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MISCONCEPTION OF EVOLUTION
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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.
Before passing on to the subject of
the eye, let us briefly answer the question of "how we see". Light
rays coming from an object fall oppositely on the retina of the eye.
Here, these light rays are transmitted into electric signals by cells
and they reach a tiny spot at the back of the brain called the center
of vision. These electric signals are perceived in this center of
the brain as an image after a series of processes. With this technical
background, let us do some thinking.
The brain is insulated from light.
That means that the inside of the brain is solid dark, and light does
not reach the location where the brain is situated. The place called
the center of vision is a solid dark place where no light ever reaches;
it may even be the darkest place you have ever known. However, you
observe a luminous, bright world in this pitch darkness.
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. For instance, look at the book you read, your
hands with which you hold it, then lift your head and look around
you. 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. This is a three-dimensional, colored, and extremely
sharp image. For more than 100 years, thousands of engineers have
been trying to achieve this sharpness. Factories, huge premises were
established, much research has been done, plans and designs have been
made for this purpose. Again, look at a TV screen and the book you
hold in your hands. You will see that there is a big difference in
sharpness and distinction. Moreover, the TV screen shows you a two-dimensional
image, whereas with your eyes, you watch a three-dimensional perspective
having depth.
For many years, ten of thousands of
engineers have tried to make a three-dimensional TV, and reach the
vision quality of the eye. Yes, they have made a three-dimensional
television system but it is not possible to watch it without putting
on glasses; moreover, it is only an artificial three-dimension. The
background is more blurred, the foreground appears like a paper setting.
Never has it been possible to produce a sharp and distinct vision
like that of the eye. In both the camera and the television, there
is a loss of image quality.
Evolutionists claim that the mechanism
producing this sharp and distinct image has been formed by chance.
Now, if somebody told you that the television in your room was formed
as a result of chance, that all its atoms just happened to come together
and make up this device that produces an image, what would you think?
How can atoms do what thousands of people cannot?
If a device producing a more primitive
image than the eye could not have been formed by chance, then it is
very evident that the eye and the image seen by the eye could not
have been formed by chance. The same situation applies to the ear.
The outer ear picks up the available sounds by the auricle and directs
them to the middle ear; the middle ear transmits the sound vibrations
by intensifying them; the inner ear sends these vibrations to the
brain by translating them into electric signals. Just as with the
eye, the act of hearing finalizes in the center of hearing in the
brain.
The situation in the eye is also true
for the ear. That is, the brain is insulated from sound just like
it is from light: it does not let any sound in. Therefore, no matter
how noisy is the outside, the inside of the brain is completely silent.
Nevertheless, the sharpest sounds are perceived in the brain. In your
brain, which is insulated from sound, you listen to the symphonies
of an orchestra, and hear all the noises in a crowded place. However,
if the sound level in your brain was measured by a precise device
at that moment, it would be seen that a complete silence is prevailing
there.
As is the case with imagery, decades
of effort have been spent in trying to generate and reproduce sound
that is faithful to the original. The results of these efforts are
sound recorders, high-fidelity systems, and systems for sensing sound.
Despite all this technology and the thousands of engineers and experts
who have been working on this endeavor, no sound has yet been obtained
that has the same sharpness and clarity as the sound perceived by
the ear. Think of the highest-quality HI-FI systems produced by the
biggest company in the music industry. Even in these devices, when
sound is recorded some of it is lost; or when you turn on a HI-FI
you always hear a hissing sound before the music starts. However,
the sounds that are the products of the technology of the human body
are extremely sharp and clear. A human ear never perceives a sound
accompanied by a hissing sound or with atmospherics as does HI-FI;
it perceives sound exactly as it is, sharp and clear. This is the
way it has been since the creation of man.
So far, no visual or recording apparatus
produced by man has been as sensitive and successful in perceiving
sensory data as are the eye and the ear.
However, as far as seeing and hearing
are concerned, a far greater fact lies beyond all this.
To
Whom Does the Consciousness that Sees and Hears Within the Brain Belong?
Who is it that watches
an alluring world in its brain, listens to symphonies and the twittering
of birds, and smells the rose?
The stimulations coming
from the eyes, ears, and nose of a human being travel to the brain as
electro-chemical nervous impulses. In biology, physiology, and biochemistry
books, you can find many details about how this image forms in the brain.
However, you will never come across the most important fact about this
subject: Who is it that perceives these electro-chemical nervous impulses
as images, sounds, odors and sensory events in the brain? There is a
consciousness in the brain that perceives all this without feeling any
need for eye, ear, and nose. To whom does this consciousness belong?
There is no doubt that this consciousness does not belong to the nerves,
the fat layer and neurons comprising the brain. This is why Darwinist-materialists,
who believe that everything is comprised of matter, cannot give any
answer to these questions.
For this consciousness is
the spirit created by God. The spirit needs neither the eye to watch
the images, nor the ear to hear the sounds. Furthermore, nor does it
need the brain to think.
Everyone who reads this
explicit and scientific fact should ponder on Almighty God, should fear
Him and seek refuge in Him, He Who squeezes the entire universe in a
pitch-dark place of a few cubic centimeters in a three-dimensional,
colored, shadowy, and luminous form.
A
Materialist Faith
The information we have
presented so far shows us that the theory of evolution is a claim evidently
at variance with scientific findings. The theory's claim on the origin
of life is inconsistent with science, the evolutionary mechanisms it
proposes have no evolutionary power, and fossils demonstrate that the
intermediate forms required by the theory never existed. So, it certainly
follows that the theory of evolution should be pushed aside as an unscientific
idea. This is how many ideas such as the earth-centered universe model
have been taken out of the agenda of science throughout history.
However, the theory of
evolution is pressingly kept on the agenda of science. Some people even
try to represent criticisms directed against the theory as an "attack
on science." Why?
The reason is that the theory
of evolution is an indispensable dogmatic belief for some circles. These
circles are blindly devoted to materialist philosophy and adopt Darwinism
because it is the only materialist explanation that can be put forward
for the workings of nature.
Interestingly enough, they
also confess this fact from time to time. A well known geneticist and
an outspoken evolutionist, Richard C. Lewontin from Harvard University,
confesses that he is "first and foremost a materialist and then a scientist":
It is not that the
methods and institutions of science somehow compel us accept a material
explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, 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,
no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated.
Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine
Foot in the door.166
These are explicit statements
that Darwinism is a dogma kept alive just for the sake of adherence
to the materialist philosophy. This dogma maintains that there is no
being save matter. Therefore, it argues that inanimate, unconscious
matter created life. It insists that millions of different living species;
for instance, birds, fish, giraffes, tigers, insects, trees, flowers,
whales and human beings originated as a result of the interactions between
matter such as the pouring rain, the lightning flash, etc., out of inanimate
matter. This is a precept contrary both to reason and science. Yet Darwinists
continue to defend it just so as "not to allow a Divine Foot in the
door."
Anyone who does not look
at the origin of living beings with a materialist prejudice will see
this evident truth: All living beings are works of a Creator, Who is
All-Powerful, All-Wise and All-Knowing. This Creator is God, Who created
the whole universe from non-existence, designed it in the most perfect
form, and fashioned all living beings.
They said 'Glory be
to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us. You are
the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.' (KORAN, 2:32)
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