allāh (god almighty's) art of detail. english

A special chapter is assigned to the collapse of the theory of evolution be-cause this theory constitutes the basis of all anti-spiritual philosophies. SinceDarwinism rejects the fact of creation – and therefore, Allah's existence – overthe last 140 years it has caused many people to abandon their faith or fall intodoubt. It is therefore an imperative service, a very important duty to show every-one that this theory is a deception. Since some readers may find the chance toread only one of our books, we think it appropriate to devote a chapter to sum-marize this subject.

All the author's books explain faith-related issues in light of Qur'anic vers-es, and invite readers to learn Allah's words and to live by them. All the subjectsconcerning Allah's verses are explained so as to leave no doubt or room forquestions in the reader's mind. The books' sincere, plain, and fluent style en-sures that everyone of every age and from every social group can easily under-stand them. Thanks to their effective, lucid narrative, they can be read at one sit-ting. Even those who rigorously reject spirituality are influenced by the factsthese books document and cannot refute the truthfulness of their contents.

This and all the other books by the author can be read individually, or dis-cussed in a group. Readers eager to profit from the books will find discussionvery useful, letting them relate their reflections and experiences to one another.

In addition, it will be a great service to Islam to contribute to the publica-tion and reading of these books, written solely for the pleasure of Allah. The au-thor's books are all extremely convincing. For this reason, to communicate truereligion to others, one of the most effective methods is encouraging them to readthese books.

We hope the reader will look through the reviews of his other books at theback of this book. His rich source material on faith-related issues is very useful,and a pleasure to read.

In these books, unlike some other books, you will not find the author'spersonal views, explanations based on dubious sources, styles that are unob-servant of the respect and reverence due to sacred subjects, nor hopeless, pes-simistic arguments that create doubts in the mind and deviations in the heart.

Now writing under the pen-name of HARUN YAHYA,Adnan Oktar was born in Ankara in 1956. Having complet-ed his primary and secondary education in Ankara, he stud-ied arts at Istanbul's Mimar Sinan University and philosophyat Istanbul University. Since the 1980s, he has publishedmany books on political, scientific, and faith-related issues.Harun Yahya is well-known as the author of important worksdisclosing the imposture of evolutionists, their invalid claims,

and the dark liaisons between Darwinism and such bloody ide-ologies as fascism and communism.

Harun Yahya's works, translated into 57 different languages,constitute a collection for a total of more than 45,000 pages with30,000 illustrations.

His pen-name is a composite of the names Harun (Aaron) andYahya (John), in memory of the two esteemed prophets who foughtagainst their peoples' lack of faith. The Prophet's (may Allah blesshim and grant him peace) seal on his books' covers is symbolic andis linked to their contents. It represents the Qur'an (the Final Scrip-ture) and Prophet Muhammad (may Allah bless him and grant himpeace), last of the prophets. Under the guidance of the Qur'an andthe Sunnah (teachings of the Prophet), the author makes it his pur-

pose to disprove each fundamental tenet of irreligious ideologiesand to have the "last word," so as to completely silence

the objections raised against religion. He uses the sealof the final Prophet (may Allah bless him and grant

him peace), who attained ultimate wisdomand moral perfection, as a sign of his inten-

tion to offer the last word. All of Harun Yahya's works share

one single goal: to convey the Qur'an'smessage, encourage readers to considerbasic faith-related issues such as Allah's

existence and unity and the Hereafter; andto expose irreligious systems' feeble

foundations and perverted ideolo-gies.

Harun Yahya enjoys a wide readership in many countries, from India to Ameri-ca, England to Indonesia, Poland to Bosnia, Spain to Brazil, Malaysia to Italy, Franceto Bulgaria and Russia. Some of his books are available in English, French, German,Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Urdu, Arabic, Albanian, Chinese, Swahili, Hausa, Dhive-hi (spoken in Mauritius), Russian, Serbo-Croat (Bosnian), Polish, Malay, Uygur Turkish,Indonesian, Bengali, Danish and Swedish.

Greatly appreciated all around the world, these works have been instrumental inmany people recovering faith in Allah and gaining deeper insights into their faith. Hisbooks' wisdom and sincerity, together with a distinct style that's easy to understand,directly affect anyone who reads them. Those who seriously consider these books, canno longer advocate atheism or any other perverted ideology or materialistic philoso-phy, since these books are characterized by rapid effectiveness, definite results, and ir-refutability. Even if they continue to do so, it will be only a sentimental insistence,since these books refute such ideologies from their very foundations. All contempora-ry movements of denial are now ideologically defeated, thanks to the books written byHarun Yahya.

This is no doubt a result of the Qur'an's wisdom and lucidity. The author mod-estly intends to serve as a means in humanity's search for Allah's right path. No mate-rial gain is sought in the publication of these works.

Those who encourage others to read these books, to open their minds and heartsand guide them to become more devoted servants of Allah, render an invaluable serv-ice.

Meanwhile, it would only be a waste of time and energy to propagate otherbooks that create confusion in people's minds, lead them into ideological chaos, andthat clearly have no strong and precise effects in removing the doubts in people'shearts, as also verified from previous experience. It is impossible for books devised toemphasize the author's literary power rather than the noble goal of saving people fromloss of faith, to have such a great effect. Those who doubt this can readily see that thesole aim of Harun Yahya's books is to overcome disbelief and to disseminate theQur'an's moral values. The success and impact of this service are manifested in thereaders' conviction.

One point should be kept in mind: The main reason for the continuing cruelty,conflict, and other ordeals endured by the vast majority of people is the ideologicalprevalence of disbelief. This can be ended only with the ideological defeat of disbe-lief and by conveying the wonders of creation and Qur'anic morality so that peoplecan live by it. Considering the state of the world today, leading into a downward spi-ral of violence, corruption and conflict, clearly this service must be provided speedilyand effectively, or it may be too late.

In this effort, the books of Harun Yahya assume a leading role. By the will ofAllah, these books will be a means through which people in the twenty-first centurywill attain the peace, justice, and happiness promised in the Qur'an.

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All translations from the Qur'an are from The Noble Qur'an: a New

Rendering of its Meaning in English by Hajj Abdalhaqq and Aisha

Bewley, published by Bookwork, Norwich, UK. 1420 CE/1999 AH.

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

DNA: A Glorious Marvel of Creation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18

The Atmosphere: A Perfect Protective Shield . . . . . . . . . .20

Enzymes: A Detail That Permits All Vital Functions . . .24

A Fly’s Incredible Compound Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26

Humanity’s Magnificent Perception of Scent . . . . . . . . . .28

The Body’s Flawless Stimuli Signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

The Amazing Hatchet Fish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32

The Water That Always Returns to Us . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34

The Sublime System of Photosynthesis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36

The Honeybees’ Superior Architectural Abilities . . . . . . . .38

Talented Liver Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .40

Genes: An Important Detail in the Cell, Yet Invisible to the Naked Eye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42

The Amphipod: A Detail Living in the Depths of the Oceans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44

Miraculous Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

The Big Bang: One of the Proofs of Creation . . . . . . . . .48

ALLAH'S ART OF DETAIL10

Allah’s Sublime Artistry Prevails in All Things . . . . . . . .50

The Miraculously Renewed Body . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52

The Extraordinary Details in Space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

The Human Brain’s Magnificent Neural Network . . . . . .56

Wings That Beat 500 Times a Second . . . . . . . . . . . . . .58

The Perfect System That Perceives Scent . . . . . . . . . . .60

The Superior Details in Bacteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62

The Beauty in Earth and Sky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64

The Ant’s Glorious Nervous System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66

The Size of the Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68

The Perfect and Astonishing Details in the Human Eye . . .70

The Brain’s Superior Nerve Cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72

The Miraculous Atom: The Building Block of All Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74

The Incredible Seed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .76

The Striking Detail in Living Things Capable of Perceiving Electricity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78

The Pituitary Gland: Regulator of the Human Body . . . . .80

The Perfect Detail That ProtectsIce-Dwelling Polar Bears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82

The Superior Details in a Pair of Eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

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The Superior Detail in Taste Perception Cells . . . . . . . 86

Water: One of His Greatest Blessings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

The Human Brain’s Great Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

The Atom’s Astonishing Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

A Mosquito’s Impressive Heat Receptors . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

The Nutcracker’s Superior Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

The Skin: An Amazing Detail and Blessing . . . . . . . . . . 98

Protein: The Cell’s Most Basic Detail . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

The Kidneys’ Flawless Purification System . . . . . . . . . 102

The Superior Detail That PermitsLife under the Ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

The Body’s Special Cleaning Unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

The Brain’s Impeccable Communication Network . . . . . 110

The Superior Detail in the White Shark’s Eyes . . . . . . 112

The Flawless System In A Single Cell . . . . . . . . . . . 114

The Perfect Detail in Message-Transmitting Cells . . . 116

Snowflakes: An Incomparable Miracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

The Deception of Evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

nyone who carefully considers this

world and the things that enable him to

live for even a few minutes will be completely

astonished. Our planet, which was specially created for life

in one of the giant galaxies in the endless void of space,

constantly revolves within that boundless void. The Sun,

just one of the universe’s billions of stars, sends its rays to

Earth within that same void. As a result, our planet is

warmed; the various food, water, and nitrogen cycles

occur, and human beings, animals, plants, and micro-or-

ganisms are able to survive due to the countless con-

ditions that make their continued life possible.

