Anyone free of prejudice and the influence of any particular ideology, who uses only his or her reason and logic, will clearly understand that belief in the theory of evolution, which brings to mind the superstitions of societies with no knowledge of science or civilization, is quite impossible.
As explained above, those who believe in the theory of evolution think that a few atoms and molecules thrown into a huge vat could produce thinking, reasoning professors and university students; such scientists as Einstein and Galileo; such artists as Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Luciano Pavarotti; as well as antelopes, lemon trees, and carnations. Moreover, as the scientists and professors who believe in this nonsense are educated people, it is quite justifiable to speak of this theory as “the most potent spell in history.” Never before has any other belief or idea so taken away peoples’ powers of reason, refused to allow them to think intelligently and logically, and hidden the truth from them as if they had been blindfolded. This is an even worse and unbelievable blindness than the totem worship in some parts of Africa, the people of Saba worshipping the Sun, the tribe of the Prophet Abraham (pbuh) worshipping idols they had made with their own hands, or some among the people of the Prophet Moses (pbuh) worshipping the Golden Calf.
In fact, Allah has pointed to this lack of reason in the Qur’an. In many verses, He reveals that some peoples’ minds will be closed and that they will be powerless to see the truth. Some of these verses are as follows:
As for those who do not believe, it makes no difference to them whether you warn them or do not warn them, they will not believe. Allah has sealed up their hearts and hearing and over their eyes is a blindfold. They will have a terrible punishment. (Surat al-Baqara: 6-7)
… They have hearts with which they do not understand. They have eyes with which they do not see. They have ears with which they do not hear. Such people are like cattle. No, they are even further astray! They are the unaware. (Surat al-A’raf: 179)
Even if We opened up to them a door into heaven, and they spent the day ascending through it, they would only say: “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, keep people from the truth, and not be broken for 150 years. It is understandable that one or a few people might believe in impossible scenarios and claims full of stupidity and illogicality. However, “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, discipline, reason, and consciousness; a planet named Earth with all of its features so perfectly suited to life; and living things full of countless complex systems.
In fact, in the Qur’an Allah relates the incident of the Prophet Moses (pbuh) and Pharaoh to show that some people who support atheistic philosophies actually influence others by magic. When Pharaoh was told about the true religion, he told the Prophet Moses (pbuh) to meet with his own magicians. When the Prophet Moses (pbuh) did so, he told them to demonstrate their abilities first. The verses continue:
He said: “You throw.” And when they threw, they cast a spell on the people’s eyes and caused them to feel great fear of them. They produced an extremely powerful magic. (Surat al-A’raf: 116)
As we have seen, Pharaoh’s magicians were able to deceive everyone, apart from the Prophet Moses (pbuh) and those who believed in him. However, his evidence broke the spell, or “swallowed up what they had forged,” as revealed in the verse:
We revealed to Moses: “Throw down your staff.” And it immediately swallowed up what they had forged. So the Truth took place and what they did was shown to be false. (Surat al-A’raf: 117-118)
As we can see, when people realized that a spell had been cast upon them and that what they saw was just an illusion, Pharaoh’s magicians lost all credibility. In the present day too, 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 their superstitious beliefs, they also will be humiliated when the full truth emerges and the spell is broken. In fact, world-renowned British writer and philosopher Malcolm Muggeridge, who was an atheist defending evolution for some 60 years, but who subsequently realized the truth, reveals the position in which the theory of evolution would find itself in the near future in these terms:
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it’s been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books in the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has.189
That future is not far off: On the contrary, people will soon see that “chance” is not a deity, and will look back on the theory of evolution as the worst deceit and the most terrible spell in the world. That spell is already rapidly beginning to be lifted from the shoulders of people all over the world. Many people who see its true face are wondering with amazement how they could ever have been taken in by it.
They said ‘Glory be to You! We have no knowledge except what You have taught us. You are the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.’ (Surat al-Baqara: 32)
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137 Ibid., P.167
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153 Ibid., P. 299
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156 Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln, Messianic Legacy, London: Corgi Books, 1991, P. 184
157 In 1912, 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, England. Even Though The Jawbone Was More Ape-Like, The Teeth And The Skull Were Like A Man’s. These Specimens Were Labeled The “Piltdown Man”. Alleged To Be 500,000 Years Old, They Were Displayed As An Absolute Proof Of Human Evolution In Several Museums. For More Than 40 Years, Many Scientific Articles Were Written On “Piltdown Man”, Many Interpretations And Drawings Were Made, And The Fossil Was Presented As Important Evidence For Human Evolution. No Fewer Than 500 Doctoral Theses Were Written On The Subject. While Visiting The British Museum In 1921, 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 Transcendent Importance To The Prehistory Of Man. In 1949, Kenneth Oakley From The British Museum’s Paleontology Department, Attempted To Use “Fluorine Testing”, A New Test Used For Determining The Date Of Fossils. A Trial Was Made On The Fossil Of The Piltdown Man. The Result Was Astonishing. During The Test, It Was Realized That The Jawbone Of Piltdown Man Did Not Contain Any Fluorine. This Indicated That It Had Remained Buried No More Than A Few Years. The Skull, Which Contained Only A Small Amount Of Fluorine, Showed That It Was Not Older Than A Few Thousand Years Old. It Was Determined That The Teeth In The Jawbone Belonging To An Orangutan, Had Been Worn Down Artificially And That The “Primitive” Tools Discovered With The Fossils Were Simple Imitations That Had Been Sharpened With Steel Implements. In The Detailed Analysis Completed By Joseph Weiner, This Forgery Was Revealed To The Public In 1953. The Skull Belonged To A 500-Year-Old Man, 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, And The Molar Surfaces Were Filed In Order To Resemble Those Of A Man. Then All These Pieces Were Stained With Potassium Dichromate To Give Them An Old Appearance. These Stains Began To Disappear When Dipped In Acid. Sir Wilfred Le Gros Clark, Who Was In The Team That Uncovered The Forgery, Could Not Hide His Astonishment At This Situation And Said: “The Evidences Of Artificial Abrasion Immediately Sprang To The Eye. Indeed So Obvious Did They Seem It May Well Be Asked-How Was It That They Had Escaped Notice Before?” In The Wake Of All This, “Piltdown Man” Was Hurriedly Removed From The British Museum Where It Had Been Displayed For More Than 40 Years. Theillard De Chardin Was One Of The Three People Behind The Hoax. Until 1980 It Was Believed That Charles Dowson Had Acted Alone. But In That Year Stephen Jay Gould Revealed That De Chardin Was Also Behind It. Chardin Had Had A Powerful Impact On Such Evolutionists As Theodosius Dobzhansky, George Gaylord Simpson And Sir Julian Huxley. His Books Had Been Banned By The Catholic Church Of The Time. Theilhard De Chardin Was Strongly Devoted To Evolution As “A General Condition That All Systems Had To Submit To.”
