies by anatomists like S. Tarsitano, M. K. Hecht, and A.D. Walker have revealed that some of the similarities that John Ostrom and other have seen between Archæopteryx and dinosaurs were in reality misinterpretations.50 All these findings indicate that Archæopteryx was not a transitional link but only a bird that fell into a category that can be called "toothed birds".
Archæopteryx and Other Ancient Bird Fossils While evolutionists have for decades been proclaiming Archæopteryx to be the greatest evidence for their scenario concerning the evolution of birds, some recently-found fossils invalidate that scenario in other respects. Lianhai Hou and Zhonghe Zhou, two paleontologists at the Chinese Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology, discovered a new bird fossil in 1995, and named it Confuciusornis. This fossil is almost the same age as Archæopteryx (around 140 million years), but has no teeth in its mouth. In addition, its beak and feathers shared the same features as today's birds. Confuciusornis has the same skeletal structure as modern birds, but also has claws on its wings, just like Archæopteryx. Another structure peculiar to birds called the "pygostyle", which supports the tail feathers, was also found in Confuciusornis. In short, this fossil-which is the same age as Archæopteryx, which was previously thought to be the earliest bird and was accepted as a semi-reptile-looks very much like a modern bird. This fact has invalidated all the evolutionist theses claiming Archæopteryx to be the primitive ancestor of all birds.51 Another fossil unearthed in China, caused even greater confusion. In November 1996,
When bird feathers are examined in detail, it is seen that they are made up of thousands of tiny tendrils attached to one another with hooks. This unique design results in superior aerodynamic performance.
The Design of the Bird Feathers
he theory of evolution, which claims that birds evolved from reptiles, is unable to explain the huge differences between these two different living classes. In terms of such features as their skeleton structure, lung systems, and warm-blooded metabolism, birds are very different from reptiles. Another trait that poses an insurmountable gap between birds and reptiles is the feathers of birds which have a form entirely peculiar to them. The bodies of reptiles are covered with scales, whereas the bodies of birds are covered with feathers. Since evolutionists consider reptiles the ancestor of birds, they are obliged to claim that bird feathers have evolved from reptile scales. However, there is no similarity between scales and feathers. A professor of physiology and neurobiology from the University of Connecticut, A.H. Brush, accepts this reality although he is an evolutionist: "Every feature from gene structure and organization, to development, morphogenesis and tissue organization is different (in feathers and scales)."1 Moreover, Prof. Brush examines the protein structure of bird feathers and argues that it is "unique among vertebrates".2 There is no fossil evidence to prove that bird feathers evolved from reptile scales. On the contrary, "feathers appear suddenly in the fossil record, as an'undeniably unique' character distinguishing birds" as Prof. Brush states.3 Besides, in reptiles, no epidermal structure has yet been detected that provides an origin for bird feathers.4 In 1996, paleontologists made abuzz about fossils of a so-called feathered di-
nosaur, called Sinosauropteryx. However, in 1997, it was revealed that these fossils had nothing to do with birds and that they were not modern feathers.5 On the other hand, when we examine bird feathers closely, we come across a very complex design that cannot be explained by any evolutionary process. The famous ornithologist Alan Feduccia states that "every feature of them has aerodynamic functions. They are extremely light, have the ability to lift up which increases in lower speeds, and may return to their previous position very easily". Then he continues, "I cannot really understand how an organ perfectly designed for flight may have emerged for another need at the beginning".6 The design of feathers also compelled Charles Darwin ponder them. Moreover, the perfect aesthetics of the peafowl's feathers had made him "sick" (his own words). In a letter he wrote to Asa Gray on April 3, 1860, he said "I remember well the time when the thought of the eye made me cold all over, but I have got over this stage of complaint..."And then continued: "...and now trifling particulars of structure often make me very uncomfortable. The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!" 7
1- A. H. Brush, "On the Origin of Feathers". Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 9, 1996, p.132 2- A. H. Brush, "On the Origin of Feathers". p. 131 3- Ibid. 4- Ibid. 5- "Plucking the Feathered Dinosaur", Science, Vol. 278, 14 November 1997, p. 1229 6- Douglas Palmer, "Learning to Fly" (Review of The Origin of and Evolution of Birds by Alan Feduccia, Yale University Press, 1996), New Scientist, Vol. 153, March, 1 1997, p. 44 7- Norman Macbeth, Darwin Retried: An Appeal to Reason. Boston, Gambit, 1971, p. 101
doves.52 This was stated in an article in Discover "Whence came the birds? This fossil suggests that it was not from dinosaur stock".54 These facts once more indicate for certain that neither Archæopteryx nor other ancient birds similar to it were transitional forms. there were birds indistinguishable from modern birds in many respects flying in the skies. woodcocks. The fossils do not indicate that different bird species evolved from each other. was also observed in modern slow-flying birds. such as gallinaceous birds.53 Another fossil that refuted the evolutionist claims regarding Archæopteryx was Eoalulavis. whereas nonflying birds have symmetrical feathers. Hou. the fossil record proves that today's modern birds and some archaic birds such as Archæopteryx actually lived together at the same time. On the contrary. The only difference was the teeth in its mouth. woodpeckers. L. which was said to be some 25 to 30 million years younger than Archæopteryx. such as Archæopteryx and Confuciusornis. This proved that 120 million years ago. not evolution. too. just as in modern birds. The way in which the feathers are arranged on the wing also falls within the range of modern birds… According to Van Tyne and Berger. In brief. The overall anatomy of Archæopteryx imply stasis. have become extinct. The wing structure of Eoalulavis.Origin of Birds and Mammals 75 the existence of a 130-million-year-old bird named Liaoningornis was announced in Science by L. D. It is true that some of these bird species. several features of Archæopteryx indicate that this creature was not a transitional form. and Alan Feduccia. Liaoningornis had a breastbone to which the muscles for flight were attached. Paleontologist Robert Carroll has to admit that: The geometry of the flight feathers of Archaeopteryx is identical with that of modern flying birds. the relative size and shape of the wing of Archaeopteryx are similar to that of birds that move through restricted openings in vegetation. and most passerine birds… The flight feathers have been in stasis for at least 150 million years…55 . This showed that birds with teeth did not possess the primitive structure alleged by evolutionists. but the fact that only some of the species that once existed have been able to survive down to the present day does not in itself support the theory of evolution. Martin. This bird was indistinguishable from modern birds also in other respects.
Feduccia has this to say regarding the thesis of reptile-bird evolution: Prof. one of the most famous ornithologists in the world. in my opinion. also opposes the theory that birds are descended from dinosaurs.56 Larry Martin. However. will be the greatest embarrassment of paleontology of the 20th century. I just don't see it.57 To sum up. if I had to support the dinosaur origin of birds with those characters. I'd be embarrassed every time I had to get up and talk about it. he states: To tell you the truth. Discussing the contradiction that evolution falls into on the subject.. a specialist on ancient birds from the University of Kansas. despite the fact that he is an evolutionist himself. the scenario of the "evolution of birds" erected solely on the basis of Archæopteryx. The bird named Confuciusornis is the same age as Archæopteryx . Alan Feduccia Well..76 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT The Imaginary Bird-Dinosaur Link The claim of evolutionists trying to present Archæopteryx as a transitional form is that birds have evolved from dinosaurs. Alan Feduccia from the University of North Carolina. opposes the theory that birds are related to dinosaurs. is nothing more than a product of the prejudices and wishful thinking of evolutionists. The theropod origins of birds. I've studied bird skulls for 25 years and I don't see any similarities whatsoever.
Design of Fly Wings": C The better we understand the functioning of insect wings. there is not a sincause the fly lose its balance but this gle fossil that can be evidence for the never happens. the more subtle and beautiful their designs appear. Wootton. evolutionists support their assertion by saying that some dinosaurs who flapped their front legs to hunt flies "took wing and flew" as seen in the picture. are in the dark concerning the origin of they fabricate imaginary scenarios insects. using comlutionists to explain the origin of flying. Structures are traditionally designed to deform as little as possible. Academic Press. November 1990. p. already has a perfect abilproperties. Having no scientific basis whatsoever and being nothing but a figment of the An example from evolutionist scenarios: Dinosaurs that imagination.1 sonance in the vibration of wings would On the other hand. The slightest disallels-yet. 1977.30 .Pierre-P Grassé. Insect contradiction: the example given by evowings combine both in one. Evolution of Living Organisms." 2 about how much more clumsy creatures like reptiles came to fly. this theory also suddenly took wing while trying to catch flies! entails a very simple logical nent parts in predictable ways. English biologist Robin Wootton 1. New York. Even the perfect creation of the housefly invalidates the claim of evolution. imaginary evolution of flies. mechanisms are designed to move compo- v. second. "The Mechanical Dewrote in an article titled "The Mechanical sign of Insect Wings".120 2. an sponse to appropriate forces and to average fly flutters its wings 500 times a make the best possible use of the air. p. 263. Scientific American. it moves both its They have few if any technological parwings simultaneously. Instead.Robin J. This is what Evolutionists should first come up the distinguished French zoologist with an explanation as to how the fly acPierre Grassé meant when he said "We quired this perfect ability to fly. ponents with a wide range of elastic that is. Moreover. Whereas a human cannot open allow appropriate deformations in reand close his eyes 10 times a second.What is the Origin of Flies? laiming that dinosaurs transformed into birds. elegantly assembled to ity to fly. the fly.
and their bodies are covered in fur or hair. are cold-blooded (i. In reptiles. they do not suckle their young. the theory of evolution proposes that some imaginary creatures that came out of the sea turned into reptiles. they cannot generate heat. anvil. two lineages. However. Evolutionists claim that the reptile jaw and middle ear gradually evolved into the mammal jaw and ear. they suckle their young. Reptiles have but a single bone in the middle ear.. According to the same scenario. and all the leading parts are played by mammals of sorts barely hinted at in the preceding acts. This is why evolutionist science writer Roger Lewin was forced to say. is still an enigma". The question of how an ear with a single bone evolved into one with three bones. they .59 Furthermore. there are great differences between these two classes. which probably happened in just one or. not one single fossil linking reptiles and mammals has been found.e. and stirrup). when mammals suddenly made their appearance. and how the sense of hearing kept on functioning in the meantime can never be explained. and rose again immediately to reveal the same setting but an entirely new cast. Mammals are warm-blooded animals (this means they can generate their own heat and maintain it at a steady level). on the other hand. Not surprisingly. Reptiles. Another basic difference is that all mammals have three bones in their middle ear (hammer.58 George Gaylord Simpson. to the Age of Mammals. It is as if the curtain were rung down suddenly on the stage where all the leading roles were taken by reptiles. a cast in which the dinosaurs do not appear at all. other reptiles are supernumeraries. reptiles are the ancestors not only of birds but also of mammals. One example of the structural barriers between reptiles and mammals is their jaw structure. and their bodies are covered in scales. and that birds evolved from reptiles. especially dinosaurs. at most. one of the most popular evolutionary authorities and a founder of the neo-Darwinist theory. the Age of Reptiles. they give live birth. in great numbers and bewildering variety. Mammal jaws consist of only one mandibular bone containing the teeth. "The transition to the first mammal. they lay eggs. there are three little bones on both sides of the mandible. makes the following comment regarding this perplexing difficulty for evolutionists: The most puzzling event in the history of life on earth is the change from the Mesozoic.78 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT The Origin of Mammals As we have stated before. and their body temperature changes according to the external temperature).
which million years: no different from its modern modern technology counterpart. (Science. oceans and then lands were filled with living things and finally man was created. Each of these living beings possesses specifically designed systems. Establishing an evolutionary relationship among them is impossible even by the broadest stretch of the imagination. Evolutionists. The evolutionist zoologist R. mice. This is concrete evidence of the fact that they were created. E All of these demonstrate that all living beings appeared on earth suddenly and fully formed. . there are great differences between various mammal species such as bears. 154) could not possibly have emerged as a result of chance coincidence. bats are created with a very sensitive sonar system that helps them find their way in darkness. try to interpret the fact that living species came into existence in a particular order as an indication of evolution. without any evolutionary process. Such dissimilar animals as bats.60 volutionists propose that all mammal species evolved from a common ancestor. horses. Contrary to the "ape man" story that is imposed on the masses with intense media propaganda. These complex A bat fossil aged 50 systems. Eric Lombard makes this point in an article that appeared in the leading journal Evolution: Those searching for specific information useful in constructing phylogenies of mammalian taxa will be disappointed. However. Yet the sequence by which living things emerged is the "order of creation". and whales are all mammals. man also emerged on earth suddenly and fully formed. whales. vol. and they all emerged during the same geological period. can only imitate. With a superior and flawless creation. and bats. since it is not possible to speak of an evolutionary process. mice.Origin of Birds and Mammals 79 were already very different from each other. The fossil record also demonstrates that bats came into being in their present perfect state all of a sudden and that they have not undergone any "evolutionary process". however. For example.
Abacus. Now I think that is lamentable. some more imaginative than others. and Europe solely in accordance with the rich power of evolutionists' imaginations.3 All these facts are strong evidence that the charts of horse evolution. In 1980. The most famous example. p. Today. 230 . Taylor explains this little-acknowledged truth in his book The Great Evolution Mystery: But perhaps the most serious weakness of Darwinism is the failure of paleontologists to find convincing phylogenies or sequences of organisms demonstrating major evolutionary change. The only common feature in these arrangements is the belief that a dog-sized creature called "Eohippus". 1980. was the ancestor of the horse (Equus). with 150 evolutionists in attendance. suggesting a gradual sequence of changes from four-toed fox-sized creatures living nearly 50 million years ago to today's much larger one-toed horse. The horse is often cited as the only fully worked-out example. But. the supposed evolutionary lines from Eohippus to Equus are totally inconsistent. But the fact is that the line from Eohippus to Equus is very erratic.60 3. That has been presented as the literal truth in textbook after textbook. Houston Chronicle. but there is no evidence that they were actually ranged in this order in time. Sphere Books. February 1984. which lived in the Eocene Period 55 million years ago.Boyce Rensberger. Instead of gradual change. still on exhibit downstairs. however. said the following about the exhibition: There have been an awful lot of stories. many evolutionists themselves frankly admit that the scenario of horse evolution is bankrupt.. which are presented as one of the most solid pieces of evidence for Darwinism. It is alleged to show a continual increase in size. about what the nature of that history [of life] really is.. Harper's.The Myth of Horse Evolution ntil recently. particularly when the people who propose those kinds of stories may themselves be aware of the speculative nature of some of that stuff. London. evolutionist Boyce Rensberger noted that the scenario of the evolution of the horse has no foundation in the fossil record. are nothing but fantastic and implausible tales. not larger. Transitional forms are unknown. which by the way are totally different from each other. has long been known to be wrong. The Great Evolution Mystery. North America.15 2. November 5. to discuss the problems with gradualistic evolutionary theory. a fourday symposium was held at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. p. Specimens from different sources can be brought together in a convincing-looking sequence. More than 20 charts of the evolution of the horse. and then become extinct. it is obvious that evolutionists have reached no common agreement on these family trees.Colin Patterson.1 The well-known paleontologist Colin Patterson. 1. South Africa. an imaginary sequence supposedly showing the evolution of the horse was advanced as the principal fossil evidence for the theory of evolution.2 Then what is the basis for the scenario of the evolution of the horse? This scenario was formulated by means of the deceitful charts devised by the sequential arrangement of fossils of distinct species that lived at vastly different periods in India.Gordon Rattray Taylor. Thus. 1984. and that no evolutionary proccess has been observed that would account for the gradual evolution of horses: U The popularly told example of horse evolution. persist unchanged. In addressing the meeting. a director of the Natural History Museum in London where "evolution of the horse" diagrams were on public display at that time on the ground floor of the museum. but the truth is that some variants were smaller than Eohippus. have been proposed by various researchers. fossils of each intermediate species appear fully distinct. The evolutionist science writer Gordon R. is the exhibit on horse evolution prepared perhaps fifty years ago. p.
clearly reflected our current ideologies instead of the actual data". the reconstructed drawings or models become totally dependent on the imagination of the person producing them. due to the speculative nature of the interpretation of the soft tissues. these reconstructions best serve the purpose of evolutionists. the ears. Reconstruction can be explained as drawing a picture or constructing a model of a living thing based on a single bonesometimes only a fragment-that has been unearthed. in the past. any conjecture based on them is likely to be completely speculative. David R. Earnst A. an eminent anthropologist from Harvard. The "ape-men" we see in newspapers. As a matter of fact. magazines. since the really distinctive morphological features of any animal are soft tissues which quickly vanish after death. This propaganda method makes use of "reconstructions" made in reference to fossils. we have to highlight one particular point: Reconstructions based on bone remains can only reveal the most general characteristics of the creature. or films are all reconstructions. data are still so sparse that theory heavily influences interpretations.CHAPTER 7 Deceptive Fossil Interpretations efore going into the details of the myth of human evolution. which is to convince people that these reconstructed creatures really existed in the past. Therefore. stresses this fact when he says: "At least in paleoanthropology. and the nasal tip leave no clues on the underlying bony parts. You can with equal facility model on a Neanderthaloid skull . Theories have. At this point. Pilbeam. Since fossils are usually fragmented and incomplete. the eyes. we need to mention the propaganda method that has convinced the general public of the idea that half-man half-ape creatures once lived in the past. Hooten from Harvard University explains the situation like this: B To attempt to restore the soft parts is an even more hazardous undertaking. The lips. the reconstructions (drawings or models) made by the evolutionists based on fossil remains are prepared speculatively precisely to validate the evolutionary thesis.61 Since people are highly affected by visual information.
evolutionists deliberately give shape to features that do not actually leave any fossil traces. and other bodily hair so as to support evolution. hunting. However. They also prepare detailed pictures depicting these imaginary creatures walking with their families.Imaginary and Deceptive Drawings In pictures and reconstructions. or in other instances of their daily lives. such as the structure of the nose and lips. . the form of the eyebrows. the shape of the hair. these drawings are all figments of the imagination and have no counterpart in the fossil record.
1964 Maurice Wilson's drawing N.Parker's reconstruction N. .62 As a matter of fact. For example. the three different reconstructed drawings made for the fossil named Australopithecus robustus (Zinjanthropus). are a famous example of such forgery.Deceptive Fossil Interpretations 83 THREE DIFFERENT RECONSTRUCTIONS BASED ON THE SAME SKULL Appeared in Sunday Times April 5. evolutionists invent such "preposterous stories" that they even ascribe different faces to the same skull. Yet these seem innocent when compared to the deliberate forgeries that have been perpetrated in the history of evolution. Geographic. The biased interpretation of fossils and outright fabrication of many imaginary reconstructions are an indication of how frequently evolutionists have recourse to tricks. These alleged restorations of ancient types of man have very little if any scientific value and are likely only to mislead the public… So put not your trust in reconstructions. September 1960 the features of a chimpanzee or the lineaments of a philosopher.
it was realised that the . and the fossil was presented as important evidence for human evolution. A trial was made on the fossil of the Piltdown man. is a typical example of this method. a well-known doctor and amateur paleoanthropologist named Charles Dawson came out with the assertion that he had found a jawbone and a cranial fragment in a pit in Piltdown.63 While visiting the British Museum in 1921. Alleged to be 500. the fact that these drawings correspond to no matching fossils constitutes a serious problem for them. the teeth and the skull were like a man's. many scientific articles were written on "Piltdown man". T Piltdown Man: An Orang-utan Jaw and a Human Skull! In 1912. England.CHAPTER 8 Evolution Forgeries here is no concrete fossil evidence to support the "ape-man" image.000 years old. The result was astonishing. No fewer than 500 doctoral theses were written on the subject. which may be the biggest scandal in the history of science. evolutionists produce imaginary creatures. leading American paleoanthropologist Henry Fairfield Osborn said "We have to be reminded over and over again that Nature is full of paradoxes" and proclaimed Piltdown "a discovery of transcendant importance to the prehistory of man". attempted to use "fluorine testing". nevertheless. they were displayed as an absolute proof of human evolution in several museums. a new test used for determining the date of fossils. which is unceasingly promulgated by the media and evolutionist academic circles. Even though the jawbone was more ape-like. Piltdown Man. For more than 40 years. These specimens were labelled the "Piltdown man".64 In 1949. Kenneth Oakley from the British Museum's Paleontology Department. During the test. many interpretations and drawings were made. One of the interesting methods they employ to overcome this problem is to "produce" the fossils they cannot find. With brushes in their hands.
Pieces from a human skull 3 Based on the reconstructed skull. The original skull is demonstrated in the British Museum.The Story of a Hoax The fossils are unearthed by Charles Dawson and given to Sir Arthur Smith Woodward. numerous articles and commentaries are written. Orangutan Jaw 4 After 40 years of its discovery. 1 2 Pieces are reconstructed to form the famous skull. . the Piltdown fossil is shown to be a hoax by a group of researchers. various drawings and skulptures are made.
and the jaw bone belonged to a recently deceased ape! The teeth had been specially arranged in a particular way and added to the jaw. the director of the American Museum of Natural History. Nebraska man was even pictured along with his wife and children. It was determined that the teeth in the jawbone belonging to an orangutan. An extensive scientific debate began surrounding this fossil. Henry Fairfield Osborn. this forgery was revealed to the public in 1953.65 In the detailed analysis completed by Joseph Weiner. This tooth allegedly bore common characteristics of both man and ape. reconstructions of the Nebraska man's head and body were drawn. showed that it was not older than a few thousand years old. Sir Wilfred Le Gros Clark. had been worn down artificially and that the "primitive" tools discovered with the fossils were simple imitations that had been sharpened with steel implements. Nebraska Man: A Pig's Tooth In 1922. who was in the team that uncovered the forgery. while others claimed it was closer to human beings. Many authorities gave Osborn their support. This indicated that it had remained buried no more than a few years. in which some interpreted this tooth as belonging to Pithecanthropus erectus. Based on this single tooth. The skull belonged to a 500-year-old man. Indeed so obvious did they seem it may well be asked-how was it that they had escaped notice before?"66 In the wake of all this. Then all these pieces were stained with potassium dichromate to give them an old appearance. which contained only a small amount of fluorine. which came to be called "Nebraska man". could not hide his astonishment at this situation and said: "The evidences of artificial abrasion immediately sprang to the eye. and the molar surfaces were filed in order to resemble those of a man. . "Piltdown man" was hurriedly removed from the British Museum where it had been displayed for more than 40 years. Moreover. The skull. declared that he had found a fossil molar tooth belonging to the Pliocene period in western Nebraska near Snake Brook. Hesperopithecus haroldcooki. Nebraska man was also immediately given a "scientific name". These stains began to disappear when dipped in acid. as a whole family in a natural setting.86 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT jawbone of Piltdown Man did not contain any fluorine.
he was harshly criticised. the tooth belonged neither to a man nor to an ape. his name meant "friend". In 1927. 1922. Evolutionist circles placed such faith in this "ghost man" that when a researcher named William Bryan opposed these biased conclusions relying on a single tooth. but also alive in various parts of the world. "Hesperopithecus: Apparently Not an ape Nor a man". According to these newly discovered pieces. other parts of the skeleton were also found. However.Evolution Forgeries 87 The picture on the left was drawn on the basis of a single tooth and it was published in the Illustrated London News magazine on July 24. the evolutionists were extremely disappointed when it was revealed that this tooth belonged neither to an ape-like creature nor to a man. It was realised that it belonged to an extinct species of wild American pig called Prosthennops. he started to seek fossils to support this contention. In the early 20th century. Chained and caged like an animal. but rather to an extinct pig species. Ota Benga: The African In The Cage After Darwin advanced the claim with his book The Descent of Man that man evolved from ape-like living beings. he was taken to the USA where evolutionist scientists displayed him to the public in the St Louis World Fair along with other ape species and introduced him as "the closest .67 Then all the drawings of Hesperopithecus haroldcooki and his "family" were hurriedly removed from evolutionary literature. these pursuits for "living transitional links" led to unfortunate incidents. Ota Benga was captured in 1904 by an evolutionist researcher in the Congo. William Gregory entitled the article published in Science in which he announced the truth. some evolutionists believed that "halfman half-ape" creatures were to be found not only in the fossil record. However. In his own tongue. All of these scenarios were developed from just one tooth. one of the cruellest of which is the story of a Pygmy by the name of Ota Benga. He had a wife and two children.
. the zoo's evolutionist director gave long speeches on how proud he was to have this exceptional "transitional form" in his zoo and treated caged Ota Benga as if he were an ordinary animal. a gorilla named Dinah.68 "The pygmy in the zoo" Piltdown Man. Hornaday.. Dr William T. These scandals demonstrate that evolutionist scientists do not hesitate to employ any kind of unscientific method to prove their theory. Ota Benga OTA BENGA: eventually committed suicide. they took him to the Bronx Zoo in New York and there they exhibited him under the denomination of "ancient ancestors of man" along with a few chimpanzees. Bearing this point in mind. and an orang-utan called Dohung. Ota Benga.88 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT transitional link to man". when we look at the other so-called evidence of the "human evolution" myth. Here there are a fictional story and an army of volunteers ready to try everything to verify this story. . we confront a similar situation. Nebraska Man. Two years later. Unable to bear the treatment he was subjected to.
and misleading drawings and comments. belong to human races that lived until very recently-about 10. These approximately 6. The evolutionists wrote the scenario of human evolution by arranging some of the skulls that suited their purpose in an order from the smallest to the biggest and scattering the skulls of some extinct human races among them. Throughout history. anatomical and biological findings have demonstrated that this claim of evolution is as fictitious and invalid as all the others. most of which are extinct. That is. too. except forgeries. only 120 ape species live on the earth.CHAPTER 9 The Scenario of Human Evolution n previous chapters. is a story that has never taken place. but rather emerged all of a sudden in their present perfect structure. No sound or real evidence has been put forward to prove that there is a relationship between man and ape. According to this scenario.000 ape species have lived and most of them have become extinct. distortions. more than 6. all the paleontological. Moreover. The fossil record indicates to us that throughout history. constitute a rich resource for the evolutionists.000 ape species. we saw that there are no mechanisms in nature to lead the living beings to evolve and that living species came into existence not as the result of an evolutionary process. Some of the fossils the evolutionists claim to be the ancestors of man. I . they were created individually. However. What. These creatures evolved in time and some of them became the apes of today while another group that followed another branch of evolution became the men of today. Today. Therefore. then.000 years ago-and then disappeared. do the evolutionists propose as the basis for this story? This basis is the existence of plenty of fossils on which the evolutionists are able to build up imaginary interpretations. men have been men and apes have been apes. it is obvious that "human evolution". men and modern apes have common ancestors.
"Bipedality" is one of them. According to the evolutionist claim. The Imaginary Family Tree of Man The Darwinist claim holds that modern man evolved from some kind of ape-like creature. . Homo erectus 4. Some of them are larger and strongly built (robust). is said to have formed at the latest stage of the evolution of this genus Homo. it is claimed that there existed some "transitional forms" between modern man and his ancestors. "Pekin Man". and "Lucy". Homo sapiens Evolutionists call the genus to which the alleged ape-like ancestors of man belonged "Australopithecus". The modern man of our day. Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolution as the genus Homo. Fossils like "Java Man". which means "southern ape". Australopithecines (any of the various forms belonging to the genus Australopithecus) 2. which appear in the media from time to time and are to be found in evolutionist publications and textbooks. which is supposed to have started from 4 to 5 million years ago. According to this completely imaginary scenario. and not very much different from modern man. The most important of all is that there are numerous anatomical differences between apes and men and none of them are of the kind to come into existence through an evolutionary process. the following four basic "categories" are listed: 1.90 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT many human communities currently living have the same physical appearance and characteristics as these extinct human races. which is nothing but an old type of ape that has become extinct. are included in one of the four groups listed above. Australopithecus. that is. the species Homo sapiens. Homo habilis 3. During this alleged evolutionary process. the living things in the Homo series are more developed than Australopithecus. is found in various different forms. As we will describe later on in detail. while others are smaller and delicate (gracile). bipedality is peculiar to man and it is one of the most important traits that distinguishes man from other animals. which the evolutionists claim to be the ancestors of men. All these are clear proof that man has never gone through an evolutionary process at any period in history. that is "man".
some of those humans classified as Homo erectus probably lived up until very modern times.69 By outlining the links in the chain as "australopithecines > Homo habilis > Homo erectus > Homo sapiens". his family and the environment they lived in. it was reported in the journal Science that Homo erectus fossils found in Java had "mean ages of 27 ± 2 to 53. In an article titled "Latest Homo erectus of Java: Potential Contemporaneity with Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia". by relying only on these jawbones. (on the right). Each of these groupings is also assumed to branch into species and subspecies. erectus overlapped in time with anatomically modern . as the case may be. Moreover. such as Ramapithecus. The evolutionists daringly pictured Ramapithecus.A SINGLE JAWBONE AS A SPARK OF INSPIRATION The first Ramapithecus fossil found: a missing jaw composed of two parts. recent findings by paleoanthropologists have revealed that australopithecines. Some suggested transitional forms of the past. the evolutionists imply that each of these types is the ancestor of the next. However.3 ± 4 thousand years ago" and this "raise[s] the possibility that H. had to be excluded from the imaginary human family tree after it was realised that they were ordinary apes. Homo habilis and Homo erectus existed in different parts of the world at the same time.
There are a number of different species among the astralopithecines. Robustus. Intrinsically. they walked upright like humans. However. They are short (maximum 130 cm. The fossils. This claim that australopithecines walked upright is a view that has been held by paleoanthropologists such as Richard Leakey and Donald C. and their short legs-constitute evidence that these creatures were no different from today's ape. and then A. their mandibular structure. It is assumed that these creatures first appeared in Africa about 4 million years ago. (51 in. which has relatively bigger bones. All of the Australopithecus species are extinct apes that resemble the apes of today. which evolutionists claim to be the ancestors of humans. Evolutionists assume that the oldest Australopithecus species is A. This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim that one is the ancestor of the other. Afarensis. the genus Australopithecus. Australopithecus: An Ape Species The first category. Homo sapiens neandarthalensis and Homo sapiens sapiens (modern man) also clearly co-existed. some researchers accept it as a different species. After that comes A. Yet many scientists who have carried out a great deal . their sharp molar teeth. unlike apes. evolutionists claim that. just like today's chimpanzees. Their cranial capacities are the same or smaller than the chimpanzees of our day. as we have said. As for A. Many other characteristics-such as the details in their skulls. the closeness of their eyes. means "southern ape". Then which fossils are human and which ones are apes? Is it ever possible for any one of them to be considered a transitional form? In order to find the answers. although australopithecines have the anatomy of apes. There are projecting parts in their hands and feet which they used to climb trees.)) and just like today's chimpanzees. in fact belong either to different human races. and lived until 1 million years ago. Robustus. and others as a sub-species of A. all findings and scientific research have revealed that the fossil record does not suggest an evolutionary process as evolutionists propose. sapiens) in Southeast Asia"70 Furthermore. Boisei. their long arms. let us have a closer look at each category. male Australopithecus is larger than the female. Johanson for decades.92 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT humans (H. and their feet are built for grasping to hold onto branches. Africanus. or else to species of ape.
A direct transition from Australopithecus. According to the Leakeys. have caused great difficulty for evolutionist paleoanthropologists. Homo erectus comes after Australopithecus. Charles Oxnard. which they classified as Homo habilis. Its cranial capacity is twice as large as that of Australopithecus. The concept of Homo habilis arose from this necessity. stated that Homo .71 Correspondingly. The reason is that. although Zuckerman is an evolutionist himself. Some researchers. Lord Zuckerman and his team of five specialists reached the conclusion that australopithecines were only an ordinary ape genus and were definitely not bipedal. The classification of Homo habilis was put forward in the 1960s by the Leakeys. Extensive research done on various Australopithecus specimens by two world-renowned anatomists from England and the USA. it could have been the ancestor of man. "transitional forms"-are needed. Charles E. also likened the skeletal structure of australopithecines to that of modern orang-utans. "links"-that is. Having studied the bones of these fossils for a period of 15 years thanks to grants from the British government. who is another evolutionist famous for his research on the subject. New fossils of the same species unearthed in the late 1980s. this new species. were to completely change this view. the ability to walk upright and to use stone and wooden tools. showed that these creatures did not walk upright in human manner. which has a skeleton no different from modern man's. a family of "fossil hunters". As the genus name Homo (meaning "man") implies. Therefore. Loring Brace. which is a chimpanzeelike ape. is out of the question even according to evolutionist theory. Oxnard. had a relatively large cranial capacity. such as Bernard Wood and C. Homo Habilis: The Ape that was Presented as Human The great similarity between the skeletal and cranial structures of australopithecines and chimpanzees. Australopithecines have no link with humans and they are merely an extinct ape species. to Homo erectus.72 Briefly. Lord Solly Zuckerman and Prof. who relied on those newly-found fossils. Therefore. Homo erectus is a human species and its skeleton is straight. according to the imaginary evolution scheme. and the refutation of the claim that these creatures walked upright.The Scenario of Human Evolution 93 of research on the skeletal structures of australopithecines have proved the invalidity of that argument.
This is why the protrusion has not yet formed on his skull. . Hadar. evolutionists struggled to prove that Lucy could walk upright. but the latest research has definitely established that this animal was an ordinary ape with a bent stride. For a long time. The Australopithecus aferensis AL 333-105 fossil seen below belongs to a young member of this species.Australopithecus Aferensis: An Extinct Ape The first fossil found in Ethiopia. which is to be supposed to belong to Australopithecus aferensis species: AL 288-1 or "Lucy".
aferensis is an ordinary ape species without any "humanlike" features. MODERN CHIMP . The obvious similarity verifies that A. and below is the skull of a contemporary ape.AUSTRALOPITHECUS Above is seen the skull of Australopithecus aferensis AL 444-2 fossil.
This method was based on the comparative analysis of the semi-circular canals in the inner ear of humans and apes which provided for sustaining balance. but rather unequivocally an "ape". man capable of using tools) should be classified as Australopithecus habilis. reached a similar conclusion through a totally different method. habilis specimen was even more ape-like than the Australopithecus species. Homo habilis. In short. It had long arms. Spoor. short legs and an ape-like skeletal structure just like Australopithecus. Wood and Zonneveld concluded that: Among the fossil hominids the earliest species to demonstrate the modern human morphology is Homo erectus. Its fingers and toes were suitable for climbing. "human". The detailed analyses conducted by American anthropologist Holly Smith in 1994 indicated that Homo habilis was not Homo. Homo habilis. all specialists on anatomy. that is. patterns of dental development of gracile australopithecines and Homo Habilis remain classified with African apes. Fred Spoor. Smith stated the following. Homo erectus and Homo neanderthalensis. The skull and skeletal fossil OH62 found by Tim White showed that this species had a small cranial capacity. Those of Homo erectus and Neanderthals are classified with humans. 74 Spoor.96 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT habilis (which means "skillful man".73 Within the same year. the semi-circular canal dimensions in crania from southern Africa attributed to Australopithecus and Paranthropus resemble those of the extant great apes. because Homo habilis had a lot of characteristics in common with the australopithecine apes." This meant that the H. or "skillful southern ape". Speaking of the analyses she made on the teeth of Australopithecus. Bernard Wood and Frans Zonneveld. In contrast. which was presented as a different species by some evolutionists. Wood and Zonneveld also studied a Homo habilis specimen. was in reality an ape species just like all the other australopithecines. Research carried out in the years since Wood and Brace's work has demonstrated that Homo habilis was indeed no different from Australopithecus. at all. Their 600 cc average cranial capacity is also an indication of the fact that they were apes. Their jaw was very similar to that of today's apes. Thus they concluded . Restricting analysis of fossils to specimens satisfying these criteria. in other words. and found out that "Stw 53 relied less on bipedal behavior than the australopithecines. namely Stw 53. as well as long arms and short legs which enabled them to climb trees just like modern apes do.
This mandible fossil has big incisory teeth. This fossil put an end to the assertion proposing that Homo habilis was a bipedal being able to walk upright. Its molar teeth are small. . Homo habilis was nothing but another ape species. "OH 7 Homo habilis" seen on the down left has been the fossil which best defined the mandibular features of the Homo habilis species. All these qualities make this mandible look very similar to that of today's apes. In other words. In truth.Homo Habilis: Another Extinct Ape For a long time. evolutionists argued that the creatures they called Homo habilis could walk upright. Homo habilis' mandible once more confirms that this being is actually an ape. The shape of the mandible is square. Yet. They thought that they had found a link stretching from ape to man. These fossil fragments showed that Homo habilis had long arms and short legs just like contemporary apes. the new Homo habilis fossils Tim White unearthed in 1986 and named as OH 62 disproved this assertion.
. flattish naso-alveolar clivus. Professor Tim Bromage. humans. (recalling australopithecine dished faces). Most of the paleoanthropologists accept that these fossils do not belong to a distinct species. creating an ape-like aspect. after a short while. 2. erectus. Richard Leakey. i.. it was realised that the human-like face of the KNM-ER 1470 skull. E. They have no relation whatsoever to man. which may have been deliberate. The species supposedly represented by this fossil was designated Homo rudolfensis because these fossil fragments were found in the vicinity of Lake Rudolf in Kenya. who unearthed the fossils. brought this to light by the help of computer simulations in 1992: When it [KNM-ER 1470] was first reconstructed. this creature. rather like the faces of Australopithecus. Cronin states the following on the matter: . the face was fitted to the cranium in an almost vertical position. Both Homo habilis and Australopithecus were creatures that walked stooped forward-that is to say. Yet. but that the creature called Homo rudolfensis is in fact indistinguishable from Homo habilis. was the missing link between Australopithecus and humans. they had the skeleton of an ape. i.e. which had a small cranial capacity like that of Australopithecus together with a face similar to that of present-day humans. its relatively robustly constructed face. presented the skull designated "KNM-ER 1470". as the greatest discovery in the history of anthropology.8 million years old. apes." This finding yielded two important results: 1.75 The evolutionist paleoanthropologist J. much like the flat faces of modern humans. But recent studies of anatomical relationships show that in life the face must have jutted out considerably. low maximum cranial width (on the tem- . Fossils referred to as Homo habilis did not actually belong to the genus Homo.98 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT that "Stw 53 represents an unlikely intermediate between the morphologies seen in the australopithecines and H.e. who conducts studies on human facial anatomy. According to Leakey. which he said was 2. Homo Rudolfensis: The Face Wrongly Joined The term Homo rudolfensis is the name given to a few fossil fragments unearthed in 1972. but to that of Australopithecus. which frequently appeared on the covers of scientific journals and popular science magazines was the result of the incorrect assembly of the skull fragments.