Countless details have been com-

bined and presented to human

beings in the most beautiful and flawless man-

ner to meet the requirements of human life and/or

to bestow beauty and blessings. Each detail, which has its

own artistry, is a distinct marvel of creation. Sometimes,

these details are so crucial that life would cease without them

and Earth would become a dead planet. Scientists cannot come

anywhere close to creating or imitating most of them, let alone cre-

ate them out of nothing.

Allah (God) bestows blessings on human beings at all times.

For example, people survive thanks to their DNA (which is copied

every moment), their continual and uninterrupted process of

breathing, their always-beating hearts, the ever-revolving Earth,

the atoms’ non-stop motion, and countless other details. Various

kinds of foods, the solar rays that give color to Earth, the plants

that engage in photosynthesis, rain, the micro-organisms that feed

plants, the oceans, and countless other blessings are all means

whereby life survives. Earth’s location, the existence of the Sun

and Moon, their distance from Earth, and their location within the

Milky Way; their sizes, angles, and orbits; and the gasses, molecu-

les, and atoms they contain have all been created in the most ideal

form for humanity’s existence. People must reflect on how they

have been created so flawlessly along with all of the blessings

that ensure their continued survival, and how these things

are all reminders of a most important truth:

It is Almighty Allah Who created all people out of

nothing, Who created all of the beauty that sur-

rounds them and all of the blessings of which

they are aware or unaware. He constantly re-

news each of these blessings and creates the aston-

ishing details in each one. This is Allah’s art of detail.

With His unbounded knowledge, Allah created systems

that human beings cannot comprehend because they have not

yet discovered their details. Inside each detail are even more del-

icate beauties that reveal His Greatness and Might.

This is a very simple matter for Almighty Allah, Who creates

from nothing, sets a value on all things according to His will, and

Who has the power to create them when He wills to do so. If He

willed, he could dispose of them all while still creating. Our du-

ty is to thank Him for these unconditional blessings, know that we

need Him, and turn only to Him.

This book seeks to remind people of this important truth,

which He revealed in the Qur’an:

Everything in the heavens and Earth glorifies Allah. He is

the Almighty, the All-Wise. The kingdom of the heavens and

Earth belongs to Him. He gives life and causes to die. He has

power over all things. He is the First and the Last, the

Outward and the Inward. He has knowledge of all things. It

is He Who created the heavens and Earth in six days, then es-

tablished Himself firmly on the Throne. He knows what

goes into the ground and what comes out of it, what

comes down from heaven and what goes up into it. He

is with you wherever you are–Allah sees what you do.

(Surat al-Hadid, 1-4)

Intelligent Design - in Other Words,

Creation

In Order to Create, Allah Has No Need to Plan

It’s important to properly understand the word “de-

sign.” If Allah has created a flawless design that does not mean

that He first conceived a plan and then followed it. Allah, the Lord

of the Earth and the heavens, needs no “designs” in order to bring

anything into existence. Allah is exalted above all such deficiencies.

Both His planning and His creation take place at the same instant.

Whenever Allah wills a thing to come about, it is enough for

Him just to say, “Be!” As verses of the Qur’an tell us:

His command when He desires a thing is just to say

to it, “Be!” and it is. (Surah Ya Sin: 82)

[Allah is] the Originator of the heav-

ens and Earth. When He decides

on something, He just says to

it, “Be!” and it is. (Surat al-

Baqara: 117)

DNA: A Glorious Marvel of Creation

Each person has an average of 100 trillion cells, each of which

contains a DNA molecule. Just one of these contains information re-

garding 3 billion different subjects, enough information to fill ap-

proximately 1,000 volumes of books, each one containing 1 million

pages. If we were to lay these pages out side by side, they would

stretch from the North Pole to the Equator. If we were to read it 24

hours a day, it would take 100 years to finish it. This glorious infor-

mation belongs to a single DNA molecule,

which exists everywhere in our body,

such as in a single fingernail or a

single hair.

How could such an in-

credible library have been

squeezed into a minute

hair too small to be seen

with the naked eye? How

could it have been packed

into all of the cells that con-

stitute that hair and all of the

other cells that make up our


body? How could so much information, which we could never car-

ry on our own, have been installed in our bodies 100 trillion times?

Could human beings manage to do this themselves? Can any

known technology achieve such an amazing feat? Could this glori-

ous information be present in the cells by chance?

Clearly, random events, human beings, and technology can-

not produce such an astonishing work. This fact has been scientif-

ically proven. This amazing work in our bodies belongs to Allah,

Whose might makes all things according to His will:

We created humanity from a mingled drop to test him, and

We made him hearing and seeing. We guided him on the

Way, whether he is thankful or unthankful. (Surat al-

Insan, 2-3)

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ADNAN OKTAR


The Atmosphere:

A Perfect Protective Shield

In order for a living thing to

survive on this planet, countless

details must exist: Earth being lo-

cated a specific distance from the

Sun; a specific temperature range;

the carbon, ozone, and water cy-

cles; the minerals produced by mi-

cro-organisms; photosynthesis;

Earth’s particular angle of inclina-

tion; gravity and other forces that

The atmosphere, whichsurrounds our planet and

contains many differentbalances, is one of themain reasons why lifesurvives on Earth. Theatmosphere permits lightand heat to reach Earthat levels specially deter-mined for life. This per-fect structure is a mani-festation of Allah’s sub-lime artistry.

The exosphere

Earth’s waters andland reflect back 4%of the Sun’s rays.

The clouds reflectback 24% of theSun’s rays.

The atmosphere re-flects back 7% of theSun’s rays.

The ozone layer absorbs ultravi-olet rays from the Sun.

The troposphere

The stratosphere

The mesosphere

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HARUN YAHYA 21

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keep atomic particles together; and

many, many more. This world has

been created in such a way that all

of these conditions are maintained.

If the atmosphere that surrounds

this miraculous planet and main-

tains all of these balances were re-

moved, life would end.

A specific range of tempera-

ture and light permits human be-

ings to live on Earth. The flaming

heat and freezing cold in space, and

its deadly rays, only reach us

through the filter-like atmosphere

at levels sufficient to keep us alive.

A single solar burst gives off a level

of energy equivalent to a 100-bil-

lion-ton bomb of the kind that de-

stroyed Hiroshima. Thanks to the

atmosphere, this destructive force

reaches Earth in the most ideal

form. Were a slightly higher level of

infrared and ultraviolet, gamma,

and micro rays allowed through, all

living things would cease to exist.

The atmos-phere ab-sorbs 14% ofthe Sun’srays.

The atmosphere re-emits part of the ab-sorbed heat.

Earth absorbs 51% of the Sun’s rays.

Clouds re-emit part of the absorbed heat.

Solar ra-diationfrom

space

This shield has protected Earth for billions of years from these

rays’ deadly effects. If the atmosphere were to stop functioning,

could another protective shield be established to replace it? Is there

any other method of protecting human beings from potentially le-

thal rays and blazing heat? The answers to both questions is “no,”

for no human power or technology could devise such a flawless

system. This being the case, how could anyone logically expect

a new atmosphere to come into being by chance?

Nobody whose powers of reason are fully func-

tional and who has a conscience could even ad-

mit the possibility of this flawless work com-

ing into being by chance. There would also

be no time for such a waiting period,

since life would come to an end in the

very first moment. In other words,

our planet’s atmosphere is part of

Almighty and All-Powerful Allah’s

magnificent artistry, He Who re-

veals His greatness at all times and

in all events:

We placed firmly embedded

mountains on Earth so it

would not move under

them, and put broad val-

leys as roadways in it so

that, perhaps, they might

be guided. We made the

sky a preserved and pro-

tected roof, yet still they

turn away from Our Signs.