158 Francisco Ayala, “Nothing In Biology Makes Sense Except In The Light Of Evolution: Theodosius Dobzhansky, 1900-1975”, Journal Of Heredity, (V. 68, No. 3, 1977), P. 3.
159 Theodosius Dobzhansky, Changing Man, Science, Vol 155, 27 January 1967, P. 409
160 Shirley Maclaine, Dancing In The Light, (New York, Bantam, 1983, P. 358
161 Wilbur Bruinsma, “The New Age Movement And Entertainment, James Dotson, “Challenge Of New Age Teachings Faced Early Church, Speaker Asserts”, Cilt XI, No. 5, May 1998 Http://Www.Thebaptistbanner.Com/Archive/9805%20Challenge%20of%20New%20Age.Htm
162 Huxley, J. As Cited In The Best Of Humanism, Ed. Roger E. Greeley. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1988. Pp. 194-5.
163 Julian Huxley, The Coming New Religion Of Humanism, The Humanist, January-February 1962, P. 118
164 Phillip E. Johnson, Darwin On Trial, 2nd Edition, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1993, P. 131
165 John Newport, “The Worldview Crisis And The New Age Movement”, Http://Www.Thebaptistbanner.Com/Archive/9805%20Challenge%20of%20New%20Age.Htm
166 Jeremy Rifkin, Algeny, New York: Viking Press, 1983.
167 Ali Bulaç, Çagdas Kavramlar Ve Düzenler, (Contemporary Concepts And Orders), Iz Publishing, 16nd Edition, İstanbul, 1998, P. 241
168 Ibid.
169. Sidney Fox, Klaus Dose, Molecular Evolution and The Origin of Life, W. H. Freeman and Company, San Francisco, 1972, p. 4.
170. Alexander I. Oparin, Origin of Life, Dover Publications, NewYork, 1936, 1953 (reprint), p. 196.
171. “New Evidence on Evolution of Early Atmosphere and Life,” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol 63, November 1982, 1328-1330.
172. Stanley Miller, Molecular Evolution of Life: Current Status of the Prebiotic Synthesis of Small Molecules, 1986, p. 7.
173. Jeffrey Bada, Earth, February 1998, p. 40.
174. Leslie E. Orgel, “The Origin of Life on Earth,” Scientific American, vol. 271, October 1994, p. 78.
175. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, The Modern Library, New York, p. 127.
176. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition, Harvard University Press, 1964, p. 184.
177. B. G. Ranganathan, Origins?, Pennsylvania: The Banner of Truth Trust, 1988, p. 7.
178. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition, p. 179.
179. Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, p. 172.
180. Derek A. Ager, “The Nature of the Fossil Record,” Proceedings of the British Geological Association, vol 87, 1976, p. 133.
181. Douglas J. Futuyma, Science on Trial, Pantheon Books, New York, 1983, p. 197.
182. Solly Zuckerman, Beyond The Ivory Tower, Toplinger Publications, New York, 1970, 75-14; Charles E. Oxnard, “The Place of Australopithecines in Human Evolution: Grounds for Doubt”, Nature, vol 258, 389.
183. “Could science be brought to an end by scientists’ belief that they have final answers or by society’s reluctance to pay the bills?” Scientific American, December 1992, p. 20.
184. Alan Walker, Science, vol. 207, 7 March 1980, p. 1103; A. J. Kelso, Physical Antropology, 1st ed., J. B. Lipincott Co., New York, 1970, p. 221; M. D. Leakey, Olduvai Gorge, vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1971, p. 272.
185. Jeffrey Kluger, “Not So Extinct After All: The Primitive Homo Erectus May Have Survived Long Enough To Coexist With Modern Humans,” Time, 23 December 1996.
186. S. J. Gould, Natural History, vol. 85, 1976, p. 30.
187. Solly Zuckerman, Beyond The Ivory Tower, p. 19.
188. Richard Lewontin, “The Demon-Haunted World,” The New York Review of Books, January 9, 1997, p. 28.
189. Malcolm Muggeridge, The End of Christendom, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980, p. 43.
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