76 C. whose research was published in 1999 in Science magazine. fresh interpretations of the existing evidence. classifications like Homo habilis or Homo rudolfensis which are presented as transitional links between the australopithecines and Homo erectus are entirely imaginary. and that the fossils assigned to these categories should be attributed to the genus Australopithecus: More recently. The Cerebral Rubicon is problematic because absolute cranial capacity is of questionable biological significance. recent data. As a result of the analyses he conducted on the jaw and tooth structure of skull 1470. that none of these criteria is satisfactory. fossil species have been assigned to Homo on the basis of absolute brain size.in practice fossil hominin species are assigned to Homo on the basis of one or more out of four criteria. .. Likewise. It is now evident. Bernard Wood and Mark Collard. Wood and Collard explained that the Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis (Skull 1470) taxa are imaginary.. .77 Professor Alan Walker... But .. it would appear that ER 1470 retained a fully Australopithecus-sized face and dentition". It has been confirmed by many researchers today that these creatures are members of the Australopithecus series. and that the language-related parts of the . as a human species-but rather should be placed in the Australopithecus genus.. Loring Brace from Michigan University came to the same conclusion. and retrodictions about their ability to fashion stone tools. maintains that this creature should not be classified as a member of Homoi. the definition and use of the genus within human evolution. This fact has been further established by two evolutionist anthropologists. and the demarcation of Homo.The Scenario of Human Evolution 99 porals). however.78 In summary.. All of their anatomical features reveal that they are species of ape. a paleoanthropologist from Johns Hopkins University who has done as much research on KNM-ER 1470 as Leakey. strong canine juga and large molars (as indicated by remaining roots) are all relatively primitive traits which ally the specimen with members of the taxon A.e. inferences about language ability and hand function. and the limitations of the paleoanthropological record invalidate existing criteria for attributing taxa to Homo. have been treated as if they are unproblematic. there is compelling evidence that language function cannot be reliably inferred from the gross appearance of the brain. africanus. he reported that "from the size of the palate and the expansion of the area allotted to molar roots. With only a few exceptions .
is not without problems.. "Homo erectus" means "man who walks upright". with the hypodigms of H. both H. The fossil record shows that there is no evolutionary link between these extinct apes and Homo. but we recommend that. Thus. for instance) and other races have protruding eyebrows (Native Australians.In other words. and its thick eyebrow projections. Habilis and H. As the name implies. Let us first examine Homo erectus. . which is referred to as the most primitive human species. There is no difference between the postcranial skeleton of modern man and that of Homo erectus. The difference between them is no greater than the difference between an Inuit and an African or a pygmy and a European. because all the available Homo erectus fossils are straight to an extent not observed in any of the australopithecines or so-called Homo habilis specimens. Cro-Magnon man (Homo sapiens sapiens). i. and finally. The primary reason for evolutionists' defining Homo erectus as "primitive".. human species that suddenly appears in the fossil record.100 cc). rudolfensis (or Homo habilis sensu lato for those who do not subscribe to the taxonomic subdivision of "early Homo") should be removed from Homo. which is smaller than the average modern man. habilis and H. The obvious taxonomic alternative. the internal evolution of the Homo genus is as follows: First Homo erectus. Creatures that are alleged to be so are actually apes that ought to be assigned to the genus Australopithecus. H. However all these classifications are really only variations and unique races in the human family.79 The conclusion of Wood and Collard corroborates the conclusion we have maintained here:"Primitive human ancestors" do not exist in history. rudolfensis assigned to it.100 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT brain are not as well localized as earlier studies had implied.e. is the cranial capacity of its skull (900-1. which is to transfer one or both of the taxa to one of the existing early hominin genera. . there are many people living today in the world who have the same cranial capacity as Homo erectus (pygmies.. Rudolfensis should be transferred to the genus Australopithecus. then so-called "archaic" Homo sapiens and Neanderthal man (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis). Evolutionists have had to separate these fossils from earlier ones by adding the qualification of "erectness". Homo Erectus and Thereafter: Human Beings According to the fanciful scheme suggested by evolutionists. However. the genus Homo is not a good genus.. for the time being.. for instance). habilis and H.
This is the reason why different evolutionist researchers have made various classifications and designations. KNM-WT 15000 or Turkana Child skeleton on the right. The evolutionist Donald Johnson describes this fossil as follows: "He was tall and skinny." . is probably the oldest and the most complete human fossil ever found.Homo erectus: An Ancient Human Race Homo erectus means "upright man".80 m. tall if he reached adolescence. These figures are within the limits of the contemporary human cranial capacity. Research made on this fossil which is said to be 1. is one of the most remarkable evidence invalidating the story of human's evolution. Above left is seen a skull which was found in Koobi Fora. Since most of the Homo erectus fossils do not have a common characteristic. The sizes of his limbs totally matched with that of the current white North American adults. This fossil which very much resembled to the Neanderthal race. His body shape and the proportion of his limbs were the same as the current Equator Africans.6 million year old shows that this belongs to a 12 year old child who would become around 1. All the fossils included in this species belong to particular human races. Above right is a skull. Homo ergaster KNM-ER 3733. which has the obscurities in question. it is quite hard to define these men according to their skulls. Africa in 1975 which may generally define Homo erectus. The cranial capacities of all these diverse Homo erectus fossils surge between 9001100 cc.
Peking Man consists of some elements made of plaster whose originals have been lost. Therefore.83 meters tall in adolescence.80 The fossils that have made Homo erectus known to the entire world are those of Peking man and Java man in Asia. It is confirmed that the fossil was that of a 12year-old boy. (It should also be noted that some of the fossils said to be Homo erectus were included under a second species named "Homo ergaster" by some evolutionists. in time it was realised that these two fossils are not reliable. and Java Man is "composed" of a skull fragment plus a pelvic bone that was found metres away from it with no indication that these belonged to the same creature. Neanderthals are a modern human race. Homo erectus is also a modern human race. The upright skeletal structure of the fossil is no different from that of modern man. This is why the Homo erectus fossils found in Africa have gained such increasing importance. rather than on its volume. and noticed that these people were extraordinarily similar to . The American paleoanthropologist Alan Walker said that he doubted that "the average pathologist could tell the difference between the fossil skeleton and that of a modern human. who would have been 1. in the degree of protrusion of the face. Such biological variation arises when populations are geographically separated from each other for significant lengths of time. Even the evolutionist Richard Leakey states that the differences between Homo erectus and modern man are no more than racial variance: One would also see differences in the shape of the skull. Intelligence depends on the internal organisation of the brain."81 Concerning the skull. These differences are probably no more pronounced than we see today between the separate geographical races of modern humans. However. We will treat all these fossils under the classification of Homo erectus) The most famous of the Homo erectus specimens found in Africa is the fossil of "Narikotome Homo erectus" or the "Turkana Boy" which was found near Lake Turkana in Kenya. There is disagreement among the experts on this issue.102 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT It is a commonly agreed-upon fact that differences in cranial capacity do not necessarily denote differences in intelligence or abilities.83 Professor William Laughlin from the University of Connecticut made extensive anatomical examinations of Inuits and the people living on the Aleut islands."82 As we will see in the next chapter. Walker wrote that he laughed when he saw it because "it looked so much like a Neanderthal. the robustness of the brows and so on.
who are known to belong to the single species of Homo sapiens.84 It is now a more pronounced fact in the scientific community that Homo erectus is a superfluous taxon. can hardly be called "primitive". it seems justifiable to conclude that Sinanthropus [an erectus specimen] belongs within this same diverse species. widely spread species. the discussions over this issue and the result of a conference held on the subject in 2000 were summarised in this way: Most of the participants at the Senckenberg conference got drawn into a flaming debate over the taxonomic status of Homo erectus started by Milford Wolpoff of the University of Michigan. Homo sapiens. In American Scientist.85 The conclusion reached by the scientists defending the abovemen- . These humans. All members of the genus Homo. were one highly variable. who had enough knowledge and technology to build a vessel and possess a culture that made use of sea transport." News published in New Scientist on March 14th 1998 tells us that the humans called Homo Erectus by evolutionists were practicing seamanship 700 thousand years ago. The subject of the conference. from about 2 million years ago to the present. They argued forcefully that Homo erectus had no validity as a species and should be eliminated altogether. with no natural breaks or subdivisions.. The conclusion Laughlin arrived at was that all these distinct races were in fact different races of Homo sapiens (modern man). When we consider the vast differences that exist between remote groups such as Eskimos and Bushmen.. Homo erectus. Homo erectus didn't exist. and that fossils assigned to the Homo erectus class are actually not so different from Homo sapiens as to be considered a different species.The Scenario of Human Evolution 103 700 THOUSAND YEAR OLD MARINERS "Early humans were much smarter than we suspected. Alan Thorne of the University of Canberra and their colleagues.
intellectual. a truly human race. . As a result. Neanderthals were a human race. (Australopithecus. a human race. On the other hand. yet all the findings indicate that they were no different from a "robust" man walking on the street today. Neanderthals are still depicted as ape-like by evolutionists. On the other hand. There can be no clearer indication of their being created. there is a huge gap between Homo erectus. Yet. Homo Habilis. A prominent authority on the subject. and the apes that preceded Homo erectus in the "human evolution" scenario.104 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT tioned thesis can be summarised as "Homo erectus is not a different species from Homo sapiens. or were assimilated by mixing with other races. In their Homo erectus reconstructions. they humanise apes like Australopithecus or Homo Habilis. admitting this fact is totally against the dogmatic philosophy and ideology of evolutionists. with similar drawing methods. a paleoanthropologist from New Mexico University writes: Detailed comparisons of Neanderthal skeletal remains with those of modern humans have shown that there is nothing in Neanderthal anatomy that conclusively indicates locomotor. and who disappeared. Evolutionists have tried very hard to present them as a "primitive species". as a half-ape creature. or linguistic abilities inferior to those of modern humans. a fact which is admitted by almost everybody today. they tenaciously draw simian features. they seek to "approximate" apes and human beings and close the gap between these two distinct living classes. but rather a race within Homo sapiens". quietly but quickly 35. manipulative.86 FALSE MASKS: Although no different from modern man. Erik Trinkaus.000 years ago.000 years ago in Europe. This means that the first men appeared in the fossil record suddenly and without any prior evolutionary history. Neanderthals Neanderthals were human beings who suddenly appeared 100. they try to portray Homo erectus. Their only difference from modern man is that their skeletons are more robust and their cranial capacity slightly bigger. and Homo rudolfensis). With this method.
Although the Cro-Magnon is considered to be a European race. the structure and volume of Cro-Magnon's cranium look very much like those of some races living in Africa and the tropics today. as there are only very minor differences between them and modern human beings.000 and even 740.000 years ago. it is estimated that Cro-Magnon was an archaic African race.600 cc is above the average for contemporary man. The reason why two different terms are used to define the same human racial type is the disagreements among evolutionists. Like Homo sapiens (archaic). It is estimated that Cro-Magnon man lived 30. All the fossils included under the Homo heidelbergensis classification suggest that people who were anatomically very similar to modern Europeans lived 500. evolutionists do not have much to say about these fossils. Relying on this similarity. As a result. an inward-inclined mandibular structure.000 years ago. . Neanderthals are a "robust" human race that simply disappeared in time. His cranium of 1. To put it precisely. Some other paleoanthropological finds have shown that the Cro-Magnon and the Neanderthal races intermixed and laid the foundations for the races of our day. first in England and then in Spain.The Scenario of Human Evolution 105 Many contemporary researchers define Neanderthal man as a subspecies of modern man and call him "Homo sapiens neandertalensis". His skull has thick eyebrow projections and a bony protrusion at the back that is characteristic of both Neanderthal man and Homo erectus. and point to native Australians as an example. The group characterised as Homo heilderbergensis in evolutionist literature is in fact the same as archaic Homo sapiens. In fact. and a slightly smaller cranial capacity. Some researchers even state that representatives of this race are still living today. Homo Sapiens Archaic. native Australians also have thick protruding eyebrows. Homo Heilderbergensis and Cro-Magnon Man Archaic Homo sapiens is the last step before contemporary man in the imaginary evolutionary scheme. The findings testify that Neanderthals buried their dead. fashioned musical instruments. and had cultural affinities with the Homo sapiens sapiens living during the same period. none of these human beings were "primitive species". He has a dome-shaped cranium and a broad forehead.
However it is estimated that the owner of this fossil had been 1.80 m. . this fossil is among the important pieces of evidence definitely destroying the claims that Neanderthals were a primitive species. Amud 1 skull found in Israel. Neanderthal man is generally known to be robust yet short.Neanderthals: A Robust People Above is seen Homo sapiens Neanderthalensis. His cranial capacity is the largest ever seen: 1740cc. Because of all these. high.
Australopithecus and Homo habilis were reclassified as apes. then with H. are thought to have lived until 1. is known to be as old as from 2. In order for such a family tree to represent the truth. of which it is alleged to have been the "ancestor". a gradual evolution from ape to man must have taken place and a fossil record of this process should be able to be found.7 to 1. cranial capacities.8 million years ago. Homo habilis. Australopithecus lived from 4 million up until 1 million years ago.5 to 2. while Homo erectus was reclassified as a fully modern human. According to evolutionist estimates. On the other hand.) Another significant finding proving that there can be no family-tree relationship among these different species is that species that are presented as ancestors of others in fact lived concurrently. turned into Homo erectus.The Scenario of Human Evolution 107 They were different human beings who lived in earlier times and either assimilated and mixed with other races. (We already mentioned that on the basis of recent research done in 1994 on the inner ear. Alan Walker confirms this fact by stating that "there is evidence from East Africa for late-surviving small Australopithecus individuals that were contemporaneous first with H. and such criteria as walking upright or bent sharply forward distinguish humans from apes. Homo rudolfensis is nearly 1 million years older than Homo habilis.8 million years! That is to say. there is no such chronological order to be seen in the fossil record. which is said to have been more "advanced" than Homo habilis. the age of Homo erectus goes as far back as 1. there is a huge gap between apes and humans. The creatures classified as Homo habilis. erectus. or became extinct and disappeared from history."87 Louis Leakey has found fossils of Australopithecus. on the other hand. Habilis. in turn. as evolutionists claim. Homo habilis and Homo . Homo rudolfensis. which means that Homo erectus appeared on the earth in the same time frame as its socalled ancestor. If. which.6-1. however. the periods they lived in should necessarily have followed each other. However. Species Living in the Same Age as Their Ancestors What we have investigated so far forms a clear picture: The scenario of "human evolution" is a complete fiction. In fact. Australopithecus changed into Homo habilis. Skeletal structures.9 million years ago.
in the Kanjera region around Lake Victoria in Kenya. none clearly derived from another? Moreover. who was a paleontologist from Harvard University.108 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT 26. On the island of Java. Homo erectus remains were found that are 27.000 years before our time.000 years old. in the Bed II layer. Edgar From Lucy to Language. Stephen Jay Gould.000 years old.89 When we move on from Homo erectus to Homo sapiens. africanus. habilis). p.90 The Secret History of Homo Sapiens The most interesting and significant fact that nullifies the very basis of the imaginary family tree of evolutionary theory is the unexpectedly ancient history of modern man. and H. Paleoanthropological findings reveal that Homo sapiens people who looked exactly like us were living as long as 1 million years ago. (D. the robust australopithecines. we again see that there is no family tree to talk about. Leakey found several fossils that belonged to the Middle Pleistocene and that were no different from modern .88 There is definitely no such family tree. There is evidence showing that Homo erectus and archaic Homo sapiens continued living up to 27. In 1932.000-year-old Homo erectus skulls have been found. some 13. explained this deadlock faced by evolution.000 years and even as recently as 10.000 YEAR OLD NEEDLE: An interesting fossil showing that the Neanderthals had knowledge of clothing: A needle 26. In the Kow Swamp in Australia. B. the famous evolutionist paleoanthropologist. It was Louis Leakey. who discovered the first findings on this subject. 99) erectus almost next to each other in the Olduvai Gorge region of Tanzania. Johanson. none of the three display any evolutionary trends during their tenure on earth. although he was an evolutionist himself: What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting lineages of hominids (A.
000 years since the child died. Homo sapiens did not live 800. something inflated-you know. a fossil unearthed in Spain in 1995 revealed in a very remarkable way that the history of Homo sapiens was much older than had been assumed. Discover. We don't expect cassettes and tape recorders in the Lower Pleistocene. it had been 800. Therefore... That would be very surprising. The fossil revealed the face of an 11-year-old boy who looked entirely like modern man. put the 800 thousand-yearold human face on its cover with the evolutionists' question "Is this the face of our past?". they were dismissed by some evolutionist paleoanthropologists. something large. Ferreras said: We expected something big. Not finding fossils. But the most spectacular thing is finding something you thought belonged to the present. who lead the Gran Dolina excavation.91 Since these discoveries turned the evolutionary family tree upside down. Discover magazine covered the story in great detail in its December 1997 issue. To me this is most spectacular-these are the kinds of things that shake you. Yet. Finding a modern face 800.000 years ago-it's the same thing. We were very surprised when we saw it. One of the most popular periodicals of the evolutionist literature. However. and it's okay. the evolutionists who discovered the fossil decided that it belonged to a different species. in the past. Our expectation of an 800..000-year-old boy was something like Turkana Boy.000 years ago.92 The fossil highlighted the fact that the history of Homo sapiens had to be extended back to 800. And what we found was a totally modern face. something primitive. Yet Leakey always contended that his estimates were correct.The Scenario of Human Evolution 109 man. finding fossils is unexpected too. they made up an imaginary species called "Homo antecessor" and included the Atapuerca skull under this classification. Finding something totally unexpected like that. It's like finding something like-like a tape recorder in Gran Dolina. The fossil in question was uncovered in a cave called Gran Dolina in the Atapuerca region of Spain by three Spanish paleoanthropologists from the University of Madrid.000 years ago. This fossil even shook the convictions of Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras. the Middle Pleistocene was a million years ago. Just when this controversy was about to be forgotten. because according to the evolutionary family tree. . After recovering from the initial shock.
today. by Mary Leakey in 1977. Footprints of Modern Man. The unusual aspect of the event was that this construction. Tanzania. Here. Here. One of these important finds is the footprints found in Laetoli.110 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT A Hut 1. The results were the same. such as Donald Johanson and Tim White. and a four-year old were asked what it was. in the Bed II layer.93 This discovery must surely invalidate the evolutionary theory that claims that modern men evolved from ape-like species such as Australopithecus. The footprints found by Mary Leakey were later examined by a number of famous paleoanthropologists. he would instantly say that somebody had walked there. Louis Robbins from the University of North California made the following comments: . and more importantly. 3.6 Million Years Old! Indeed. Homo erectus and modern man must have co-existed approximately 1. It looked like the structure Leakey found in the same layer (Bed huts used by some Africans II). some other discoveries trace the origins of modern man back to 1. Homo Habilis and Homo erectus species had co-existed at the Findings of a 1. He wouldn't be able to tell it from a hundred other prints on the beach. These footprints were found in a layer that was calculated to be 3.7 million-yearsame time...7 million years ago. . Australopithecus. Leakey discovered that Australopithecus. If one were left in the sand of a California beach today. could only have been built by Homo sapiens! So.000 years. according to Leakey's findings. he found the remains of a stone hut. nor would you. White wrote: Make no mistake about it. What is even more interesting was a old hut shocked the scientific community. One of them is a discovery by Louis Leakey in the early 1970s in Olduvai Gorge. Homo habilis.7 million years ago.94 After examining the footprints.6 million years old. they were no different from the footprints that a contemporary man would leave.They are like modern human footprints. which is still used in some parts of Africa.7 Million Years Old There have been many findings demonstrating that Homo sapiens dates back even earlier than 800.
.The Scenario of Human Evolution 111 The arch is raised-the smaller individual had a higher arch than I do-and the big toe is large and aligned with the second toe… The toes grip the ground like human toes. and moreover..96 Impartial examinations of the footprints revealed their real owners.97 The Laetoli footprints belonged to modern humans. This situation put the Laetoli footprints at the centre of discussions for years. however they were millions of years old. To put it briefly.5-million-year-old footprint traits at Laetoli site G resemble those of habitually unshod modern humans. In all discernible morphological features. who also examined the footprints wrote: A small barefoot Homo sapiens could have made them.6 million years old could not have belonged to Australopithecus.6 million years ago.. these footprints that were supposed to be 3. During the 1990s. You do not see this in other animal forms. Russell H. However. Australopithecus afarensis. The only reason . it was impossible for a Homo species to have existed 3. the 3. In reality.. the feet of the individuals that made the trails are indistinguishable from those of modern humans. the following "explanation" started to take shape: The evolutionists decided that these footprints must have been left by an Australopithecus. we would readily conclude that there had been made by a member of our genus. a modern human (Homo sapiens). we should shelve the loose assumption that the Laetoli footprints were made by Lucy's kind. as it was hard for them to accept the fact that a modern man had been walking on the earth 3. Russell Tuttle.6 years ago.95 Examinations of the morphological form of the footprints showed time and again that they had to be accepted as the prints of a human. If the G footprints were not known to be so old. In any case. They were certainly modern people like us. Homo. Tuttle wrote the following in an article in 1990: In sum. these footprints consisted of 20 fossilised footprints of a 10-year-old modern human and 27 footprints of an even younger one. because according to their theory. Evolutionist paleoanthropologists desperately tried to come up with an explanation. None of their features suggest that the Laetoli hominids were less capable bipeds than we are.
.L. One of these has to do with the manner of walking. and even then only for a short time. the theory of evolution is not science.169) why the footprints were thought to have been left by members of Australopithecus was the 3. Animals like bears and monkeys can move in this way only rarely. Johanson.. From Lucy to Language. such as when they want to reach a source of food. then. This is a very special form of locomotion not seen in any other mammalian species. (D. Some other animals do have a limited ability to move when they stand on their two hind feet.112 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Another example showing the invalidity of the imaginary family tree devised by evolutionists: a modern human (Homo sapiens) mandible aged 2. p. The prints were ascribed to Australopithecus purely on the assumption that humans could not have lived so long ago. Evolutionist publications seek to gloss it over by referring to it as "a very startling discovery". This mandible coded A. These interpretations of the Laetoli footprints demonstrate one important fact. The Bipedalism Impasse of Evolution Apart from the fossil record that we have dealt with so far. Evolutionists support their theory not based on scientific findings. unbridgeable anatomical gaps between men and apes also invalidate the fiction of human evolution. as evolutionists claim? Of course not. but in spite of them. their skeletons lean forward and they walk on all fours. Briefly. Well. with all new findings that cast the theory into doubt being either ignored or distorted to support the theory. Human beings walk upright on two feet. but a dogma kept alive despite science. 666-1 was unearthed in Hadar. Here we have a theory that is blindly defended no matter what. Research has shown that the evolution of bipedalism .6-million-year-old volcanic layer in which the footprints were found. has bipedalism evolved from the quadrupedal gait of apes.3 million years. Blake Edgar. Ethiopia. Normally.
Crompton reached the following conclusion: A living being can either walk upright. Many other issues still remain unexplained. an evolutionist paleoanthropologist. he is one of the most unprotected of all species in nature in terms of movement and defence. like a chimpanzee. since man walks on two feet. 2) 'We do not yet know'. he moves much more slowly on the ground. with the computerised research he conducted in 1996. nor run at a speed of 125 km per hour. For years. such as brain capacity. humans should instead have evolved to become quadrupedal. 4) 'We do not yet know'. monkeys should not have evolved to adopt a bipedal stride. and more efficient than man's bipedal stride. like a cheetah. On the contrary. nor is it possible for it to have done so. Man can neither move by jumping from tree to tree without descending to the ground. The list of questions could be considerably lengthened without affecting the monotony of the answers. 3) 'We do not yet know'. First of all. bipedalism is not an evolutionary advantage. he studied the fossil record and con- . faster.99 Evolution: An Unscientific Faith Lord Solly Zuckerman is one of the most famous and respected scientists in the United Kingdom. makes the following confession in relation to this matter: Four of the most outstanding mysteries about humans are: 1) why do they walk on two legs? 2) why have they lost their fur? 3) why have they developed such large brains? 4) why did they learn to speak? The orthodox answers to these questions are: 1) 'We do not yet know'. According to the logic of evolution.The Scenario of Human Evolution 113 never occurred. The immense gap between man and ape is not limited solely to bipedalism.98 A type of stride between the two is impossible because it would involve excessive energy consumption. and so on. However. showed that such a "compound" stride was not possible. or on all fours. The way in which monkeys move is much easier. This model. which constitutes the basis of evolution. Elaine Morgan. For the same reason. Another impasse of the evolutionary claim is that bipedalism does not serve the "gradual development" model of Darwinism. requires that there should be a "compound" stride between bipedalism and quadrupedalism. the ability to talk. This is why a half-bipedal being cannot exist. the English paleoanthropologist Robin Crompton.
writes in that journal. an important publication on the origins of man. Zuckerman is an evolutionist. Zuckerman explains his reasoning as follows: We then move right off the register of objective truth into those fields of presumed biological science.114 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Recent researches reveal that it is impossible for the bent ape skeleton fit for quadrupedal stride to evolve into upright human skeleton fit for bipedal stride. his comments on evolution can not be regarded as ignorant or prejudiced. the most "scientific"-that is.and where the ardent believer is sometimes able to believe several contradictory things at the same time. According to Zuckerman's spectrum. Therefore. are "extra-sensory perception"-concepts such as telepathy and the "sixth sense"-and finally "human evolution". which is the part considered to be most "unscientific". depending on concrete data-fields are chemistry and physics. After years of research on the fossils included in the human evolution scenario however. ranging from those he considered scientific to those he considered unscientific. After them come the biological sciences and then the social sciences. he reached the conclusion that there is no truth to the family tree in that is put forward. quoting the confession of the famous evolutionist paleoantropologist Tim White: We're all frustrated by "all the questions we haven't been able to answer." 101 Locke's article reviews the impasse of the theory of evolution on the ori- . "The search for human ancestors gives more heat than light". At the far end of the spectrum.100 Robert Locke. ducted many detailed investigations. the editor of Discovering Archeology. Zuckerman also advanced an interesting concept of the "spectrum of the sciences". where to the faithful anything is possible . He was elevated to the peerage for his contributions to science. like extrasensory perception or the interpretation of man's fossil history.
perhaps even instructive.103 What. Elite paleontologists disagree over even the most basic outlines of the human family tree. New branches grow amid great fanfare. the truth is evident: Man has come into existence not through an evolutionary process but by God's creation. but not scientific. published in 1999. creation is an unacceptable concept for evolutionists.102 The same fact was also recently accepted by Henry Gee. then. In his book In Search of Deep Time. . the editor of the well-known journal Nature. However. at the cost of having to admit countless conflicts and discarding the evidence they have found? The only answer is their being afraid of the fact they will have to face in case of abandoning the theory of evolution. For this reason. If they cannot find the necessary fossils. but an assertion that carries the same validity as bedtime story-amusing. as well as the world. by using the media with which they co-operate. A part of mass media who share their materialistic point of view also try to deceive the public and instil the story of evolution in people's subconscious. shaped to accord with human prejudices" and adds: To take a line of fossils and claim that they represent a lineage is not a scientific hypothesis that can be tested. they deceive themselves. No matter how hard they try.The Scenario of Human Evolution 115 gins of man and the groundlessness of the propaganda spread about this subject: Perhaps no area of science is more contentious than the search for human origins. only to wither and die in the face of new fossil finds. they "fabricate" them either in the form of imaginary pictures or fictitious models and try to give the impression that there indeed exist fossils verifying evolution. Gee points out that all the evidence for human evolution "between about 10 and 5 million years ago-several thousand generations of living creatures-can be fitted into a small box. is the reason that make so many scientists so tenacious about this dogma? Why have they been trying so hard to keep their theory alive. considering the presuppositions they have and the materialistic philosophy they believe in. Therefore. he is responsible to Him however unwilling he may be to assume this responsibility." He concludes that conventional theories of the origin and development of human beings are "a completely human invention created after the fact. The fact they will have to face when they abandon evolution is that God has created man.
In the following pages. pressed between the rocks in a barren land. No one in the world has ever succeeded in forming a living cell by bringing inanimate materials together. not even in the most advanced laboratories. a lump of clay. because the theory of evolution collapses long before one gets to any claims about the evidence of fossils. According to this scenario. . then there is nothing to prevent one from believing a similar story that we will relate below. there was no need for us to relate any of that. The theory of evolution claims that a living cell-which cannot be produced even when all the power of the human intellect. I The Tale of the "Cell Produced by Chance" If one believes that a living cell can come into existence by coincidence. we will examine why this claim is contrary to the most basic principles of science and reason. knowledge and technology are brought to bear-nevertheless managed to form by chance under primordial conditions of the earth. four billion years ago various lifeless chemical compounds underwent a reaction in the primordial atmosphere on the earth in which the effects of thunderbolts and atmospheric pressure led to the formation of the first living cell. we have shown how the fossil record invalidates the theory of evolution.Chapter 10 The Molecular Impasse of Evolution n previous sections of this book. When it addresses this question. evolutionary theory claims that life started with a cell that formed by chance. It is the story of a town: One day. Life is only generated from life. The subject that renders the theory meaningless from the very outset is the question of how life first appeared on earth. The first thing that must be said is that the claim that inanimate materials can come together to form life is an unscientific one that has not been verified by any experiment or observation. In point of fact. Each living cell is formed by the replication of another cell.
Moreover. having been randomly dragged along by the effects of natural conditions such as winds. . iron for the columns. carpentry. which are also later to be formed by coincidence. This goes on until hundreds and thousands of the same bricks have been formed in the same place. It takes only the skill of "natural conditions" to shape and place these materials inside the building. Meanwhile. with perfect timing. However. storms. etc. While all this is happening. and then a neat. none of the bricks that were previously formed are damaged. Of course. Everything has gone so well that "coincidences" and "natural conditions" produce a perfect design. are the other missing materials to be obtained? The answer is simple: all kinds of materials that are needed for the construction of the building exist in the earth on which it is erected. the bricks do not crack. All the installations. a building does not only consist of foundations. are somehow smashed into pieces. by chance. all exist under the ground in abundant quantities. iron ore under the ground is shaped under "natural conditions" and lays the foundations of a building that is to be formed with these bricks. these rocks. and cement. resistant form. and takes on a stiff. break up. which also served as a mould. rain. Although exposed to storm. they erect a building by being arranged sideways and on top of each other. Everything has gone so well that the bricks are arranged so as to leave the necessary window spaces as if they knew that something called glass would be formed later on by natural conditions. wind. they have not forgotten to leave some space to allow the installation of water. When the number of bricks is adequate. Afterwards. electricity and heating systems. or tornadoes. or get dragged away. but wait there in the same place with the same determination for other bricks to form. a complete building rises with all its materials. bricks. copper for the electric cables. and installations intact. and strong brick appears. rain. This brick waits under the same natural conditions for years for a similar brick to be formed. scorching sun. well shaped. beams. How. water pipes. Silicon for the glass. and accessories are placed among the bricks with the help of the blowing wind. materials such as cement or soil mixtures form under "natural conditions". and creep between the bricks to clamp them to each other. carpentry. At the end of this process. and freezing cold for thousands of years. then. The wet clay dries and hardens when the sun rises. and earthquakes.The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 117 becomes wet after it rains.
Earth. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. the Russian evolutionist Alexander I. conducted research. every such attempt only made clearer the complex design of the cell and thus refuted the evolutionists' hypotheses even more. 348 3. Profes- 1.Alexander I. we still face the biggest unsolved problem that we had when we entered the twentieth century: How did life originate on Earth?3 Unfortunately. (1936) NewYork: Dover Publications.1 Alexander Oparin: Since Oparin. the origin of the cell remains a question which is actually the darkest point of the complete evolution theory. The reason is that organic molecules are so complex that their formation cannot possibly be explained as being coincidental and it is manifestly impossible for an organic cell to have been formed by chance. p. Vol 13. which was published in 1936: T sor Klaus Dose. the president of the Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Johannes Gutenberg. 4. p.196. 40 . Origin of Life. 1988. No.Klaus Dose. 2. February 1998.2 The following statement by the geochemist Jeffrey Bada from San Diego Scripps Institute makes clear the helplessness of evolutionists concerning this impasse: Today as we leave the twentieth century. states: More than 30 years of experimentation on the origin of life in the fields of chemical and molecular evolution have led to a better perception of the immensity of the problem of the origin of life on Earth rather than to its solution. Oparin.Confessions from Evolutionists he theory of evolution faces no greater crisis than on the point of explaining the emergence of life. evolutionists have performed countless experiments. At present all discussions on princiJeffrey Bada pal theories and experiments in the field either end in stalemate or in a confession of ignorance. However.Jeffrey Bada. p. Evolutionists confronted the question of the origin of life in the second quarter of the 20th century. One of the leading authorities of the theory of molecular evolution. 1953 (Reprint). said this in his book The Origin of Life. "The Origin of Life: More Questions Than Answers". and made observations to prove that a cell could have been formed by chance. Oparin.
sidewalks. a databank where all the necessary information about all products to be produced is recorded. You may well be honoured with academic awards for your clever studies. is no less absurd than our story. advanced laboratories and refineries for breaking down external raw materials into their useable parts. W. and specialised cell membrane proteins to control the incoming and outgoing materials. which claims that life came into existence by chance. The theory of evolution. Thorpe. plants. Today we know that the cell contains power stations producing the energy to be used by the cell. H."104 A cell is so complex that even the high level of technology attained . with all its operational systems. substructures. by man. acknowledges that "The most elementary type of cell constitutes a 'mechanism' unimaginably more complex than any machine yet thought up. complex transportation systems and pipelines for carrying raw materials and products from one place to another. then you should have no trouble surmising how the town's other buildings. ascribing life to "coincidences and natural conditions" was thought by evolutionists to be convincing enough. and systems of communication. and transportation systems came about. shedding light on the nature of humanity. for. an evolutionist scientist. transportation and management. If you possess technical knowledge and are fairly conversant with the subject. and may consider yourself a genius. And these constitute only a small part of this incredibly complex system. The Miracle in the Cell and the End of Evolution The complex structure of the living cell was unknown in Darwin's day and at the time. highways. communications. The technology of the 20th century has delved into the tiniest particles of life and has revealed that the cell is the most complex system mankind has ever confronted. factories manufacturing the enzymes and hormones essential for life. let alone constructed. you can even write an extremely "scientific" book of a few volumes stating your theories about "the evolutionary process of a sewage system and its uniformity with the present structures".The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 119 If you have managed to sustain your belief in this story so far. a cell is no less complex than a city.
On the surface of the cell we would see millions of openings." . in his book entitled Evolution: A Theory in Crisis. like port holes of a vast space ship. What we would then see would be an object of unparalelled complexity and adaptive design. opening and closing to allow a continual stream of materials to flow in and out.The Complexity of the Cell The cell is the most complex and most elegantly designed system man has ever witnessed.... (a complexity) beyond our own creative capacities. which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man. If we were to enter one of these openings we would find ourselves in a world of supreme technology and bewildering complexity. we must magnify a cell a thousand million times until it is twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant airship large enough to cover a great city like London or New York.. a reality which is the very antithesis of chance. explains this complexity with an example: "To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by molecular biology. Professor of biology Michael Denton.
To give another example. the cell cannot remain alive. If only one of these organelles fails to function. Hoyle stated that the chance that higher life forms might have emerged in this way is comparable to the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein. Indeed. The cell does not have the chance to wait for unconscious mechanisms like natural selection or mutation to permit it to develop. with all the intelligence. of just one single protein out of the thousands of complex protein molecules making up the cell is impossible. The formation. These units constitute the building blocks of a living protein. Although an evolutionist himself. and therefore it must definitely have been "created". and this definitely means that this cell had to have been created. The simplest protein is composed of 50 amino acids. A living cell maintains itself with the harmonious co-operation of many organelles. the first cell on earth was necessarily a complete cell possessing all the required organelles and functions. but evolution fails even to account for the building-blocks of a cell. but there are some that contain thousands. 1981.The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 121 today cannot produce one. all attempts to do so have been abandoned. Proteins are giant molecules consisting of smaller units called "amino acids" that are arranged in a particular sequence in certain quantities and structures. the probability of forming of a cell by chance is about the same as that of producing a perfect copy of a book following an explosion in a printing-house. One of the basic reasons why the theory of evolution cannot explain how the cell came into existence is the "irreducible complexity" in it. Proteins Challenge Chance So much for the cell. knowledge and technology at its disposal. under natural conditions. The English mathematician and astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle made a similar comparison in an interview published in Nature magazine on November 12. cannot succeed in reproducing-came into existence "by chance" under the conditions of the primordial earth. . No effort to create an artificial cell has ever met with success.105 This means that it is not possible for the cell to have come into being by coincidence. The theory of evolution claims that this system-which mankind. Thus.