(Surat al-Anbiya’, 31-32)


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Enzymes:

A Detail That Permits All Vital Functions

It takes just a few seconds to read a sentence. Yet if one of the

body’s enzymes failed to work, it would take 1,500 years to read

that same sentence. Enzymes activate cells and initiate and acceler-

ate reactions up to 1010 (10 billion) times. In their absence, those

cells that are waiting to go into action and perform many other re-

actions that keep you alive, even though they are unaware of each

other and motionless, would start to die one by one before you

even finished reading this sentence. As a result, you would die be-

fore you reached the end of this sentence.

Enzymes carry out all of a cell’s reactions. If they stopped

working, it would be very difficult to restart them in a simultane-

ous and rapid manner. Despite today’s advanced medical science

and impressive technology, scientists have failed to produce a com-

parable system. Evolutionists claim that such a magnificent mech-

anism came about by chance. But despite all of their knowledge

and resources, scientists can neither

copy this system nor produce a com-

parable one. In fact, they have been

unable to manufacture a single

model that can perform reactions

as quickly as enzymes. This shows

that it is impossible for all of these

miraculous proteins, which initi-

ate and accelerate the body’s

chemical reactions and perform

vital functions (e.g., reproduc-

tion, control, and copying) to


have come into being spontaneously as the result of unconscious

events.

Therefore, one needs to reflect on the fact that Allah, Lord of

the universe and all of its details, creates each person and his or her

body’s enzymes:

Do you not see that Allah has subjected to you everything in

the heavens and Earth and has showered His blessings upon

you, both outwardly and inwardly? Yet there are people who

argue about Allah without knowledge or guidance or any il-

luminating Book. (Surah Luqman, 20)

HARUN YAHYA 25

Enzymes,one of the

reasonswhy life con-

tinues, are aperfect detail andan astonishingmarvel of creation.

Enzymes accelerate reactions inside thecell by 10 billion times. Everything youdo depends on these activities.

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A Fly’s Incredible Compound Eyes

The fly is a marvel of creation; its wings beat 500 times per sec-

ond and, as a result, it has a glorious flying ability. Even more

amazing are its eyes, each one of which has thousands of ex-

traordinarily complex lenses. A fly has compound eyes on

both sides of its head, each of which is divided into 4,000 sec-

tions, each of which, in turn, has a lens that perceives an image

from a slightly different angle. When a fly looks at a flower, the full

image appears separately in each of its 8,000 lenses. When these

images reach the brain, they combine together like the components

of a jigsaw puzzle. As a result, an image that is highly significant

for the fly emerges.1

It is extraordinary that such a small creature should have

thousands of lenses in its eyes and a cerebral system capable of in-

terpreting what it sees. We can only acquire this information by


The fly, which has wings that beat 500times per second and magnificent com-pound eyes consisting of 8,000 separate

lenses, is a flawless marvel of creationdisplayed and created by Allah.

studying the animal. Yet all flies have had this perfect structure

since they were first created, for, like all the other living things,

they are miracles created by Allah, matchless marvels of creation

that amaze one the more one researches and studies them.

Scientists lack the knowledge and technology to install 8,000

lenses into an area just a few millimeters in size and to enable each

one to see. None of them can produce a nervous system

that will permit these lenses to perceive light and then

make that perception visible in such a perfect way.

Given these facts, could such a flawless structure have

emerged by chance?

The answer is “of course not,” for chance cannot give rise

to even one of a fly’s 8,000 lenses or even a single protein of

these lenses’ countless cells. Only Almighty Allah, Who

sees and observes all entities at all times, creates all be-

ings with their perfect details, equips a tiny fly with

such miraculous abilities, and bestows reason and

conscience on human beings so that they can com-

prehend and reflect on these matters, can create in

such a manner:

O humanity, an example has been made, so listen

to it carefully. Those whom you call upon besides

Allah are not even able to create a single fly, even if

they were to join together to do it. And if a fly steals some-

thing from them, they cannot get it back. How feeble are

both the seeker and the sought! (Surat al-Hajj, 73)

HARUN YAHYA 27

1. Kathy Wollard, How Come? Planet Earth (New York: Workman

Publishing, 1999), 116.

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Humanity’s Magnificent Perception of Scent

A carnation always smells the same to you. The second

time you smell a perfume, you recognize it immediately,

because even if you only smell something once in your

life, that smell always retains its place in your memory.

The human nose has around 1,000 different scent recep-

tors. Human beings can perceive more than 10,000 different

smells through combinations of these different receptors.

When you smell a carnation, the molecules that allow you to

perceive its fragrance combine with scent receptors and es-

tablish the carnation’s code. This code, which has long exist-

ed in your memory, reminds you that you are smelling a car-

nation.

What would happen if this system did not exist? Since

the perception of taste is closely linked to the sense of smell,

it is generally smell that causes you to realize that

a piece of food has spoiled and should be

spat out. If this sense ceased function-


ing, you would be unable to perceive the item’s full taste

and thus would be unaware of this danger. You would not

realize a fire had broken out in your home until you saw the

smoke, for you would be unable to perceive the smell of

burning things all around you.

The information stored in your memory consists

solely of molecules. Nobody has the power and knowledge

needed to install thousands of smells in your memory or to

endow molecules with smells and make them compatible

with the relevant parts of the brain. Only Allah, the Lord of

all life, can do all of this; only He can create smells, the olfac-

tory system, and the memory with its perfect characteristics:

He laid out Earth for all living creatures. In it are fruits

and date-palms with covered spathes, and grains on

leafy stems and fragrant herbs. So which of your Lord’s

blessings do you both then deny? (Surat al-Rahman,

10-13)

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The Body’s Flawless Stimuli Signals

People’s skin is in constant contact with many things for var-

ying lengths of time (e.g., clothing, watches, and furniture), and yet

they do not constantly perceive their presence. There is a very im-

portant reason for this: after a certain length of time, the skin’s re-

ceptors grow used to whatever is touching the skin and stop send-

ing the relevant signals to the brain. This marvelous system, com-

prised of countless flawless details, enables people to live without

constant discomfort.

Were it not for this familiarization system, even such an ordi-

nary matter as wearing clothes would become a major concern.

The receptors’ constant perception would turn wearing clothes in-

to a torment, and we would find it hard to perceive the signals

from other things that we touched. People might concentrate for-

ever on how much their socks were squeezing their ankles or on

how their wristwatches were sliding up and down their arms. In


such a situation, one could neither sleep nor rest properly. In short,

life would become very unpleasant.

Just as the sense of touch is a blessing, our gradually decreas-

ing awareness of it is also a blessing. A single detail makes human

life easier and provides a significant degree of comfort.

Evolutionists’ imaginary mechanisms have no consciousness that

can direct the body to feel or when to get used to that feeling. Only

the Sufficient, Almighty Allah, Who bestows this blessing and

meets the needs of everything that exists, can do so:

Any blessing you have is from Allah. Then

when harm touches you, it is to Him you

cry for help. (Surat al-Nahl, 53)

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Eventually, the skin’s receptors stopsending signals to the brain aboutthe material touching the skin. Thus,we do not constantly feel the pres-ence of items that are in constantcontact with our skin. This is a greatblessing created by Allah.

The Amazing Hatchet Fish

The hatchet fish, a great marvel of creation, lives at depths of

around 1,000 m (3,280 ft). Its large eyes, which face upwards, ena-

ble it to see in the dark and hunt their prey, which passes overhead.

However, these creatures also have to be invisible to threats that

might arise from above. Their superior bodily structure, which is

flat and silver colored, protects them from this danger by allowing

them to camouflage themselves easily in the dark.

But how are they protected against potential threats coming

from below, for those fish living at even greater depths are, thanks

to their own large eyes, just as predatory. This problem is solved by

a superb method of deception, thanks to special cells located in its

stomach: photophores. These extraordinary cells, which produce a

biological light by combining two chemical substances to initiate

the necessary reaction, imitate the changing color of the light filter-

ing down from above and emit light of exactly the same color. As a

result, predators below cannot see the hatchet fish’s shadow as it

passes over them.

You may never have heard of this fish or what it looks like or

how it lives. So how does knowledge of its magnificent features

benefit you? Had Allah so willed, He could have created this fish

without all of its attributes or willed to not create any of the count-

less attributes necessary for its survival.