Furthermore.) Of all these possible sequences. The result beggars even the concept of impossibility.122 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT The crucial point is this. The probability of this "1" to occur is practically nil. One of the smallest bacteria ever discovered. since it is too wondrous to be explained by coincidence. When we proceed one step further in the evolutionary scheme of life. In this case. only one forms the desired protein molecule. we see that even the word "impossible" is insufficient to describe the true situation. we would have to repeat the probability calculations we have made above for one protein for each of these 600 different types of proteins. Mycoplasma hominis H39. probabilities smaller than 1 over 1050 are thought of as "zero probability"). as will be discussed later. For instance. we observe that one single protein means nothing by itself. The rest of them are amino-acid chains that are either totally useless or else potentially harmful to living things. In other words. a protein molecule of 288 amino acids is a rather modest one compared with some giant protein molecules consisting of thousands of amino acids. an average-sized protein molecule composed of 288 amino acids. (In practice. (Furthermore the theory cannot even substantiate the claim of the accidental formation of amino acids. The theory of evolution. The absence. (This is an astronomically huge number. Every amino acid has to be in the right place and in the right order. which claims that life emerged as a result of chance. consisting of 1 followed by 300 zeros. or replacement of a single amino acid in the structure of a protein causes the protein to become a useless molecular heap. the probability of the formation of only one protein molecule is "1 in 10300". contains 600 "types" of proteins. Some people reading these lines who have so far accepted the theory of evolution as a scientific explanation may suspect that these numbers are . When we apply similar probability calculations to these giant protein molecules.) The fact that it is quite impossible for the functional structure of proteins to come about by chance can easily be observed even by simple probability calculations that anybody can understand. and contains twelve different types of amino acids can be arranged in 10300 different ways. is quite helpless in the face of this order. addition.
it is not possible for amino acids to form proteins by chance. William Stokes. admits this fact in his book Essentials of Earth History. writing that the probability is so small "that it would not occur during billions of years on billions of planets.106 However. a prominent evolutionist scientist. answers the question: When one examines the vast number of possible structures that could result . Blum. a professor of chemistry. From protein synthesis to hormonal communications. exaggerated and do not reflect the true facts. it is possible to see proteins in action. no matter how long the given period may be. they go on defending this impossibility.The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 123 Proteins are the most vital elements for living things. No evolutionist can object to these numbers. Harold F. Nevertheless. states that "The spontaneous formation of a polypeptide of the size of the smallest known proteins seems beyond all probability." 108 So what does all this mean? Perry Reeves. each covered by a blanket of concentrated watery solution of the necessary amino acids. which is creation. For example. but also play key roles in the body chemistry. instead of accepting the other explanation. They accept that the probability of the coincidental formation of a single protein is "as unlikely as the possibility of a monkey writing the history of humanity on a typewriter without making any mistakes"." 107 Evolutionists claim that molecular evolution took place over a very long period of time and that this made the impossible possible. This situation is in fact acknowledged by many evolutionists. They not only combine to make up living cells. an American geologist. That is not the case: these are definite and concrete facts.
neither on this planet nor on any other. it is billions of times "more impossible" for some one million of those proteins to come together properly by chance and make up a complete cell.000 zeros after the 1) A professor of applied mathematics and astronomy from University College Cardiff. In addition to the proteins.111 Sir Fred Hoyle comments on these implausible numbers: Indeed. by no means does a cell consist of a mere heap of proteins. Robert Shapiro. and design in terms of both structure and function.110 (This is an incredible number obtained by putting 40. a professor of chemistry at New York University and a DNA expert. a cell also includes nucleic acids. The rejection of God's existence is their main goal. .124 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT from a simple random combination of amino acids in an evaporating primordial pond. they go on defending irrational theories which they at the same time acknowledge to be impossible. carbohydrates. such a theory (that life was assembled by an intelligence) is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. For this reason alone. Each of these elements functions as a building block or comolecule in various organelles. The number that was found was 1 over 1040000. What is more. and many other chemicals such as electrolytes arranged in a specific proportion.109 If the coincidental formation of even one of these proteins is impossible. comments: The likelihood of the spontaneous formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40. equilibrium. calculated the probability of the coincidental formation of the 2000 types of proteins found in a single bacterium (There are 200.112 The reason Hoyle used the term "psychological" is the self-conditioning of evolutionists not to accept that life could have been created. lipids.000 different types of proteins in a human cell).000 noughts after it. and if the beginnings of life were not random. It is more plausible that a Great Builder with a master plan would be required for such a task. It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. Wales. vitamins. they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence. it is mind-boggling to believe that life could have originated in this way.. Chandra Wickramasinghe. There was no primeval soup. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific..
In some cases. Moreover.and left-handed amino acids in their constitution. the right. it is not enough for the amino acids . each of the 20 different types of amino acids present in the composition of proteins must be left-handed. in the real world the proteins existing in all living organisms are made up only of left-handed amino acids. is a problem that still baffles evolutionists.The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 125 Left-handed Proteins Let us now examine in detail why the evolutionist scenario regarding the formation of proteins is impossible. However. Therefore. The difference between them is the mirror-symmetry between their three dimensional structures. from the simplest organism to the most complex. Let us for an instant suppose that life came about by chance as evolutionists claim it did. In this case. In a series of experiments. If even a single right-handed amino acid gets attached to the structure of a protein. all living things should have both right. The question of how proteins can pick out only the left-handed ones from among all amino acids. which is similar to that of a person's right and left hands. because chemically it is possible for amino acids of both types to combine with each other. and how not even a single right-handed amino acid gets involved in the life process. they produced usable lefthanded amino acids from the fractured components. Even the correct sequence of the right amino acids is still not enough for the formation of a functional protein molecule. In order for a "meaningful" protein to be generated. But one astonishing fact that has been revealed by research is that all the proteins in plants and animals on this planet. this characteristic of proteins makes the problem facing evolutionists with respect to "coincidence" even worse. Amino acids of either of these two types can easily bond with one another. as we know.and left-handed amino acids that were generated by chance should be present in roughly equal proportions in nature. In addition to these requirements. Such a specific and conscious selection constitutes one of the greatest impasses facing the theory of evolution. are made up of left-handed amino acids. surprisingly. bacteria that were exposed to right-handed amino acids immediately destroyed them. There are two different types of amino acids-as of all organic molecules-called "left-handed" and "righthanded". the protein is rendered useless.
Additionally. The probability of these amino acids forming the required sequence and functional form would generate much larger numbers. A situation similar to the left-handedness of amino acids also exists with respect to nucleotides. If we attempt to calculate the probability of an average-sized protein consisting of 400 amino acids being selected only from left-handed amino acids. in the case of the nucleic acids. is a much smaller number. or 10120. It adds that this is tantamount to tossing a coin a million times and always getting heads. DNA and RNA. states that the amino acids of all the living organisms on earth. In conclusion. the calculations become inconceivable.126 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT to be present in a particular number and sequence. which is an outspoken defender of evolution. and if we go on to work out the probabilities of even higher numbers and types of proteins. obvious though it may be. and to be combined together in the right three-dimensional design. Just for a comparison. which although vast. The Brittanica Science Encyclopaedia. have the same left-handed asymmetry. In contrast to proteins. simply because they do not want to accept the existence of "conscious intervention". and that this choice is fascinatingly related to the origin of life on earth. evolutionists still take refuge in coincidence. This is another fact that can never be explained by coincidence. it is proven beyond a shadow of doubt by the probabilities we have examined that the origin of life cannot be explained by chance. This situation once more eliminates for good the possibility of coincidence and chance. we come up with a probability of 1 in 2400. and the building blocks of complex polymers such as proteins. If we add these probabilities to each other. in which only left-handed amino acids are chosen. The same encyclopaedia states that it is impossible to understand why molecules become lefthanded or right-handed. let us remember that the number of electrons in the universe is estimated at 1079. However. the smallest units of the nucleic acids.113 If a coin always turns up heads when tossed a million times. all these amino acids have to be left-handed: not even one of them can be right-handed. Yet there is no natural selection mechanism which can identify that a righthanded amino acid has been added to the sequence and recognise that it must therefore be removed from the chain. . is it more logical to attribute that to chance. or else to accept that there is conscious intervention going on? The answer should be obvious. the preferred forms of their nucleotide components are always right-handed.
but proteins are made up of those-and only those-amino acids which are joined by "peptide" bonds. Amino acids can make different bonds with each other. In the same way. sequences. and that the rest of the time different bonds that are not present in proteins emerge. It is not enough for amino acids to be arranged in the correct numbers. in a protein molecule the joining of even one amino acid to another with a bond other than a peptide bond would make the entire molecule useless. but the faulty attachment of even one wheel would make the entire car useless. Practically speaking. To function properly. Zero Probability As can be seen below. Research has shown that amino acids combining at random combine with a peptide bond only 50% of the time.The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 127 Correct Bond is Vital The difficulties the theory of evolution is unable to overcome with regard to the development of a single protein are not limited to those we have recounted so far. That is. This is a probability only on paper. everything would seem to be in the right place. each amino acid making up a protein must be joined to others only with a peptide bond. This probability of this happening is the same as the probability of each protein's being left-handed. A comparison will clarify this point. when we consider a protein made up of 400 amino acids. Such a bond is called a "peptide bond". but with a piece of wire. no matter how complex its technology or how powerful its engine. It would be impossible for such a car to move even the shortest distance. the probability of all amino acids combining among themselves with only peptide bonds is 1 in 2399. The formation of a protein also requires that amino acid molecules with more than one arm be linked to each other only in certain ways. in the same way that it likewise must be chosen only from among left-handed forms. the probability of formation of a protein molecule made up of 500 amino acids is "1" over a number formed by placing 950 zeros next to 1. Suppose that all the parts of a car were complete and correctly assembled. there is . At first glance. with the sole exception that one of the wheels was fastened in place not with the usual nuts and bolts. and required three-dimensional structures. in such a way that its hub faced the ground. which is a number incomprehensible for the human mind.
A probability of "1 over 10950" is far beyond the limits of this definition. Even if we suppose that amino acids have combined and decomposed by a "trial and error" method without losing any time since the formation of the earth. This is that under natural conditions.000. However. in order to form a single protein molecule. a probability smaller than 1 in 1050 is statistically considered to have a "0" probability of occurring. In the "haemoglobin" molecule. let alone that of a red blood cell. As we saw earlier. the time that would be required for something with a probability of 10950 to happen would still hugely exceed the estimated age of the earth. despite the astronomical odds. which does not actually exist in real life. there is a much more important and damaging fact facing evolutionists here. . The supposed age of the earth is not sufficient to allow the formation of even a single protein by a "trial and error" method. in mathematics. because there is no trial-and-error mechanism in nature from which proteins could emerge. Is There a Trial and Error Mechanism in Nature? Finally. there are 574 amino acids. We indicated that the probability calculations made above reach astronomical levels. While the improbability of the formation of a protein molecule made up of 500 amino acids reaches such an extent. which is a vital protein. The conclusion to be drawn from all this is that evolution falls into a terrible abyss of improbability even when it comes to the formation of a single protein. Now consider this: in only one out of the billions of red blood cells in your body. we may conclude with a very important point in relation to the basic logic of probability calculations. there are "280.000" (280 million) haemoglobin molecules. we can further proceed to push the limits of the mind with higher levels of improbability. of which we have already seen some examples. which is more than the amino acids making up the protein mentioned above. The calculations we give on page across to demonstrate the probability of the formation of a protein molecule with 500 amino acids are valid only for an ideal trial-and-error environment. no period of trial and error can even start. and that these astronomical odds have no chance of actually happening.128 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT zero chance of its actually happening.
According to this: . all three basic conditions must exist simultaneously. The probability of the amino acids being left-handed: .The probability of two amino acids being combined with a "peptide bond" . In relation to this: . For instance.The probability of only one amino acid being left-handed . In order for a useful protein to be formed. all the amino acids in the chain must have been combined with a special chemical bond called a "peptide bond". The probability of the amino acids being combined with a "peptide bond": Amino acids can combine with each other with different kinds of chemical bonds.The probability of 500 amino acids all combining with peptide bonds = 1/2 = 1/2 499 150 = 1/10 150 150 = 1 chance in 10 TOTAL PROBABILITY = 1/10650 x 1/10150x 1/10150 = 1/10950 = 1 chance in 10 950 .The probability of all of those 500 amino acids being chosen correctly = 1/20 = 1/20 500 = 1/10 650 650 = 1 chance in 10 2.0 The Probability of a Protein Being Formed by Chance is Zero There are 3 basic conditions for the formation of a useful protein: First condition: that all the amino acids in the protein chain are of the right type and in the right sequence Second condition: that all the amino acids in the chain are left-handed Third condition: that all of these amino acids are united between them by forming a chemical bond called "peptide bond".The probability of all of those 500 amino acids being left-handed at the same time = 1/2 150 = 1/2500 = 1/10 = 1 chance in 10 3. In order for a protein to be formed by chance. It is calculated that the probability of the amino acids being combined not with another chemical bond but by a peptide bond is 50%. for an average molecule comprising of 500 amino acids: 1. The probability of the amino acids being in the right sequence: There are 20 types of amino acids used in the composition of proteins. The probability of the formation of a protein by chance is equal to the multiplication of the probabilities of the realisation of each of these conditions.The probability of each amino acid being chosen correctly among these 20 types .
000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.The probability of an average protein molecule made up of 500 amino acids being arranged in the correct quantity and sequence in addition to the probability of all of the amino acids it contains being only lefthanded and being combined with only peptide bonds is "1" over 10950.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. 000.000. and be arranged in a new order.000.000.000.000. 000.000.000. It is also imperative that the chain formed during the trial should not be separated and destroyed before reaching the 499th link.000.000.000.000.000. Additionally.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. These conditions mean that the probabilities we have mentioned above can only operate in a controlled environment where there is a conscious mechanism directing the beginning.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. the probability of obtaining a useful protein is "1" in 10950 only if we suppose that there exists an imaginary mechanism in which an invisible hand joins 500 amino acids at random and then.000.000. and so on.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. 000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. The trial should then be stopped to see whether or not a functional protein has yet been formed. 000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. in each trial. in the event of failure.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. everything should be split up again and then tested for another sequence. 000. 000.000.000.000.000.000.000. 000.000.000. not even one extraneous substance should be allowed to become involved.000. and each intermediate stage of the process.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. 000.000. and. 000. and it must be ensured that not even one extra amino acid is involved.000.000.000. The synthesis should be stopped after the 500th amino acid has been added.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. seeing that this is not the right combination.000.000.000.000. and where .000.000.000.000. 000.000.000.000.000. 000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. 000.000. 000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. We can write this number which is formed by putting 950 zeros next to 1 as follows: 10950 = 100.000.000.000.000. the amino acids would have to be separated one by one.000.000.000.000. 000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. the end.000.000.000. 000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. 000. In each trial.000.000.000.000 That is.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000.000. disentangles them one by one.000. and arranges them again in a different order.
The number of these is predetermined and limited. to talk of the probabilities of such an event is quite unscientific. or else join with other acids. Let us for a minute put aside all the impossibilities we have described so far. and suppose that a useful protein molecule still evolved spontaneously "by accident". Even so. Since some people are unable to take a broad view of these matters. it would need to be isolated from its natural habitat and be protected under very special conditions. huge factories. in this subject they have no fossils avail- . It is clearly impossible for such an environment to exist under natural conditions. each of which is a wonder of design and engineering. but approach them from a superficial viewpoint and assume protein formation to be a simple chemical reaction. and laboratories have to be involved. Otherwise. in which every part takes its place in a fixed order. The Evolutionary Fuss About the Origin of Life The question of "how living things first appeared" is such a critical impasse for evolutionists that they usually try not even to touch upon this subject. accidental chemical reactions taking place in an inanimate structure can only lead to simple and primitive changes. to originate as a result of haphazard chemical reactions. In fact. Medicines and many other chemical materials that we use in our daily life are made in just this way. thereby losing its particular properties and turning into a totally different and useless substance. They are at a road-block that they can by no means get around. In spite of the paleontological evolution arguments. it would either disintegrate from exposure to natural conditions on earth. or chemical compounds.The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 131 only "the correct selection of the amino acids" is left to chance. it is impossible for proteins. evolution again has no answers. because in order for this protein to survive. They try to pass over this question by saying "the first creatures came into existence as a result of some random events in water". However. For a somewhat more complex chemical material. Therefore the formation of a protein in the natural environment is logically and technically impossible. chemical plants. amino acids. they may make unrealistic deductions such as "amino acids combine by way of reaction and then form proteins". Proteins have much more complex structures than these chemicals produced by industry. Therefore.
(The experiment is also known as "Urey-Miller experiment" because of the contribution of Miller's instructor at the University of Chicago. nobody has made any further progress. . by proving that the haphazard formation of proteins is impossible. In spite of this. Aware of the fact that such studies do not support. Therefore. After this. and great technological advances have been made. Above all. Evolutionist scientists and researchers carried out laboratory experiments directed at answering these questions but these did not create much interest. this jis sufficient to prove that the whole theory is totally false and invalid. Harold Urey. and attempts were made to settle it with a series of experiments in the second quarter of the 20th century. which had constantly been avoided.132 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT able to distort and misinterpret as they wish to support their assertions. they advance it as the first stage of the supposed evolutionary process leading to life. How living organisms came into existence out of nonliving matter was an issue that evolutionists did not even want to mention for a long time. their thesis. The main question was: How could the first living cell have appeared in the primordial atmosphere on the earth? In other words. all other claims regarding the subsequent steps of evolution are also refuted.) This experiment is the only "evidence" evolutionists have with which to allegedly prove the "molecular evolution thesis". For instance. this question. eventually had to be addressed. it becomes meaningless to take some human and ape skulls and engage in speculation about them. The most generally respected study on the origin of life is the Miller experiment conducted by the American researcher Stanley Miller in 1953. evolutionist researchers deliberately avoid embarking on such experiments. Although nearly half a century has passed. what kind of explanation could evolutionists offer? The answers to the questions were sought through experiments. However. Miller's experiment is still taught in textbooks as the evolutionary explanation of the earliest generation of living things. the theory of evolution is definitely refuted from the very beginning. there is one important point to take into consideration: If any one step in the evolutionary process is proven to be impossible. but rather actually refute.
Miller analysed the chemicals which had formed at the bottom of the jar. The cells then supposedly came together over time to form multicellular living organisms. However. However. In his experiment. and observed that three out of the 20 amino acids. he added energy to the mixture to start a reaction among them. he used an electric current for this purpose. Miller used a gas mixture that he assumed to have existed on the primordial earth (but which later proved unrealistic) composed of ammonia.The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 133 Miller's Experiment Stanley Miller's aim was to demonstrate by means of an experiment that amino acids. Supposedly. which constitute the basic elements of proteins had been synthesised. and water vapour. Some of these proteins which emerged by chance formed themselves into cell membrane-like structures which "somehow" came into existence and formed a primitive cell. could have come into existence "by chance" on the lifeless earth billions of years ago. evolutionists immediately produced new scenarios. Miller's experiment was nothing but make-believe and has since proven to be false in many aspects. Miller's Experiment was Nothing but Make-believe Miller's experiment sought to prove that amino acids could form on their own in primordial earth-like conditions. amino acids had later united in the correct sequences by accident to form proteins. what Miller had managed to synthesise was only a few "inanimate" molecules. methane. the building blocks of proteins. Since these gasses would not react with each other under natural conditions. At the end of the week. Miller heated this gas mixture at 1000C for a week and added the electrical current. hydrogen. Stages following the development of amino acids were hurriedly hypothesised. This experiment aroused great excitement among evolutionists. in a state of intoxicated euphoria. and was promoted as an outstanding success. Moreover. various publications carried headlines such as "Miller creates life". but it contains inconsistencies in a number of areas: . Supposing that this energy could have come from lightning in the primordial atmosphere. Encouraged by this experiment.
P.T. In the 1980s. sure enough. According to them. hydrogen. and were unable to obtain even a single amino acid molecule. 2. rock and ice. and that it was composed of melted nickel and iron. without this trap. this kind of a conscious mechanism of isolation did not exist on the primordial earth. After a long period of silence. the Earth was a true homogeneous mixture of metal.134 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT 1. Kevin Mc Kean talks about this in an article published in Discover magazine: Miller and Urey imitated the ancient atmosphere on the Earth with a mixture of methane and ammonia.116 The American scientists J. Ferris and C. Miller isolated the amino acids from the environment as soon as they were formed. it would immediately have been destroyed. Without such a mechanism. Chen repeated Miller's experiment with an atmospheric environment that contained carbon dioxide. The primordial atmospheric environment that Miller attempted to simulate in his experiment was not realistic. .117 3. nitrogen. However these are not as appropriate as methane and ammonia for the production of organic molecules. even if one amino acid were obtained. scientists agreed that nitrogen and carbon dioxide should have been used in this artificial environment instead of methane and ammonia. The chemist Richard Bliss expresses this contradiction by observing that "Actually.115 So why did Miller insist on these gasses? The answer is simple: without ammonia. Doubtless. it has been understood that the Earth was very hot at those times. it was impossible to synthesise any amino acid."114 And. This fact. the chemical atmosphere of that time should have been formed mostly of nitrogen (N2). Had he not done so. the chemical products would have been destroyed by the energy source. Another important point that invalidates Miller's experiment is that there was enough oxygen to destroy all the amino acids in the atmosphere at the time when they were thought to have been formed. However in the latest studies. By using a mechanism called a "cold trap". and water vapour. the conditions in the environment in which the amino acids were formed would immediately have destroyed these molecules. Therefore. in his previous experiments. carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapour (H2O). Miller had been unable to make even one single amino acid using the same materials without the cold trap mechanism. Miller himself also confessed that the atmospheric environment he used in his experiment was not realistic.
can answer the question of how life emerged on earth. All of the research that has been done shows that it is impossible for life to emerge by chance. "How do you make polymers? That's not so easy. They . neither Miller's experiment. and the desperation of its advocates. "The Rise of Life on Earth". the following comments appear: Many scientists now suspect that the early atmosphere was different from what Miller first supposed. and thus confirms that life is created.2 In brief.the equivalent of dissolving a drop of food colouring in a swimming pool of water. The fact that evolutionist scientists embraced this experiment so fervently only indicates the difficulties facing evolution. And even if Miller's atmosphere could have existed. the following statements appear in an article titled "Life's Crucible": T think it consisted of carbon dioxide and nitrogen rather than hydrogen. 1. in an article titled "The Emergence of Life on Earth". When they try sparking carbon dioxide and nitrogen. they get a paltry amount of organic molecules ." he sighs with exasperation.Earth. February 1998. Miller's experiment is totally disregarded even by evolutionist scientists. That's bad news for chemists. methane. Scientists find it hard to imagine life emerging from such a diluted soup. In the March 1998 issue of National Geographic. "Life's Crucible". such as proteins? Miller himself throws up his hands at that part of the puzzle. nor any other similar one that has been attempted. "It's a problem.National Geographic. March 1998. today even Miller himself has accepted that his experiment does not lead to an explanation of the origin of life. and ammonia. p.68 Geologist now think that the primordial atmosphere consisted mainly of carbon dioxide and nitrogen. or polymers.34 2. gases that are less reactive than those used in the 1953 experiment. p."1 As seen.Latest Evolutionist Sources Dispute Miller's Experiment oday. In the February 1998 issue of the famous evolutionist science journal Earth. how do you get simple molecules such as amino acids to go through the necessary chemical changes that will convert them into more complicated compounds.
Studies also show that at that time. If the amino acids had not been isolated.118 There are other findings showing that the amount of oxygen in the atmosphere at that time was much higher than originally claimed by evolutionists. and ammonia into nitrogen and water. All these facts point to one firm truth: Miller's experiment cannot claim to have proved that living things formed by chance under primordial earth-like conditions. To conclude. If oxygen had been used in the experiment. in which oxygen was completely neglected. since they would have been exposed to the most intense ultraviolet rays without the protection of the ozone layer. The amount and types of the gases used in the experiment were ideally determined to allow amino acids to originate. the circumstances in which amino acids were formed in Miller's experiment were not suitable for life. and had been left in the same environment with these chemicals. with or without oxygen in the primordial world.136 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT overlooked by Miller. 4. in an environment where there was no oxygen. In other words. a large number of right-handed amino acids were formed at the end of the experiment.119 The existence of these amino acids refuted the theory even within its own terms because right-handed amino acids cannot function in the composition of living organisms. there would be no ozone layer either. but arranged precisely to .000 times more than evolutionists' estimates. The whole experiment is nothing more than a deliberate and controlled laboratory experiment to synthesise amino acids. methane would have decomposed into carbon dioxide and water. On the other hand. is revealed by the traces of oxidised iron and uranium found in rocks that are estimated to be 3.5 billion years old. the amount of ultraviolet radiation to which the earth was then exposed was 10. At the end of Miller's experiment. this medium took the form of an acidic mixture destroying and oxidising the useful molecules obtained. This situation completely negates Miller's experiment. the amino acids would have immediately been destroyed. Moreover. their destruction or transformation into different compounds through chemical reactions would have been unavoidable. This intense radiation would unavoidably have freed oxygen by decomposing the water vapour and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In truth. therefore. the result would have been a deadly environment for the amino acids. many organic acids had been formed with characteristics detrimental to the structure and function of living things. The amount of energy supplied to the system was neither too much nor too little.
it was impossible for the amino acids produced to survive and avoid destruction without the "cold trap" mechanism. the origin of proteins. That is because. who organised the Miller experiment with his student Stanley Miller. if the experiment proves anything. to try to gloss over the question of the origin of amino acids. despite all of its inconsistencies. it is that amino acids can only be produced in a controlled laboratory environment where all the conditions are specifically designed by conscious intervention. Miller destroyed evolution's claim that "life emerged as the result of unconscious coincidences". Claiming that proteins were formed by chance under natural condi- . by his experiment. it is hard for us to imagine that it did. to explain the second stage of the origin of life. The experimental apparatus was isolated. is only one of these destructive elements. evolutionists faced an even greater problem than that of the formation of amino acids-namel. which are composed of hundreds of different amino acids bonding with each other in a particular order. No elements.120 Primordial World Atmosphere and Proteins Evolutionist sources use the Miller experiment. We all believe as an article of faith that life evolved from dead matter on this planet.The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 137 enable the necessary reactions to occur. which would have prevented the formation of amino acids because of oxidation. However. Harold Urey. were included in the experiment. the more we feel it is too complex to have evolved anywhere. Interestingly enough. they try to paper over the cracks in the theory of evolution. In fact. The reason evolutionists do not accept this evident reality is their blind adherence to prejudices that are totally unscientific. so that it would not allow the leaking of any harmful. Oxygen. the power that brings about life cannot be by unconscious chance but rather by conscious creation. destructive. the building blocks of life. Even under such ideal laboratory conditions. By giving the impression that the issue has long since been resolved by that invalid experiment. or any other kind of elements to hinder the formation of amino acids. made the following confession on the subject: All of us who study the origin of life find that the more we look into it. That is. but which would have changed the course of the reactions. It is just that its complexity is so great. minerals or compounds that were likely to have been present on the primordial earth.
it is not possible for a reaction that releases water (a condensation reaction) to take place in a hydrous environment.138 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT tions is even more unrealistic and unreasonable than claiming that amino acids were formed by chance. Sydney Fox was one of the best known of these researchers. it would be irrational for evolutionists to change their minds and claim that life originated on land. because according to the "Le Châtelier principle" in chemistry. Now. they would be destroyed by ultraviolet rays. A water molecule is released during the formation of this peptide bond. when combining to form proteins. This fact definitely refutes the evolutionist explanation that primordial life originated in water. Fox advanced the following theory to solve this problem. The Le Châtelier Principle disproves the claim of the formation of life in the sea. On land. amino acids form a special bond with one another called the "peptide bond". Protein Synthesis is not Possible in Water As we saw before. is definitely not an appropriate setting for amino acids to form proteins. Hence the ocean. because the only environment where amino acids could have been protected from ultraviolet radiation is in the oceans and seas. On the other hand. we will examine the impossibility of proteins being produced chemically under primordial earth conditions. According to him. evolutionists began to invent unrealistic scenarios based on this "water problem" that so definitively refuted their theories. which is claimed to be where life began and amino acids originated. In the preceding pages we have seen the mathematical impossibility of the haphazard uniting of amino acids in proper sequences to form proteins with probability calculations. This is another dilemma confronting evolution. The chances of this kind of a reaction happening in a hydrate environment is said to "have the least probability of occurring" of all chemical reactions. The water contained in this mixture that included the amino acids present on the cliffs. Another Desperate Effort: Fox's Experiment Challenged by the above dilemma. could . The amino acids which were "dried out" in this way. must have evaporated when the temperature increased above boiling point. the first amino acids must have been transported to some cliffs near a volcano right after their formation in the primordial ocean.
still could not be produced.122 Fox's experiment was not even welcomed in evolutionist circles. This experiment. But Fox did not give up. Furthermore.The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 139 In his experiment. he used pure amino acids from living organisms. which appeared in the 1970s. should have started out from the results obtained by Miller. because the amino acids could not have endured such high temperatures. Here is an electron microscope vision of proteinoid particles. rather. proteins. Yet neither Fox. then have combined to form proteins. and these loops were far from resembling any living protein. but still no proteins were obtained. these were useless and non-functional chemicals. The amino acids combined. which was intended to be a continuation of Miller's experiment. Fox produced a substance called "proteinoid". then these useless loops would also have disintegrated. What he actually ended up with was simple and disordered loops of amino acids. because it was clear that the meaningless amino acid chains that he obtained (which he termed "proteinoids") could not have formed under natural conditions. if Fox had kept the amino acids at a steady temperature. Proteinoids were randomly assembled combinations of amino acids. nor any other researcher. In an article in the popular science magazine. Moreover. Unlike proteins of living things. the basic units of life. arbitrarily combined with each other. Fox's experiment was mentioned as follows: Sydney Fox and the other researchers managed to unite the amino acids in the shape of "proteinoids" by using very special heating techniques under . The problem of the origin of proteins remained unsolved. However this "complicated" way out was not accepted by many people in the field. He combined purified amino acids in the laboratory. Research confirmed that amino acids are immediately destroyed at very high temperatures. Chemical Engineering News. however.121 Another point that nullified the experiment was that Fox did not usethe useless end products obtained in Miller's experiment. "under very special conditions" by heating them in a dry environment. used the useless amino acids Miller produced.
Rinehard & Winston.140 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT INANIMATE MATTER CANNOT GENERATE LIFE A number of evolutionist experiments such as the Miller Experiment and the Fox Experiment have been devised to prove the claim that inanimate matter can organise itself and generate a complex living being. You will find nothing at all. and so save the time and trouble and expense of actually doing the experiment. or through it. But how much of this neat tale is firmly established.1 Evolutionist biologist Andrew Scott admits the same fact: Take some matter. and shine any kind of radiation on it that takes your fancy. Holt. p. That is the modern version of Genesis. The difference between proteins and these proteinoids was as huge as the difference between a piece of high-tech equipment and a heap of unprocessed iron. New York. 256 2. heat while stirring and wait. electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces are presumed to have done the rest. is the subject of either controversy or complete bewilderment. 106. the mechanism of almost every major step. The famous English astronomer and mathematician Sir Fred Hoyle notes that matter cannot generate life by itself. They are nothing but useless. Also. its existence should easily be demonstrable in the laboratory. there was no chance that even these irregular amino acid chains could have survived in the primordial atmosphere. 30 conditions which in fact did not exist at all in the primordial stages of Earth. Harmful and destructive physical and chemical effects caused by heavy exposure to . Pump any gases over it. The Intelligent Universe.123 Indeed. May 2nd. Let the experiment proceed for a year and see how many of those 2.. Furthermore. I will give the answer. from chemical precursors up to the first recognizable cells. they are not at all similar to the very regular proteins present in living things. irregular chemical stains. New Scientist. p. Fill it with any chemicals of a non-biological nature you please..2 1.000 enzymes (proteins produced by living cells) have appeared in the bath. without deliberate interference: If there were a basic principle of matter which somehow drove organic systems toward life. you please. This is an utterly unscientific conviction: every observation and experiment has incontrovertibly proven that matter has no such ability. the proteinoids Fox obtained were totally different from real proteins both in structure and function. One could. vol. 1983. 1985. they would definitely be destroyed.Andrew Scott. It was explained that even if such molecules had formed in the early ages. except possibly for a tarry sludge composed of amino acids and other simple organic chemicals. The 'fundamental' forces of gravity. for instance. take a swimming bath to represent the primordial soup. and how much remains hopeful speculation? In truth.Fred Hoyle. "Update on Genesis".
Evolutionists have shed no light on the formation of amino acids at all. While the theory of evolution was having such trouble providing a coherent explanation for the existence of the molecules that are the basis of the cell structure. T. The Miraculous Molecule: DNA Our examinations so far have shown that the theory of evolution is in a serious quandary at the molecular level. James Watson and Francis Crick launched a new age in biology with their work on the structure of DNA. it was also impossible for the amino acids to combine underwater. Because of the Le Châtelier principle. according to the initial letters of their names. the structure of DNA has been to a great extent unravelled. the extremely complex structure of the cell leads evolutionists to yet another impasse. on the other hand. contains the complete blueprint for the construction of the human body. where ultraviolet rays would not reach them. which is found in the nucleus of each of the 100 trillion cells in our bodies. from physical appearance to the structure of the inner organs. and C. The reason for this is that the cell is not just a heap of amino-acid-structured proteins. In addition to features such as . but rather the most complex system man has ever encountered.The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 141 ultraviolet light and other unstable natural conditions would have caused these proteinoids to disintegrate. many scientists were directing their attention to the science of genetics. The molecule known as DNA. Yet the problems are not even limited just to amino acids and proteins: These are only the beginning. All the structural differences among people depend on variations in the sequences of these letters. G. The sequential order of the letters in DNA determines the structure of a human being down to its slightest details. The information regarding all the characteristics of a person. These bases are known as A. The formation of proteins. In view of this. This is a sort of a data-bank composed of four letters. after many years of research. the idea that the proteinoids were the basis of life eventually lost support among scientists. Beyond them. developments in the science of genetics and the discovery of nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) produced brand-new problems for the theory. Today. In 1953. Soon. is recorded in DNA within the sequence of four special bases that make up the giant molecule. is another mystery all its own.
hair and skin colours. This means 1 followed by . and the 100 trillion cells of the human body.000 trillion connections between the neurons of the brain. in the right sequence. The evolutionist biologist Frank Salisbury has comments on this impossibility: A medium protein might include about 300 amino acids. Since there are four kinds of nucleotides in a DNA chain. the DNA in a single cell also contains the design of the 206 bones. there is an important detail that deserves attention. one consisting of 1.000 forms. When it is considered that there are 200. But the information this enormous library would hold is encoded inside the DNA molecules in the cell nucleus. or. and eye. Can DNA Come into Being by Chance? At this point. the 600 muscles. then we would have to compile a giant library consisting of 900 volumes of 500 pages each.000 genes in the human body. by chance. Using a little algebra (logarithms) we can see that 41000=10600.124 The number 41000 is the equivalent of 10600.000 links could exist in 41. which is far smaller than the 1/100th-of-amillimetre-long cell itself. it becomes clearer how impossible it is for the millions of nucleotides making up these genes to have been formed. but has been purposefully designed. better to say. An error in the sequence of the nucleotides making up a gene would render that gene completely useless. 97.142 All information about living beings is stored in the DNA molecule. Ten multiplied by itself 600 times gives the figure 1 followed by 600 zeros! This number is completely beyond our comprehension. 1. height. the 100 billion nerve cells (neurons). marvellously created. This incredibly efficient information storage method alone is a clear evidence that life did not come into being by chance.000 nucleotides in its chain. The DNA gene controlling this would have about 1.000 kilometres of veins. If we were to write down the information coded in DNA.
as the result of an evolutionary process: An honest man. The impossibility of the formation of RNA and DNA by a coincidental accumulation of nucleotides is expressed by the French scientist Paul Auger in this way: We have to sharply distinguish the two stages in the chance formation of complex molecules such as nucleotides by chemical events. As Watson and Crick with a stick model of the DNA molecule.127 A very interesting paradox emerges at this point: While DNA can only replicate with the help of special proteins (enzymes).and the combination of these with in very special sequences. Francis Crick believed in the theory of molecular evolution.which is possible. Furthermore. armed with all the knowledge available to us now. the probability of the formation of a protein and a nucleic acid (DNARNA) is a probability way beyond estimating. could only state that. but eventually even he had to admit to himself that such a complex molecule could not have emerged spontaneously by coincidence. the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle. The second is absolutely impossible. the chance of the emergence of a certain protein chain is so slight as to be called astronomic. 600 zeros represents an inconceivable number. the synthesis of these proteins can only be realised by the information encoded in DNA.The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 143 600 zeros.126 The Turkish evolutionist Professor Ali Demirsoy was forced to make the following confession on the issue: In fact. The production of nucleotides one by one . As 1 with 12 zeros after it indicates a trillion. in some sense.125 For many years. .
equivalent to the sequence of letters in a small library of 1.000 volumes. this problem for evolutionists remains unsolved. either they have to exist at the same time for replication. One famous biologist from Australia. Rather than providing answers to such questions.128 The quotation above was written two years after the discovery of the structure of DNA by Watson and Crick. The American microbiologist Homer Jacobson comments: Directions for the reproduction of plans. or one of them has to be "created" before the other. Interestingly enough. But despite all the developments in science.129 In short. Therefore. Francis Crick: To the skeptic. for energy and the extraction of parts from the current environment. the theory of evolution is unable to prove any of the evolutionary stages that allegedly occur at the molecular level. This combination of events has seemed an incredibly unlikely happenstance. necessitates distinct conditions. and has often been ascribed to divine intervention. Michael Denton. it is essential to produce various molecules in different places under very suitable conditions and then to carry them to another place for reaction by protecting them from harmful elements like hydrolysis and photolysis. containing in encoded form countless thousands of intricate algorithms control"The origin of life ap- . the proposition that the genetic propears to be almost grammes of higher organisms. Two German scientists Junker and Scherer explained that the synthesis of each of the molecules required for chemical evolution. most evolutionists believe in this and similar totally unscientific fairy tales as if they were true.144 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT they both depend on each other. and for the effector mechanism translating instructions into growth-all had to be simultaneously present at that moment [when life began]. because accepting intelligent design means accepting creation-and they have conditioned themselves not to accept this truth. for the growth sequence. discusses the subject in his book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis: Prof." thing close to a thousand million bits of information. the progress of science renders them even more complex and inextricable. and that the probability of the compounding of these materials having theoretically very different acquirement methods is zero: Until now. no experiment is known in which we can obtain all the molecules necessary for chemical evolution. consisting of somea miracle.
billions of years ago an RNA molecule capable of replicating itself formed somehow by accident.The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 145 ling. were composed by a purely random process is simply an affront to reason. Even if we suppose that it formed by chance. but rather the RNA molecules that contained the information for proteins. Since it is impossible to accept the coincidental formation of even one of the nucleotides making up RNA. having been activated by external influences. it became necessary to store this information in a second molecule. and raised many unanswerable questions: 1. advanced by Harvard chemist Walter Gilbert in 1986. Made up as it is of a chain of impossibilities in each and every stage. not proteins. . more problems emerge. Then this RNA molecule started to produce proteins. Evolutionists then had to face the fact that the "primitive atmosphere experiments" by Stanley Miller. Cyril Ponnamperuma and others were invalid. how could this RNA. According to this scenario. much less under really plausible ones. Thereafter. the idea is accepted without a ripple of doubt-the paradigm takes precedence!130 Another Evolutionist Vain Attempt: "The RNA World" The discovery in the 1970s that the gasses originally existing in the primitive atmosphere of the earth would have rendered amino acid synthesis impossible was a serious blow to the theory of molecular evolution. far from providing any explanation of the origin of life. As a result.131 2. and somehow the DNA molecule emerged to do that. How did RNA initially arise? RNA and its components are difficult to synthesize in a laboratory under the best of conditions. were formed first. in the 1980s the evolutionists tried again. For this reason. This scenario proposed that. the "RNA World" hypothesis was advanced. As researchers continue to examine the RNA-world concept closely. based on a discovery about "ribozymes" by Thomas Cech . this scarcely credible scenario. how can it be possible for these imaginary nucleotides to form RNA by coming together in a particular sequence? Evolutionist John Horgan admits the impossibility of the chance formation of RNA. only magnified the problem. But to the Darwinist. specifying. Sydney Fox. and ordering the growth and development of billions and billions of cells into the form of a complex organism.