The details that His creatures display for human beings may

transform them from discontented and restless individuals chasing

after worldly interests into happy and contented people with faith

and hope in the Hereafter. It is enough to see His blessings in ev-

erything and to consider His absolute existence for this to happen.

Every beauty and detail belong to Allah, Who constantly bestows

them upon us:


And in your creation and all the creatures He has spread

about, there are Signs for people with certainty. (Surat al-

Jathiyyah, 4)

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With its large, upward-facing eyes, the hatchet fish is always aware of dan-gers above it. But it also needs to be prepared for threats from beneath. Thephosphorus cells in its stomach area, which produce light, imitate the colorof the light coming from above. As a result, it is undetectable to the predatorsbelow it.

The Water That Always Returns to Us

Allah gives people knowledge and possibilities in a

wide range of fields. For example, modern-day technology

allows us to observe the formation of many things in a lab-

oratory environment. However, some fundamental events

can neither be brought about nor even observed in such an

environment. One of these great blessings is water, which

covers much of Earth and meets our most basic needs.

During the Earth’s formation, water was created, and

then its production period ended.

In order for hydrogen and oxygen molecules to cre-

ate water, they first have to collide so that their bonds will

weaken and enable the atoms that make up these molecu-

les to combine into a new molecule: H2O (water). Such a

collision can only occur at a very high temperature and

energy level. As Earth does

not possess a sufficiently high

temperature to permit water’s

formation, no new water can

be formed. As stated above, all

water that exists was created

during our planet’s formation.

In other words, its amount

never changes. The water we

drink and use is always exact-

ly the same water, because it

evaporates and then returns as

rain. Allah has revealed this in

His verses:


Have you thought about the water that

you drink? Is it you who sent it

down from the clouds, or are We the

Sender? (Surat al-Waqi‘ah, 68-69)

If the water that Allah created in a ready

state on Earth were to dry up and disappear,

nothing could bring it back. If Allah willed

to suspend the water cycle of evaporation,

it would never rain again: All blessings

come from Allah. It is Almighty Allah

Who constantly places blessings at hu-

man beings’ disposal and Who creates

them out of nothing.

We sent down a measured amount of

water from heaven and lodged it firm-

ly in the ground, and We are well able to

remove it. (Surat al-Mu’minun, 18)

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Hydrogen and oxygen atoms have to collide inorder to form water, one of our most vitalneeds. Earth lacks the levels of heat and ener-gy to permit this collision to take place. Watercame into being during our planet’s formation,and that same water is constantly returning to usin a purified form.

The Sublime System of Photosynthesis

Pick up a leaf and look at it closely. Although it appears quite

ordinary, what you cannot see are the wide-ranging and magnifi-

cent chemical processes that enable it to carry out photosynthesis. Its

countless factories, which are invisible to the naked eye, accom-

plish in seconds a process that is so sublime that scientists

equipped with the most modern laboratory facilities cannot repli-

cate it. This chemical process, which is performed very quietly by

a usually unnoticed part of creation, is one of the main reasons

why humanity is still present on this planet.

Every square millimeter of each leaf contains around 500,000

chlorophylls, the magnificent molecules that are necessary for pho-

tosynthesis. Were we able to examine this molecule, a great many

more details would become apparent. For example, the entire pho-

tosynthesis process that takes place inside this particular molecule

occurs within one ten-millionth of a second. In other words, the

complex process initiated by the light reaching a leaf’s water and

then activating the relevant subatomic particles and changing their

orbits is repeated 10 million times a second. In addition, this proc-

ess takes place separately in each chlorophyll molecule.

If Allah willed chlorophyll molecules to cease their activities

or the wavelength of the light reaching the leaf to change, no

means of locating another source of oxygen would exist. If photo-

synthesis stopped, there would be no other way to convert into ox-

ygen the carbon dioxide that human beings and animals exhale. It

would be illogical to expect a chlorophyll molecule, which is essen-

tial for continued life, to

come into being and set about

cleaning the air and giving rise to nutrients all by itself.

The fact that a plant can consume carbon dioxide and

release oxygen is a great miracle. This extraordinary system

is a great blessing and astonishing work of Allah, the Lord of

the Worlds:

Good land yields up its plants by its Lord’s permission, but

that which is bad only yields up scantily. In this way, We

vary the Signs for people who are thankful. (Surat al-A‘raf,

58)

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Each leaf makes photosynthesis as the result of impressiveand wide-ranging processes. Allah has equipped every

square millimeter of a leaf with 500,000 chlorophyll molecu-les. By Allah’s leave, this special process, which has still

not been capable of being performed inthe laboratory, is carried out in a

flawless manner in every milli-meter of the leaf.

The Honeybees’ Superior Architectural Abilities

When it comes to making contiguous hexagons with an exact

angle of 109 degrees and 28 minutes, one would need compasses

and set squares to produce the various angular measurements and

regularity necessary for devising the angles that determine these

shapes. In the absence of such tools, there is both a considerable

likelihood of error as well as the need to make various adjustments

and redraw some of the hexagons. All of this would probably take

a considerable amount of time. While this is a difficult matter for

human beings, who possess reason and consciousness the same

task is carried out by honeybees, who possess no reason or con-

sciousness, in a perfect and continuous manner without any com-

passes or set squares. All honeybees build their combs using this

flawless angle. Although there are hundreds of bees around the

hive, there is no deviation from the angles of 109 degrees and 28

minutes and 70 degrees and 32 minutes when building their hon-

eycombs. The combs are built by bringing in their edges by 13 de-

grees, which prevents the honey from pouring out.

If you stand close to a honeycomb, all you will see is honey-

bees flying around it. Yet every one of them is also an expert math-

ematician that knows where to stick the wax it is carrying and at

what angle. How is this possible? Given that they possess no math-

ematical knowledge, did they learn to build these perfect combs

by chance? Could each one of them, over the course of mil-

lions of years, have been born with this ability by

chance, an ability that human beings never

managed to acquire by chance? It is

certainly impossible for a bee

to possess an ability that hu-

man beings do not as the re-


sult of chance. It is Almighty Allah, the infinitely

powerful, Who creates these creatures together

with their superior abilities and Who inspires His

own knowledge within them.

Your Lord revealed to the honeybees: “Build

dwellings in the mountains and the trees,

and also in the structures which men erect.

Then eat from every kind of fruit and travel

the paths of your Lord, which have been

made easy for you to follow.” From inside

them comes a drink of varying colors, con-

taining healing for humanity. There is cer-

tainly a Sign in that for people who reflect.

(Surat al-Nahl, 68-69)

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Every comb is prepared by many honeybees workingtogether, and is constructed from the floor upwards.The square floor (1) comes first and is followed by twotouching walls (2). A second square is added to thebase (3), thereby forming two more combs (4). Thethird square section (5) and two more walls completethe hexagon (6). These combs are suspended vertical-ly, and the combs on either side are separated by awall down the middle. The workers knead andsoften more wax and install this in variousthicknesses, not exceeding 0.02 mm(0.00078 in), in the walls. Suchperfection manifests ourLord’s art of detail.

Talented Liver Cells

Each liver cell carries out some 500 different

chemical processes. Somehow, they are aware

of each activity taking place in the body’s

circulatory, digestive, excretory, and

other systems. Due to these tasks that

they perform, each cell is the site of

intense and continuous activity.

If any part of the liver is dam-

aged or extracted, its cells immedi-

ately switch to a new function—high-

speed multiplication—to repair the affected

part. As a result of the cells’ extraordinary

abilities, the liver is the only bodily organ

that can reconstitute itself. When the liver

regains its normal size and is fixed, the cells

suddenly cease this activity.

There is no difference between liver cells

and those in your finger tips, for both sets car-

ry exactly the same information. What makes

them different is what part of that information

they use. A single cell, invisible to the naked

eye, knows that the reproduction process has to

begin and so begins copying itself. When it

learns that the regeneration process has been

completed, it and all other cells stop this activi-

ty in a perfectly orderly manner that betrays no

haphazardness. During reproduction, no cell

decides to postpone the other functions and

thereby cause interruptions in the system. No new


copied cell is told what to do.

Nonetheless, every new cell unhesi-

tatingly begins its work inside the

liver.

This wide-ranging system does

not belong to human beings. Evolutionists, however, must first ac-

count for how a single liver cell came into existence if they are to

defend their claims that this complex system is the result of chance.

That they have been unable to do so is hardly surprising, for only

the Omniscient Allah Who creates all living things and their cells,

and Who controls and supervises them at every moment, can per-

form such a miracle. This miraculous system is the work of

Almighty Allah, Who remains unchanging, Omniscient, and All-

powerful:

O humanity, if you are in any doubt about the Rising, know

that We created you from dust then from a drop of sperm,

then from a clot of blood, then from a lump of flesh, formed

yet unformed, so that We may make things clear to you.

(Surat al-Hajj, 5)

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Liver cells perform 500 differentprocesses. When part of the liver isdamaged, the cells’ new job is, asAllah wills, to multiply.

Genes: An Important Detail in the Cell,

Yet Invisible to the Naked Eye

Human beings cannot control the beating of their hearts, man-

age their salivary glands while eating, or remember to breathe every

few seconds. Countless such vital functions take place without any

human intervention at all. Yet despite this lack of

personal supervision, all bodily systems func-

tion flawlessly.

An individual’s chromosomes contain infor-

mation regarding that person. Each of the forty-six

chromosomes in the nucleus possesses genes that, util-

izing the framework of the blueprint contained therein, con-

struct each bodily organ according to His will. For example,

a person’s skin is controlled by 2.559 genes, the brain by

29.930, the eye by 1.794, the salivary glands by 186, the heart

by 6.216, the breast by 4.001, the lung by 11.581, the liver by

2.309, the intestines by 3.838, the skeletal muscles by 1.911, and

the blood cells by 22.092 genes.

The way that countless tiny components hidden inside a cell

that is invisible to the naked eye supervises a person’s bodily sys-

tems is a great miracle. It is extraordinary that this system is nev-

er interrupted and that the same genes control the same sys-

tems and organs in every new-born human being.

Despite the vital functions for which they are re-

sponsible, genes consist of nothing but blind and

unconscious atoms. Therefore, how can the

superior consciousness and flawless

regulation visible here belong to

them? Each gene, which is an


amazing marvel of creation, acts according to His will in-

stead of some posited model. Proof for this statement is all

around us, for how could an unconscious gene accomplish such

miraculous deeds if Allah did not will it to be so? This state of affairs

makes itself crystal clear in every detail in the universe. Everything

is a manifestation of Allah’s sublime creation. Genes are able to con-

trol everything related to the body’s systems at every moment.

This sublime control belongs to Allah, the Elevated One, the

true Lord of this entire system:

Allah, there is no deity but Him, the Living, the Self-

Sustaining. He is not subject to drowsiness or sleep.

Everything in the heavens and Earth belongs to Him. Who

can intercede with Him except by His permission? He

knows what is before them and what is behind them, but

they cannot grasp any of His knowledge, except for what He

wills. His Footstool encompasses the heavens and Earth, and

their preservation does not tire

Him. He is the Most High,

the Magnificent. (Surat

al-Baqarah, 255)

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Each chromosome in a cell’s nu-cleus possesses genes that carry

all of an individual’s personal infor-mation. By His will, all of a person’s

bodily organs are constructed withinthe framework of a blueprint described

by the cell’s genes. These miracles,invisible to the naked eye, are

just one of the flawless detailsthat Allah has created in hu-

man beings.

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The Amphipod:

A Detail Living in the Depths of the Oceans

Human beings cannot breathe oxygen dissolved in water or

withstand the pressure under water, which is some 1,300 times

heavier than air. Moreover, this pressure rises rapidly the further

down one goes, approximately 1 atmosphere for every 10 m (32.8

ft) of depth. When one descends to 150 m (492 ft) under water, the

veins may collapse and the lungs contract to the size of a soda can.

Thus, in the absence of man-made technology, human beings can

live only on dry land.

Human beings are exceedingly vulnerable to water pressure.

However, there are other life forms on Earth that, thanks to their

special equipment, possess qualities that are far superior to those

of human beings.

For example, the Mariana Trench, the Pacific Ocean’s deepest

point, is home to colonies of amphipods, which are shrimp-like

transparent crustaceans. This area lies some 11.3 km (7 miles) be-

low the ocean’s surface. Even the intense pressure at 4 km (2.5

miles), the average ocean depth, is equivalent to that applied by

the weight of fourteen cement trucks loaded with concrete.1 This

creature, about which almost nothing is known to us, can survive

under even harsher conditions. The animal itself is unaware that it

lives many kilometers below the surface of the ocean and can sur-

vive under a pressure that would kill a human being. The way that

it remains alive at depths we cannot reach is one of the proofs that

all living things, whether in the ground, in the depths of the ocean,

or in the highest skies, are created through Allah’s sublime artistry.

A person may see and appreciate His greatness by looking at

such a creature and understanding that only He can create bless-


ings and everything that exists. To that end, it is enough to reflect

on just one feature. People are responsible for seeing the proofs set

out before them and realizing that Allah is the Lord of all that ex-

ists:

(People with intelligence are) those who remember Allah

[while] standing, sitting, and lying on

their sides, and reflect on the crea-

tion of the heavens and Earth: “Our

Lord, You have not created this for

nothing. Glory be to You! Safeguard

us from the punishment of the Fire.”

(Surah Al ‘Imran, 191)

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1. 1. Bill Bryson, A Short History of Just About Everything

(USA: Broadway: 2004), pp. 209-210

Miraculous Molecules

All mountains, water, our own bodies, poisonous and health-

giving plants, furniture, buildings, sweet and sour tastes, pleasant

smells, beautiful colors—in fact, everything that exists—is made

up of various combinations of only 109 atoms. This is one of

Allah’s greatest miracles.

When atoms come together, they give rise to molecules that

enable very different physical characteristics to emerge. A pen,

your hand, and water are all the result of different combinations of

similar atoms. Sometimes an atom is added to a molecule, with the

result that ordinary drinking water can become a poison. One at-

om added to or removed from a molecule can turn something in-

edible into something edible, or turn a harsh and unpleasant smell

into the glorious perfume of a rose. Depending upon how the same

atoms bond to each other, a molecule’s color can change or a fluid

can turn into a solid.

The variety of life on Earth is quite extraordinary. By giving

various properties to molecules, Allah exhibits a most sublime art-

istry. For example, an apple’s sweetness, a stone’s hardness, and

cotton’s softness are all great miracles that He displays in invisible

atoms. Allah created the world out of nothing, made atoms (which

are 99.99999% empty) the basic constituents of all


This book is the result of various combi-nations of atoms similar to those in yourhand. A single atom added to or re-moved from a molecule can make sweetthings bitter, solid things liquid, or inedi-ble things edible.

beings, and exhibits an astonishing artistry in this world that is in-

visible to the naked eye.

People must realize that they need Him at every moment, can-

not do anything unless He wills it, understand His bestowed bless-

ings, and discover that whatever they possess actually belong to

Allah, the Lord of the worlds. If they can reach this point, they will

experience the joy of faith because of the blessings they enjoy in

this world, and will also experience the highest level of these bless-

ings in the Hereafter:

And the Garden will be brought up close to the heedful, not

far away: “This is what you were promised. It is for every

careful penitent: those who fear [and respect] the All-

Merciful in the Unseen and come with a contrite heart. Enter

it in peace. This is the Day of Timeless Eternity.” They will

have there everything they want, and with Us there is still

more. (Surah Qaf, 31-35)

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All mountains, seas, human beings, space, butterflies, and flowers, in shortabsolutely everything that exists, are combinations of just 109 atoms. Allahdisplays His infinite might and creative artistry through all of these combina-tions.

The Big Bang:

One of the Proofs of Creation

It is quite hard to upset the equilibrium between the elements

that are essential to life on Earth. You do not suddenly start breath-

ing carbon monoxide or floating away from your chair into space

due to a decrease in the force of gravity. Sunlight does

not suddenly damage your eyes and skin, and ox-

ygen levels do not rise so high that your lungs

begin to burn. There are many reasons for

this. However, the interesting thing is that all

balances assumed their present forms due to

the Big Bang, defined as the explosion of a

single point of zero volume that contained all

matter in the universe.

Countless conditions combined in order to

maintain this equilibrium. For example, if

the rate of the universe’s post-Big Bang

expansion had been just 1 in 1 bil-

lion billion (1/1018) different,

the universe would not

have emerged. If the

universe had ex-


panded just slightly more slowly, it would have imploded due to

the gravitational force; if it had expanded a little more quickly, all

cosmic matter would have dispersed and vanished. If a 1/1018 dif-

ference in the explosion’s speed had arisen just when that speed

had reached a particular

level, the equilibrium in

question would have been

destroyed. If just one of these

minute variations had arisen, the

universe would have disappeared.