For instance. 264. Scientific American. "The Origin of Life on Earth". p. Yet evolutionists have to face the even greater problem that all these complex molecules have to coexist simultaneously in order for life to exist at all. "Life's Origins Get Murkier and Messier". we will have to content ourselves with a sense of wonder and awe. This is a point on which some leading evolutionists have been forced to confession. Yet it also seems impossible to have one without the other.3 The New York Times science correspondent.2 How did the Genetic Code.Douglas R. but neither can DNA form without proteins. 78 2. Leslie Orgel says: It is extremely improbable that proteins and nucleic acids.John Horgan. New York. vol. D1-D2 consisting of just a nucleotide chain. Escher. p. Orgel. Nicholas Wade made this comment in an article dated 2000: Everything about the origin of life on Earth is a mystery. along with the mechanisms for its translation (ribosomes and RNA molecules).CONFESSIONS FROM EVOLUTIONISTS P robabilistic calculations make it clear that complex molecules such as proteins and nucleic acids (RNA and DNA) could not ever have been formed by chance independently of each other. pp. Even if we suppose that there was self-replicating RNA in the pri- . 1980. at first glance. October 1994. February 1991. proteins cannot form without DNA. Scientific American. and it seems the more that is known. without the help of catalytic proteins. Evolutionary theory is utterly confounded by this requirement. 2000. in a sense. the more acute the puzzle get. And so. Gödel. rather than with an answer. Hofstadter. p. The New York Times. have "decided" to self-replicate. In short. focused on a straw man: the myth of a selfreplicating RNA molecule that arose de novo from a soup of random polynucleotides.Nicholas Wade. "In the Beginning".Leslie E.132 3. including forming more DNA. vol. 548 4. have originated by chemical means. 119 3. or enzymes. reputable evolutionist Dr. Not only is such a notion unrealistic in light of our current understanding of prebiotic chemistry. both of which are structurally complex. Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.1 The same fact is also admitted by other scientists: DNA cannot do its work. and with what kind of mechanism could it have carried out this self-replicating process? Where did it find the nucleotides it used while self-replicating? Even evolutionist microbiologists Gerald Joyce and Leslie Orgel express the desperate nature of the situation in their book In the RNA World: This discussion… has. Stanley Miller's and Francis Crick's close associate from the University of San Diego California.4 1. originate? For the moment. but it would strain the credulity of even an optimist's view of RNA's catalytic potential. arose spontaneously in the same place at the same time. one might have to conclude that life could never. in fact. June 13. Vintage Books. 271.
A blueprint cannot produce a car all by itself without a factory and workers to assemble the parts according to the instructions contained in the blueprint. too. To consider the existence of RNA sufficient for protein production is as nonsensical as expecting a car to assemble itself simplyh throwing the blueprint onto a heap of parts piled up on top of each other. which are themselves coded in DNA: the code cannot be translated otherwise than by products of translation themselves. Proteins are produced in the ribosome factory with the help of many enzymes and as a result of extremely complex processes within the cell. and that all of these impossibilities somehow took place. are raw materials. Even Nobel Prize winner Jacques Monod. should have come into existence by chance at the same time. Orgel described what kind of features this RNA have had to have and how impossible this would have been in his article "The Origin of Life" published in American Scientist in October 1994: . Amino acids. who was one of the most fanatical defenders of evolutionand atheism-explained that protein synthesis can by no means be considered to depend merely on the information in the nucleic acids: The code is meaningless unless translated. For RNA only includes information concerning the structure of proteins. therefore. and what methods could it have employed to make protein production happen by doing the work of 50 specialized particles on its own? Evolutionists have no answer to these questions. The modern cell's translating machinery consists of at least 50 macromolecular components. the situation still does not lead to the formation of even one single protein. the blueprint contained in RNA cannot produce proteins by itself without the cooperation of other cellular components which follow the instructions contained in the RNA. there is no mechanism for the production of proteins. Leslie Orgel. Nevertheless.133 How could an RNA chain in the primordial world have taken such a decision. in the same way. that numerous amino acids of every type ready to be used by RNA were available. When and how did this circle become closed? It is exceedingly difficult to imagine. Dr. uses the term "scenario" for the possibility of "the origination of life through the RNA World". on the other hand. The ribosome is a complex cell organelle made up of proteins.The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 147 mordial world. one of the associates of Stanley Miller and Francis Crick from the University of California at San Diego. This leads. It is the modern expression of omne vivum ex ovo. to another unreasonable supposition-that ribosomes.
maybe millions of years in this uncontrolled environment without sustaining any damage. It would have to wait until millions of correct and essential proteins were . That demonstration is a valuable contribution to science. this protein would have to wait patiently for thousands.134 As should by now be clear. but the results obtained so far have already shown that these efforts are all in vain: Research in the RNA world is a medium-sized industry." 135 Science writer Brig Klyce's 2001 article explains that evolutionist scientists are very persistent on this issue. Let us suppose that a protein molecule was formed in the most inappropriate. if prebiotic RNA had two properties not evident today: A capacity to replicate without the help of proteins and an ability to catalyze every step of protein synthesis. Mills from the University of Texas and Molecular biologist Dean Kenyon from San Francisco State University assess the flaws of the RNA World scenario. we noted. or even promising. The formation of only one protein would not be sufficient. to expect these two complex and extremely essential processes from a molecule such as RNA is only possible from the evolutionist's viewpoint and with the help of his power of imagination. Biochemist Gordon C. and reach to a brief conclusion in their article titled " The RNA World: A Critique": "RNA is a remarkable molecule.148 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT This scenario could have occured. most uncontrolled environment such as the primordial earth conditions. until another molecule was formed beside it by chance under the same conditions. This research has demonstrated how exceedingly difficult it would be for living cells to originate by chance from nonliving matter in the time available on Earth. on the other hand. Additional research will be valuable as well.136 Life is a Concept Beyond Mere Heaps of Molecules So far. is an equally implausible fable. Let us again ignore these impossibilities for just a moment. which is a new model proposed for the chance formation of life. we have examined how impossible the accidental formation of life is. The RNA World hypothesis is another matter. But to keep insisting that life can spontaneously emerge from nonliving chemicals in the face of the newly comprehended difficulties is puzzling. makes it explicit that the RNA World hypothesis. Concrete scientific facts. It is reminiscent of the work of medieval alchemists who persistently tried to turn lead into gold. We see no grounds for considering it established.
in other words. We used to have an open mind. not only is it unable to explain how life began. even if these organelles were to come together in an extremely harmonious and co-operative way within a plan and order. I can't find any rational argument to knock down the view which argues for conversion to God. Those that formed earlier had to be patient enough to wait. This is a reflection of God's epithet of "Hayy" (The Owner of Life). Life can only start. No extraneous material. they must take all the necessary enzymes beside themselves and become covered with a membrane.137 . and end by His will. I was very strongly brainwashed to believe that science cannot be consistent with any kind of deliberate creation. is a tale only existing in the dreams of the evolutionists and completely at variance with the results of every experiment and observation. Even if all the essential proteins for life were collected and put in a test tube. these efforts would not result with producing a living cell. "abiogenesis".The Molecular Impasse of Evolution 149 formed side by side in the same setting all "by chance". the inside of which must be filled with a special liquid to prepare the ideal environment for them. now we realize that the only logical answer to life is creation-and not accidental random shuffling. That notion has had to be painfully shed. In this respect. All the experiments conducted on this subject have proved to be unsuccessful. continue. Then. without being destroyed despite ultraviolet rays and harsh mechanical effects. would this molecular heap come to life? The answer is No. harmful molecule. which all originated at the very same spot. At the moment. or useless protein chain may interfere with them. Chandra Wickramasinghe describes the reality he faced as a scientist who had been told throughout his life that life had emerged as a result of chance coincidences: From my earliest training as a scientist. As for evolution. for the others to be formed right next to them. All observations and experiments indicate that life can only originate from life. Now even if all these "highly unlikely" events actually occurred by chance. Then these proteins in adequate number. would have to come together by making meaningful combinations and form the organelles of the cell. the first life on earth must also have originated from other life. The assertion that life evolved from non-living things. because research has revealed that the mere combination of all the materials essential for life is not enough for life to get started. it is also unable to explain how the materials essential for life have formed and come together.
described it as the "premier law of all of science". and its engine had stopped working. has been experimentally and theoretically established. For example if you take a car to a desert and leave it there. dispersed. the greatest scientist of our age. This famous law of physics is also known as "the law of entropy". On the contrary. Sir Arthur Eddington also referred to it as the "supreme metaphysical law of the entire universe". holds that under normal conditions all systems left on their own tend to become disordered. deteriorates. entropy is the measure of the disorder of a system. dispersed. The second law of thermodynamics is the means by which this natural process is defined with physical equations and calculations. and according to the law. unplanned.138 Evolutionary theory ignores this fundamental law of physics.CHAPTER 11 Thermodynamics Falsifies Evolution he second law of thermodynamics. and corrupted in direct relation to the amount of time that passes. or the law of entropy. organised. The more disorder there is in a system. The law of entropy holds that the entire universe is unavoidably proceeding towards a more disordered. its chassis had rusted. the higher its entropy is. The mechanism offered by evolution totally contradicts the second law. and planned state towards a more disordered. Everything. Albert Einstein. A system's entropy increases as it moves from an ordered. All foremost scientists agree that the law of entropy will remain the principle paradigm for the foreseeable future. This is something that all of us have observed. and unplanned one. The truth of the second law of thermodynamics. decays. This is the absolute end that all beings will face one way or another. you would hardly expect to find it in a better condition when you came back years later. you would see that its tires had gone flat. its windows had been broken. and is destroyed. In physics. The T . disintegrates. and disorganised state. the process cannot be avoided. whether living or not wears out. which is accepted as one of the basic laws of physics. The same inevitable process holds true for living things.
The law of ennatural tropy makes it clear that this so-called natural conditions alprocess utterly contradicts the laws of physics. to form extremely complex molecules such as proteins. According to the theory of evolution. its disintegration.Thermodynamics Falsifies Evolution 151 theory of evolution says that disordered. in a particular order. Rush states: information.H. Photosynthesis and all life processes. Systems should decay through time. life exhibits a remarkable contrast to the tendency expressed in the Second Law of Thermodynamics. and lifeless atoms and molecules spontaneously came together over time. Indeed. and RNA.141 As we have seen. and the more assured. and even life itself. despite the use of confused or deliberately confusing language. life evolves continually higher levels of order. The evolutionist author Roger Lewin expresses the thermodynamic impasse of evolution in an article in Science: One problem biologists have faced is the apparent contradiction by evolution of the second law of thermodynamics. in agreement with the second law. more ordered.140 Another defender of the theory of evolution. under ordinary conditions. order. George Stravropoulos states the thermodynamic impossibility of the spontaneous formation of life and the impossibility of explaining the existence of complex living mechanisms by natural laws in the well-known evolutionist journal American Scientist: Yet. dispersed. no complex organic molecule can ever form spontaneously but will rather disintegrate. is an unscientific belief that utterly contradicts with this law. J. on the other hand.139 Evolutionary theory. In the complex course of its evolution. ways lead to disEvolutionist scientists are also aware of this order and loss of fact. the more unstable it will be. more complex and thermodynamics more organised structure at each stage-was formed holds that all by itself under natural conditions. the second law of thermodynamics constitutes an . cannot yet be understood in terms of thermodynamics or any other exact science. the more complex it is. Where the Second Law expresses an irreversible progression toward increased entropy and disorder. this supposed process-which yields The law of a more planned. whereupon millions of different living species with even more complex structures gradually emerged. not more. DNA. giving less. sooner or later.
Without an energy conversion system. solar energy can only be converted into chemical energy by the incredibly complex energy conversion systems in living things (such as photosynthesis in plants and the digestive systems of humans and animals). complex living beings can be generated from disordered. We believe that evolution somehow magically creates greater overall value and order on earth. Evolutionists hold that the world is an open system: that it is constantly exposed to an energy flow from the sun. An "open system" is a thermodynamic system in which energy and matter flow in and out. in terms of both science and logic. The Myth of the "Open System" Some proponents of evolution have recourse to an argument that the second law of thermodynamics holds true only for "closed systems". evolutionists can only do so in their imagination. It is true that life derives its energy from the sun. simple. For instance. the sun is nothing but a source of destructive energy that burns. and inanimate structures. parches. No living thing can live without such energy conversion systems. Our concept of evolution is the exact opposite. the car will not be able to use the energy stored in petrol. The same thing applies in the case of life as well. The fact that a system has an energy inflow is not enough to make that system ordered. a car needs an engine. that the law of entropy does not apply to the world as a whole. Specific mechanisms are needed to make the energy functional. Without such an energy conversion system.152 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT insurmountable obstacle for the scenario of evolution. or melts.142 These words well indicate that evolution is a dogmatic belief rather than a scientific thesis. and that "open systems" are beyond the scope of this law. For instance. As may be seen. a thermodynamic system without an energy conversion mechanism of some sort is not advantageous for evolution. be it open . a transmission system. and related control mechanisms to convert the energy in petrol to work. However. and that ordered. there is an obvious distortion here. the well-known evolutionist Jeremy Rifkin notes his belief that evolution overwhelms this law of physics with a "magical power": The Entropy Law says that evolution dissipates the overall available energy for life on this planet. Unable to offer any scientific and consistent explanation to overcome this obstacle. However.
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or closed. No one asserts that such complex and conscious mechanisms could have existed in nature under the conditions of the primeval earth. Indeed, the real problem confronting evolutionists is the question of how complex energy-converting mechanisms such as photosynthesis in plants, which cannot be duplicated even with modern technology, could have come into being on their own. The influx of solar energy into the world would be unable to bring about order on its own. Moreover, no matter how high the temperature may become, amino acids resist forming bonds in ordered sequences. Energy by itself is incapable of making amino acids form the much more complex molecules of proteins, or of making proteins from the much complex and organised structures of cell organelles. The real and essential source of this organisation at all levels is intelligent design: in a word, creation.
The Myth of the "Self Organization of Matter" Quite aware that the second law of thermodynamics renders evolution impossible, some evolutionist scientists have made speculative attempts to square the circle between the two, in order to be able to claim that evolution is possible. As usual, even those endeavours show that the theory of evolution faces an inescapable impasse. One person distinguished by his efforts to marry thermodynamics and evolution is the Belgian scientist Ilya Prigogine. Starting out from chaos theory, Prigogine proposed a number of hypotheses in which order develops from chaos (disorder). He argued that some open systems can portray a decrease in entropy due to an influx of outer energy and the outcoming "ordering" is a proof that "matter can organise itself." Since then, the concept of the "self-organization of matter" has been quite popular among evolutionists and materialists. They act like they have found a materialistic origin for the complexity of life and a materialistic solution for the problem of life's origin. But a closer look reveals that this argument is totally abstract and in fact just wishful thinking. Moreover, it includes a very naive deception. The deception lies in the deliberate confusing of two distinct concepts, "ordered" and "organised." 143 We can make this clear with an example. Imagine a completely flat beach on the seashore. When a strong wave hits the beach, mounds of sand, large and small, form bumps on the surface of the sand. This is a process of "ordering": The seashore is an open system and the
energy flow (the wave) that enters it can form simple patterns in the sand, which look completely regular. From the thermodynamic point of view, it can set up order here where before there was none. But we must make it clear that those same waves cannot build a castle on the beach. If we see a castle there, we are in no doubt that someone has constructed it, because the castle is an "organised" system. In other words, it possesses a clear design and information. Every part of it has been made by a conscious entity in a planned manner. The difference between the sand and the castle is that the former is an organised complexity, whereas the latter possesses only order, brought about by simple repetitions. The order formed from repetitions is as if an object (in other words the flow of energy entering the system) had fallen on the letter "a" on a typewriter keyboard, writing "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" hundreds of times. But the string of "a"s in an order repeated in this manner contains no information, and no complexity. In order to write a complex chain of letters actually containing information (in other words a meaningful sequence, paragraph or book), the presence of intelligence is essential. The same thing applies when wind blows into a dusty room. When the wind blows in, the dust which had been lying in an even layer may gather in one corner of the room. This is also a more ordered situation than that which existed before, in the thermodynamic sense, but the individual specks of dust cannot form a portrait of someone on the floor in an organised manner. This means that complex, organised systems can never come about as the result of natural processes. Although simple examples of order can happen from time to time, these cannot go beyond limits. But evolutionists point to this self-ordering which emerges through natural processes as a most important proof of evolution, portray such cases as examples of "self-organization". As a result of this confusion of concepts, they propose that living systems could develop their own accord from occurrences in nature and chemical reactions. The methods and studies employed by Prigogine and his followers, which we considered above, are based on this deceptive logic. The American scientists Charles B. Thaxton, Walter L. Bradley and Roger L. Olsen, in their book titled The Mystery of Life's Origin, explain this fact as follows:
...In each case random movements of molecules in a fluid are spontaneously replaced by a highly ordered behavior. Prigogine, Eigen, and others have
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suggested that a similar sort of self-organization may be intrinsic in organic chemistry and can potentially account for the highly complex macromolecules essential for living systems. But such analogies have scant relevance to the origin-of-life question. A major reason is that they fail to distinguish between order and complexity... Regularity or order cannot serve to store the large amount of information required by living systems. A highly irregular, but specified, structure is required rather than an ordered structure. This is a serious flaw in the analogy offered. There is no apparent connection between the kind of spontaneous ordering that occurs from energy flow through such systems and the work required to build aperiodic information-intensive macromolecules like DNA and protein.144
In fact even Prigogine himself has accepted that the theories he has produced for the molecular level do not apply to living systems-for instance, a living cell:
The problem of biological order involves the transition from the molecular activity to the supermolecular order of the cell. This problem is far from being solved.145
So why do evolutionists continue to believe in scenarios such as the "self organization of matter", which have no scientific foundation? Why are they so determined to reject the intelligence and planning that so clearly can be seen in living systems? The answer is that they have a dogmatic faith in materialism and they believe that matter has some mysterious power to create life. A professor of chemistry from New York University and DNA expert, Robert Shapiro, explains this belief of evolutionists about the "self-organization of matter" and the materialist dogma lying at its heart as follows:
Another evolutionary principle is therefore needed to take us across the gap from mixtures of simple natural chemicals to the first effective replicator. This principle has not yet been described in detail or demonstrated, but it is anticipated, and given names such as chemical evolution and self-organization of matter. The existence of the principle is taken for granted in the philosophy of dialectical materialism, as applied to the origin of life by Alexander Oparin.146
All this situation clearly demonstrates that evolution is a dogma that is against emprical science and the origin of living beings can only be explained by the intervention of a supernatural power. That supernatural power is the creation of God, who created the entire universe from nothing. Science has proven that evolution is still impossible as far as thermodynamics is concerned and the existence of life has no explanation but Creation.
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n the previous chapter, we have examined how impossible the accidental formation of life is. Let us again ignore these impossibilities for just a moment. Let us suppose that millions of years ago a cell was formed which had acquired everything necessary for life, and that it duly "came to life". Evolution again collapses at this point. For even if this cell had existed for a while, it would eventually have died and after its death, nothing would have remained, and everything would have reverted to where it had started. This is because this first living cell, lacking any genetic information, would not have been able to reproduce and start a new generation. Life would have ended with its death. The genetic system does not only consist of DNA. The following things must also exist in the same environment: enzymes to read the code on the DNA, messenger RNA to be produced after reading these codes, a ribosome to which messenger RNA will attach according to this code, transfer RNA to transfer the amino acids to the ribosome for use in production, and extremely complex enzymes to carry out numerous intermediary processes. Such an environment cannot exist anywhere apart from aa totally isolated and completely controlled environment such as the cell, where all the essential raw materials and energy resources exist. As a result, organic matter can self-reproduce only if it exists as a fully developed cell with all its organelles and in an appropriate environment where it can survive, exchange materials, and get energy from its surroundings. This means that the first cell on earth was formed "all of a sudden" together with its incredibly complex structure. So, if a complex structure came into existence all of a sudden, what does this mean? Let us ask this question with an example. Let us liken the cell to a hightech car in terms of its complexity. (In fact, the cell is a much more complex and developed system than a car with its engine and all its technical equipment.) Now let us ask the following question: What would you think if you
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went out hiking in the depths of a thick forest and ran across a brand-new car among the trees? Would you imagine that various elements in the forest had come together by chance over millions of years and produced such a vehicle? All the parts in the car are made of products such as iron, copper, and rubber-the raw ingredients for which are all found on the earth-but would this fact lead you to think that these materials had synthesised "by chance" and then come together and manufactured such a car? There is no doubt that anyone with a sound mind would realise that the car was the product of an intelligent design-in other words, a factoryand wonder what it was doing there in the middle of the forest. The sudden emergence of a complex structure in a complete form, quite out of the blue, shows that this is the work of an intelligent agent. A complex system like the cell is no doubt created by a superior will and wisdom. In other words, it came into existence as a creation of God. Believing that pure chance can produce perfect designs goes well beyond the bounds of reason. Yet, every "explanation put forward by the theory of evolution regarding the origin of life is like that. One outspoken authority on this issue is the famous French zoologist Pierre-Paul Grassé, the former president of the French Academy of Sciences. Grassé is a materialist, yet he acknowledges that Darwinist theory is unable to explain life and makes a point about the logic of "coincidence", which is the backbone of Darwinism:
The opportune appearance of mutations permitting animals and plants to meet their needs seems hard to believe. Yet the Darwinian theory is even more demanding: A single plant, a single animal would require thousands and thousands of lucky, appropriate events. Thus, miracles would become the rule: events with an infinitesimal probability could not fail to occur… There is no law against daydreaming, but science must not indulge in it.147
Grasse summarises what the concept of "coincidence" means for evolutionists: "...Chance becomes a sort of providence, which, under the cover of atheism, is not named but which is secretly worshipped."148 The logical failure of evolutionists is an outcome of their enshrining the concept of coincidence. In the Qur'an, it is written that those who worship beings other than God are devoid of understanding;
They have hearts wherewith they understand not, eyes wherewith they see not, and ears wherewith they hear not. They are like cattle - nay more misguided: for they are heedless (of warning). (Surat al-Araf : 179)
this atomic heap cannot form even a single living being. They cannot produce giraffes. apples. lions. oranges. Let them be free to use all kinds of conditions they believe to be necessary for a human's formation. Indeed. oxygen. watermelons. nitrogen. and magnesium into big barrels. lifeless and unconscious atoms came together to form the cell and then they somehow formed other living things. dolphins. say a professor that examines his cell structure under the electron microscope. phosphorus. lilies. only a heap is formed. or millions of other living beings such as these. Moreover. Let us think about that. grapes. let us now for once. let them add in these barrels any material that does not exist under normal conditions. No matter what treatments it undergoes. No matter what they do.158 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Darwinian Formula! Besides all the technical evidence we have dealt with so far. canaries. melons. bees. tomatoes. olives. unconscious atoms cannot form the cell by coming together. they could not obtain even a single cell of any one of them. carnations. figs. Let these experts wait in turn beside these barrels for billions. orchids. iron. Let them stir these with whatever technologically developed device they like. multicoloured butterflies. According to this claim. but they think as necessary. roses. nitrogen and potassium. They cannot take a new decision and divide this cell into two. they cannot produce from these barrels a human. let us formulate an "experiment" on this subject and let us examine on the behalf of evolutionists what they really claim without pronouncing loudly under the name "Darwinian formula": Let evolutionists put plenty of materials present in the composition of living beings such as phosphorus. then take . Briefly. pheasants. peaches. Let them put the foremost scientists beside these barrels. If you like. When we bring together the elements that are the building-blocks of life such as carbon. carbon. Let them expose these mixtures to as much heat and moisture as they like. including man. horses. examine what kind of a superstition the evolutionists have with an example so simple as to be understood even by children: Evolutionary theory asserts that life is formed by chance. dates. peafowls. bananas. Let them add in this mixture as many amino acids-which have no possibility of forming under natural conditions-and as many proteins-a single one of which has a formation probability of 10-950-as they like. and even trillions of years.
let us briefly answer the question of "how we see". The brain is insulated from light. the TV screen shows you a two-di- . Evolutionary theory. These electric signals are perceived in this centre of the brain as an image after a series of processes. The image formed in the eye is so sharp and distinct that even the technology of the 20th century has not been able to attain it. is a total fallacy completely contrary to reason. coloured. Have you ever seen such a sharp and distinct image as this one at any other place? Even the most developed television screen produced by the greatest television producer in the world cannot provide such a sharp image for you. Here. huge premises were established. and it comes to life with God's superior creation. The place called the centre of vision is a solid dark place where no light ever reaches. plans and designs have been made for this purpose. it may even be the darkest place you have ever known. then lift your head and look around you. Thinking even a little bit on the claims of tevolutionists discloses this reality. Light rays coming from an object fall oppositely on the retina of the eye. Before passing on to the subject of the eye. let us do some thinking. thousands of engineers have been trying to achieve this sharpness. lifeless heap. Matter is an unconscious. and light does not reach the location where the brain is situated. Moreover. and extremely sharp image. look at a TV screen and the book you hold in your hands. just as in the above example. That means that the inside of the brain is solid dark.Design and Coincidence 159 other decisions and create the professors who first invent the electron microscope and then examine their own cell structure under that microscope. For instance. However. This is a three-dimensional. bright world in this pitch darkness. these light rays are transmitted into electric signals by cells and they reach a tiny spot at the back of the brain called the centre of vision. Technology In The Eye and The Ear Another subject that remains unanswered by evolutionary theory is the excellent quality of perception in the eye and the ear. With this technical background. You will see that there is a big difference in sharpness and distinction. much research has been done. Factories. For more than 100 years. you observe a luminous. which claims the opposite. look at the book you read. your hands with which you hold it. Again.
if somebody told you that the television in your room was formed as a result of chance. moreover. The background is more blurred. they have made a three-dimensional television system but it is not possible to watch it without putting on glasses. what would you think? How can atoms do what thousands of people cannot? When we compare the eye and the ear with cameras and sound recorders. . there is a loss of image quality. it is only an artificial threedimension. functional.160 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT mensional image. we see that the eye and the ear are far more complex. When you look carefully. and reach the vision quality of the eye. is there any blurring in your vision? Surely there is not. whereas with your eyes. For many years. the foreground appears like a paper setting. Yes. Evolutionists claim that the mechanism producing this sharp and distinct image has been formed by chance. In both the camera and the television. Never has it been possible to produce a sharp and distinct vision like that of the eye. Now. you watch a three-dimensional perspective having depth. you will see that there is a blurring in the television. that all its atoms just happened to come together and make up this device that produces an image. and perfect than those technological products. ten of thousands of engineers have tried to make a three-dimensional TV.
The same situation applies to the ear. you listen to the symphonies of an orchestra. Even in these devices. and they have been able to do no more than this. Who has power over all things. It requires a much more detailed and wise plan and design than the one in the TV. when sound is recorded some of it is lost. no matter how noisy is the outside. and systems for sensing sound. That is. As is the case with imagery. The plan and design of the image as distinct and sharp as this one belongs to God. Despite all this technology and the thousands of engineers and experts who have been working in this endeavour. the middle ear transmits the sound vibrations by intensifying them. decades of effort have been spent in trying to generate and reproduce sound that is faithful to the original. Nevertheless. no sound has yet been obtained that has the same sharpness and clarity as the sound perceived by the ear. if the sound level in your brain was measured by a precise device at that moment. The situation in the eye is also true for the ear. Let us again compare the high quality and superior technology present in the ear and the brain with the technology produced by human beings. the sharpest sounds are perceived in the brain. However. Just as with the eye. which is insulated from sound. then it is very evident that the eye and the image seen by the eye could not have been formed by chance. high-fidelity systems. If a device producing a more primitive image than the eye could not have been formed by chance. and hear all the noises in a crowded place. tens of thousands of engineers have been researching and striving in high-tech laboratories and great industrial complexes using the most advanced technological devices. or when you turn on the HI-FI you always hear a hissing sound before the music starts.Design and Coincidence 161 For nearly a century. the act of hearing finalises in the centre of hearing in the brain. Therefore. the brain is insulated from sound just like it is from light: it does not let any sound in. . The outer ear picks up the available sounds by the auricle and directs them to the middle ear. The results of these efforts are sound recorders. Think of the highest-quality HI-FI systems produced by the biggest company in the music industry. the inner ear sends these vibrations to the brain by translating them into electric signals. However. the inside of the brain is completely silent. In your brain. it would be seen that a complete silence is prevailing there.
Briefly. Even Darwin. which are superior even to these. scientific proofs from such branches of science such as paleontology. in his letter to Asa Gray on April 3rd 1860. experience. reason and logic. This is the way it has been since the creation of man. and opportunities. These are crystalclear indications of God's unique and unmatched creation. the ear. which brings to mind the superstitions of societies with no knowledge of science or civilization. It needs to be made clear that anyone free of prejudice and the influence of any particular ideology. It has been stressed that evolution is incompatible with scientific discoveries. will clearly understand that belief in the theory of evolution. If.149 The Theory of Evolution is the Most Potent Spell in the World Throughout this book it has been explained that the theory of evolution lacks any scientific evidence and that on the contrary. A human ear never perceives a sound accompanied by a hissing sound or with atmospherics as a HI-FI does. you will see that he will not be able to give you any reasonable or logical reply. it perceives the sound exactly as it is. is quite impossible.162 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT the sounds that are the products of the technology of the human body are extremely sharp and clear. sharp and clear. No one would say that a HI-FI or a camera came into being as a result of chance. The reason we specifically mention the senses of seeing and hearing here is the inability of evolutionists to understand evidence of creation so clear as this. the technology in our body is far superior to the technology mankind has produced using its accumulated information. you ask an evolutionist to explain to you how this excellent design and technology became possible in the eye and the ear as a result of chance. So how can it be claimed that the technologies that exist in the human body. and indeed all the other parts of the human body are products of a very superior creation. wrote that "the thought of the eye made him cold all over" and he confessed the desperation of the evolutionists in the face of the excellent design of living things. of His eternal knowledge and might. who uses only his reason and logic. one day. could have come into being as a result of a chain of coincidences called evolution? It is evident that the eye. . microbiology and anatomy reveal it to be a bankrupt theory.
reasoning professors. No. (Surat al-A'raf: 179) Even if We opened up to them a door into heaven. keep people from the truth. "magic" is the only possible explanation for people from all over the world believing that unconscious and lifeless atoms suddenly decided to come together and form a universe that functions with a flawless system of organization. scientists such as Einstein and Galileo. this situation is a lack of reason God points out in the Qur'an. discipline. (Surat al-Baqara: 6-7) …They have hearts they do not understand with. the people of Saba worshipping the Sun. They have eyes they do not see with. those who believe in the theory of evolution think that a few atoms and molecules thrown into a huge vat could produce thinking. They will have a terrible punishment. they are even further astray! They are the unaware. refused to allow them to think intelligently and logically and hidden the truth from them as if they had been blindfolded. the tribe of the Prophet Abraham worshipping idols they had made with their own hands or the people of the Prophet Moses worshipping the Golden Calf. In fact. and they spent the day ascending through it. the scientists and professors who believe in this nonsense are educated people. reason and consciousness. It is understandable that one or a few people might believe in impossible scenarios and claims full of stupidity and illogicality. Frank Sinatra and Pavarotti. They have ears they do not hear with. Some of these verses are as follows: As for those who disbelieve. they will not believe.Design and Coincidence 163 As has been explained above. "Our eyesight is befuddled! Or rather we have been put under a spell!" (Surat al-Hijr: 14-15) Words cannot express just how astonishing it is that this spell should hold such a wide community in thrall. artists such as Humphrey Bogart. lemon trees and carnations. Such people are like cattle. university students. However. as well as antelopes. God has sealed up their hearts and hearing and over their eyes is a blindfold. This is an even worse and unbelievable blindness than the Egyptians worshipping the Sun God Ra. Moreover. totem worship in some parts of Africa. the . and not be broken for 150 years." Never before has any other belief or idea so taken away peoples' powers of reason. they would only say. it makes no difference to them whether you warn them or do not warn them. That is why it is quite justifiable to speak of the theory of evolution as "the most potent spell in history. He reveals in many verses that some peoples' minds will be closed and that they will be powerless to see the truth.
In fact. (Surat al-A'raf: 116) As we have seen. the evidence put forward by the Prophet Moses broke that spell. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has. Many people who see the true face of the theory of evolution are wondering with amazement how it was that they were ever taken in by it. When the Prophet Moses did so. In fact. he told them to demonstrate their abilities first. "You throw. they lost all credibility. .164 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT planet Earth with all its features so perfectly suited to life. they too will be humiliated when the full truth emerges and the spell is broken. "Throw down your staff. They produced an extremely powerful magic. So the Truth took place and what they did was shown to be false. unless those who under the influence of a similar spell believe in these ridiculous claims under their scientific disguise and spend their lives defending them abandon them. especially the extent to which it's been applied. In the present day too. people will soon see that "chance" is not a god. an atheist philosopher and supporter of evolution admitted he was worried by just that prospect: I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution. he told the Prophet Moses to meet with his own magicians. and living things full of countless complex systems. or "swallowed up what they had forged" as the verse puts it. God reveals in the Qur'an in the incident of the Prophet Moses and Pharaoh that some people who support atheistic philosophies actually influence others by magic. will be one of the great jokes in the history books in the future. when it was realised that what these people who had first cast a spell over others had done was just an illusion. When Pharaoh was told about the true religion. The verses continue: He said. Malcolm Muggeridge. and will look back on the theory of evolution as the worst deceit and the most terrible spell in the world. Pharaoh's magicians were able to deceive everyone. However. apart from the Prophet Moses and those who believed in him.150 That future is not far off: On the contrary. That spell is already rapidly beginning to be lifted from the shoulders of people all over the world." And it immediately swallowed up what they had forged. they cast a spell on the people's eyes and caused them to feel great fear of them." And when they threw. (Surat al-A'raf: 117-119) As we can see from that verse. We revealed to Moses.
In the science of genetics. However. as a result of variation. a term used in genetics. Variation always takes place within the limits of genetic information. refers to a genetic event that causes the individuals or groups of a certain type or species to possess different characteristics from one another. Evolutionists predicate the variations within a species as evidence to the theory.CHAPTER 13 Evolutionist Claims and the Facts ber of biological phenomena and concepts presented as theoretical evidence by evolutionists. all depending on the extent of the variation potential of this genetic information. For example. all the people on earth carry basically the same genetic information. The important thing for the theory of evolution. All of the characteristics present in the gene pool of a species may come to light in various ways due to variation. These topics are particularly important for they show that there is no scientific finding that supports evolution and instead reveal the extent of the distortion and hoodwink employed by evolutionists. is the question of how brand-new information to make a brand-new species could come about. we will address a num- Variations and Species Variation. For example. some have red hair. this limit is called the "gene pool". some have long noses. I n previous chapters. varieties that have relatively longer tails or shorter legs may appear in a certain . we examined the invalidity of the theory of evolution in terms of the bodies of evidence found in fossils and from the standpoint of molecular biology. variation does not constitute evidence for evolution because variations are but the outcomes of different combinations of already existing genetic information and they do not add any new characteristic to the genetic information. In this chapter. yet some have slanted eyes. and others are short of stature. however.
were ultimately going to transform them into a different species. He thought that there was no limit to variations.166 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT species of reptile.. variations do not transform reptiles into birds by adding wings or feathers to them. For instance.152 The reason Darwin cited such a far-fetched example was the primitive understanding of science in his day. Darwin was not aware of this fact when he formulated his theory. or by changing their metabolism. Norman Macbeth. by natural selection. Darwin's notion of "unlimited variation" is best seen in the following sentence from The Origin of Species: I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered. in the 20th century. who disproved Darwinism in his book Darwin Retried. Such a change requires an increase in the genetic information of the living thing.. animal breeders who mated different varieties of cattle in order to bring about new varieties that produced more milk. The species look stable. This principle holds that. states: The heart of the problem is whether living things do indeed vary to an unlimited extent. since information for both long-legged and short-legged forms may exist in the gene pool that species. This meant that it was absolutely impossible for animal breeders to convert cattle into a different species by mating different variations of them. though I am unable to discover a single fact on which this belief is grounded". since all mating attempts carried out to produce new variations have been inconclusive. as Darwin had postulated. there are strict barriers among different species of living things. till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale. We have all heard of disappointed breeders who carried their work to a certain point only to see the animals or . In an article he wrote in 1844 he stated: "That a limit to variation does exist in nature is assumed by most authors. based on the results of experiments conducted on living things. more and more aquatic in their habits.151 In The Origin of Species he cited different examples of variations as the most important evidence for his theory. science has posited the principle of "genetic stability" (genetic homeostasis). which is certainly not possible through variations. Since then. However. with larger and larger mouths. according to Darwin.