Let’s take a look around us.

Everything is in an extraordinary state of

stasis, calm, and perfection, because nothing in

the universe is coincidental. In fact, everything de-

pends on a flawless and perfect level and the extraordi-

narily delicate balances created and set into motion by

Almighty Allah, Who rules everything, created a flawless artist-

ry and miracle via a single explosion, and is all-giving:

… He Who created the seven heavens in layers. You will not

find any flaw in the creation of the All-Merciful. Look again

– do you see any gaps? Then look again and again. Your sight

will return to you, dazzled and exhausted! (Surat al-Mulk, 3-

4)

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Allah’s Sublime Artistry Prevails in All Things

Human beings breathe as a reflex; dolphins do so consciously.

In the same way that we decide to walk, they decide to breathe.

When they rise to the surface, they fill 80-90% of their lungs with

air so that they can stay underwater for a long time. Breathing

while asleep is no problem for them, for they use their brain’s right

and left lobes alternately for 15-minute periods. While one lobe

sleeps, the other is on duty so that the dolphin can ascend to the

surface and breathe.

Human beings are not the only entities on Earth with complex

features. Just about everywhere you research and investigate, you

can see countless complex and varied life forms flying in the sky or

living in the depths of the oceans. The way that they have been cre-

ated differently from us and from each other, as well as in different

kingdoms, is part of the wisdom of Allah , the Creator of all distinct

works and beauties.

Human beings cannot equip living things to breathe under-

water or enable them to fill their lungs with air to a specific level.

They cannot endow anything with the ability to control its cerebral

lobes, or teach it how to operate the systems it needs to sustain life,

while asleep. They cannot bestow upon any living thing the

most appropriate means and features to survive in


their various environment. In fact, human beings cannot do these

things even for themselves.

Given these facts, how can blind chance and coincidence ac-

complish that which conscious human beings cannot? The theory

of evolution, which makes chance its deity and maintains that ev-

erything came into being in a random manner, has completely col-

lapsed in the face of modern science’s ongoing revelations of these

previously unknown complex structures.

Only Almighty Allah can give life, endow living entities with

what they need to survive, bestow blessings upon them, and equip

them accordingly. People, who encounter these blessings at all mo-

ments, need to reflect on our Lord’s mercy and blessings and to

turn to Him:

In the creation of the heavens and Earth, and the alter-

nation of the night and day, and the ships that sail

the seas to people’s benefit, and the water that

Allah sends down from the sky–by which He

brings the ground to life when it was dead and

scatters about in it creatures of every kind–and the

varying direction of the winds, and the clouds [that

are] subservient between heaven and Earth, there

are Signs for people who use their intellect.

(Surat al-Baqarah, 164)

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The Miraculously Renewed Body

No one’s body is ever the same as it was the day before, for

some of its cells have been renewed or have died. Only the soul is

unchanging. Scientists have proven that the body’s tissues are con-

stantly regenerated. In order to bring this about, 200 million cells

are born each minute to replace those that have died. Allah has

willed a single hormone called thyroxin to regulate this flawless

phenomenon.

Thyroxin monitors the body, identifies cells that have come to

the end of their life spans, and forwards the command for new pro-

duction to the units concerned. The whole process of bodily renew-

al depends upon this hormone. If it did not calculate the number of

missing hormones and thus produced more or fewer than were

needed, the resulting state of confusion would cause the body’s ex-

ternal appearance to age and its organs to cease functioning.

Excessive production would result in uncontrolled organ growth

and tumors, leading to rapid death. Is it logical for such a vital

process to be controlled by a single hormone that, according to ev-

olutionists, acts in a supposedly unconscious manner and func-

tions purely by chance? Even if such were the case, could a single

hormone calculate how many cells have died and produce enough

new ones to fill the gap?

Clearly, such a hormone cannot come into being by chance

and spontaneously decide to manage production within the body.

If someone imagines that the body’s perfect internal balance be-

longs to a hormone that emerged by chance and acts in a random

manner, that person will spend his or her life in a state of great un-

ease. (In any case, a human body cannot survive long enough for a

hormone to emerge, by chance, through random interventions. The

random stages proposed by Darwin cannot account for the forma-


tion even of one protein in a single bacterium cell.) The human

body’s systems are far too complex and detailed to permit even

one random event. The Creator of all these systems is Allah, the

Lord of everything that exists, Who keeps them under His control

at all moments:

It is Allah Who created the seven heavens and of Earth the

same number, the Command descending down through all

of them, so that you might know that He has power over all

things and encompasses all things in His knowledge. (Surat

al-Talaq, 12)

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The Extraordinary Details in Space

The larger a star is, the faster it burns. If the Sun, which warms

us and provides us with food and life, were ten times larger than it

actually is, it would have died 10 million (as opposed to 10 billion)

years after its formation and we would not be here now. If our

planet’s orbit were closer to the Sun than it actually is, everything

would evaporate and vanish; if it were further away, everything

would be covered in ice. The Sun is the ideal size and at the ideal

distance from Earth to support life on our planet.

If Earth were just 1% further away from the Sun or 5% closer

to it, our planet would be uninhabitable. The percentages in ques-

tion are absolutely tiny when one considers the enormous numbers

in the universe. For example, let’s consider Venus. The Sun’s

warmth reaches Venus, the planet immediately

closer to it than Earth, just two minutes be-

fore it reaches us. In terms of size and

structure, Venus is relatively similar to

Earth. However, a small difference

in each planet’s orbit distance

gives rise to a significant differ-

ence: Venus’ surface temperature

reaches 470 degrees Celsius, high

enough to melt lead. In addition,

its surface atmospheric pressure

is 90 times that of Earth’s, a fact

that makes human life there impos-

sible.1

Allah could have created life on

each planet if He willed. However, He

willed to do so only on Earth by making count-


less factors dependent upon the most sensitive balances. If even

one of these balances were upset, human life on Earth would be

impossible. However, since He created and main-

tains all of perfect flawless balances, our plan-

et exists in a state of flawless creation:

It is He Who splits the sky at

dawn, and appoints the night as

a time of stillness and the Sun

and Moon as a means of reck-

oning. That is what the

Almighty, the All-Knowing

has ordained. (Surat al-

An‘am, 96)

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1. Bill Bryson, A Short History of Just About

Everything (USA: Broadway: 2004), 247

The Human Brain’s Magnificent Neural Network

The global telecommunications network that enables hun-

dreds of millions of telephone calls to be made simultaneously is

something amazing. Yet in comparison to the network found in a

person’s brain, it seems quite ordinary. A human brain contains, on

the average, 100 billion neurons. We cite the following example to

understand this perfect network better: if the brain’s neurons were

laid end to end, they would stretch for several hundred thousand

kilometers. This extraordinary network is a main reason why sci-

entists describe the brain as one of the universe’s greatest mysteries.

There are around 100 trillion places in the brain, known as

synapses, where chemical processes occur. Any bodily cell can es-

tablish a connection with 1,000 separate brain cells by utilizing

these synapses. The speed of the resulting information processing

is truly amazing—one single data byte can reach 100,000 neurons

at the same time. As a result, the brain functions hundreds of thou-

sands of times faster than the most advanced computer. Dr Kerry

Bernstein, IBM’s director of technology, has said that it does not

seem possible to make a similar device with the same speed and

characteristics.1

Of course, it is impossible to build such a comprehensive net-

work, squeeze it into a minute space, construct quadrillions of con-

nections, and then ensure that they all work in milliseconds.

Creating this perfect system, which has existed in each human be-

ing who has ever lived, is beyond human capability. The brain, this

comprehensive and detailed miracle, was created so that people

could realize this truth. This great gift belongs to Almighty Allah,

Who provides all kinds of blessings without demanding any rec-

ompense. The existence of this sublime marvel of creation once


again displays our Lord’s greatness and might:

We created humanity from the purest kind of clay, then made

him a drop in a secure receptacle, then formed the drop into

a clot, formed the clot into a lump, formed the lump into

bones, clothed the bones in flesh, and then brought him in-

to being as another creature. Blessed be Allah, the Best of

Creators. (Surat al-Mu’minun, 12-14)

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1. “Brain Teaches Computers a Lesson,” MSNBC.com, 6 August 2002. (Byte: the name

given to the smallest data unit in a computer.)