153 Luther Burbank. it has never been possible to produce a blue rose or a black tulip.Evolutionist Claims and the Facts 167 DID WHALES EVOLVE FROM BEARS? In The Origin of Species. Johannsen sums the matter up this way: The variations upon which Darwin and Wallace had placed their emphasis cannot be selectively pushed beyond a certain point. evolutionists are mistaken on this subject too." 154 The Danish scientist W. Many evolutionist sources show antibiotic resistance as "an example of the development of living things by advantageous mutations". 20th century science has shown this evolutionary scenario to be imaginary. expressed this fact when he said. L. "there are limits to the development possible. plants revert to where they had started. that such a variability does not contain the secret of 'indefinite departure. Despite strenuous efforts for two or three centuries. However.155 Antibiotic Resistance and DDT Immunity are not Evidence for Evolution One of the biological concepts that evolutionists try to present as evidence for their theory is the resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. and these limits follow a law. considered the most competent breeder of all time. A similar claim is also made for the insects which build immunity to insecticides such as DDT. Darwin asserted that whales had evolved from bears that tried to swim! Darwin mistakenly supposed that the possibilities of variation within a species were unlimited. .
2) The building of resistance as a result of losing genetic data because of mutation. The organisms having these genes can transfer them to other bacteria making them resistant as well. but some others.. Evolutionists try to present this as "the evolution of bacteria by adapting to conditions".. Thus. Although the resistance mechanisms are specific to a particular antibiotic. One of the scientists who has done the most detailed research into this subject is the Israeli biophysicist Lee Spetner. Bacteria build immunity to antibiotics over time. discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928.. The first antibiotic was penicillin.. which are not affected by that antibiotic. The mechanism works like this: A large proportion of the bacteria that are subjected to antibiotics die. This resistance can take the form of degrading the antibiotic molecule or of ejecting it from the cell. These two mechanisms are: 1) The transfer of resistance genes already extant in bacteria. who is also known for his book Not by Chance published in 1997. something new was discovered. Antibiotics derived from micro-organisms were used against bacteria and the results were successful. most pathogenic bacteria have. and this discovery marked a turning point in the world of medicine. is very different from this superficial interpretation. but neither of them constitutes evidence for the theory of evolution.156 Spetner then goes on to say that this is not "evidence for evolution": . succeeded in accumulating several sets of genes granting them resistance to a variety of antibiotics. however. replicate rapidly and soon make up the whole population. Fleming realized that mould produced a molecule that killed the Staphylococcus bacterium. the entire population becomes immune to antibiotics.168 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Antibiotics are "killer molecules" that are produced by micro-organisms to fight other micro-organisms. Soon. Professor Spetner explains the first mechanism in an article published in 2001: Some microorganisms are endowed with genes that grant resistance to these antibiotics. Spetner maintains that the immunity of bacteria comes about by two different mechanisms. The truth.
The genetic changes that could illustrate the theory must not only add information to the bacterium's genome. it cannot serve as a prototype for the kind of mutations needed by NDT [Neo Darwinian Theory]. . The main point is that (Evolution) cannot be achieved by mutations of this sort.A microorganism can sometimes acquire resistance to an antibiotic through a random substitution of a single nucleotide. is not the kind that can serve as a prototype for the mutations needed to account for Evolution. On the contrary.. Since this "disability" prevents the antibiotic from attaching onto the ribosome. The type of mutation that grants resistance to streptomycin is manifest in the ribosome and degrades its molecular match with the antibiotic molecule.157 So.. no new genetic information is added to the bacterium. because no new genetic information is produced: genetic information that already exists is simply transferred between bacteria. "antibiotic resistance" develops. that is to say.. is not an example of evolution either.Evolutionist Claims and the Facts 169 The acquisition of antibiotic resistance in this manner. The horizontal transfer of genes only spreads around genes that are already in some species. The second type of immunity. the bacterium becomes "disabled". Spetner writes: . (Also...158 To sum up. they must add new information to the biocosm. Evolution cannot be built by accumulating mutations that only degrade specificity. there is no example of mutation that "develops the genetic information". The reason for this is the "decomposition" of the ribosome by mutation. which was discovered by Selman Waksman and Albert Schatz and first reported in 1944. Streptomycin. it has been discovered that the ribosome of the mutated bacterium is less functional than that of normal bacterium). is an antibiotic against which bacteria can acquire resistance in this way. It turns out that this degradation is a loss of specificity and therefore a loss of information. That is. the structure of the ribosome is decomposed. no matter how many of them there are. This change in the surface of the microorganism's ribosome prevents the streptomycin molecule from attaching and carrying out its antibiotic function.. which comes about as a result of mutation. But although the mutation they undergo in the process is beneficial to the microorganism in the presence of streptomycin. a mutation impinging on a bacterium's ribosome makes that bacterium resistant to streptomycin. Finally. we cannot talk of any evolution here.
No random mutations that could represent the mutations required by Neo-Darwinian Theory that have been examined on the molecular level have added any information."159 Some other examples explained by mutation. Spetner explains that neither antibiotic immunity nor any other biological phenomena indicate such an example of mutation: The mutations needed for macroevolution have never been observed. it was silently put to rest when this was proved to be invalid. The whole assumption is quite unscientific. are phenomena that cause "genetic information deficit" in insects. the concept of "vestigial organs" appeared frequently in evolutionist literature as "evidence" of evolution. The best indication of this was the gradual yet substantial decrease in evolutionists' long list of vesti- . In this case. The question I address is: Are the mutations that have been observed the kind the theory needs for support? The answer turns out to be NO!160 The Fallacy of Vestigial Organs For a long time. These "non-functional organs" were in fact organs whose "functions had not yet been discovered". As evolutionists would have it. In most of these instances. immunity genes that already exist are used. These had been inherited from progenitors and had gradually become vestigial from lack of use. saying. and is based entirely on insufficient knowledge.170 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT The same situation holds true for the immunity that insects develop to DDT and similar insecticides. That is because the theory of evolution is based on the assertion that living things develop through mutations. Eventually. But some evolutionists still believe in it. just as with the ribosome mutation mentioned above. it cannot be claimed that the immunity mechanisms in bacteria and insects constitute evidence for the theory of evolution. The notion of "vestigial organs" was first put forward a century ago. there existed in the bodies of some creatures a number of non-functional organs. and from time to time someone will try to advance "vestigial organs" as important evidence of evolution. "The genetic variants required for resistance to the most diverse kinds of pesticides were apparently present in every one of the populations exposed to these man-made compounds. However. The evolutionist biologist Francisco Ayala admits this fact.
liver. As science progressed. it would not be possible to sit comfortably without a coccyx.Evolutionist Claims and the Facts 171 gial organs. and small collections of lymphatic tissue such as the tonsils in the throat and Peyer's patch in the small intestine-are also part of the lymphatic system. that the pineal gland have been disproved in time. This organ lubricates many hormone glands. and that the pituitary function was unknown in Dargland controlled the correct functioning of win's time. an evolutionist himself. and since the structure of the argument used is not scientifically valid. appendix. S.161 The list of vestigial organs that was made by the German Anatomist R. it was realised that the thymus triggered the immune system in the human body by actiAll instances of vestigial organs vating the T cells."162 It was also discovered that the tonsils. had a significant role in protecting the throat against infections. All of these were the eyeball. I conclude that "vestigial organs" provide no special evidence for the theory of evolution. For instance. that the thyroid gland the Origins as a vestigial strucwas effective in providing steady growth in ture. . concurred with this fact in his article "Can vestigial organs constitute evidence for evolution?" published in the journal Evolutionary Theory: Since it is not possible to unambiguously identify useless structures.R. bone marrow. spleen. particularly until adolescence. which was mentioned in portant hormones. including the appendix and coccyx. it was discovered that all of the organs in Wiedersheim's list in fact had very important functions. They too help the body fight infection. was in fact a lymphoid organ that fought against infections in the body. In the years that followed. For example the semicircular fold in was in charge of the secretion of some imthe eye. it was discovered that the appendix. It was found that the coccyx at the lower end of the vertebral column supports the bones around the pelvis and is the convergence point of some small muscles and for this reason. This fact was made clear in 1997: "Other bodily organs and tissues-the thymus. Wiedersheim in 1895 included approximately 100 organs. Scadding. once conside-red to be "vestigial organs". which was supposed to be a "vestigial organ". has been shown to be fully functional in our time. though its babies and children. which were included in the same list of vestigial organs.
who challenged the theory of vestigial organs. whereas their less immediate relatives. How can the evolutionists account for this?163 Simply put. since human beings did not evolve from other creatures as a result of chance. However. advanced on the basis of no other evidence than an apparent physical resemblance. The Myth of Homology Structural similarities between different species are called "homology" in biology. therefore. Darwin thought that creatures with similar (homologous) organs had an evolutionary relationship with each other. do not. the lower apes. and perfect form. This argument has never once been verified by a single concrete discovery in all the years since Darwin's day. and that these organs must have been inherited from a common ancestor. As we have just seen. the scenario of vestigial organs put forward by evolutionists contains a number of serious logical flaws. and indeed all other birds with wings were supposed to have evolved from a common ancestor. expressed this logical error as follows: Apes possess an appendix. According to his assumption. Nowhere in the world has anyone come up with a fossil remain of the imaginary common ancestor of creatures with homologous structures. which was referred to as a vestigial organ by Darwin. Evolutionists try to present those similarities as evidence for evolution. the semi-lunar fold in the eye. has been found in fact to be in charge of cleansing and lubricating the eyeball. There was a very important logical error in the evolutionist claim regarding vestigial organs. but were created in their current. and has in any case been proven to be scientifically untrue. Enoch. eagles. this claim was that the vestigial organs in living things were inherited from their ancestors. complete. but it appears again among the still lower mammals such as the opossum. some of the alleged "vestigial" organs are not found in the species alleged to be the ancestors of human beings! For example. the appendix does not exist in some ape species that are said to be ancestors of man. Homology is a deceptive argument. Furthermore. both pigeons and eagles had wings. the following issues make it clear that homology pro- . There exists not one inherited vestigial organ in the human body. pigeons. The famous biologist H.172 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Finally.
2. Similar Organs in Entirely Different Living Species There are a number of homologous organs shared by different groups among which evolutionists cannot establish any kind of evolutionary relationship. For example. placentals and marsupials. Not even evolutionists posit an evolutionary relationship or kinship among those four different groups of animals. the vertebrates. and on insects and even on some dinosaurs. The embryological development of homologous organs in different creatures is completely different. among which evolutionists have not been able to establish any sort of evolutionary relationship. which are extinct reptiles. Let us now examine each of these points one by one. Wings are one example. Two large mammal categories. between which no evolutionary relationship is likely even to be proposed. and the arthropods. for example. In addition to birds. we find wings on bats. The famous evolutionist Frank Salisbury's confessions revealed in his statements on how extremely different creatures came to have very similar eyes underscores the impasse of homology: Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times.164 There are many creatures which. do not permit any claims of evolutionary relationship. Evolution- . It's bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once. 1. the octopus and man are two extremely different species. In fact. Another striking example is the amazing resemblance and the structural similarity observed in the eyes of different creatures. 3. yet the eyes of both are very much alike in terms of their structure and function. homologous organs should be a great embarrassment for evolutionists. One finds homologous organs in creatures belonging to completely different phyla. which are mammals. These and numerous other examples show that the evolutionist claim based on resemblances is completely unscientific. in the squid. Not even evolutionists try to account for the similarity of the eyes of the octopus and man by positing a common ancestor. but the thought of producing them several times according to the modern synthetic theory makes my head swim.Evolutionist Claims and the Facts 173 vides no evidence that evolution ever occurred. are an example. despite their very similar physical make-up. The genetic codes of some creatures that have homologous organs are completely different from one another.
174 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT ists consider this distinction to have come about when mammals first appeared. However. and that each group lived its own evolutionary history totally independent of the other. Michael Denton. a squirrel or a monkey all have this same structure.and hindlimbs of a frog. . anteaters. But it is interesting that there are "pairs" in placentals and marsupials which are nearly the same. Similar organs are usually governed by very different genetic (DNA) codes. Furthermore." show that there is no evidence for the thesis of evolution from a common ancestor. cats. land-living vertebrates..165 Extraordinary resemblances and similar organs like these. the pattern for wolves.e. they are all counted as pentadactyl due to their bone structure. Even the bone structures of birds and bats conform to this basic design. in marsupials. Evolutionists claim that all living things descended from a common ancestor. undirected process of mutation and natural selection somehow hit upon identical features several times in widely separated organisms. similar (homologous) organs in different creatures should also be coded with similar (homologous) DNA codes. moles. squirrels. Although these do not always have the appearance of five digits as we know them. i. an Australian professor of biochemistry. they are not. The Genetic and Embryological Impasse of Homology In order for the evolutionist claim concerning "homology" to be taken seriously. a lizard. similar genetic codes in the DNA of different creatures are often associated with completely different organs. totally independently. and they have long cited pentadactyl limb as evidence of this." 166 A famous example on this subject is the "five digit skeletal structure" of quadrupeds which is quoted in almost all evolutionist textbooks. The American biologists Dean Kenyon and Percival Davis make the following comment: According to Darwinian theory. The fore. Quadrupeds. This amounts to the astonishing claim that a random. which evolutionist biologists cannot accept as examples of "homology. and mice each evolved twice: once in placental mammals and again. describes in his book Evolution: A Theory in Crisis the genetic impasse of the evolutionist interpretation of homology: "Homologous structures are often specified by non-homologous genetic systems and the concept of homology can seldom be extended back into embryology. have five digits on their foreand hindlimbs. ground hogs.
and that this similarity is evidence that these living species have evolved from common ancestors. In this respect. Homologous organs are now known to be produced by totally different gene complexes in the different species. whereas. however. or else from each other. and this is held to indicate their common origin. the stages of development in the egg or the mother's womb-would need to be parallel. we can say that genetic and embryological research has proven that the concept of homology defined by Darwin as "evidence of the evolution of living things from a common ancestor" can by no means be regarded as any evidence at all. in reality.Evolutionist Claims and the Facts 175 This claim was mentioned in almost all basic sources on biology throughout the 20th century as very strong evidence for evolution. In truth. It was realised that the pentadactyl limb patterns of different creatures are controlled by totally different genes.167 Another point is that in order for the evolutionary thesis regarding homology to be taken seriously. There are huge molecular differ- . or the corresponding protein structures. these embryological periods for similar structures are quite different from each other in every living creature. pointing out the obvious resemblances between the skeletons of the limbs of different animals. Evolutionist biologist William Fix describes the collapse of the evolutionist thesis regarding pentadactylism in this way: The older text-books on evolution make much of the idea of homology. Invalidity of the Claim of Molecular Homology Evolutionists' advancement of homology as evidence for evolution is invalid not only at the morphological level. To conclude. Thus the "pentadactyl" limb pattern is found in the arm of a man. the periods of similar structures' embryological development-in other words. Now if these various structures were transmitted by the same gene couples. the wing of a bird. but also at the molecular level. the theory would make good sense. of different living species are similar.. Unfortunately this is not the case. The concept of homology in terms of similar genes handed on from a common ancestor has broken down. science can be said to have proven the Darwinist thesis false time and time again. varied from time to time by mutations and acted upon by environmental selection. the results of molecular comparisons do not work in favour of the theory of evolution at all. Genetic findings in the 1980s refuted this evolutionist claim. Evolutionists say that the DNA codes.. and the flipper of a whale.
isolated and unlinked by intermediates. research into the genetic codes of living things worsened the quandary faced by the theory of evolution in this regard.176 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT ences between creatures that appear to be very similar and related.170 Professor Michael Denton: "Evolution is a theory in crisis" In the 1990s. For instance. According to research carried out on this matter. Dr. molecules. It has also been discovered that the molecular difference between bacteria that appear to be very similar is greater than the difference between mammals and amphibians or insects. However. evolutionist scientists sought to establish an "evolutionary tree".168 Similar comparisons have been made in the cases of haemoglobin. myoglobin. "with more and more sequences available. like fossils. hormones. instead of the earlier comparisons that were limited to protein sequences. Molecular biologists James A. one of the proteins vital to respiration. In these experiments. Michael Denton comments: Each class at a molecular level is unique. Rivera elaborated on this in an article in 1999: "Scientists started analyzing a variety of genes from different organisms and ." 171 Besides rRNA comparisons. and genes and similar conclusions are drawn. Another study has shown that molecular differences between some birds are greater than the differences between those same birds and mammals. From these findings. According to a 1999 article by French biologists Hervé Philippe and Patrick Forterre. they were disappointed by the results. Ravi Jain and Maria C.169 Concerning these findings in the field of molecular biology. but the results have been the opposite of the "tree of life" presupposed by evolution. it turned out that most protein pyhlogenies contradict each other as well as the rRNA tree. the cytochrome-C protein. Thus. the difference between two different reptile species is greater than the difference between a bird and a fish or a fish and a mammal. no organism is "ancestral" or "primitive" or "advanced" compared with its relatives… There is little doubt that if this molecular evidence had been available a century ago… the idea of organic evolution might never have been accepted. Lake. the DNA codes in the genes of living things were also compared. have failed to provide the elusive intermediates so long sought by evolutionary biology… At a molecular level. "ribosomal RNA" (rRNA) sequences were compared. is incredibly different in living beings of the same class.
a highly reputed biologist from the University of Illinois admits that the concept of "phylogeny" has lost its meaning in the face of molecular findings in this way: No consistent organismal phylogeny has emerged from the many individual protein phylogenies so far produced. And now. A 1996 study using 88 protein sequences grouped rabbits with primates instead of . But "nothing could be further from the truth. Comparisons of the genomes then available not only didn't clarify the picture of how life's major groupings evolved. the theory of evolution is also admitted in an article called "Is it Time to Uproot the Tree of Life?" published in Science in 1999.174 In short. nor those of rRNAs or of genes. the comparisons have yielded many versions of the tree of life that differ from the rRNA tree and conflict with each other as well. and goes on to say that "new data are muddying the evolutionary picture": A year ago. But what they saw confounded them. as molecular biology advances. Instead.. the homology concept loses more ground. Phylogenetic incongruities can be seen everywhere in the universal tree.. Comparisons that have been made of proteins.. confirm the premises of the theory of evolution. with an additional eight microbial sequences in hand." 172 Neither the comparisons that have been made of proteins. biologists looking over newly sequenced genomes from more than a dozen microorganisms thought these data might support the accepted plot lines of life's early history. Many evolutionary biologists had thought they could roughly see the beginnings of life's three kingdoms. head of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville. they confused it. Maryland. rRNAs and genes reveal that creatures which are allegedly close relatives according to the theory of evolution are actually totally distinct from each other. This article by Elizabeth Pennisi states that the genetic analyses and comparisons carried out by Darwinist biologists in order to shed light on the "tree of life" actually yielded directly opposite results. but rather opposed to. When full DNA sequences opened the way to comparing other kinds of genes.. Carl Woese.. researchers expected that they would simply add detail to this tree. the situation has gotten even more confusing." 173 The fact that results of molecular comparisons are not in favour of... from its root to the major branchings within and among the various (groups) to the makeup of the primary groupings themselves.Evolutionist Claims and the Facts 177 found that their relationship to each other contradicted the evolutionary tree of life derived from rRNA analysis alone." says Claire Fraser.
He theorised that during its development in its mother's womb.178 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT rodents. even more ardent than Darwin in many respects. Molecular biologist Jonathan Wells sums up the situation in 2000 in this way: Inconsistencies among trees based on different molecules. and are accepted even by tate to distort the scientific evolutionists themselves. writes: . George Gaylord Simpdata and devise various forgeries. and the bizarre trees that result from some molecular analyses. and another 1998 study based on 12 proteins put cows closer to whales than to horses. the human embryo first displayed the characteristics of a fish. which resembles a tail only beHaeckel was an evolutionist cause it takes shape before the legs do. This theory of Haeckel's postulates that living embryos re-experience the evolutionary process that their pseudo-ancestors underwent. The term "recapitulation" is a condensation of the dictum "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny". one of the founders of neo-Darwinism. parathyroid. For These are universally acknowledged facts in this reason. and thymus. but it is still being presented as a scientific reality by some evolutionist publications. The part that had been identified as a "tail" by Haeckel and his followers is in fact the backbone. and then those of a reptile. he did not hesithe scientific world. a 1998 analysis of 13 genes in 19 animal species placed sea urchins among the chordates. The part of the embryo that was likened to the "egg yolk pouch" turns out to be a pouch that produces blood for the infant. son. It is now known that the "gills" that supposedly appear in the early stages of the human embryo are in fact the initial phases of the middle-ear canal. have now plunged molecular phylogeny into a crisis. It has since been proven that this theory is completely bogus.175 The Myth of Embryological Recapitulation What used to be called the "recapitulation theory" has long been eliminated from scientific literature. and finally those of a human. put forward by the evolutionist biologist Ernst Haeckel at the end of the 19th century.
among them many of the most trusted observers and most esteemed biologists" whose studies are full of prejudiced conclusions. the folds on the human embryos are now redefined. the only defence he offered was that other evolutionists had committed similar offences: After this compromising confession of "forgery" I should be obliged to consider myself condemned and annihilated if I had not the consolation of seeing side by side with me in the prisoners' dock hundreds of fellow culprits. It was finally exorcised from biology textbooks in the fifties. Haeckel misstated the evolutionary principle involved. distortions.Evolutionist Claims and the Facts 179 HUMAN EMBRYOS DO NOT HAVE GILL SLITS Once defined as an inheritance from past ancestors. This is because they have all conditioned themselves to champion evolutionary theory although there is not a shred of scientific evidence supporting it. schematised and constructed. we read: Surely the biogenetic law is as dead as a doornail.176 In an article published in American Scientist. Haeckel's forgeries purported to show that fish and human embryos resembled one another. among them many of the most trusted observers and most esteemed biologists. When he was caught out. a faker who falsified his drawings in order to support the theory he advanced.178 There are indeed "hundreds of fellow culprits. The great majority of all the diagrams in the best biological textbooks. and even forgeries. for all of them are inexact. It has been shown that human embryos do not recapitulate evolutionary history of man. . It is now firmly established that ontogeny does not repeat phylogeny. treatises and journals would incur in the same degree the charge of "forgery". and are more or less doctored. As a topic of serious theoretical inquiry it was extinct in the twenties…177 Another interesting aspect of "recapitulation" was Ernst Haeckel himself.
on the contrary. a philosopher in the 10th century could have claimed that there was a divine tree on the surface of the moon and that all living things actually grew on the branches of this huge tree like fruit. and assumes the existence of matter as its basic principle. we see that materialism has already collapsed. and everything that exists consists of matter. Materialist philosophy is one of the oldest beliefs in the world. So the question becomes one of whether the materialist point of view is correct. then there can be no suprematerial Creator who created it. and if everything consists of matter. by observation and experiment. at a time when man has managed to walk on the moon. the force that keeps evolution alive is not science. matter has always existed. For instance. and then fell off onto the earth. This other influence is materialist philosophy. Materialism has therefore long been hostile to religious beliefs of every kind that have faith in God.CHAPTER 14 The Theory of Evolution: A Materialistic Liability he information we have considered throughout this book has shown us that the theory of evolution has no scientific basis. Some people might have found this philosophy attractive and believed in it. of course. Evolution may be maintained by some "scientists". One method of testing whether a philosophy is true or false is to investigate the claims it makes about science by using scientific methods. it is no longer possible to seriously hold such a belief. evolutionist claims conflict with scientific facts. When we do this. We can therefore investigate by means of scientific methods the materialist claim: that matter has existed for all eternity and that this matter can organise itself without a supramaterial Creator and cause life to begin. and that. In other words. But in the 20th century. because T . According to this view. This makes belief in a Creator impossible. because if matter has always existed. that is. Whether such a tree exists there or not can be determined by scientific methods. but behind it there is another influence at work.
However. confesses that he is "a materialist first and a scientist second" in these words: It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world. If he is a materialist first and a scientist second.The Theory of Evolution: A Materialistic Liability 181 the idea that matter has existed since beginning of time has been overthrown by the Big Bang theory which shows that the universe was created from nothingness. because they have accepted it "a priori" as true. which is the theory of evolution. Lewontin from Harvard University. they also confess this fact from time to time. no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. they embrace the only alternative they have in hand. Richard C. on the contrary. As the evolutionist Lewontin frankly states. he will not abandon materialism when he sees that evolution is disproved by science. so we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. This prejudiced behaviour leads evolutionists to a belief that "unconscious matter composed itself". no matter how counter-intuitive. which is contrary not only to science.179 The term "a priori" that Lewontin uses here is quite important. Moreover. but . that materialism is absolute. he will attempt to uphold and defend materialism by trying to support evolution. Interestingly enough. but. This philosophical term refers to a presupposition not based on any experimental knowledge. A thought is "a priori" when you consider it to be correct and accept it as so even if there is no information available to confirm it. Since materialism definitely necessitates denying the existence of a Creator. that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations. materialism is an "a priori" commitment for evolutionists. no matter what. A well-known geneticist and outspoken evolutionist. On the contrary. This is exactly the predicament that evolutionists defending the theory of evolution find themselves in today. who then try to adapt science to this preconception. if someone is determined to believe in materialism and puts his devotion to materialist philosophy before everything else. The claim that matter organised itself and created life is the claim that we call "the theory of evolution" -which this book has been examining-and which has been shown to have collapsed. then he will act differently. It does not matter to such scientists that evolution has been belied by scientific facts.
which regards evolution as an ideological necessity. have to conduct their research under the domination of this theory. this is what he says concerning the question of whether it could have emerged by chance or not: Is such a harmony that emerged only out of coincidences possible in reality? This is the basic question of the whole of biological evolution. which we constantly come across in the Western media and in well-known and "esteemed" science magazines. as applied to the origin of life by Alexander Oparin. Academics in the Western countries have to have articles published in certain scientific journals to attain and hold onto their professorships. and given names such as chemical evolution and self-organization of matter.180 Evolutionist propaganda. and they do not allow any anti-evolutionist article to appear in them. explains this belief of evolutionists and the materialist dogma lying at its base as follows: Another evolutionary principle is therefore needed to take us across the gap from mixtures of simple natural chemicals to the first effective replicator. Biologists. They. After Ditfurth cites an example of the extremely complex composition of life. is a good example of this bigoted materialist understanding. This principle has not yet been described in detail or demonstrated.182 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT also to reason. or at least avoid uttering any word against it. All of the journals dealing with biology are under the control of evolutionists. which is why they blindly defend all the "impossible coincidences" we have been examining in this book. Answering this question as "Yes. it has been turned into a sacred cow by the circles that set the standards of science. Critically speaking. but it is anticipated. are part of the established order. therefore. as we have quoted before. Materialist Confessions The German biologist Hoimar von Ditfurth. in order to maintain their reputations. we can say that somebody who accepts . is the outcome of this ideological necessity. Professor of chemistry from New York University and a DNA expert Robert Shapiro. Since evolution is considered to be indispensable. it is possible" is something like verifying faith in the modern science of nature. too. a prominent evolutionist. Some scientists find themselves in a position where they are forced to defend this far-fetched theory. The existence of the principle is taken for granted in the philosophy of dialectical materialism.
. 1993 3.e. One of the most famous contemporary champions of the theory of evolution. However. Gould said: "Darwin applied a consistent philosophy of materialism to his interpretation of nature". London. wrote: "Together with Marx's materialistic theory of history… Darwin's theory of evolution was a crucial plank in the platform of mechanism and materialism. one of the masterminds of the Russian Communist Revolution along with Lenin. science has shown that Darwinism was not a victory for materialism but rather a sign of that philosophy's overthrow.1 Another famous evolutionist. by coincidences. It is possible to find examples of this dogmatic . Darwin applied materialist philosophy to the natural sciences and the advocates of this philosophy.Douglas Futuyma.The Theory of Evolution: A Materialistic Liability 183 DARWINISM AND MATERIALISM he only reason that Darwin's theory is still defended despite its obvious refutation by science is the close link between that theory and materialism." This is a very clear admission of why the theory of evolution is really so important to its defenders. MA: Sinauer. Evolutionary Biology.Alan Woods and Ted Grant. commented: "The discovery by Darwin was the highest triumph of the dialectic in the whole field of organic matter. i. that is. 2nd ed."3 However. Because what else could he do other than believe in coincidences?181 Yes. 1993 Trotsky Darwin Marx the modern science of nature has no other alternative than to say "yes". is a sign that he has nowhere else to turn. the materialist scientific approach adopts as its basic principle explaining life by denying "supernatural interference". the paleontologist Stephen J. as Ditfurth states. creation. explaining everything by means of the laws of nature. Marxists being foremost among them. "Marxism and Darwinism". Sunderland. 3 2. "Marxism and Darwinism". p.Alan Woods and Ted Grant. at this point.2 Leon Trotsky. the biologist Douglas Futuyma. T 1. 1986. even the most impossible scenarios are easily accepted. Reason in Revolt: Marxism and Modern Science. because he aims to explain natural phenomena by means that are understandable and tries to derive them from the laws of nature without reverting to supernatural interference. Once this principle is adopted. London. go on defending Darwinism no matter what.
it can be said that this has a probability likely to be realised once in the whole universe.. the well-known advocate of evolutionary theory in Turkey. because attaining this feature by chance even by one individual. we have to accept. is "as unlikely as the possibility of a monkey writing the history of humanity on a typewriter without making any mistakes".182 There is no doubt that to accept such a possibility is actually to reject the basic principles of reason and common sense. the probability of the formation of a cytochrome-C sequence is as likely as zero. As we have already pointed out. it is very interesting to see that the "evolutionist scientist" Professor Ali Demirsoy accepts this sort of irrational proposition: In essence. Otherwise some metaphysical powers beyond our definition must have acted in its formation. Not surprisingly.184 The conclusion to be drawn from such pronouncements is that evolution is not a theory arrived at through scientific investigation. However. Professor Ali Demirsoy. otherwise it is meaningless. Even one single correctly formed letter written on a page makes it certain that it was written by a person. No logical person would agree that the letters in such a huge book could have been put together "by chance". The heart of the problem is how the mitochondria have acquired this feature. The enzymes providing respiration and functioning as a catalyst in each step in a different form make up the core of the mechanism.184 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT mentality in almost all evolutionist literature. that all the respiration enzymes completely existed in the cell before the cell first came in contact with oxygen. despite being contrary to biological thought.183 Demirsoy writes that he prefers the impossible. it becomes even more certain that the book has been written by an author. an essential protein for life. according to Demirsoy: the probability of the coincidental formation of cythochrome-C. the existence of a Creator. when Demirsoy cites another subject-the origins of the mitochondria in the cell-he openly accepts coincidence as an explanation. is just one of many. We thus have to look into the first hypothesis. When one sees a book of world history. That is. It is clear that this approach has no relation whatsoever with science. though reluctantly. On the con- . To accept the latter is not appropriate for the scientific goal. in order to avoid a more dogmatic explanation or speculation. in order "not to have to accept supernatural forces"-in other words. if life requires a certain sequence. even though it is "quite contrary to scientific thought".. requires extreme probabilities that are incomprehensible. Here. A cell has to contain this enzyme sequence completely.
they were created. 114-15 4. that is.Hugh Ross. George C. New York. p.4 Notoriously. Colorado Springs. The Big Bang shows that all physical substances in the universe came into being out of nothing: in other words. Roy A. In the Beginning Was Information.Henry Margenau. p. For it seems that the cosmologists are providing a scientific proof . Vargesse. In particular. p. 19thcentury materialism suggested that the universe existed since eternity. pp.. Theos. one of the most renowned philosophers of our century says: "It can no longer claim to be a scientific philosophy"6 The same reality makes an American professor of astronomy.must be involved. p. creates the universe and all living things. The director of the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology. The Creator and the Cosmos.. The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution. has been rather carefully thought out. pp.George C. Williams. and creativity.Arthur Koestler. Williams. which have to be discussed separately. There is no known law of nature.. that it was not created. apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in the numbers. Janus: A Summing Up. It is impossible for matter to produce information within itself. New York. New York: Simon & Schuster. CLV. 107.1 This situation is evidence for the existence of a supra-material Wisdom that makes genetic information exist. The supposition that the universe has existed since eternity was blown away by the discovery that the universe originated from a great explosion (the so-called "Big Bang") that took place nearly 15 billion years ago. I will therefore begin by confessing that the Stratonician atheist has to be embarressed by the contemporary cosmological consensus (Big Bang). God. Arthur Koestler. The famous physician Paul Davies explains this situation: It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe. in their own terms.Werner Gitt. confession is good for the soul. no known process and no known sequence of events which can cause information to originate by itself in matter. 1992. Bielefeld.2 All these scientific facts illustrate that a Creator Who has external power and knowledge. The discoveries of 20th-century science however have completely invalidated these hypotheses. 250 .5 The Big Bang also shows that at each stage. the thought insistently arises that some supernatural agency -or rather Agency. cognition. 189 3. which was too perfect to have been formed from an uncontrolled explosion. and that the organic world could be explained in terms of the interactions of matter.. admits this fact in an article he wrote in 1995: Evolutionist biologists have failed to realize that they work with two more or less incommensurable domains: that of information and that of matter. remarks: All experiences indicate that a thinking being voluntarily exercising his own free will. 1978..Paul Davies. George Greenstein. 1983. CO: Nav-Press. the materialistic hypothesis that life can be explained solely in terms of the interactions of matter also collapsed in the face of the the discoveries of science. As for materialism.. This dearth descriptors makes matter and information two separate domains of existence. is required. 42-43 5. say: As we survey all the evidence. God and the New Physics. One of the leading defenders of the theory of evolution. the origin of the genetic information that determines all living things can by no means be explained by any purely material agent. Proffessor Werner Gitt. Bios. La Salle IL: Open Court Publishing.3 1. not an object. the gene is a package of information. The seeming miraculous concurrence of numerical values that nature has assigned to her fundamental constants must remain the most compelling evidence for an element of cosmic design.. One of the foremost advocates of materialism. 141 6. Cosmos. 1995.. that the universe had a beginning. Vintage Books. 1993. This is made clear by the order that came about after the Big Bang. the atheist philosopher Anthony Flew concedes: C Thus. the universe was shaped by a controlled creation. Simon & Schuster.The Death of Materialism onstituting as it does the philosophical underpinnings of the theory of evolution. 241 2. Germany.
That is the duty of a true scientist. and how they veil realities. and which has no consistent argument to put forth. though unintentionally. discrepancies. we can clearly see from evolutionist literature that all of this effort has a "purpose"-and that purpose precludes any belief that all living things were not created no matter what the price. Materialism absolutely rejects the existence of anything "beyond" matter (or of anything supernatural). Thus materialists help many people realise the gloom of the bigoted and traditional mentality and encourage them to seek the essence and real source of religion by referring to and adhering to the Qur'an. superstition. However.186 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT trary. they disclose all the simplicity of the mentality that presents a false . It then turned into a belief or dogma in spite of concrete scientific facts. science has to accept it. The offences of the materialist-atheist circle have helped reveal the false religion which has no relation whatsoever with the Qur'an or Islam. That said. by which they seek to justify their own untrue and atheist thoughts. Furthermore. Science itself is not obliged to accept such a dogma. Materialists. all the inconsistencies. and illogic of the false religion defended by those insincere circles that wrongly act in the name of Islam without relying on valid evidence are exposed. what they refer to is not science but materialist philosophy. they obey God's command and serve His religion. how they deceive people for the sake of the evolutionist fables that they blindly believe. Thus. we also have to admit that these materialist circles perform a significant "service". not defending impossible scenarios by clinging to the outdated materialist dogmas of the 19th century. Evolutionists define this purpose as "scientific". Although unintentionally. Science means exploring nature and deriving conclusions from one's findings. They carry out this "service". Again. False Religion and True Religion So far. by exposing all the senselessness and inconsistencies of the traditionalist and bigoted thought that poses in the name of Islam. If these findings lead to the conclusion that nature is created. we have examined how the circles devoted to materialist philosophy derange science. which depends on hearsay. the form and substance of this theory were dictated by the requirements of materialistic philosophy. and idle talk.