Wings That Beat 500 Times a

Second

The mosquito beats its wings some 500

times a second; human beings can manage

to wave their arms to a very limited extent

in the same amount of time. If scientists

could ever build such a powerful mecha-

nism, it would soon burn up due to the in-

tense friction. And yet a mosquito accom-

plishes this feat for as long as it lives, flying

at a high speed in the direction it chooses

and for as long as it desires. In addition, it

has been endowed with the most perfect

maneuvering and landing abilities.

A mosquito requires a high level of ox-

ygen to beat its wings at this speed.

Therefore, it has a special respiratory pas-

sage that immediately reaches every cell in

its body. Since this passage is directly con-

nected to the outside air, its cells engage in

oxygen exchange without the need for any


A person can only wave his or

her arms a few times every sec-

ond; a mosquito can beat its

wings 500 times a second. This

superior ability is a proof of

Allah’s creation exhibited in fine

detail.

intermediate substances. As a result, a mosquito

never becomes tired.

Creating such a wing in a creature that is less than 1 cm (0.4

inch) in size, together with a respiratory system that makes this

possible, is a display of Allah’s astonishing artistry. No coincidence

can give rise to such a perfect mechanism in such a complex life

form and endow it with perfect functioning, or give it a pair of

wings that can beat 500 times per second simultaneously. Such a

flawless creature and its amazing wings could not have come into

being through random stages, as proposed by Darwin:

Yes, indeed, everything in the heavens and on Earth belongs

to Allah. Those who call on something other than Allah are

not really following their partner-deities; they are only fol-

lowing [their own] conjecture. They are only guessing.

(Surah Yunus, 66)

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The Perfect System That Perceives Scent

When you take a deep breath, you simultaneously perceive

various smells, for example, from the coffee you are drinking, the

food cooking in the kitchen, the flowers in the vase, and the smoke

outside. And yet you perceive them all individually, because your

nose can analyze each smell it detects in thirty seconds and thus

can distinguish among 3,000 scents.

Messages arriving from billions of scents are transmitted

within a matter of minutes to tens of thousands of cells. The speed

involved here is extraordinary. Several million pieces of data move

from one cell to another in as little as one-thousandth of a second,

never making a mistake. These processes allow you to identify a

smell very quickly. In addition, the identification and organization

of the transmitted data further increases scent sensitivity. The dis-

tinguishing and recognition of smells further increases scent sensi-

tivity in the nose.1

We can explain the extraordinary nature of the flawless trans-

mission as follows: Let’s assume that a specific piece of data is car-

ried along a million telephone lines and that the number of these

lines is suddenly reduced to a thousand. In that event, it is very

likely that no matter how advanced the technology being used is,

a loss or error in the original data will take place. Yet scent cells car-

ry out the same task without error for as long as we live. The fact

that we come into contact with a large number of scents at the same

time does not prevent us from telling them apart; no matter how

numerous they may be, we can distinguish one from another

quite easily.

The fact that each person has such an amazing system

may never have seemed surprising to us. A person finds

nothing odd in recognizing the scent of a rose or of coffee


and may never have wondered about the different stages involved

in recognizing a particular fruit’s smell. Yet the complex systems in

the nose’s olfactory area, which exists only because Allah wills it to

and controls its flawless operation, make this possible throughout

one’s life:

… that is the Knower of the Unseen and the Visible, the

Almighty, the Most Merciful, He Who has created all things

in the best possible way. He commenced the creation of hu-

manity from clay. (Surat al-Sajdah, 6-7)

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1. Tim Jacob, “Olfaction,” 2002, www.cf.ac.uk.bio-

si/staff/jacob/teaching/sensory/olfact1.html.

The Superior Details in Bacteria

Life on Earth could not survive in the absence of bacteria. All

of the wastes we throw into the ground, certain that they will be

broken down and rot away, disappear because of bacteria. Thus, all

of our waste products can be processed and recycled. Bacteria

break down each part of a dead substance into small minerals that

living things can use as food. They purify our water, make our soil

fertile, synthesize vitamins in our intestines, convert what we con-

sume into useful sugars and polysaccharides (a carbohydrate

group), and combat the harmful bacteria we ingest with our food.

The nitrogen cycle, which is of vital importance to Earth, de-

pends entirely upon bacteria to take nitrogen from the air and con-

vert it into nucleotides and amino acids, our own building blocks.

This literally amazing process cannot be carried out by any other

living thing, including humanity. Bacteria effortlessly carry out a

process that can be achieved only at a temperature of 500 degrees

Celsius and at a pressure 300 times greater than normal by using

industrial techniques in a matter of seconds.

More important, bacteria provide us with the oxygen we

breathe. In fact, much of Earth’s breathable oxygen is supplied by

micro-organisms through photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria, algae,

and other micro-organisms that fill the oceans, release some 150

billion kilos (331 billion lbs.) of oxygen every year.1

Bacteria, just one of the countless reasons why life exists on

this planet, completely discredit Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Darwin imagined, mistakenly, and therefore based his entire theo-

ry on the assumption that these life forms were primitive.

However, twenty-first century technology clearly reveals that these

life forms are perfect entities with such complex features and abil-

ities that they could never have come into being by chance or spon-

taneously. In fact, the theory of evolution cannot account for the


supposed random emergence of bacteria.

All of these things are manifestations of Allah’s artistry, for He

created and brought together these awesome complexities, perfect

structures, and flawless abilities. This example shows just how

complex a single cell, described as the simplest form of life, can ac-

tually be and what superior characteristics it can actually possess.

Allah reminds us that we live in need of a single-celled life form.

Those who learn from this will strive to attain His mercy and

Paradise and appreciate Him as is His due, for He created every-

thing for a purpose:

The keys of the Unseen are in His possession. No one knows

them but Him. He knows everything in the land and sea. No

leaf falls without His knowing it. There is no seed in the

darkness of the ground, and nothing moist or dry that is not

in a Clear Book. (Surat al-An‘am, 59)

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1. Bryson, A Short History,

264.

The Beauty in Earth and Sky

The universe’s dimensions and distances far surpass human

understanding. Numbers that are very large in earthly terms are,

in fact, minute when the universe as a whole is considered. For

example, the universe is estimated to contain some 300 billion

galaxies. Our own Milky Way galaxy, which is just one galaxy,

contains about 250 billion stars. The diameter of the Sun, an av-

erage-sized star, is 103 times greater than Earth. Alpha Centauri,

the nearest star to the Sun, is some 78,000 km (48,467 miles) dis-

tant from it.

Space and the billions of galaxies contained within it, the se-

crets of which are still a mystery, move in their determined cours-

es and influence each other by means of enormous gravitational

forces. With the giant scales involved in this magnificent uni-

verse, all of its contents act according to a destiny that has been

determined for them. Each one’s movement, rotational speed,

temperature, and distance has been determined in the Sight of

Allah, Who creates a tiny creature, invisible to the naked eye, in

the depths of the ground. The One Who appoints its destiny is al-

so the One Who perfectly creates the giant stars and keeps them,

as well as all that exists, constantly under His supervision. Allah

demonstrates His might and greatness in both instances.

No matter what we may study on Earth and in the skies, we

will always be confronted by His sublime and impeccable artist-

ry. No entity can acquire any attribute by chance or maintain the

existing order and balances by chance, for all of these are under

the control of a sublime and boundless intelligence: Almighty

Allah, the Lord of the worlds.


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The universe contains an esti-

mated 300 billion galaxies. The

Sun, just one of 250 billion stars in the

Milky Way, is just one of these galaxies. All

of the giant planets and specks of dust in the

boundless universe are under His control:

The Ant’s Glorious Nervous System

A tiny ant, which has around 500,000 nerve cells, is a

great sign leading to faith. Even in such a creature as this, which

has almost no other aim in life than to survive by gathering food,

Allah has created a perfect structure, a superior communication

system, and a miraculous neural network. Thanks to this extraor-

dinary neural network, ants use various modes of communication

to find their prey, follow each other, build their nests, and fight

their enemies. Thanks to their superior abilities, they are

able to survive in a perfect way without any need for

assistance.

Yet the ant is completely unaware of its

500,000 nerve cells. Neither scientists nor

random events can endow it with this

comprehensive equipment so that

it can continue to live. The ran-

dom mutations envisaged by

Darwin cannot produce a sin-

gle cell in this magnificent

system; chance cannot

know what a liv-


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question, unconscious

chance cannot be the reason be-

hind this special system.