Thus willy-nilly and in accordance with their fate. Harun Yahya. (Surat al-Baqara. we think it necessary to leave an open door for some advocates of the evolutionist materialist thought. . 251) At this point. and with the traditionalism and bigotry. the earth would indeed be full of mischief. completely incompatible with all that has been taught to them. They might have learned religion from books by opponents of religion who try to identify Islam with falsehoods and fallacies that are not present in the Qur'an. they become the means whereby the decree of God about His upholding His true religion by causing the antagonists of religion counteract against each other is made true.The Theory of Evolution: A Materialistic Liability 187 religion invented in the name of God and proffered as Islam to all and they help weaken the sway of this bigoted system that threatens the bulk of society. These people might once have set out on an honest quest. And did not God check one set of people by means of another. For this reason. If they need assistance. moreover. on the basic concepts in the Qur'an. yet have been driven away from the true religion under the influence of the idle talk produced in the name of Islam. falsehoods fabricated in the name of the Prophet. The essence and origin of Islam are quite different and. they can refer to the books written by the author of this book. God's law is stated in the Qur'an as follows. we suggest they get a Qur'an as soon as possible and read God's book with an open heart and a conscientious and unprejudiced view and learn the original religion from its true source. and hearsay stories to which they have been subject since their childhood and thus never have had the chance to discover the truth themselves.
notwithstanding so many deficiencies A . This imposition is so effective that it has in time turned evolution into an idea that is never to be rejected. and well-known and "respectable" magazines periodically bring this subject up. However most people around the world are unaware of this and assume that evolution is a scientific fact. and biology books. In short. or "Nature" indicates that scientists have shed light on the final issues of evolutionary theory". the same holds true for scientific resources. encyclopaedias. which are at the disposal of anti-religionist power-centres. the theory of evolution rests on no scientific basis. we also have to mention the particular characteristics of this indoctrination and propaganda.CHAPTER 15 Media: Fertile Ground for Evolution s what we have examined so far has demonstrated. a new fossil that completes the gap in the fossil chain has been found". When we look at the Western media carefully. one gets the impression that this theory is an absolutely proven fact leaving no room for discussion. For this reason. They print headlines in big fonts: "According to Time magazine. News of this sort that appears in the prominent media engines is also picked up by local media. In addition to the media. Everything shown as evidence is false as we have described in the previous chapters. The biggest reason for this deception is the systematic indoctrination and propaganda conducted by the media about evolution. maintain an entirely evolutionist view and they impose this on society. When their approach is examined. Leading media organisations. both the media and academic circles. This is why. The finding of "the last missing link of the evolution chain" means nothing because there is not a single thing proven about evolution. Ordinary people reading this kind of news naturally start to think that the theory of evolution is a fact as certain as any law of mathematics. Denying evolution is seen as being contradictory to science and as disregarding fundamental realities. we frequently come across news dwelling on the theory of evolution.
. Focus. play an important role in encouraging the public to accept the theory of evolution. Widely accepted as the most "respected" publishing vehicles on biology and nature in the West. and National Geographic adopt the theory of evolution as an official ideology and try to present this theory as a proven fact. Nature. magazines such as Scientific American. that have so far been revealed (especially since the 1950s) and the fact that these have been confessed by evolutionist scientists themselves. today it is all but impossible to find any criticism of evolution in scientific circles or in the media.Media: Fertile Ground for Evolution 189 EVOLUTIONIST PROPAGANDA Popular science magazines having taken over the leadership of evolution propaganda.
Another fable from evolutionists worth noting is on the origin of mammals. But incidentally the young of these reptiles began to lick the sweat of the mother for nourishment.George Gamow. Here is one of them: Some of the reptiles in the colder regions began to develop a method of keeping their bodies warm. the tail broadened into flukes. Their heat output increased when it was cold and their heat loss was cut down when scales became smaller and more pointed.FABLES FROM EVOLUTIONISTS volution is. hair gave way to a thick smooth blanket of blubber. as once noted by a prominent scientist.1 Besides the fact that there is not a single scientific basis for any of this. ventured into water. 752 2.2 The idea that a well-designed food like milk could originate from sweat glands and all the other details above are just bizarre productions of evolutionary imagination. 1. and in the buoyant water world the body became enormous. 50. This means that evolutionists can package their lies so as to be easily persuasive. and evolved into fur. four-legged mammals. Martynas Ycas. a device to cool the body when necessary by evaporation of water. nostrils moved to the top of the head. a fairy tale for adults. is "explained" with ridiculous simplicity. But when it comes to explain the details of this alleged transformation. Certain sweat glands began to secrete a richer and richer secretion. in search of food or sanctuary. p. National Geographic. which suggests that non-living matter has some sort of a magical power and intelligence to create complex life forms. Scheffer. As eons passed.Victor B. with no scientific basis. One of these curious evolutionary fables is the one about the "evolution of whale" that was published in National Geographic. London: Allen & Unwin. Many people believe in evolution so unconditionally that they do not even bother to ask "how" and "why". Mr. changes slowly occurred. even in the most "scientific" evolutionist books the "transition from water to land". Evolutionists argue that mammals originated from a reptilian ancestor. life started in water and the first developed animals were . Thus the young of these early mammals had a better start in life. front legs changed into flippers. Hind legs disappeared. which eventually became milk. p. such an occurrence is also contrary to the principles of nature. According to evolution. Tompkins Inside Himself. For instance. December 1976. 149 Wrapped-up Lies Evolutionists make great use of the advantage given to them by the "brain-washing" program of the media. Sweating was also an adaptation to regulate the body temperature. "Exploring the Lives of Whales". widely respected as one of the most scientific and serious publications in the world: E The Whale's ascendancy to sovereign size apparently began sixty million years ago when hairy. It is a totally irrational and unscientific scenario. which is one of the greatest unaccounted-for phenomena of evolution. This fable published in National Geographic is noteworthy for being indicative of the extent of the fallacies of seemingly serious evolutionist publications. interesting narratives arise. This long tale has some very interesting fables on some particular subjects. 1968. vol.
drought is said to be the reason). its "descendant" on land. then Ichthyostega in a long evolutionary process". Most evolutionist books do not tell the "how" of the subject. is of no use at all. by mutation. the answer would still be the same: fish would die one by one. Even if this process had had lasted for a period of ten million years. "transfer from land to air" and many more alleged leaps are "explained" in these illogical terms. . and the fish that chose to live on land. As for the formation of really complex organs such as the eye and ear.Media: Fertile Ground for Evolution 191 fish. The reason is that such a complex organ as a complete lung cannot come into being by a sudden "accident". you would succeed in convincing many people. but half a lung. that is. happened to have feet instead of fins. You draw an imaginary picture representing transfer from water to land. which dedicates itself to promoting evolution. How was this "transfer" achieved? We know that a fish cannot live for more than a few minutes out of water. because the media. It is easy to influence the man on the street with the package of "science". evolutionists prefer not to say anything at all. The theory has it that one day these fish started to fling themselves on to the land for some reason or other. on the other hand. But this is exactly what the evolutionists propose. (most of the time. and the "transitional intermediary form" (which is an imaginary animal). you invent Latin words for the animal in the water. and lungs instead of gills. "Transfer from water to land". All of the fish coming out of the water would die one by one in a few minutes. If we suppose that the alleged drought occurred and the fish had to move towards the land. If you put these words in the mouth of a scientist with thick glasses and a white coat. and then fabricate an elaborate lie: "Eusthenopteron transformed first into Rhipitistian Crossoptergian. what would have happened to the fish? The response is evident. the absurdity of this assertion is concealed behind sentences such as "the transfer from water to land was achieved". would announce the good news to the world with great enthusiasm. Even in the most "scientific" sources.
a deceit based not on science but on brainwashing. However. the theory of evolution is nothing but a deceit: a deceit defended only for the benefit of materialistic philosophy. could have formed under what they call primordial earth conditions. or even a single amino acid molecule composing a protein. Even those should be enough to reveal a most important truth: Although it is cloaked in the guise of science. but in this book we have only been able to discuss some of them. evolutionists do believe this fable. Nor have they been able to prove that a protein. that millions of such proteins combined in an order to produce the cell of a living thing. and fraud. Does it sound logical or reasonable when not even a single chanceformed protein can exist. They have never found a single transitional form such as a half-fish/half-reptile or half-reptile/half-bird. as well as scientific laws. The reason is that evolutionists are unable to explain even the formation of a single protein. invalidating evolution. birds.CHAPTER 16 Conclusion: Evolution Is a Deceit here is much other evidence. propaganda. We can summarise what we have noted so far as follows: T The Theory of Evolution has Collapsed The theory of evolution is a theory that fails at the very first step. not even in their elabo- . Neither the laws of probability nor the laws of physics and chemistry offer any chance for the fortuitous formation of life. and that from them generated fish. and that billions of cells managed to form and then came together by chance to produce living things. and that this is how all the millions of different species on earth were formed? Even if it does not seem logical to you. and that those that passed to land turned into reptiles. it is merely a belief-or rather a faith-because they do not have even a single piece of evidence to verify their story.
As the real face of the evolution theory comes more and more into view and as public opinion comes to see the truth. that science should ever verify such an entirely groundless and illogical claim is out of the question no matter how many years may pass by. As a matter of fact. On the contrary. That is how it has been so far. On the contrary. and then defending these claims with insistence. as science progresses it only makes the nonsense of evolutionists' claims clearer and plainer. For instance. With the situation being so self-evident. The superficial similarities between man and ape somehow attract too much attention. evolutionists themselves have demonstrated that no evolutionary process has ever occurred nor could ever have occurred at any time on earth. The Biggest Obstacle to Evolution: Soul There are many species in the world that resemble one another. This interest sometimes goes so far as to make some people believe the false thesis of evolution. evolutionists can only console themselves by dreaming that science will somehow resolve all these dilemmas in time. As more details on the structure and functions of the living cell were discovered.Conclusion: Evolution Is a Deceit 193 rately-equipped laboratories have they succeeded in doing that. However. denying the fact of creation and basing the origins of life on extremely unlikely coincidences. These similarities do not surprise anyone. as was thought to be the case according to the primitive biological understanding of Darwin's time. it may not be long before the purblind fanatic advocates of evolution will not be able to show their faces. randomly-formed composition. there may be many living beings resembling a horse or a cat and many insects may look like one another. with their every effort. Evolution Can Not Be Verified in the Future Either Seeing this. the superficial similarities between men and apes do signify nothing. it became abundantly clear that the cell is not a simple. may later become a source of great humiliation. The rhinoceros beetle and the rhinoceros also share certain superficial resemblances but it would be ludicrous to seek to establish some kind of an evolutionary link .
Other than superficial similarity. and judge. one being an insect and the other a mammal. In nature. The same logic applies to the entire hypothesis put forward by evolutionists. on the grounds of that resemblance. decide. An ape is an animal and is no different from a horse or a dog considering its level of consciousness. The soul is the most important difference that interposes a huge gap between man and other creatures. and chemistry that this could not have been by chance. if level of intelligence is considered. All of these features are the functions of the soul that man possesses. biological. apes cannot be said to be closer to man than to other animals. then there is no alternative but to admit that it owed its existence to the will of a Creator. God Creates According to His Will Would it matter if the scenario proposed by evolutionists really had taken place? Not a bit. But if it must be posited that it was produced. each progressive stage could only have been brought about by a conscious will. If is said that a protein molecule had been formed under the primordial atmospheric conditions. the maker of that claim should also accept the exis- . For instance. Even if life did come about gradually through such a succession of stages. No physical similarity can close this gap between man and any other living being. Actually. the only living thing that has a soul is man. talk. or logical justification proving that fish passed from water to land and formed the land animals. They are even superior in some aspects. But if one must have it that fish clambered onto the land and turned into reptiles. strong-willed being that can think. understand. The reason is that each stage advanced by evolutionary theory and based on coincidence could only have occurred as a result of a miracle. biology. it has to be remembered that it has been already demonstrated by the laws of probability. chemical. then the honeybee producing the geometrically miraculous structure of the honeycomb or the spider building up the engineering miracle of the spider web can be said to be closer to man. Yet man is a conscious. It is not just implausible that those stages could have occurred by chance. there is neither paleontological evidence nor a physical.194 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT between these two creatures. it is impossible. There is a very big difference between man and ape regardless of a mere outward resemblance.
All life is the product of a perfect design and a superior creation. Any other explanation for such a miracle is inherently self-contradictory and a violation of the principles of reason. knowledge. This in turn provides concrete evidence for the existence of a Creator. the Possessor of infinite power. The reality is clear and evident. . and intelligence.Conclusion: Evolution Is a Deceit 195 tence of a Creator capable of making whatever He wills come into being with the mere word "be". the Lord of the heavens and of the earth. That Creator is God. and of all that is between them.
The hexagonal structure of the honeycomb is well-known to everyone. This great wisdom. we examined why the Theory of Evolution. we will examine only a few of the countless evidences of Creation in nature. is a fallacy completely contrary to scientific facts. which proposes that life was not created. and this Creator is God. We saw that modern science has revealed a very explicit fact through certain branches of science such as paleontology. The signs of an extraordinary wisdom are discernible in whatever living being one observes. and anatomy. This fact is that God creates all living beings. provides solid evidence for the existence of a supreme Creator dominating over the whole of nature." . There is a great technology and design in the body of an insect or a tiny fish in the depths of the sea never attained by human beings. Some living beings which even do not have a brain perfectly perform so complicated tasks as not to be accomplished even by human beings. biochemistry. I Honey Bees and the Architectural Wonders of Honeycombs Bees produce more honey than they actually need and store it in honeycombs. God has furnished all living beings with extraordinary features and showed men the evident signs of His existence and might. design and plan that prevails overall in nature. to notice this fact one does not necessarily need to appeal to the complicated results obtained in biochemistry laboratories or geological excavations.CHAPTER 17 The Fact of Creation n the previous sections of the book. In fact. In the following pages. or pentagonal? Mathematicians looking for answer to this question reached an interesting conclusion: "A hexagon is the most appropriate geometric form for the maximum use of a given area. Have you ever wondered why bees construct hexagonal honeycombs rather than octagonal.
the creator of these tiny creatures. Though they start from different places. great in number. This fact was declared in the Qur'an fourteen centuries ago: And your Sustainer has inspired the honey bee: "Prepare for yourself dwellings in mountains and in trees. if this rules over all bees and provides that all bees work in harmony though uninformed of one another. To put it more explicitly. then it means that there is an exalted Wisdom that rules over all these tiny creatures. for sure. "inspires" them with what they have to do. have to admit the existence of a superior will that ordains these creatures. and in what (men) build. The method used in the construction of the honeycomb is also very amazing: bees start the construction of the hive from two-three different places and weave the honeycomb simultaneously in two-three strings. So the bee uses the most appropriate form possible. construct identical hexagons and then weave the honeycomb by combining these together and meeting in the middle. The junction points of the hexagons are assembled so deftly that there is no sign of their being subsequently combined. God. the bees. In the face of this extraordinary performance. we. However. and then eat of all manner of fruit.The Fact of Creation 197 A hexagonal cell requires the minimum amount of wax for construction while it stores the maximum amount of honey. if there is an instinct at work. Evolutionists want to explain away this achievement with the concept of "instinct" and try to present it as a simple attribute of the bee. and find with skill the spacious paths of your Sus- .
we see. The Woodpecker Everyone knows that woodpeckers build their nests by pecking tree trunks. 68-69) Amazing Architects: Termites No one can help being taken by surprise upon seeing a termite nest erected on the ground by termites. we will see that all passage-ways. The point many people do not consider is how woodpeckers undergo no brain haemorrhage when they so strongly tattoo with their head. and then reunite it after a certain while. special fungus production yards. There issues from within their bodies a drink of varying colours. What is more astonishing is that the termites which construct these wondrous nests are blind. that termites successfully overcome an architectural project by far 300 times bigger than themselves. safety exits. there are ventilation systems. If a human ventured to do something like that. Within this nest are sophisticated systems to meet all the needs of termites that can never appear in sunlight because of their body structure. corridors. wherein is healing for men: verily in this is a Sign for those who give thought.198 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT tainer". canals and roads intersect with each other. Termites carry on with their task as if they were never separated from each other and ordained from a single place. This is because the termite nests are architectural wonders that rise up as high as 5-6 meters. in brief. What the woodpecker does is in a way similar to a human driving a nail in the wall with his head. he would . larva rooms. (Surat an-Nahl. Termites have yet another amazing characteristic: if we divide a termite nest into two in the first stages of its construction. In the nest. canals. when we compare the size of a termite and its nest.185 Despite this fact. everything. rooms for hot and cold weather.
a system whereby the shapes of the surrounding objects are determined according to the echo of the sound waves.69 seconds and nothing happens to it. they have a highly concentrated substance called "myoglobin" that helps them store oxygen in their muscles. they need to breathe only at very long intervals.000 vibrations per second. however. this problem is handled with a breathing system far more efficient than that of many landdwelling animals. . can peck a hard tree trunk 38-43 times between 2. makes use of sounds having a frequency of between 50. however.000 and 200. A young person can barely detect a sound with a frequency of 20. Whales breathe out one at a time discharging 90% of the air they use. The echo of the sound is so powerful that the bat not only understands the existence of objects in its path.10 and 2. The woodpecker's skull has a "suspension" system that reduces and absorbs the force of the strokes.The Fact of Creation 199 probably undergo a brain shock followed by a brain haemorrhage. In a whale. A bat furnished with a specially designed "sonar system".187 Whales Mammals regularly need to breathe and for this reason water is not a very convenient environment for them.186 The Sonar System of Bats Bats fly in pitch dark without trouble and they have a very interesting navigation system to do this. It is what we call "sonar" system.000 vibrations per second. It sends these sounds in all directions 20 or 30 times each second. There are special softening tissues between the bones in its skull. which is a sea mammal. At the same time. A woodpecker. With the help of these systems. however. but also detects the location of its swift-flying prey. Nothing happens because the head structure of woodpeckers are created as fit for this job. Thus.
The gnat starts to fly with special sensing systems at its disposal to detect the place of its prey. In the Qur'an. the gnat spends its developmental stages under water and gets out from under water through an exceptional "design" being provided with all the organs it needs. they know that it is the truth from their Lord. gas. 26) . With its exceptional design.188 The nostrils of the whale. the gnat is accentuated as an example displaying the existence of God to the men of understanding: Surely God disdains not to set forth any parable .200 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT finback whale. can dive as deep as 500 meters and swim for 40 minutes without breathing at all. It even has an ability to "see in conformity with the temperature" that helps it find its prey even in pitch dark. While the cutting process goes on. a secretion secreted on the wound benumbs the tissues and the person does not even realise that his blood is being sucked. for instance. The "blood-sucking" technique of the gnat comes with an incredibly complex system. they say: What is it that God means by this parable: He causes many to err by it and many He leads aright by it! but He does not cause to err by it (any) except the transgressors. In fact. prevents the clotting of the blood and secures the continuance of the sucking process. dampness and odour. (Surat al-Baqara. then as for those who believe. it resembles a war plane loaded with detectors of heat. This secretion. at the same time. even this tiny creature is an evident sign of Creation on its own. it cuts the skin like a saw. With its six-bladed cutting system. With even one of these elements missing. on the other hand. the gnat will not be able to feed on blood and carry on its generation. The Design in The Gnat We always think of the gnat as a flying animal. With these systems.(that of) a (female) gnat or any thing above that. and as for those who disbelieve. are placed on its back unlike land-dwelling mammals so that it can easily breathe.
The Fact of Creation 201 Hunting Birds with Keen Eyesight Hunting birds have keen eyes that enable them to make perfect distance adjustments while they attack their prey. The spider is devoid of faculties such as learning and memorising and does not have even a brain to perform these things. it weaves a small yet highly unusual web that it throws on its prey. There are more than one million vision cells in the eye of a hunting bird. Eagles that fly at thousands of meters high have such sharp eyes that they can scan the earth perfectly at that distance. How does this spider make a web so excellent in its mechanical design and chemical structure? It is impossible for the spider to have acquired such a skill by coincidence as is claimed by evolutionists. God.500 meters. . perceiving the slightest colour shift or the slightest movement on the earth. Just as war planes detect their targets from thousands of meters away. almost as if it were packaging it. The Thread of the Spider The spider named Dinopis has a great skill for hunting. Obviously. In order to store its food. In addition their large eyes contain more vision cells. Afterwards.500 meters above it. Eagles can scan an area of 30. The eagle's eye has an angle of vision of three hundred degrees and it can magnify a given image around six to eight times. which means better sight.000 hectares while flying 4. so do eagles spot their prey. It is evident that this extraordinary eye structure of the eagle is specially designed for this creature. it tightly wraps up its prey with this web. The web is so perfectly constructed that the insect gets even more entangled as it gets more alarmed. They can easily distinguish a rabbit hidden among grasses from an altitude of 1. Rather than weaving a static web and waiting for its prey. Who is Exalted in Power. this skill is bestowed on the spider by its creator. the spider wraps the prey with extra strands. The entrapped insect can do nothing to extricate itself.
This means that under normal conditions. their body temperature always remains constant because the natural thermostat in their body keeps on regulating this temperature. does the spider use while producing its thread? As we see. the normal body heat of small mammals. The animal starts breathing very slowly and its normal heartbeat.202 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Very important miracles are hidden in the thread of the spiders. However. However. This thread has yet another characteristic of being extremely light.189 Steel. all technological and technical means at the disposal mankind lag behind those of a spider. the spider can produce in its body a far firmer thread than steel. . with a diameter of less than one thousandth of a millimetre. which is 300 times a minute. then. is one of the strongest materials manufactured by mankind. While man produces steel. which knowledge or technology. A length of this thread long enough to encircle the world would weigh only 320 grams. drops down to a little bit above the freezing point as if adjusted by some kind of a key. is 5 times stronger than a steel wire having the same thickness. during hibernation. like the squirrel rat with a normal body heat of 40 degrees. falls to 7-10 beats a minute. The body metabolism slows down to a great extent. he makes use of his centuries-old knowledge and technology. a substance specially produced in industrial works. Hibernating Animals Hibernating animals can go on living although their body temperature falls to the same degree as the cold temperature outside. How do they manage this? Mammals are warm-blooded. This thread.
is a little amount of electricity. fish can determine the distance and size of the object. Besides providing the means for finding their way in deep dark waters. This way. Hibernating animals however are protected against this danger thanks to the special features they are endowed with. however. Thus. The camouflage techniques of animals are truly amazing. Fish can send signals by using the electricity in their bodies. Fish do not use the high-voltage electricity in their small bodies only for defence purposes. electricity also helps them sense objects without seeing them. The energy they consume to defend themselves is recovered after a certain time like the charging of a battery and electrical power is once again ready for use.The Fact of Creation 203 Its normal body reflexes stop and the electrical activities in its brain slow down almost to undetectability. aesthetics and harmony. "camouflage". Furthermore. Camouflage differs from all other methods with its particular involvement of utmost intelligence. skill. The above-mentioned creatures. Man. they are not adversely affected by this electricity.190 Electrical Fish Certain species of some fish types such as electric eel and electric ray utilise the electricity produced in their bodies either to protect themselves from their enemies or to paralyse their prey. have an electrical current as high as 500-600 volts in their bodies and they are able use this against their enemies. In every living being . The body fluids of hibernating animals are retained by chemical materials having high molecular masses. on the other hand.including man . their freezing point is decreased and they are protected from harm.191 An Intelligent Plan on Animals: Camouflage One of the features that animals possess in order to keep living is the art of hiding themselves-that is. One of the dangers of motionlessness is the freezing of tissues in very cold weather and their being destroyed by ice crystals. These electric signals reflect back after hitting solid objects and these reflections give the fish information about the object. It is almost . Animals feel the necessity of hiding themselves for two main reasons: for hunting and for protecting themselves from predators. cannot direct this electricity or take it under control to use it for his own benefit.
Right above: A snake concealing itself by suspending itself among leaves. the cells expand and flood the skin with the appropriate shade. Right below: A caterpillar settled right in the middle of a leaf to go unnoticed. black and brown. red. Leaf louse that suck the juices of plants feed themselves on plant stalks by pretending to be thorns. their biggest enemies. Cuttlefish Under the skin of the cuttlefish is arrayed a dense layer of elastic pigment sacs called chromatophores. impossible to identify an insect that is hidden in a tree trunk or another creature hidden under a leaf. This system operates so effectively that the cuttlefish can also create a complex zebra-like striping. They come mainly in yellow.192 . At a signal. and ensure that birds will not perch on these plants.204 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT Above: Tree louse imitating tree thorns. By this method. That is how the cuttlefish takes on the colour of the rock it stands on and makes a perfect camouflage. they aim to trick birds.
have eyes created according to the given conditions. They have to be especially sensitive to the feeble blue light penetrating into the water. sees very sharply in water. the eye lens fully focuses the image of the outside object on the retina. Accordingly. Different Vision Systems For many sea-dwelling animals.The Fact of Creation 205 Left: A cuttlefish that makes itself look like the sandy surface. have spherical lenses in perfect accordance with the needs of the density of the water they inhabit. there are plenty of sensitive blue cells in the retina of their eyes. seeing is extremely important for hunting and defence. the ability to see becomes more and more limited with depth. especially after 30 meters. most of the sea-dwelling animals are equipped with eyes perfectly designed for underwater. Under water. Compared to the wide elliptical eyes of land-dwelling animals. it is adjusted to see objects in close-up. Some animals like octopus have rather big eyes to compensate for the poor light in the depths of water. One other reason why the eyes of the fish are spherical is the refraction of light in water. the whole lens system is pulled backwards by the help of a special muscle mechanism within the eye. . no refraction occurs while an image formed outside is reflected on the eye. big-eyed fish need to capture the flashes of the surrounding organisms to notice them. Sea-dwelling animals. Because the eye is filled with a liquid having almost the same density as water. Below 300 meters. Consequently. however. Right: The bright yellow colour the same fish turns in case of danger. When an object at a greater distance is focused upon. such as when it is seen by a diver. The fish. unlike land-dwelling animals. this spherical structure is more serviceable for sight under water. unlike human beings. For this reason. Organisms living at this depth.
This extreme glucose concentration may cause serious problems in normal times. the same frog returns to life as if it is has woken up from sleep. No coincidence can generate such a perfect and complex system. Its heartbeat. the sugar level in the blood steadily starts to increase. Research has showed that glucose can feed frozen cells as well. does not face any of them. however. Special Freezing System A frozen frog embodies an unusual biological structure. In a frozen frog. knowledge and power. This fact proves that they are all created just the way they have to be by a Creator Who has eternal wisdom. glucose also stops many metabolic reactions like urea synthesis and thus prevents different food sources of the cell from being exhausted. Normally. however. . It shows no signs of life. During this period. breathing and blood circulation have come completely to a halt. the blood sugar level of the frog reaches very high levels. however. a message travels to the liver making the liver convert some of its stored glycogen into glucose. Five minutes after the message is received. The cell membrane of the frog is highly permeable to glucose so that glucose finds easy access to cells.206 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT As is understood from these examples. The nature of this message travelling to the liver is still unknown. It has the main feature of producing plenty of glucose while it is in that state. every living being has distinctive eyes specially designed to meet its particular needs. besides being the natural fuel of the body.193 Unquestionably the animal's being equipped with a system that entirely changes its metabolism to meet all of its needs just when it is required can only be possible through the flawless plan of the All-Mighty Creator. Just like a diabetic. When the ice melts. a living being in the state of freezing confronts many fatal risks. this extreme glucose keeps water from leaving cells and prevents shrinkage. As soon as ice appears on the skin. It can sometimes go as high as 550 milimol/liter. The frog. The high level of glucose in the body reduces the freezing temperature causing only a very small amount of the animal's inner body liquid to turn to ice in the cold. (This figure is normally between 1-5 mmol/litre for frogs and 4-5 mmol/litre for human body). How does such a high amount of glucose in the frog's body come about all of a sudden? The answer is quite interesting: this living being is equipped with a very special system in charge of this task.
surmounting waterfalls and dykes. When they start their journey in early summer.000 km.194 An Arduous Migration Pacific salmon have the exceptional characteristic of returning to the rivers in which they hatched to reproduce. Flying for hours by making exclusive use of wind provides an unlimited energy source for it. They reach the place where they hatched by leaping over turbulent rivers. For instance. it does not need to use any muscular power. their colour turns black. Therefore. To do so. swimming upstream. During flight. the wings of the albatross are blocked. This is indeed a very small rate.5 meters.The Fact of Creation 207 Albatrosses Migratory birds minimise energy consumption by using different "flight techniques".5 meters constantly open. however. This system reduces the energy consumed by the bird during flight.000 kms. they first draw near to the shore and try to reach rivers. These birds. can stay in this position for hours. have wing spans of up to 3. however. This is due to the special anatomical system they are bestowed with from the moment of their birth. journey. they glide along in the air keeping their wings constant by making use of the wind. female salmon readily have eggs just as male salmons have sperm. which spend 92% of their lives on the sea. female salmon . the colour of the fish is bright red. these animals come back to fresh water to reproduce. At the end of this 3. They perseveringly strive to go back to their birthplace. Albatrosses are also observed to have such a flight style. At the end of their journey. Wings are lifted only by muscle layers. Men have manufactured gliders taking albatrosses as a model and by making use of their fascinating flight technique. At the outset of their migration. Albatrosses. The most important characteristic of albatrosses is their flight style: they can fly for hours without beating their wings at all.5004. It requires a great deal of energy to keep wings with a wing span of 3. The albatross does not use energy because it does not beat its wings or waste energy to keep its wings outstretched. a 10-kilo-albatross loses only 1% of its body weight while it travels for 1. Having reached the place where they hatched. This greatly helps the bird during its flight. Having spent part of their lives in the sea.
Females that lay eggs become exhausted. Yet another salmon generation is ready to hatch out and make the same journey.208 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT lay around 3 to 5 thousand eggs as male salmon fertilise them. These micro-organisms are heavily populated in the convergence point of small and large intestines. no definite solution has yet been reached. Koalas The oil found in eucalyptus leaves is poisonous to many mammals. It is God. The caecum is the most interesting part of the digestion system of the koala. This segment functions as a fermentation chamber where microbes are made to digest cellulose while the passage of the . Yet there is a very special living being that gets the better of this mechanism and feeds on poisonous eucalyptus leaves: a marsupial called the koala. the Sustainer of all the worlds. how they reach the sea after they hatch. The fish suffer much damage as a result of this migration and hatching period. The same is true also for males. and how they find their way are just some of the questions that remain to be answered. Although many suggestions are made. Like other mammals. For this. the caecum which is the rear extension of the intestinal system. Koalas make their homes in eucalyptus trees while they also feed on them and obtain their water from them. This poison is a chemical defence mechanism used by eucalyptus trees against their enemies. The river soon overflows with dead salmon. it is dependent on cellulose-digesting micro-organisms. What is the power that makes salmon undertake a return of thousands of kilometres back to a place unknown to them? It is obvious that there is a superior Will ruling over and controlling all these living beings. their tail fins are worn down and their skin starts to turn black. How salmon complete such a journey. koalas also cannot digest the cellulose present in the trees.
however. When we study them closer. bird feathers seem to have a very simple structure. It is impossible for a plant to have developed such a hunting style out of its own consciousness or will. An insect that makes its way to the source of the smell gets stuck in these viscous hairs. or by way of coincidence.The Fact of Creation 209 leaves is delayed.195 Hunting Ability in Constant Position The South African sundew plant entraps insects with its viscous hairs. we come across the very complex structure of feathers that are light yet extremely strong and waterproof. Birds should be as light as possible in order to fly easily. The tips of these hairs are covered with a fluid that has a smell that attracts insects. Shortly afterwards the whole leaf is closed down on the insect that is already entangled in the hairs and the plant extracts the protein essential for itself from the insect by digesting it.196 The endowment of a plant with no possibility of moving from its place with such a faculty is no doubt the evident sign of a special design. Thus. The Design In Bird Feathers At first glance. it is all the more impossible to overlook the existence and might of the Creator Who has furnished it with this ability. red hairs. Right: A closed one. The feathers are Left: An open Sundew. . The leaves of this plant are full of long. Another feature of the fluid is its being extremely viscous. So. the koala can neutralise the poisonous effect of the oils in the eucalyptus leaves.
The tail is made up of relatively big feathers to function as rudder and brakes. wing feathers are designed so as to expand the area surface during the bird's wing beating and thus increase the lifting force. On both sides of the stem of a feather are veins and on each vein are around 400 tiny barbs. These barbs fasten two feathers to one another just like two pieces of cloth tacked up on each other. Basilisk: The Expert of Walking on Water Few animals are able to walk on the surface of water. Of the 800 tinier barbs which are crowded on a small bird feather. which lives in Central America and is seen below. The total number of barbs in all the feathers of a bird is around 700 billion. With the mechanism made up of barbs and clasps. the feathers hold so tightly on the bird that neither strong wind. Furthermore. . The feathers should hold tightly on the bird so as not to fall out in any movement whatsoever.210 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT made up of keratin proteins keeping with this need. nor rain. those located towards the front part have another 20 barbs on each of them. nor snow cause them to fall out. two on each. In a single feather are approximately 300 million tiny barbs. the feathers in the abdomen of the bird are not the same as the feathers in its wings and tail. There is a very significant reason for the bird feather being firmly interlocked with each other with barbs and clasps. One such rarity is basilisk. On these 400 barbs are a total of tinier 800 barbs. On the sides of the toes of basilisk's hind feet are flaps that enable them to splash water.
it starts to run very fast on the surface of a river or a lake. This process is called "photosynthesis". If the animal faces danger. An important part of our food is also provided by plants. The amount of matter produced by plants on the earth is around 200 billion tons a year. this process is carried out not by the cell but by chloroplasts. They clean the air for us. Photosynthesis Plants unquestionably play a major role in making the universe a habitable place.The Fact of Creation 211 The basilisk lizard is one of those rare animals that can move establishing a balance between water and air. unlike human and animal cells. This production is vital to all living things on the earth. The oxygen in the air we breathe is produced by plants. The plant cell.197 This unique design of basilisk is one of the evident signs of conscious Creation. and balance the proportions of gases in the atmosphere. keep the temperature of the planet at a constant level. organelles that give plants their green colour. can make direct use of solar energy. It converts the solar energy into chemical energy and stores it in nutrients in very special ways. . These tiny green organelles only observable by microscope are the only laboratories on earth that are capable of storing solar energy in organic matter. These are rolled up when the animal walks on land. In fact. The nutritional value of plants comes from the special design in their cells to which they also owe their other features. Then the flaps on its hind feet are opened and thus more surface area is provided for it to run on water.
something like one thousandth of a second. A plant cell so small as to be invisible to the naked human eye has been performing this task for millions of years. creates all living things. This flawless design is only one of the signs revealing that God.212 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT The production made by plants is realised through a very complicated chemical process. Thousands of "chlorophyll" pigments found in the chloroplast react to light in an incredibly short time. This perfect system displays Creation once more for all to see. The very complex system of photosynthesis is a consciously-designed mechanism that God creates. high-tech instruments are used. This is why many activities taking place in the chlorophyll have still not been observed. A matchless factory is squeezed in a minuscule unit area in the leaves. In order to do this. . the Sustainer of all worlds. Converting solar energy into electrical or chemical energy is a very recent technological breakthrough.
or a traditional philosophical thought: it is a fact which everyone. . believing or unbelieving. You should read it very attentively and thoroughly for it is concerned with a subject that is liable to make a fundamental change in your outlook to the external world.WARNING ! The chapter you are now about to read reveals a crucial secret of your life. a different approach. The subject of this chapter is not just a point of view. must admit and which is also proven by science today.
cannot be an outcome of the universe itself. Most of them think that God is up in the "sky". They tacitly imagine that God is behind a very distant planet and interferes with . They do not deny creation. which reveals itself in every aspect of the universe. But nothing that we see can be "creators" themselves. are forced to ignore the actuality of "creation" manifested all throughout the universe and falsely prove that the universe and the living things in it have not been created. bacteria. These people are conditioned not to believe in His existence unless they see Him with their eyes. Neither plants. who disregard the fact of "creation". So the question becomes that of "Who is the creator of all these things?" It is evident that "the fact of creation". This is the point at which those who deny the existence of God demur. erythrocytes (red-blood corpuscles). a bug could not have created itself. Evolutionary theory is a key example of their vain endeavours to this end. We therefore arrive at the following conclusion: Everything that we see has been created.CHAPTER 18 The Real Essence of Matter P eople who contemplate their surroundings conscientiously and wisely realise that everything in the universe-both living and nonliving-must have been created. The basic mistake of those who deny God is shared by many people who in fact do not really deny the existence of God but have a wrong perception of Him. For example. but have superstitious beliefs about "where" God is. The possibility that these all could have originated "by chance" is not even imaginable. These people. humans. The solar system could not have created or organised itself. a superior power that is invisible but whose existence and attributes are revealed in everything that exists. nor butterflies could have created themselves. The Creator is different from and superior to all that we see with our eyes.
The World Of Electrical Signals All the information that we have about the world we live in is conveyed to us by our five senses. However. your job. and everything that you own. this notion and other beliefs that are unable to make clear "where" God is (and maybe deny Him because of that) are all based on a common mistake. We are so conditioned to suppositions about the existence of matter that we never think about whether or not it does exist or is only created as an image. What is this prejudice? This prejudice is about the nature and characteristics of matter. They hold a prejudice without any grounds and then are moved to wrong opinions of God. and our ear hears. Modern research in many different fields of science however points to a very different understanding and creates serious doubt about our senses and the world that we perceive with them. The world we know of consists of what our eye sees. Modern science demolishes this prejudice and discloses a very important and imposing reality. moreover. They tacitly think that God surrounds everything like radio waves or like an invisible. intangible gas. The redness of the apple. The starting-point of this approach is that the notion of an "external world" shaped in our brain is only a response formed in our brain by electrical signals. and the lines of this book. Still others have heard that in the Qur'an it is written that God is "everywhere" but they cannot perceive what this exactly means. are comprised only of electrical signals. our tongue tastes. Or perhaps that He does not intervene at all: He created the universe and then left it to itself and people are left to determine their fates for themselves.216 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT "worldly affairs" once in a while. we will try to explain this great reality to which the Qur'an points. your family. the hardness of the wood. Frederick Vester explains the point that science has reached on this subject: . your house. our hand feels. In the following pages. father. We never think that the "external" world can be other than what our senses present to us as we have been dependent only on those senses since the day of our birth. your mother. our nose smells.
which provides us with the most extensive information about the external world. How Do We See. none of the surrounding things have an existence out of our mind. And Taste? The act of seeing is realised in a very progressive way. Hear. everything experienced is temporary and deceptive. Here.The Real Essence of Matter 217 Stimulations coming from an object are converted into electrical signals and cause an effect in the brain. Light clusters (photons) that travel from the object to the eye pass through the lens in front of the eye where it is broken and falls reversely on the retina at the back of the eye. and these ideas are essentially in nowhere but our mind… Since all these exist only in the mind. However. let us consider our sense of sight. seems to be proven by science in our day.199 In order to clarify the subject. and they are reflected to us by our perceptions. The act of seeing actually . then it means that we are beguiled by deceptions when we imagine the universe and things to have an existence outside the mind. our perceptions are only ideas in our mind. the impinging light is turned into electrical signals that are transmitted by neurons to a tiny spot called the centre of vision in the back part of the brain. objects we captivate by perceptions are nothing but ideas. Statements of some scientists posing that "man is an image. Thus. So. When we "see". we in fact view the effects of these electrical signals in our mind.198 The famous philosopher George Berkeley's comment on the subject is as follows: We believe in the existence of objects just because we see and touch them. This electrical signal is perceived as an image in this centre in the brain after a series of processes. and this universe is a shadow".
From the patterns of simulation on the retinas we perceive the world of objects. Now. our brain never has any direct contact with the candle's original light. Just as with the eye. its inside is absolutely dark. The brain has no contact with light itself.L. we are actually observing electrical signals in our mind. We can explain this interesting situation with an example. we are in fact seeing the effects of the impulses reaching our eye and induced in our brain after they are transformed into electrical signals. We are given tiny distorted upside-down images in the eyes. Sound. and this is nothing short of a miracle. The outer ear picks up available sounds by the auricle and directs them to the middle ear. touch. Gregory makes the following explanation about the miraculous aspect of seeing. that it takes a leap of imagination to realise that there are problems to be solved. We can sit across from this candle and watch it at length. The brain is insulated from . Both the book you are now reading and the boundless landscape you see when you gaze at the horizon fit into this tiny space. the middle ear transmits the sound vibrations to the inner ear by intensifying them. But consider it. and we see separate solid objects in surrounding space. the inner ear sends these vibrations to the brain by translating them into electrical signals. All the images we view in our lives are formed in our centre of vision. an action that we take so very much for granted: We are so familiar with seeing. That is. R. the act of hearing finalises in the centre of hearing in the brain. However. the inside of our brain is solid dark. We watch a colourful and bright world inside our dark brain. during this period of time. when we say that "we see". let us reconsider this seemingly ordinary and unremarkable process. which makes up only a few cubic centimetres of the volume of the brain. Another point that has to be kept in mind is that as we have noted before. When we say that "we see".218 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT takes place in this tiny spot at the posterior part of the brain which is pitchdark and completely insulated from light. Let us suppose that there is a burning candle in front of us. taste and smell are all transmitted to the brain as electrical signals and are perceived in the relevant centers in the brain. The sense of hearing takes place in the same manner. Even as we see the light of the candle.200 The same situation applies to all our other senses. the brain is insulated from light.
Here. even the subtlest sounds are perceived in the brain. Since the brain is insulated from light. the inside of the brain is completely silent. This means that we view a vast world of light and depth in a tiny spot that is insulated from light. you listen to the symphonies of an orchestra. hear all . no matter how noisy it is outside. Bundles of light coming from an object fall on the retina upside-down. Therefore. In your brain. the image is converted into electrical signals and transmitted to the centre of vision at the back of the brain. Nevertheless. sound just like it is from light. it is impossible for light to reach the centre of vision.The Real Essence of Matter 219 Even the moment when we feel the light and heat of a fire. This is such a precision that the ear of a healthy person hears everything without any atmospheric noise or interference. the inside of our brain is pitch dark and its temperature never changes. which is insulated from sound.
all the odours that you have assumed to belong to external objects since you were born are just electrical signals that you feel through your sense organs. if the sound level in your brain were to be measured by a sensitive device at that moment. However. what reaches your brain is simply electrical signals. and bitter. These pertain to the tastes of salty. The molecules themselves never reach the brain. chocolate bar or a fruit that . and perceive all the sounds within a wide frequency ranging from the rustling of a leaf to the roar of a jet plane. a flower. We see everything around us as These signals are perceived coloured inside the darkness of our brains. Everything that we smell.220 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT the noises in a crowded place. Similarly. it would be seen that a complete silence is prevailing there. In other words. Just as with sound and vision. You perceive the scent of a perfume. a food that you like. The coloured from the window of a darktaste you get when you eat a ened room. Our perception of odour forms in a similar way. Our taste receptors transform these perceptions into electrical signals after a chain of chemical processes and transmit them to the brain. sour. Volatile molecules emitted by things such vanilla or a rose reach the receptors in the delicate hairs in the epithelium region of the nose and become involved in an interaction. This interaction is transmitted to the brain as electrical signals and perceived as smell. the sea. is nothing but the brain's perceiving of the interactions of volatile molecules after they have been transformed into electrical signals. be it nice or bad. sweet. or other odors you like or dislike in your brain. just as this garden looks as taste by the brain. there are four different types of chemical receptors in the front part of a human's tongue.
the place where we perceive the sense of touch is not at our finger tips or skin but at the centre of touch in our brain. or what we perceive when we hear a voice and what another person perceives when he hears the same voice are the same. When we touch an object. you like is the interpretation of electrical signals by the brain. nothing you eat at the moment will reach your brain.The Real Essence of Matter 221 All we see in our lives are formed in a part of our brain called "vision centre" at the back of our brain. you can never see. which makes up only a few cubic centimetres. On this fact. Lincoln Barnett says that no one can know that another person perceives the colour red or hears the C note the same way as he himself does. all information that will help us recognise the external world and objects are transmitted to the brain by the sense nerves on the skin. For instance. smell or taste the chocolate itself. The feeling of touch is formed in our brain. but in the size perceived by our brain. As a result of the brain's assessment of . Therefore. if taste nerves that travel to your brain are cut. At this point. you will completely lose your sense of taste. we see objects not in their actual size existing outside.201 Our sense of touch is no different than the others. Both the book you are now reading and the boundless landscape you see when you gaze at the horizon fit into this tiny space. we come across with another fact: We can never be sure that what we feel when we taste a food and what another person feels when he tastes the same food. Contrary to general belief. You can never reach the object in the outside.
the thoughts of two famous philosophers. A lemon consists merely of a taste sensed by the tongue. Simply put. or heat or cold. is only a feeling of emptiness formed in your brain. an odor sensed by the nose. the image of the fruit would suddenly disappear. we feel different senses pertaining to those objects such as hardness or softness. whether a lemon truly exists or not and how it came to exist cannot be questioned and investigated. For instance. Another point to be considered is the sense of distance. Someone eating a fruit in fact confronts not the actual fruit but its perception in the brain. Objects that seem to be distant in that person's view also exist in the brain. and texture of the fruit. the fruit is nothing but the interpretation of electrical signals by the brain. which is to say the distance between you and this book. and perceive as matter". Or a disconnection in the nerve travelling from the sensors in the nose to the brain would completely interrupt the sense of smell. taste. hearing. All objects around us are a collection of perceptions such as seeing. smell. We derive all details that help us recognise an object from these stimulations. "The External World" Inside Our Brain As a result of the physical facts described so far. J. Russell and L. a colour and shape sensed by the eye. touch. It is at this point that we are misled by assuming that these copies are instances of real matter outside us. For instance. B. our brain. and touching. hear. If the sight nerve travelling to the brain were to be severed suddenly.222 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT electrical stimulations coming from objects to it. By processing the data in the centre of vision and in other sensory centres. throughout our lives. J. Everything we see. Concerning this important fact. we may conclude the following. "the world" or "the universe" is nothing but electrical signals occurring in our brain. confronts not the "original" of the matter existing outside us but rather the copy formed inside our brain. and only these features of it can be subject to examination and assessment. someone who watches the .202 It is impossible for us to reach the physical world. Science can never know the physical world. Distance. The object considered to be a "fruit" by the person actually consists of an electrical impression in the brain concerning the shape. Wittgeinstein are as follows.
when you think that you hear the sound of the television in the next room. Apart from this centre of perception. While you read these lines. Both the sound you think to be coming from meters away and the conversation of a person right near you are perceived in a few centimetre-square centre of hearing in your brain. there is no direction from which the sound comes. For instance. nor that a sound comes from the television in that room. However. in his centre of vision. a person may think that he is driving in his car. The same applies to all your other perceptions. while he is actually sitting in his home. you are. sound does not come to you from the right. However. not inside the room you assume you are in.The Real Essence of Matter 223 As a result of artificial stimulations. the room is inside you. none of them reach you from a long distance. left. The smells that you perceive are like that too. no concept such as right. Yet what he "sees" are really the stars inside himself. Your seeing your body makes you think that you are inside it. You suppose that the end-effects formed in your centre of smell are the smell of the objects in the outside. on the contrary. from the left or from the air. You can neither prove that a room exists next to yours. That is. is an image formed inside your brain. you are actually experiencing the sound inside your brain. in truth. a physical world as true and realistic as the real one can be formed in our brain without the existence of physical world. As a result of artificial stimulations. stars in the sky assumes that they are millions of light-years away from him. front or behind exists. you must remember that your body. too. just as the .
The "external world" presented to us by our perceptions is merely a collection of the electrical signals reaching our brain. when we see colours. It is again our brain that transforms these signals into colours. music is also a perception created by our brain. it was believed that colours. The "external world" depends entirely on the perceiver. "really exist". There are no colours in the "external world". and it was seen that they only exist in dependence on our sensations. you can never know whether the original of that rose or smell really exists outside. That is to say. some red as blue. Moreover it is again our brain that interprets and attributes meaning to the signals that we assume to be the "external world".224 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT image of a rose is in your centre of vision. Even a slightest defect in the retina of the eye causes colour blindness. Throughout our lives. It is in fact our brain that transforms the sound waves in the "external world" into a symphony. They are as they are just because we perceive them to be so. let us consider the sense of hearing. Neither is the apple red nor is the sky blue nor the trees green. The following question appears on the cover of the well-known American science magazine New Scientist which dealt with this fact in its 30 January 1999 issue: "Beyond Reality: Is the Universe Really a Frolic of Primal Information and Matter Just a Mirage?" In conclusion. but subsequently such views were renounced. For example. odours. it does not matter whether the object outside is coloured or not. and some all colours as different tones of grey. The prominent thinker Berkeley also adThe findings of modern physics show dresses this fact: that the universe is a collection of perAt the beginning. these signals are processed by our brain and we live without recognising that we are mistaken in assuming that these are the original versions of matter existing in the "external world". etc. Some people perceive blue as green. the reason we see objects coloured is not because they are coloured or . so the smell of this rose is in your centre of smell. We are misled because we can never reach the matter itself by means of our senses.203 ceptions.. At this point. what reaches our eyes are merely electrical signals of different wavelengths. In the same manner.
it is more accurate to say that the only world that we deal with is the world of perceptions. the latter of which is the one we see. let us imagine that you can have your brain survive apart from your body. It never becomes possible to understand that you consist of nothing but your brain. Second. the one. It is possible to observe this. that is created within our mind.The Real Essence of Matter 225 because they have an independent material existence outside ourselves. This is the only world we can be sure of. Since each object is only a collection of perceptions and those perceptions exist only in the mind. However since we can never actually reach the "external world". In this state. False stimulations can produce in our brain an entirely imaginary "material world". recorded. how can we be sure that such a world really exists? Actually we cannot. We can never prove that the perceptions we observe in our brain have material correlates. Those perceptions may well be coming from an "artificial" source. let us connect the recording instrument to the brain with electrodes that will function as nerves and send the pre-recorded data to the brain. Lastly. such as a recorder. This is because what is needed to form a world within your brain is not the existence of a real world but rather the availability of stimulations. you can easily believe that you are driving fast on a highway. and made vivid there. So what remains of the "external world"? Is The Existence Of The "External World" Indispensable? So far we have been speaking repeatedly of an "external world" and a world of perceptions formed in our brain. in short. It is perfectly possible that these stimulations could be coming from an artificial source. For example. let us think of a very developed recording instrument where all kinds of electrical signals can be recorded. you will feel yourself as if you are living in this artificially created setting. The truth of the matter is rather that all the qualities we ascribe to objects are inside us and not in the "external world". For instance. The only world we know of is the world that exists in our mind: the one that is designed. First. let us transmit all the data related to a setting (including body image) to this instrument by transforming them into electrical signals. In that connection. distinguished science philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote. .
As to the sense of touch when we press the table with our fingers, that is an electric disturbance on the electrons and protons of our fingertips, produced, according to modern physics, by the proximity of the electrons and protons in the table. If the same disturbance in our finger-tips arose in any other way, we should have the sensations, in spite of there being no table.204
It is indeed very easy for us to be deceived into deeming perceptions without any material correlates as real. We often experience this feeling in our dreams. In our dreams, we experience events, see people, objects and settings that seem completely real. However, they are all nothing but mere perceptions. There is no basic difference between the dream and the "real world"; both of them are experienced in the brain.
Who Is The Perceiver? As we have related so far, there is no doubt of the fact that the world we think we are inhabiting and that we call the "external world" is created inside our brain. However, here arises the question of primary importance. If all the physical events that we know of are intrinsically perceptions, what about our brain? Since our brain is a part of the physical world just like our arm, leg, or any other object, it also should be a perception just like all other objects. An example about dreams will illuminate the subject further. Let us think that we see the dream within our brain in accordance with what has been said so far. In the dream, we will have an imaginary body, an imaginary arm, an imaginary eye, and an imaginary brain. If during our dream we were asked "where do you see?", we would answer "I see in my brain". Yet, actually there is not any brain to talk about, but an imaginary head and an imaginary brain. The seer of the images is not the imaginary brain in the dream, but a "being" that is far "superior" to it. We know that there is no physical distinction between the setting of a dream and the setting we call real life. So when we are asked in the setting we call real life the above question of "where do you see", it would be just as meaningless to answer "in my brain" as in the example above. In both conditions, the entity that sees and perceives is not the brain, which is after all only a hunk of meat. When the brain is analysed, it is seen that there is nothing in it but lipid and protein molecules, which also exist in other living organisms. This means that within the piece of meat we call our "brain", there is noth-
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ing to observe the images, to constitute consciousness, or to create the being we call "myself". R.L. Gregory refers to a mistake people make in relation to the perception of images in the brain:
There is a temptation, which must be avoided, to say that the eyes produce pictures in the brain. A picture in the brain suggests the need of some kind of internal eye to see it - but this would need a further eye to see its picture… and so on in an endless regress of eyes and pictures. This is absurd.205
This is the very point which puts the materialists, who do not hold anything but the matter as true, in a quandary. To whom belongs "the eye inside" that sees, that perceives what it sees and reacts? Karl Pribram also focused on this important question in the world of science and philosophy about who the perceiver is:
Philosophers since the Greeks have speculated about the "ghost" in the machine, the "little man inside the little man" and so on. Where is the I -the entity that uses the brain? Who does the actual knowing? Or, as Saint Francis of Assisi once put it, "What we are looking for is what is looking."206
Now, think of this: The book in your hand, the room you are in, in brief, all the images in front of you are seen inside your brain. Is it the atoms that see these images? Blind, deaf, unconscious atoms? Why did some atoms acquire this quality whereas some did not? Do our acts of thinking, comprehending, remembering, being delighted, being unhappy, and everything else consist of the electrochemical reactions between these atoms? When we ponder these questions, we see that there is no sense in looking for will in atoms. It is clear that the being who sees, hears, and feels is a supra-material being. This being is "alive" and it is neither matter nor an image of matter. This being associates with the perceptions in front of it by using the image of our body. This being is the "soul". The aggregate of perceptions we call the "material world" is a dream observed by this soul. Just as the body we possess and the material world we see in our dreams have no reality, the universe we occupy and the body we possess also have no material reality. The real being is the soul. Matter consists merely of perceptions
The brain is a heap of cells made up of protein and fat molecules. It is formed of nerve cells called neurons. There is no power in this piece of meat to observe the images, to constitute consciousness, or to create the being we call "myself".
viewed by the soul. The intelligent being that writes and reads these lines is not a heap of atoms and molecules-and the chemical reactions between them-but a "soul".
The Real Absolute Being All these facts bring us face to face with a very significant question. If the thing we acknowledge to be the material world is merely comprised of perceptions seen by our soul, then what is the source of these perceptions? In answering this question, we have to take the following fact into consideration: matter does not have a self-governing existence by itself. Since matter is a perception, it is something "artificial". That is, this perception must have been caused by another power, which means that it must in fact have been created. Moreover, this creation should be continuous. If there was not a continuous and consistent creation, then what we call matter would disappear and be lost. This may be likened to a television on which a picture is displayed as long as the signal continues to be broadcast. So, who makes our soul watch the stars, the earth, the plants, the people, our body and all else that we see? It is very evident that there exists a supreme Creator, Who has created the entire material universe, that is, the sum of perceptions, and Who continues His creation ceaselessly. Since this Creator displays such a magnificent creation, he surely has eternal power and might. This Creator describes us Himself, the universe and the reason of our existence through the book He has sent down.
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This Creator is God and the name of His Book is the Qur'an. The facts that the heavens and the earth, that is, the universe is not stable, that their presence is only made possible by God's creation and that they will disappear when He ends this creation, are all explained in a verse as follows:
It is God Who sustains the heavens and the earth, lest they cease (to function): and if they should fail, there is none -not one- can sustain them thereafter: Verily He is Most Forbearing, Oft-Forgiving. (Surah Fatir, 41)
As we mentioned at the beginning, some people have no genuine understanding of God and so they imagine Him as a being present somewhere in the heavens and not really intervening in worldly affairs. The basis of this logic actually lies in the thought that the universe is an assembly of matter and God is "outside" this material world, in a far away place. In some false religions, belief in God is limited to this understanding. However, as we have considered so far, matter is composed only of sensations. And the only real absolute being is God. That means that it is only God that exists: everything except Him are images. Consequently, it is impossible to conceive God as a separate being outside this whole mass of matter. God is surely "everywhere" and encompasses all. This reality is explained in the Qur'an as follows;
God! There is no god but He, the Living, the Self-subsisting, Eternal. No slumber can seize Him nor sleep. His are all things in the heavens and on earth. Who is there can intercede in His presence except as He permits? He knows what (appears to His creatures as) before or after or behind them. Nor shall they compass aught of His knowledge except as He wills. His Throne extends over the heavens and the earth, and He feels no fatigue in guarding and preserving them for He is the Most High, the Supreme (in glory). (Surat al-Baqara, 255)
The fact that God is not bound with space and that He encompasses everything roundabout is stated in another verse as follows:
To God belong the east and the west: Whithersoever you turn, there is the presence of God. For God is all-Pervading, all-Knowing. (Surat al-Baqara, 115)
Since material beings are each a perception, they cannot see God; but God sees the matter He created in all its forms. In the Qur'an, this fact is stated thus: "No vision can grasp Him, but His grasp is over all vision" (Surat al-Anaam, 103)
That is, we cannot perceive God with our eyes, but God has thoroughly encompassed our inside, outside, looks and thoughts. We cannot utter any word but with His knowledge, nor can we even take a breath. While we watch these sensory perceptions in the course of our lives, the closest being to us is not any one of these sensations, but God Himself. The secret of the following verse in the Qur'an is concealed in this reality: "It was We Who created man, and We know what dark suggestions his soul makes to him: for We are nearer to him than (his) jugular vein." (Surah Qaf: 16) When a person thinks Why is it not then that that his body is made up of "matter", he cannot comwhen it (soul) comes prehend this important fact. If he takes his brain to be up to the throat, and "himself", then the place he accepts to be the outside you at that time look will be 20-30 cms away from him. However, when he on, We are nearer to conceives that everything he knows as matter, is imagination, notions such as outside, inside, or near lose him than you, but you meaning. God has encompassed him and He is "infisee not. (Surat alnitely close" to him. Waqia, 83-85) God informs men that He is "infinitely close" to them with the verse "When My servants ask you concerning Me, I am indeed close (to them)" (Surat al-Baqara, 186). Another verse relates the same fact: "We told you that your Lord encompasses mankind round about." (Surat al-Isra, 60). Man is misled by thinking that the being that is closest to him is himself. God, in truth, is closer to us even more than ourselves. He has called our attention to this point in the verse "Why is it not then that when it (soul) comes up to the throat, and you at that time look on, We are nearer to him than you, but you see not." (Surat al-Waqia, 83-85). As informed in the verse, people live unaware of this phenomenal fact because they do not see it with their eyes. On the other hand, it is impossible for man, who is nothing but an image, to have a power and will independent of God. The verse "But God has created you and your handwork!" (Surat as-Saaffat, 96) shows that everything we experience takes place under God's control. In the Qur'an, this reality is stated in the verse "When you threw, it was not your act, but God's." (Surat al-Anfal, 17) whereby it is emphasised that no act is independent of God. Since a human being is an image, it cannot be itself which
everything in the concept of the "external world". but this does not change a thing. Everything That You Possess Is Intrinsically Illusory As it may be seen clearly. if one takes the acts he does as his own.The Real Essence of Matter 231 If one ponders deeply on all that is said here. In reality. . So. it is God Who performs all acts. Nevertheless. he evidently means to deceive himself. God gives this image the feeling of the self. However. people usually do not include. A person may not want to concede this and may think of himself as a being independent of God. extraordinary situation by himself: that all the events in the world are but mere imagination… performs the act of throwing. This is the reality. he will soon realise this amazing. Of course his unwise denial is again within God's will and wish. or rather do not want to include. it is a scientific and logical fact that the "external world" has no materialistic reality and that it is a collection of images God perpetually presents to our soul.
"I have responsibilities". In the verse. because the world is only a collection of images created to test man. your colleagues. a flower with beautiful colours. your fertile garden. or your hi-fi that has the most advanced technology in the world… This is the reality. namely the fact that everything is an image. you come to realise that your house. wealth. horses branded (for blood and excellence). "I have things to complete". wardrobe-full clothes. the hardness of the chair you sit on. hear. or smell-in short-perceive with your five senses around you is a part of this "imaginary world" the voice of your favourite singer. The fact we describe in this chapter. and all else that you possess are in fact included in this imaginary external world projected to you. 14) Most people cast their religion away for the lure of property. and (wealth of) cattle and well-tilled land. late-model cars. "They know but the outer (things) in the life of this world: but of the End of things they are heedless. your furniture in it. jewels. "I do not have enough time". a perfume whose smell you like. is very important for its implication that it renders all the lusts . all forms of prosperity they either possess or strive to possess and they concentrate only on this world while forgetting the hereafter. the computer you use at your job. People are tested all through their limited lives with perceptions bearing no reality. your children. Heaped-up hoards of gold and silver. and fail to keep up prayer. your office. this misconception is described. give charity to the poor. in short. They are deceived by the "fair and alluring" face of the life of this world. Everything you see. (Surat Aal-e Imran. They consume their lives by trying to prosper only in this world. the sun that keeps you warm. a bird flying in front of your window. "I have ideals". credit cards. your jewels.232 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT If you think on this issue sincerely and boldly. "I will do them in the future". heaped-up hoards of gold and silver. your wardrobe. a speedboat moving swiftly on the water." (Surat arRoom. and perform worship that will make them prosper in the hereafter by saying "I have things to do". your spouse. This fact is mentioned in the Qur'an: Fair in the eyes of men is the love of things they covet: Women and sons. your car-perhaps recently bought. These perceptions are intentionally presented as appealing and attractive. but in nearness to God is the best of the goals (to return to). dollars. bank accounts. 7). Such are the possessions of this world's life. your bank account.
suppose that their post rank them higher than everyone else and keep thinking that they are successful because of all this. Therefore. these scenes are many times seen in dreams as well. who try to sanctify themselves and all others will be disgraced when they realise that they have committed all of these deeds in a dream. should actually think what kind of a state they would find themselves in once they realise that their success is nothing but an illusion. and loads of gold and silver. Since it is God Who creates all these images. who take bribes. show off with their cars. and the greed felt prove to be in unavailing. manors and lands" as if they ever really existed. helicopters. their rank which they hold to be a superiority. rolls of dollars. he is sure to be equally ridiculed for boasting of images he sees in this world. holdings. their wealth made with greed. the time spent. their children with whom they boast. After all. Those well-to-do people who ostentatiously saunter up and down in their yachts. who beat and curse others. who commit forgery. the holidays they have been are nothing but mere illusion. Those who fiercely fight with each other. they are also positioned in a high rank. fast cars. put on clothes that make every one admire them… Just as boasting about one's possessions in one's dream causes a person to be ridiculed. factories. who covetously withhold their money. who try to show off. This fact is stressed in the Qur'an: . both what he sees in his dreams and what he relates to in this world are mere images in his mind. they also have houses. possess power to rule over many people. keep talking about their wealth. their dearest bodies. In their dreams. The verification of this fact makes it clear that everything people possess and toil to possess. extremely precious jewels. all the efforts put. the Ultimate Owner of everything is God alone. own factories with thousands of workers. who swindle. who lie. who do wrong to people. who practice envy. their friends. those who rave furiously. Similarly the way people react to the events they experience in the world is to make them feel ashamed when they realise the reality. those who are full of passion for office and rank. the schools they have attended.The Real Essence of Matter 233 and boundaries meaningless. In fact. raging aggressors. In their dreams. This is why some people unwittingly make fools of themselves when they boast of their wealth and properties or of their "yachts. their spouses who they consider to be closest to them.
he finds it to be nothing: But he finds God (ever) with him. At this stage. one point should be well grasped: it is not said here that the fact you face predicates that "all the possessions. 126) It is a great foolishness to cast religion away at the cost of imaginary passions and thus lose the eternal life. he is to spend all his life running after dreams and face a grievous penalty in the end. Otherwise. while he still has time. 39) . friends. (Surat an-Noor. he is fiearth: And He it is nally to die and in the hereafter that Encompasses everything is to become clear when he is recreated. he is going to wish he had never lived his life and say "Ah! Would that (Death) had made an end of me! Of no profit to me has been my wealth! My power has perished from me!" (Surat al-Haqqaa. wealth. It is rather said that "all the possessions you seem to have in fact do not exist at all. As you see. is to try to understand the greatest reality of the universe here on this world. However. (Surat sight" (Surah Qaf. 126) everything much more clearly. which the man parched with thirst mistakes for water. the final state of those people who run after illusions (or mirages) on this world and forget their Creator.234 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT But to God belong all things in the heavens and on earth: And He it is that Encompasses all things. and God will pay him his account: and God is swift in taking account. But to God belong Although one does not want to acall things in the knowledge this fact right away and would rather deceive himself by assumheavens and on ing everything he has truly exists. rank you have with which you are being stingy will vanish sooner or later. and therefore they do not have any meaning". there is a big difference between the two statements. but they are merely a dream and composed of images God shows to test you". on the other hand. their deeds are like a mirage in sandy deserts. 27-29) What a wise man should do. On that day "sharp is one's all things. (Surat an-Nisa. 22) and he is apt to see an-Nisa. spouses. In the Qur'an. But the Unbelievers. until when he comes up to it. is stated as follows. if he has spent his life chasing after imaginary aims. children.
it is clearly stated that matter is not an absolute being as the materialists claim but rather a collection of senses God creates. comes up to it. they would not stop our hunger". an ardent Marxist. collision. gave the "bus example" But he finds God as the "greatest evidence" for the exis(ever) with him. . he tried to "prove" the physical existence of stones by giving them a kick. the mentor of Politzer and the founder of dialectic materialism along with Marx.207 When another famous materialist. a bus and this is the proof of the physical (Surat an-Noor. What they do not understand is that all perceptions experienced during a bus crash such as hardness. and tence of matter.208 A similar example is given by Friedrich Engels. who wrote "if the cakes we eat were mere perceptions. it crashed. The disorder in comprehension that gives way to these examples of the materialists is their interpreting the explanation of "matter is a perception" as "matter is a trick of light". They think that the concept of perception is only limited to sight and that perceptions like touching have a physical correlate. which the anti-theses. and others. Materialists resist in an extremely dogmatic manner this eviBut the Unbelievers. man parched with For example. Engels. 39) existence of matter. therefore it is not a perception". and pain are formed in the brain. Johnson.The Real Essence of Matter 235 Logical Deficiencies Of The Materialists Since the beginning of this chapter. God will pay him his account: and God is philosophers who think that matter is a swift in taking acperception also run away when they see count. until when he the 20th century. he finds it to be nothing: George Politzer. According to Politzer. was told that matter is a collection of perceptions. dent reality which destroys their philosotheir deeds are like a phy and bring forward baseless mirage in sandy deserts. A bus knocking a man down makes them say "Look. Lenin. one of the biggest adthirst mistakes for vocates of the materialist philosophy in water.209 There are similar examples and impetuous sentences such as "you understand the existence of matter when you are slapped in the face" in the books of famous materialists such as Marx.
get stuck under a bus. However. The perceptions he perceives in his dream are as natural as the ones in "real" life. feel the pain of their wounds. (This event is experienced in the same manner in this life. A person can experience very realistic events in his dream. no traffic. because being satiated is also a perception. have a serious car accident. He can roll down the stairs and break his leg. and all other feelings pertaining to the event he experiences in his dream. but this all would be a dream. There are no stairs. They quote examples from the superficial reasoning of Marx. be it in their dream or in their daily lives. and feel events with no physical correlates in the "external world" very clearly reveals that the "external world" absolutely consists of mere perceptions. light. in reality. or Lenin and make emotional declarations. the essence of matter. . they can also read "Das Kapital". However. and particularly the Marxists. and moreover. In their dream. He can also dream that he dies in a car crash. or eat a cake and be satiated. this person is lying in his bed at that moment. colours. The dreaming person experiences and sees perceptions and feelings that do not exist in the external world. experience. these persons must think that they can also make these declarations in their dreams. no buses to consider. get hit on the head.236 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT The Example Of Dreams The best example to explain this reality are dreams. see. all that they see. Similar events to those experienced in our daily lives are also experienced in dreams with the same persuasiveness and rousing the same feelings in us. Engels. sounds. or feel consists only of perceptions. fight with the police. which is a perception just like the dream. participate in meetings. we experience. When they are asked in their dreams. Those who believe in the materialist philosophy. A person who dreams that he is knocked down by a bus can open his eyes in a hospital again in his dream and understand that he is disabled.) This person very sharply perceives the images. However. The fact that in our dreams. they will think that what they experience in their dreams also consists of "absolute matter"-just as they assume the things they see when they are awake are "absolute matter". feeling of hardness. are enraged when they are told about this reality. and his life in the hereafter begins. The cake he eats in his dream satiates him although it is a mere perception. angels of death take his soul.
but in reality. it would also hit Politzer. both forms of life are brought into being within the brain. In your dreams you can also "touch with your hand and see with your eye". with a parallel connection. were connected to another person's. the same thing can equally be true for the world we live in. for instance Politzer's brain. at the moment the bus hit that person. there is no logical reason for not thinking that we have entered a longer dream that we call "real life". The Example Of Connecting The Nerves In Parallel Let us consider the car crash example of Politzer: In this accident. all the feelings experienced by that person having the accident would be experi- . What is it that separates real life and the dreams from one another? Ultimately. reality is all that can be touched with the hand and seen with the eye. Better to say. If we are able to live easily in an unreal world during our dreams. if the crushed person's nerves travelling from his five senses to his brain. This suggests that we may well be awoken from the life on earth which we think we are living right now. who is sitting at his home at that moment.THE WORLD IN DREAMS or you. You are simply being de- F ceived. nor is there anything that can be touched or seen. When we wake up from a dream. The reason we consider our dream to be fancy and the world as real is nothing but a product of our habits and prejudices. you have neither hand nor eye. just as we are awoken from a dream. There is no material reality that makes these things happen except your brain.
that person would feel the same pain. the bus would knock this person down many times. a man's soul can be subjected to all kinds . So. the touch of the bus on his body. If the nerves of Johnson. who felt the satiety and fullness of the cake in his stomach after eating a cake. In this case. the images of a broken arm and shedding blood. Politzer will think that a bus has hit him although when he is sitting in his house. who is hit by the bus. The right answer is that they all experience the car accident in all its details in their own minds. Every other person connected to the man's nerves in parallel would experience the accident from beginning to end just like Politzer. The very same logic may be applied to the cake and the stone examples. In this respect. the hardness of the plaster cast. the images of his entering the operation room. who felt pain in his foot when he delivered a sound kick to a stone. The correct and consistent answer is this: both Engels and the second person have eaten the cake in their minds and are satiated. If the man in the accident fell into a coma. and experience the braking sound of the bus. If the nerves of the sense organs of Engels. if all the perceptions pertaining to the car accident were recorded in a device and if all these perceptions were transmitted to a person. both Johnson and the second person have fully experienced the moment of striking the stone in their minds. and the nerves of Politzer sitting in his house to that man's brain. and the feebleness of his arm. were connected to a second person's brain in parallel. and the man actually hit by the bus will never feel the impact of the accident and think that he is sitting in Politzer's house. fracture aches. just like the same song is listened from two different loudspeakers connected to the same tape recorder. Politzer will feel. it is not possible for man to transcend his senses and break free of them. they would all fall into a coma. Moreover. Let us make a change in the example we gave about Politzer: let us connect the nerves of the man hit by the bus to Politzer's brain. So. which one of the buses hitting those people is real? The materialist philosophy has no consistent answer to this question. that person would also feel full when Engels ate the cake and was satiated.238 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT enced by Politzer. The same principle applies to the cake and stone examples. see. were connected to a second person in parallel. which cake or which stone is the real one? The materialist philosophy again falls short of giving a consistent answer to this question. As is to be seen.
and particularly by physics. How the image and feelings form in the brain is taught in all medical schools in detail. science and technology are highly advanced and recent discoveries make it easier to comprehend this fact. or anyone who holds another view has to accept this fact. Without the existence of a perception. the fact that mat- . to hold that the "external world". Everyone who believes in science. light or shadow. that is. The Great Fear Of The Materialists For a while. The inability of Karl Marx. though partially. Materialists. It is not possible for a person to realise this because he assumes these three-dimensional images to be real and is absolutely certain of their existence because everybody depends on perceptions that are caused to be felt by his sensory organs. Georges Politzer and others in comprehending such a simple and evident fact is still startling although the level of scientific understanding and possibilities of their times were insufficient. on the other hand. Friedrich Engels. as we call it. Buddhist. A materialist might deny the existence of a Creator yet he cannot deny this scientific reality. The famous British philosopher David Hume expresses his thoughts on this fact: Frankly speaking. when I include myself in what I call "myself". love or hatred.The Real Essence of Matter 239 of representations although it has no physical body and no material existence and lacks material weight. be he an atheist. clearly show that matter does not have an absolute reality and that everyone in a sense is watching the "monitor in his brain". are flooded with the fear of both comprehending this fact. I can never capture myself in a particular time and I can observe nothing but perception. In our time. I always come across with a specific perception pertaining to hot or cold. is a collection of perceptions is not a matter of philosophy but a plain scientific fact. no substantial backlash came from the Turkish materialist circles against the subject brought up in this book. However. proven by the 20th-century science. sour or sweet or some other notion.210 The Formation Of Perceptions In The Brain Is Not Philosophy But Scientific Fact Materialists claim that what we have been saying here is a philosophical view. and realising how definitely it demolishes their philosophy. These facts.
which is a greater mainstay for them than Darwinism. and the bird is lost. nobody's mind. What disturbed Pekunlu even more than the chapters that invalidated Darwinism was the part you are currently reading. in a diluted. they come to realise that they start to lose the matter itself. the so-called basis of their philosophy. In an article he wrote in the aforementioned periodical. or you will lose track of materialism and be carried away by religion". Lenin. Now. To his readers and (only a handful of) audience. felt a great fear all about this. They declare that this issue is the "biggest threat" for them and that it totally "demolishes their cultural fabric". nobody's will.240 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT ter is a mere perception. it was revealed that materialists felt quite uneasy about the popularity of this subject and moreover. materialists have been loudly pronouncing their fear and panic in their publications. that is. and they experience an even greater shock. The scientific collapse of the theory of evolution. given us in sensation. an academician as well as a writer of Bilim ve Utopya (Science and Utopia) periodical which has assumed the task of defending materialism. Yet before long. as reference. It is nobody's sensation. nobody's spirit. This had given us the impression that our point was not made so clear and that it needed further explanation. they became ensnared from the moment they took "sensation" not as an image of the external world but as a special "element". And our Machists have all become ensnared in idealism. you have already lost every weapon against fideism. the leader of the bloody communist revolution in Russia.211 . Both in his articles in Bilim ve Utopya and in the panels he attended. he quoted the following lines from Lenin: Once you deny objective reality. Advising everyone to read Lenin's century-old book titled Materialism and Empirio-Criticism. A single claw ensnared. Pekunlu presented the book Evolution Deceit as the number one "threat" to materialism. for you have slipped into agnosticism or subjectivism-and that is all that fideism requires. Their agitated and hopeless discourse implies that they are suffering from a severe intellectual crisis. One of those who expressed this anxiety and panic felt by the materialist circles in the most outspoken way was Renan Pekunlu. conferences and panels. Pekunlu delivered the message "do not let yourselves be carried away by the indoctrination of idealism and keep your faith in materialism" and showed Vladimir I. all Pekunlu did was to repeat the counsels of Lenin stating "do not think over this issue. had already come as a great shock to them. subtle fideism. For a while.
What is more interesting is that this writer himself has written lines revealing that he can by no means grasp this fact which he considers to be a menace. However. because they are aware that this fact is now being put forward in a far more explicit. For the first time in world history. he then goes on to claim that im. and made demands such as "so you prove what you tell" sensing that his own philosophy has no basis. In order to support his assersubject nullifies matter. Nevertheless. this subject is being explained in such an irresistible way. It is so much so that the reactions of some materialists to the subject discussed here show that their blind adherence to materialism has caused some kind of a harm in their logic and for this reason. and that not so important. .Turkish materialist writer ages are divided into two as those having physi. they are far removed from comprehending the subject. the general picture is that a great number of materialist scientists still take a very superficial stand against the fact that "matter is nothing but an illusion". Still. the real threatening subject is this one". The subject explained in this chapter is one of the most important and most exciting subjects that one can ever come across in one's life. However. he gives "the example of telephone". It is rather unlikely that they would have faced such a crucial subject before. certain and convincing way than 100 years ago. also an academician and a writer for Bilim ve Utopya. For instance Alaattin Senel. For instance. Pekunlu and other materialists suffer a yet greater distress. the real images pertaining to the external world have threat is this subject". the reactions of these scientists or the manner they employ in their speeches and articles hint how shallow and superficial their comprehension is.Rennan Pekunlu says that "the theory of evolution is cal correlates and those that do not.. In sum. Senel accepts that the external world is perceived in the brain as an image. the tion.The Real Essence of Matter 241 These words explicitly demonstrate that the fact which Lenin alarmingly realised and wanted to take out both from his mind and the minds of his "comrades" also disturbs contemporary materialists in a similar way.only concept he has faith in. because he is aware that this physical correlates. in an article where he exclusively discussed this subject. gave similar messages as Rennan Pekunlu saying "Forget the collapse of Darwinism.
that it is not possible for him to test the existence of the external world with his senses. Senel may also see in his dream that he speaks on the phone and then have this conversation confirmed by the person he spoke to.242 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT mary. For this reason. For instance. Yet. We can never get out of our mind and know what is "outside". . the fact told here can easily be captured by a person with a normal level of understanding and reasoning. then. will one confirm whether the images in the brain have correlates or not? By the images in his brain again? Without doubt." However. By whom. Pekunlu may in his dream feel as facing "a serious threat" and advise people to read century-old books of Lenin. in relation to all that we have said. this confirmation is also imagery experienced by the mind. but the same thing applies when I speak on the phone. Each unbiased person would know. I cannot see the person I am speaking to but I can have this conversation confirmed when I later see him face to face. these materialists can never deny the fact that the events they have experienced and the people they have talked to in their dreams were nothing but perceptions. However. Whether the voice on the phone has a correlate or not can be confirmed by the person on the phone. Conceding that all perceptions are formed in the brain but assuming that one can step "out" of this and have the perceptions confirmed by the real external world reveals that the perceptive capacity of the person is limited and that he has a distorted reasoning. it is impossible for materialists to find a source of information that can yield data concerning the outside of the brain and confirm it. these people also experience the same events in their dreams. However. As a matter of fact. he wrote: "I do not know whether the images in my brain have correlates in the external world or not. this writer actually means the following: "If we doubt our perceptions. contemporary materialists display severe logical flaws just like their mentors who tried to "prove" the existence of matter by kicking stones or eating cakes. this is an evident misconception because it is impossible for us to reach the matter itself. When I speak on the telephone." 212 By saying so. However. it appears that blind adherence to materialism distorts the reasoning capability of people. no matter what they do. we can look at the matter itself and check its reality. Or.
they totally relied on matter. status. They revolted against God by being boastful and added to their unbelief.Anfal. While they denied God just because of their arrogance. lives." (Surat al. While so doing. How can materialism exist when matter does not? One of the attributes of God is His plotting against the unbelievers. but the best of planners is God. upon which they based all their thoughts. straightforward and forceful way. They were so confident of this philosophy that they thought it would never be possible to put forth an argument disproving it. because. What has been told here destroyed the very basis of their philosophy and left no ground for further discussion. 30) God entrapped materialists by making them assume that matter exists and so doing. arrogance and denial. . Matter. materialists revolted against God who has created them. God particularly states that they are "a people without understanding" (Surat al-Baqara 171) Materialists Have Fallen Into The Biggest Trap In History The atmosphere of panic sweeping through the materialist circles in Turkey of which we have mentioned only a few examples here shows that materialists face an utter defeat such as they have never met in history.The Real Essence of Matter 243 It also has to be stated that this is not an astonishing situation. humiliated them in an unseen way. Being very assured of themselves and the philosophy they believe in. they took refuge in matter which they held to have a real existence. rank. The fact that matter is simply a perception has been proven by modern science and it is put forward in a very clear. materialist thought always existed. In the Qur'an. This is stated in the verse "They plot and plan. and God too plans. the whole world and everything else to be existing and moreover. The scenario they formulated maintained that matter had no beginning or end. inability to understand is a common trait of all unbelievers. Yet. It only remains for the materialists to see the collapse of the entire material world they blindly believe and rely on. and that none of it could possibly have a Creator. Materialists deemed their possessions. Throughout the history of humanity. vanished all of a sudden. That is why the facts told in this book regarding the real nature of matter surprised these people so much. the society they belong. grew arrogant against God by relying on these.
120) In another verse God states: "But the Unbelievers. (Surat Aal-EImran. 123).244 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT they are so lacking in understanding that they fail to think that God compasses them round about. Their folly has made them forget that they are all alone with God and. With the verse ".. 76).not the least harm will their cunning do to you".. too. .. Materialism.. and realise (it) not! (Surat al. which the man parched with thirst mistakes for water. While growing arrogant of their own accord. those living today too face a reality that will shatter their devious plans from its basis. and all plots they devise are simply images formed in their brain just like every other act they perform. its wicked men. they do not realise a very important fact as stressed by the words "they only deceive themselves. materialists have been tricked and suffered a serious defeat in the war they waged against God by bringing up something monstrous against Him. 42) This is most probably the biggest defeat in history.Baqara. This is the fact that everything they experience is an imagery designed to be perceived by them. and gave the good tidings to believers with the verse ". The verse "Thus have We placed leaders in every town.Anaam. he finds it to be nothing" (Surat an.. God has stated that these plots were doomed to end with failure the day they were hatched. they are entrapped in their own devious plans. becomes a "mirage" for the rebellious just like it is stated in this verse. No less than those unbelievers who lived in the past. until when he comes up to it. they find it to be nothing but an illusion. 9) While the unbelievers try to plot. God has deceived them with such a mirage.Tur. God announces the state to which the unbelievers are led as a result of their thick-headedness: Or do they intend a plot (against you)? But those who defy God are themselves involved in a Plot! (Surat At. hence. In another verse the same fact is related as: Fain would they deceive God and those who believe. to plot (and burrow) therein: but they only plot against their own souls.Noor 39).their deeds are like a mirage in sandy deserts. and how they will end up (Surat al.feeble indeed is the cunning of Satan" (Surat An-Nisa. when they have recourse to it. and they perceive it not" announces how unconscious these people who revolt against their Creator are. and realise (it) not!" in the verse. but they only deceive themselves.
they thought that they could grow obstinate in their denial and drag people to disbelief. dollars. and God too planned. more importantly. and even their own bodies. they based their philosophy and ideology on it. slipping away from their hands. No doubt. As they witness their possessions. in another sense. Having all the means of the 20th centry at their disposal.this. friends. in their own words. As God informs in the Qur'an. children. 173) Materialists never expected to fall into such a trap. is tantamount. is what the fact stated in the verses comes to mean: materialists are made to realise that everything they own is but an illusion. all (of them). rank and status. The fact that everything they possess is but an illusion. (Surat an. and are humiliated because they took matter as their god. they can never find a helper other than God. all of which they deem to exist. they are "destroyed" in the words of the 51st verse of Surat an-Naml. got involved in serious discussions. to "death before dying" in this world. God explains their situation in the following verse: And (the unbelievers) plotted and planned. "they shall not find for them other than God a patron or a help. This ever-lasting mentality of unbelievers and their end are described as follows in the Qur'an: They plotted and planned. however. and therefore everything they possess has been destroyed. even while they perceived it not. biologists. and all others regardless of their rank and post are simply deceived like children. dispute about God with their limited intelligence. this plan of God against the unbelievers is so firm that there is no way of escape from it." (Surat an-Nisa.The Real Essence of Matter 245 and beguiled them into perceiving this whole collection of images as real. they are no more matter but souls. Then see what was the end of their plot!. No matter what they do or to whom they appeal. astronomers. They deemed themselves to be wise enough to offer an argument about the truth of the universe and. realising this truth is the worst possible thing for the materialists. and the best of planners is God. (Surat Aal-E-Imran 54) It may be possible to escape from some plots. spouses. professors. that We destroyed them and their people. and adopted a socalled "intellectual" discourse.Naml 50-51) This. factories. Assuming a collection of images to be absolute. gold. . At this point. physicists. All those "eminent" people. but We too planned.
and Lenin felt panic.246 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT This fact leaves them all alone with God. God has called us to attention that each human being is. became enraged. This is the reason why materialists like Marx. or who dedicate their lives to hollow aims. (Surat Maryam. who brag about their property. Proving that the whole material world is in reality a "image". The world is not an absolute place with a true existence as supposed by those who wander aimless about the streets.." (Surat al-Anaam. is what the fact stated in the verses comes to mean: Those who take matter as their god have come from God and returned to Him. in truth. and warned their followers "not to think over" this concept when they were told about it. 95) This. As a matter of fact. (to deal) with the (creature) whom I created (bare and) alone!". They have submitted their wills to God whether they want it or not. such people are in such a . who show off in luxurious cafes.. The person who understands this subject realises that the world is not the sort of place it is surmised to be by most people. Now they wait for the Day of Judgment on which every one of them will be called to account.. The world is only a collection of perceptions. all alone in His presence. Though however unwilling they may be to understand it. 94) And each one of them will come unto Him on the Day of Resurrection. this subject is the key to comprehending the existence of God and His creations and of understanding that He is the only absolute being. 11) This remarkable fact is repeated in many other verses: "And behold! you come to us bare and alone as We created you for the first time: you have left behind you all (the favors) which We bestowed on you. in another sense. (Surat Al-Muddaththir. Conclusion The subject we have explained so far is one of the greatest truths that will ever be told to you in your lifetime. "Leave Me alone. Engels. This concept is very important for it undermines the materialist philosophy that denies the existence of God and causes it to collapse. All of the people we have cited above are only images who watch these perceptions in their minds: yet they are not aware of this. who get into fights in pubs. alone. an illusion.. With the verse.
213 Imam Rabbani explicitly stated that all images presented to man are but an illusion. the case is not so. and ponder on the way you see the objects around you and the way you feel their touch. (who is God). As it is said in the Qur'an... you have to concentrate. Yet with the mind's eye. In real. The existence of the universe is at the sphere of senses and illusions. Islamic intellectuals such as Imam Rabbani. This reality has been understood by a number of theists or philosophers throughout history. hears. Some Western philosophers like George Berkeley have grasped the same reality through reason. They assume that the world they watch in their brain is the "external world" and they cannot comprehend the obvious evidence to the contrary... 179) You can explore beyond this point by using the power of your personal reflection. They are like cattle-nay more misguided: for they are heedless (of warning)." (Surat al-Araf. If you think heedfully. the unbelievers "have hearts wherewith they understand not. Even the face . It has neither a designation nor a trace in the outside. and that they have no originals in the "outside". Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi and Mevlana Cami realised this fact from the signs of the Qur'an and by using their reason. and reads this book at this moment is only a soul and watches the perceptions called "matter" on a screen. there is nothing in the outside except the Glorious Being. In the outside. It is seen to the extent that it is portrayed. thinks. it seems as if it is seen with the head's eye. eyes wherewith they see not. Imam Rabbani wrote in his Mektubat (Letters) that the whole material universe is an "illusion and supposition (perception)" and that the only absolute being is God: God. and ears wherewith they hear not.. For this. and it is not material. However..The Real Essence of Matter 247 state of mental deficiency that they cannot even comprehend the fact that perceptions are formed inside the brain. This unawareness is the outcome of the lack of wisdom God gives to disbelievers. devote your attention. This imaginary cycle is portrayed in imagination. The person who comprehends this is considered to have moved away from the domain of the material world that deceives a major part of humanity and to have entered the domain of true existence. There is no circumstance to be seen.. The substance of these beings which He created is but nothingness. you can feel that the wise being that sees. touches. He created all at the sphere of senses and illusions..
God is He Who knows Best. The fact that the universe is an image is described in such a concrete.214 Mevlana Cami stated the same fact which he discovered following the signs of the Qur'an and by using his wit: "Whatever there is in the universe are senses and illusions. this fact has been made empirical by the body of evidence put forward by science.248 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT of a person reflecting on a mirror is like that. clear. the only Absolute Being. No doubt. However. God's existence and creation will be grasped. It is not possible for this unavoidable course to be impeded by any image. In the age in which we live. both its constancy and image are in the IMAGINATION. and explicit way for the first time in history. They are either like reflections in mirrors or shadows". Great scholars such as Imam Rabbani have written that it might have been inconvenient to tell this fact to the masses and that most people would not be able to grasp it. In the 21st century. deceits and superstitions enshrouding them. the number of those who have understood this fact throughout history has always been limited. it is the materialistic creeds of the 19th century that will be relegated to the trash-heaps of history. the 21st century will be a historical-turning point when people will generally comprehend the divine realities and be led in crowds to God. such facts as spacelessness and timelessness will be understood. humanity will break free of the centuries-old veils. . For this reason. It has no constancy in the outside.
a person makes a comparison when he sees someone entering a room through its door and sitting down in an armchair in the middle of the room. If this comparison is not made. This is the assumption that matter is absolute and eternal. This is as superstitious as the first one. for there is no valid proof of the existence of a three-dimensional material world. he hears another sound. This fact refutes the primary assumption of the materialist philosophy that underlies evolutionary theory. the first sound he heard is no more than an imagination in his mind. The . To assert the contrary would be to hold a superstitious belief removed from reason and scientific truth. It is merely a bit of information in his memory. The person formulates the perception of "time" by comparing the moment in which he lives with what he has in his memory. We can explain this with an example. The person perceives that there is an interval between the first sound and the second and he calls this interval "time". in fact. The second assumption upon which the materialistic philosophy rests is the supposition that time is absolute and eternal. walks into the room. he hears a particular sound. when a person taps an object. Yet at the time he hears the second sound. By the time this person sits in the armchair. For instance.CHAPTER 19 Relativity of Time and the Reality of Fate verything related above demonstrates that a "three-dimensional space" does not exist in reality. there cannot be perception of time either. the images related to the moments he opens the door. E The Perception Of Time The perception we call time is. and makes his way to the armchair are compiled as bits of information in the brain. a method by which one moment is compared to another. Similarly. When he taps the same object five minutes later. that it is a prejudice completely inspired by perceptions and that one leads one's whole life in "spacelessness".
Regarding the subject of time flow- . The Scientific Explanation Of Timelessness Let us try to clarify the subject by quoting explanations by various scientists and scholars on the subject. In brief. then his brain would not be making such interpretations and therefore the perception of time would never have been formed. The reason why one determines himself to be thirty years old is only because he has accumulated information pertaining to those thirty years in his mind. we think that a period of time elapses between two people holding out their hands and then shaking them. For example. If man did not have memory. If his memory did not exist.250 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT The perception of time comes with comparing one moment to another. then he would not be thinking of the existence of such a preceding period of time and he would only be experiencing the single "moment" he was living in. time comes to exist as a result of the comparison made between some illusions stored in the brain. perception of time occurs when one compares the man sitting on the armchair with those bits of information he has.
the famous intellectual and Nobel laureate professor of genetics. make it possible for us to imagine a world in which time flows backwards.215 Since our brain is accustomed to a certain sequence of events. In order to understand which one is right. would similarly be functioning backwards. a world in which light rays are emitted from the walls to be collected in a trap (gravity center) instead of gushing out from a light source.Relativity of Time and the Reality of Fate 251 T ime is a concept entirely contingent on the perceiver. It is impossible to make correct judgments about time without them. A world in which milk separates itself from the coffee and jumps out of the cup to reach the milk-pan. Yet. the world operates not as it is related above and we assume that time always flows forward. states the following in his book Le Jeu des Possibles (The Possible and the Actual): Films played backwards. we need sources such as clocks and calendars. a world in which a stone slopes to the palm of a man by the astonishing cooperation of innumerable drops of water making the stone possible to jump out of water. While a certain time period seems long for one person. this is a decision reached in the brain and there- . However. The same is true for the past and future and the world will appear to us exactly as it currently appears. ing backwards. the processes of our brain and the way our memory compiles information. in such a world in which time has such opposite features. François Jacob. it may seem short for another.
fore is completely relative. In reality, we can never know how time flows or even whether it flows or not. This is an indication of the fact that time is not an absolute fact but just a sort of perception. The relativity of time is a fact also verified by the most important physicist of the 20th century, Albert Einstein. Lincoln Barnett, writes in his book The Universe and Dr. Einstein:
Along with absolute space, Einstein discarded the concept of absolute timeof a steady, unvarying inexorable universal time flow, streaming from the infinite past to the infinite future. Much of the obscurity that has surrounded the Theory of Relativity stems from man's reluctance to recognize that sense of time, like sense of color, is a form of perception. Just as space is simply a possible order of material objects, so time is simply a possible order of events. The subjectivity of time is best explained in Einstein's own words. "The experiences of an individual" he says, "appear to us arranged in a series of events; in this series the single events which we remember appear to be ordered according to the criterion of 'earlier' and 'later'. There exists, therefore, for the individual, an I-time, or subjective time. This in itself is not measurable. I can, indeed, associate numbers with the events, in such a way that a greater number is associated with the later event than with an earlier one.216
Einstein himself pointed out, as quoted from Barnett's book: "space and time are forms of intuition, which can no more be divorced from consciousness than can our concepts of colour, shape, or size." According to the Theory of General Relativity: "time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it." 217 Since time consists of perception, it depends entirely on the perceiver and is therefore relative. The speed at which time flows differs according to the references we use to measure it because there is no natural clock in the human body to indicate precisely how fast time passes. As Lincoln Barnett wrote: "Just as there is no such thing as color without an eye to discern it, so an instant or an hour or a day is nothing without an event to mark it."218 The relativity of time is plainly experienced in dreams. Although what we see in our dream seems to last for hours, in fact, it only lasts for a few minutes, and even a few seconds. Let us think on an example to clarify the subject further. Let us assume that we were put into a room with a single window that was specifically designed and we were kept there for a certain period of time. Let
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there be a clock in the room by which we can see the amount of time that has passed. During this time, we see the sun setting and rising at certain intervals from the room's window. A few days later, the answer we would give to the question about the amount of time we had spent in the room would be based both on the information we had collected by looking at the clock from time to time and on the computation we had done by referring to how many times the sun had set and risen. For example, we estimate that we had spent three days in the room. However, if the person who put us in that room comes up to us and says that we spent only two days in the room and that the sun we had been seeing from the window was falsely produced by a simulation machine and that the clock in the room was especially regulated to move slower, then the calculation we had done would bear no meaning. This example confirms that the information we have about the rate of the passage of time is based on relative references. The relativity of the time is a scientific fact also proven by scientific methodology. Einstein's Theory of General Relativity maintains that the speed of time changes depending on the speed of the object and its distance from the centre of gravity. As speed increases, time is shortened, compressed; and slows down as if it comes to the point of "stopping". Let us explain this with an example given by Einstein himself. Imagine two twins, one of whom stays on earth while the other goes travelling in space at a speed close to the speed of light. When he comes back, the traveller will see that his brother has grown much older than he has. The reason is that time flows much slower for the person who travels at speeds near the speed of light. If the same example were applied to a space-travelling father and his son staying back on earth, it would look like that: If the father was 27 years old when he set out and his son was 3, the father will, when he comes back to the earth 30 years later (earth time), be only 30, whereas the son will be 33 years old.219 It should be pointed out that this relativity of time is caused not by the slowing down or running fast of clocks or the slow running of a mechanical spring. It is rather the result of the differentiated operation periods of the entire material system which goes as deep as sub-atomic particles. In other words, the shortening of time is not like acting in a slow-motion picture for the person experiencing it. In such a setting where time shortens,
one's heartbeats, cell replications, and brain functions, and so on all operate slower than those of the slower-moving person on Earth. The person goes on with his daily life and does not notice the shortening of time at all. Indeed the shortening does not even become apparent until the comparison is made.
Relativity In The Qur'an The conclusion to which we are led by the findings of modern science is that time is not an absolute fact as supposed by materialists, but only a relative perception. What is more interesting is that this fact, undiscovered until the 20th century by science, was imparted to mankind in the Qur'an 14 centuries ago. There are various references in the Qur'an to the relativity of time. It is possible to see the scientifically-proven fact that time is a psychological perception dependent on events, setting, and conditions in many verses of the Qur'an. For instance, the entire life of a person is a very short time as we are informed by the Qur'an;
On the Day when He will call you, and you will answer (His Call) with (words of) His Praise and Obedience, and you will think that you have stayed (in this world) but a little while! (Surat al-Isra, 52) And on the Day when He shall gather them together, (it will seem to them) as if they had not tarried (on earth) longer than an hour of a day: they will recognise each other. (Surah Yunus, 45)
In some verses, it is indicated that people perceive time differently and that sometimes people can perceive a very short period of time as a very lengthy one. The following conversation of people held during their judgement in the Hereafter is a good example of this:
He will say: "What number of years did you stay on earth?" They will say: "We stayed a day or part of a day: but ask those who keep account." He will say: "You stayed not but a little, if you had only known!" (Surat al-Mumenoon, 112-114)
In some other verses it is stated that time may flow at different paces in different settings:
Yet they ask you to hasten on the Punishment! But God will not fail in His Promise. Verily a Day in the sight of your Lord is like a thousand years of your reckoning. (Surat al-Hajj, 47)
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The angels and the spirit ascend unto him in a day the measure whereof is (as) fifty thousand years. (Surat al-Maarij, 4)
These verses are all manifest expressions of the relativity of time. The fact that this result only recently understood by science in the 20th century was communicated to man 1,400 years ago by the Qur'an is an indication of the revelation of the Qur'an by God, Who encompasses the whole time and space. The narration in many other verses of the Qur'an reveals that time is a perception. This is particularly evident in the stories. For instance, God has kept the Companions of the Cave, a believing group mentioned in the Qur'an, in a deep sleep for more than three centuries. When they were awoken, these people thought that they had stayed in that state but a little while, and could not figure out how long they slept:
Then We draw (a veil) over their ears, for a number of years, in the Cave, (so that they heard not). Then We raised them up that We might know which of the two parties would best calculate the time that they had tarried. (Surat alKahf, 11-12) Such (being their state), we raised them up (from sleep), that they might question each other. Said one of them, "How long have you stayed (here)?" They said, "We have stayed (perhaps) a day, or part of a day." (At length) they (all) said, "God (alone) knows best how long you have stayed here... (Surat alKahf, 19)
The situation told in the below verse is also evidence that time is in truth a psychological perception.
Or (take) the similitude of one who passed by a hamlet, all in ruins to its roofs. He said: "Oh! how shall God bring it (ever) to life, after (this) its death?" but God caused him to die for a hundred years, then raised him up (again). He said: "How long did you tarry (thus)?" He said: (Perhaps) a day or part of a day." He said: "Nay, you have tarried thus a hundred years; but look at your food and your drink; they show no signs of age; and look at your donkey: And that We may make of you a sign unto the people, Look further at the bones, how We bring them together and clothe them with flesh." When this was shown clearly to him, he said: "I know that God has power over all things." (Surat al-Baqara, 259)
The above verse clearly emphasises that God Who created time is unbound by it. Man, on the other hand, is bound by time that God ordains. As in the verse, man is even incapable of knowing how long he stayed in his
sleep. In such a state, to assert that time is absolute (just like the materialists do in their distorted mentality), would be very unreasonable.
Destiny This relativity of time clears up a very important matter. The relativity is so variable that a period of time appearing billions of years' duration to us, may last only a second in another dimension. Moreover, an enormous period of time extending from the world's beginning to its end may not even last a second but just an instant in another dimension. This is the very essence of the concept of destiny- a concept that is not well understood by most people, especially materialists, who deny it completely. Destiny is God's perfect knowledge of all events past or future. A majority of people question how God can already know events that have not yet been experienced and this leads them to fail in understanding the authenticity of destiny. However, "events not yet experienced" are not yet experienced only for us. God is not bound by time or space for He Himself has created them. For this reason, the past, the future, and the present are all the same to God; for Him, everything has already taken place and finished. Lincoln Barnett explains how the Theory of General Relativity leads to this fact in The Universe and Dr. Einstein: According to Barnett, the universe can be "encompassed in its entire majesty only by a cosmic intellect".220 The will that Barnett calls "the cosmic intellect" is the wisdom and knowledge of God, Who prevails over the entire universe. Just as we easily see a ruler's beginning, middle, and end, and all the units in between as a whole, God knows the time we are subjected to like a single moment right from its beginning to the end. People experience incidents only when their time comes and they witness the fate God has created for them. It is also important to draw attention to the shallowness of the distorted understanding of destiny prevalent in society. This distorted conviction of fate holds a superstitious belief that God has determined a "destiny" for every man but that these destinies can sometimes be changed by people. For instance, for a patient who returns from death's door people make superficial statements like "He defeated his destiny". Yet, no one is able to change his destiny. The person who turns from death's door does not die because he is destined not to die then. It is again the destiny of those peo-
. and the Book is set up. Who knows time like a single moment and Who prevails over the whole time and space. (Surat alHaaqqa. the verses that describe the account that people are to give to God in the hereafter are related as events which already occurred long ago: And the trumpet is blown.. Destiny is the eternal knowledge of God and for God. (Surat al-Kahf. occurrences that are going to take place after our death (from our point of view) are related as already experienced and past events in the Qur'an. so that on that day it is frail. (Surat al-Qaf. And those who keep their duty to their Lord are driven unto the Garden in troops. save him whom God willeth. 34) And the Sinful saw the fire and apprehended that they have to fall therein: no means did they find to turn away therefrom. and all who are in the heavens and all who are in the earth swoon away." (Surat az-Zumar. . We also understand from what is related in the Qur'an that time is one for God: some incidents that appear to happen to us in the future are related in the Qur'an in such a way that they already took place long before. For instance. And those who disbelieve are driven unto hell in troops. along with it a driver and a witness. (Surat an-Naziat. God is not bound by the relative time frame that we are confined in. everything is determined and finished in a destiny. Then it is blown a second time. 12-13) And Hell is placed in full view for (all) to see. and it is judged between them with truth. He rewarded them with a Garden and (garments of) silk. God has willed these things in timelessness: people have already performed them and all these events have been lived through and ended. and they are not wronged. It is imparted in the verse below that every event. 21) And the heaven is cloven asunder....Relativity of Time and the Reality of Fate 257 ple who deceive themselves by saying "I defeated my destiny" to say so and maintain such a mindset. 68-73) Some other verses on this subject are: And every soul came. (Surat alInsan. Reclining in the (Garden) on raised thrones. and the prophets and the witnesses are brought.. they saw there neither the sun's (excessive heat) nor excessive cold. and behold them standing waiting! And the earth shineth with the light of her Lord. 36) But on this Day the Believers laugh at the Unbelievers (Surat al-Mutaffifin. 53) As may be seen. 16) And because they were patient and constant. be it big or small.
And not the least and not the greatest of these things but are recorded in a clear record. The subliminal reason why materialists cannot comprehend this subject is their fearing the fact they will face when they comprehend it. namely the truth underlying matter. scientists have become aware of the alarming limitations of man's senses. (Surah Jonah. because these are the only notions he re- . Nor is hidden from your Lord (so much as) the weight of an atom on the earth or in heaven. and whatever portion you may be reciting from the Qur'an. the rational and logical evidence also admits no other alternatives on this issue: the universe is an illusory entirety with all the matter composing it and all the people living on it. For instance. events take place in the brain until the bus crash. 61) The Worry Of The Materialists The issues discussed in this chapter. therefore it exists" and could not understand that the shock felt after bus impact was in fact a mere perception as well. timelessness.221 Any reference made to the fact that matter and time is a perception arouses great fear in a materialist. As expressed before. We are witnesses thereof when you are deeply engrossed therein. but crystal-clear truths impossible to deny. if we return to Politzer's bus example: although Politzer technically knew that he could not step out of his perceptions he could only admit it for certain cases. It is a collection of perceptions. Lincoln Barnett informs us that this subject was "discerned" by some scientists: Along with philosophers' reduction of all objective reality to a shadow-world of perceptions. things go out of the brain and gain a physical reality. for Politzer. The logical defect at this point is very clear: Politzer has made the same mistake as the materialist philosopher Johnson who said "I hit the stone. and spacelessness. Materialists have a hard time in understanding this issue.258 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT is within the knowledge of God and recorded in a book: In whatever business thou may be. In addition to its being a technical reality. That is. but as soon as the bus crash takes place. my foot hurts. are indeed extremely clear. and whatever deed you (mankind) may be doing. these are absolutely not any sort of a philosophy or a way of thought.
the primitiveness of their own philosophy and the ignorance of their worldview will be bared for all to see. When he feels that the universe he thinks he is living in. and in short. other materialist philosophers whose ideas he is influenced by. will experience on Judgment Day in its real sense as described in the verse "That Day shall they (openly) show (their) submission to God. With this key. On Judgement Day. The Gain Of Believers While the fact that matter and time is a perception alarms materialists. . this materialist tries to convince himself of the reality of matter. because he thinks that he is created by matter and time (through evolution). kicks stones. Just as they want to dismiss this reality from their minds. 22) After that. Everything he depends on. children and close circle whom they had assumed to be real and ascribed as partners to God leaving them and vanishing. yells. God stated this fact in the verse "Behold! how they lie against their own souls! But the (lie) which they invented will leave them in the lurch" (Surat al-Anaam. He. These fears are the reason why they are so disturbed of the fact related here. takes these as idols to worship. is a perception. just the opposite holds true for true believers. the world. his own body. They are also aware that if the true nature of matter is known by people in general. everything. and all their inventions shall leave them in the lurch. believes in. unbelievers will bear witness to their possessions. they will be addressed thus: One day shall We gather them all together: We shall say to those who ascribed partners (to Us): "Where are the partners whom you (invented and) talked about?" (Surat al-Anaam.Relativity of Time and the Fact of Fate 259 lies on as absolute beings. and there will be no ground left on which they can rationalise their views. they also want other people to discard it. shouts. he feels overwhelmed by the horror of it all. hits his fist on the wall." (Surat an-Nahl. all secrets are unlocked. God states that the fears of the unbelievers will be intensified in the hereafter. 24). but can never escape from the reality. in a sense. other people. and makes up "evidence" for this end. essentially. 87) From then on. He feels the despair which he. People of faith become very glad when they have perceived the secret behind matter because this reality is the key to all questions. and take recourse to vanishes suddenly.
. When this secret is delved into. with this secret. Wherever we turn. and important questions such as "Where is God?". it will be understood that everything takes place at a single moment: nothing is waited for and time does not go by. "Where are heaven and hell?".260 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT One comes to easily understand many issues that he previously had difficulty in understanding. All distressful material worries. "How long will the life in cemetery last?". 35) To comprehend this secret is the greatest gain in the world. There is nothing but God. and count on for reward. the questions of death. This verse can also be much better comprehended by understanding this secret. If timelessness is understood. changing dimensions. When spacelessness is comprehended. that He changes the entire physical world as He pleases and that all he has to do is to turn unto Him. This is the plain truth. As everybody knows. and "where" become meaningless because there will be no time and no place left. The person grasps that the entire universe has a single Sovereign. and fears vanish. the world becomes like heaven for a believer. another very important reality mentioned in the Qur'an is unveiled: the fact that "God is nearer to man than his jugular vein" (Surah Qaf. As said before. there is the countenance of God. hell. With this secret. It will be understood with what kind of a system God created the entire universe from nothingness. the jugular vein is inside the body. It should be well established that there is no other helper and provider for man than God. (Surat Aal-e Imran. appeal for help. paradise. "What was before God?". it will be understood that hell. the hereafter. He is the only absolute being Whom one can seek refuge in. So much so that. He then submits himself entirely to God "to be devoted to His service". because everything has already happened and finished. heaven and earth are all actually in the same place. 16). What could be nearer to a person than his inside? This situation can be easily explained by the reality of spacelessness. "Who created God?". the questions of "when". and "Where do heaven and hell currently exist?" will be easily answered. anxieties.
. Entitled "The Collapse of the Theory of Evolution: The Fact of Creation". which was a great success. E First Conference-Istanbul The first of the series of international conferences organised by Science Research Foundation (SRF) took place in 1998. was attended by recognised experts from around the world and provided a platform on which the theory of evolution was for the first time questioned and refuted scientifically in Turkey. is a serious threat to national beliefs and moral values. The conference. it was held in Istanbul on April 4. People from all segments of Turkish society attended the conference. which drew a great deal of attention. has undertaken the duty of informing Turkish public about the scientific truth of the matter. Those who could not find place in the hall followed the conference live from the closed-circuit television system outside. which has gained acceleration lately. a video documentary prepared by SRF was presented. which revealed the ulterior ideological motives underlying the theory of evolution. Following the speeches of SRF members. The conference included famous speakers from Turkey and from abroad. The Science Research Foundation.CHAPTER 20 SRF Conferences: Activities for Informing the Public About Evolution volution propaganda. 1998. which is quite aware of this fact.
with a seating capacity of a thousand. Dr Edward Boudreaux: In his speech. Cemal Resit Rey Conference Hall. "Is it Possible for Life to Emerge by Coincidences?". They demonstrated with substantial proof that the theory of evolution has no validity whatsoever. a professor of biology at Southern Louisiana University. Michael Girouard. Professor Michael P. and concluded that they could only have come into existence as a result of skilled design. "The Design in Chemistry".Dr Duane Gish and Dr Kenneth Cumming. Second Conference-Istanbul The second international conference in the same series was held three months after the first on July 5. the basic units of life. Girouard: In his speech. two world-renowned scientists from the Institute for Creation Research in the USA are authorities on biochemistry and paleontology. Ed- . During the conference. was filled to overflowing by an audience of rapt listeners. one of the most esteemed Turkish scientists today. Dr Cevat Babuna illustrated the miracles in each phase of a human being's creation with a slide show that shook the "coincidence hypothesis" of evolution to its roots. The speakers-six Americans and one Turk-gave talks demonstrating how Darwinism had been invalidated by modern science. explained through various examples the complexity of proteins. The speakers and their subjects at this conference are summarised below. 1998 in Cemal Resit Rey Conference Hall again in Istanbul.
David Menton. In addition. noted that some chemical elements must have been deliberately arranged by creation in order for life to exist. thus proving the invalidity of the hypothesis that birds evolved from reptiles. He further explained that this theory has been turned into a dogma and that its defenders believe in Darwinism with a religious fervour. Having listened to all these speeches. gave a speech on the ideological and philosophical commitments lying behind evolution. A member of Turkish Parliament. examined the differences between the anatomies of the feathers of birds and the scales of reptiles. the audience witnessed that evolution is a dogmatic belief that is invalidated by science in all aspects. refuted the thesis of man's evolution from apes. a professor of chemistry at the University of New Orleans. the president of the Institute for Creation Research and a famous geologist. Carl Fliermans refuted evolutionist claims at the microbiological level. Professor David Menton: A professor of anatomy at Washington University. tled "The Collapse of the Theory receiving his SRF plaque from Dr of Evolution: The Fact of CreNevzat Yalcintas. the poster exhibition entiWorld-renowned evolution expert Dr Duane Gish. Professor Edip Keha: A professor of biochemistry. . Edip Keha.SRF Conferences 263 ward Boudreaux. in his speech entitled "The Origin of Man". in a speech that was accompanied by a very interesting computer display. He presented basic information on the cell and stressed through evidence that the cell could only have come into being as a result of conscious design. was the only Turkish speaker of the conference. Professor Carl Fliermans: A widely-known scientist in the USA and a microbiology professor at Indiana University conducting a research on "the neutralisation of chemical wastes by bacteria" supported by the US Department of Defence. ICR President Professor John Morris: Professor Morris. Professor Duane Gish: Famous evolutionist expert Professor Gish.
each highlighting either a basic claim of evolution or a creation evidence. CARL FLIERMANS: "Modern biochemistry proves that organisms are marvelously designed and this fact alone proves the existance of the Creator. the number of attendees at the conference exceeded 2. At . Screens were set up outside the conference hall for those who could not find place inside. This is a concrete evidence for that they were created by God. humans. DUANE GISH: "The fossil record refutes the evolutionary theory and it demonstrates that species appeared on Earth fully formed and well designed." ation" organised by the Science Research Foundation and displayed in the lobby of CRR Conference Hall attracted considerable interest. Although the conference hall at the Ankara Sheraton Hotel was designed to hold an audience of about a thousand." PROF. The poster exhibition entitled "The Collapse of the Theory of Evolution: The Fact of Creation" held next to the conference hall also attracted considerable attention. The exhibition consisted of 35 posters. and its natural laws are very precisely set up by the Creator for the benefit of us. Participants in the conference-three Americans and one Turk-put forward explicit and substantial evidence that Darwinism has been invalidated by modern science. Third Conference-Ankara The third international conference of the series was held on July 12. EDWARD BOUDREAUX: "The world we live in." PROF. What I saw has always been the evidence of God's creation. DAVID MENTON: "I am examining the anatomical features of living things for 30 years." PROF. 1998 at the Sheraton Hotel in Ankara.264 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT PROF.500.
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the United States and Canada. Between August 98 and end 2002 alone.266 THE EVOLUTION DECEIT the end of the conference. Brunei. SRF continues to conduct its conferences in different parts of the country. Malaysia. Azerbaijan. . Singapore. SRF has also held conferences in England. Indonesia. over 500 conferences were held in Turkey's all of 80 cities and towns. the Science Research Foundation began organising similar conferences all over Turkey. the speakers received a standing ovation. Following the success of these international conferences. which proved how much the public craved enlightenment on the scientific realities regarding the evolution deceit and the fact of creation. Holland.
the All-Wise. You are the All-Knowing.Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us. (Surat al-Baqara. 32) .
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