Ants have always had this comprehensive neural net-

work, because they, like all other living things, are the work of our

Lord, Who reveals His greatness in every detail, gives life to all

things, and exhibits His Almighty artistry in the most perfect form

even in a single form:

Blessed be He Who placed constellations in the sky and put

a blazing lamp and shining Moon among them. It is He Who

made night and day succeed each other for those who want

to pay heed or to give thanks. (Surat al-Furqan, 61-62)

ing thing needs to sense and from where, and thus

cannot give rise to a new bodily system. Given that

the evolutionists’ proposed evolutiona-

ry mechanisms can only harm the ex-

isting complex system in

The Size of the Earth

When people stand up and begin walking, they feel no

pressure in an upward or downward direction. Sitting, walking,

and running are exceedingly mundane activities. Yet each time

people engage in such activities, they are completely unaware

that they are resisting a very powerful gravitational force.

The most important reason for this is the size of Earth. If it

were just slightly smaller, gravity would be far weaker, the plan-

et’s atmosphere would fragment and disappear, and we would

be unable to remain stable in the world. If the Earth were larger,

gravity would increase considerably and various poisonous gas-

es would make our atmosphere lethal. Even if we managed to

protect ourselves from these gasses, we would be unable to

move.

Yet such a problem never arises, because Earth’s size has

been determined in a manner that makes human life possible.

The conditions that combine are so delicate that there is no way

even one of them could have come about by chance. Scientists

have calculated the odds of such an event as 1 in 10123.1 Clearly,

the accidental formation of an environment suited to life is im-

possible.

Were Allah willed so, He could make each star and planet

suitable for life, arrange matters so that human beings had no

need to eat or drink, breathe gasses in specific proportions, or

gravity or the Sun. But Allah, Who created all that exists, willed

to bring together all of the astonishingly detailed conditions nec-

essary for life to remind people that He created and controls ev-

erything and to give us the opportunity to appreciate His infi-

nite might and turn to Him:


He to Whom the kingdom of the heavens and Earth belongs.

He does not have a son, and He has no partner in the

Kingdom. He created everything and determined it most ex-

actly. (Surat al-Furqan, 2)

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Human beings constantly exhibit

resistance to the force of gravity.

The reason for this delicate and

accurate force is Earth’s size,

which He willed to be specially

determined so that life could

survive on this planet.

1 Roger Penrose, The Emperor’s New Mind (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press,

1989); Michael Denton, Nature’s Destiny (New York: The Free Press, 1998), 9.

The Perfect and Astonishing Details in the Human Eye

Even when you look at the pen in your hand for just a few sec-

onds, hundreds of billions of processes take place in your eye.

Light passes through its cornea and pupil and then the lens, where

light-sensitive cells convert it into electrical signals to be transmit-

ted to the nerve endings as impulses. The image reaching the reti-

na is reversed and upside down, and yet the brain can interpret it

and provide a normal image by collecting the separate images

from both eyes, identifying all of the object’s features, and combin-

ing the images from both eyes into a single picture. It also deter-

mines the object’s nature, color, and distance. The eyes do all of this

in as little as a tenth of a second.

The same processes take place in the brain whether you look

at a tiny dot or a large ship, and the resulting image forms in a 1

mm (0.0393 in) point. You can never be sure that the pen in your

hand is close to you or that a far-off ship is larger than a pencil, for

the size of the place where these images form is exactly the same.


Yet there is a sense of distance in everything you look at, for how

else could you so easily stretch out your hand to pick up a glass?

Allah, Who created this flawless organ, has equipped it with unim-

aginably fine detail and enabled the brain see an object where it is

and in full detail. The extraordinarily complex human eye is just

one of His sublime works.

No human technology can duplicate such feats. Constant re-

search is being carried out to unravel how the eye can do such in-

credible things, and scientists are attempting to understand just

how it shows us a brightly colored world. Of course, neither the

eye, which is just a few centimeters in size, nor the millimeter-sized

region in which the image forms have the power to form a colored

world. It is the soul that sees all of the matter existing on the out-

side and that reinterprets this inside the brain. Allah, the Almighty,

enables people to see, perceive, and sense by breathing His own

spirit into them at birth and makes these things dependent upon

extraordinary conditions. The image created, the astonishing eyes

that perceive it, and the countless systems involved in all of this ex-

ist only because Allah so wills it.

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The Brain’s Superior Nerve Cells

Everything that you do, think, say, or feel takes place inside

the brain. Nerves belonging to the brain, known as neurons, make

such communication possible. An average neuron is 10 microns in

size, and a micron is equivalent to .001 millimeter. They are so small

that 50 average-sized ones could fit into the period at the end of this

sentence. The brain contains an average of 100 billion neurons. It

would take us 3,171 years to count all of them; if we laid them out

end to end, they would stretch for 1,000 kms (621.4 miles). The

presence of such an extensive communication network in an organ

that represents only 2% of a human being’s body weight is certain-

ly a wondrous miracle.1

Even if we were to bring together all man-made communica-

tion networks in the world, we could never obtain such a system-

atic, complex, flawless, and rapid system. This system must func-

tion in an incredible state of activity to produce even the smallest

movement that we wish to make. Each person was

given this flawless communication system

while in the womb. No technology in

the world can compare with the


sublime, complex co-ordination displayed in the human brain.

If even a small component of this perfect system is damaged

or if a single neuron fails to function properly, the brain’s electrical

transmission may be damaged, which leads to losses of feeling and

sensation. In that event, any random event that occurs in this ex-

traordinarily delicate system could do away with the majority, or

even all, of its cerebral functions. Given this fact, how could such

an incomparable communication network, the secrets of which

have still to be unraveled, come into being by chance? This extraor-

dinary structure belongs to Allah, Lord of Majesty and Greatness,

Who creates all the living cells and makes them a means by which

life is bestowed:

Say: “Travel throughout the land and see how He brought

creation out of nothing. Then later Allah will bring about the

next existence. Allah has power over all things.’ (Surat al-

‘Ankabut, 20)

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The human brain’s magnificent

communication network contains

100 billion neurons. Damage to

even its smallest part can lead to

serious losses in our sensory sys-

tems. How could such a perfect

structure have come about by

chance?

1. http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/what.html.

The Miraculous Atom:

The Building Block of All Things

When a living thing dies, its atoms disperse and become com-

ponents of something else, such as a tree, a bacterium, or a rain-

drop. These fundamental building blocks of absolutely everything

are so minute that 500,000 of them laid one on top of the other

could still be hidden behind a single hair. In other words, it is next

to impossible to imagine just how small one atom is. The following

comparison may be cited to allow us to understand this:

A millimeter is a line this long “- ”. Let us imagine that you

have divided that line into 1000 equal parts. Each one of these parts

is 1 micron long. This is the size of micro-organisms. A typical par-

amecium is 2 microns in size. In other words, it is really minuscule.

If you wanted to see this organism inside a drop of water you

would have to magnify the drop so that it was 12 m (39.4 ft) or so

in diameter. Yet if you wanted to see the atoms in that same drop

of water you would have to make it 24 km (14.91 miles) in diame-

ter. To put it another way, atoms exist on an entirely different size

dimension. In order to go down to the atomic level you would

have to take each one of these 1-micron slivers and further subdi-

vide them 10,000 times. The size of an atom is this: One 10 mil-

lionth of a millimeter. The following comparison will help us un-

derstand this better: The size of an atom compared to a line just 1

mm(0.0393 in) in length is equivalent to that of the thickness of a

piece of paper compared to the height of the Empire State Building,

one of the tallest buildings in the USA.1

By His will, everything that exists is made up of atoms of this

incredible size. Even more amazingly, 99.9999% of each atom is ac-

tually empty. The only reason why atoms combine to form molecu-


les is the presence of electrons, which take up

only a minute space inside this mass that is

99.9999% empty. That is what lies behind the

existence of the universe, suns, lions, rabbits,

mountains, skyscrapers, planes, human beings,

and everything else.

Is there any possibility that a scientist who

investigates his own cells and his own atoms in

the laboratory could produce a single atom? Of

course not, for scientists are still very far away

from discovering all of the details of subatomic

particles. That being the case, the sublime

might and creative artistry of Allah, Who cre-

ates galaxies billions of kilometers in size out of

components just one 10 millionth of a millime-

ter in size, is clear for all thinking people to see.

Almighty Allah creates entities by telling

them to Be! and bestows miraculous details up-

on them. Everything constituted by atoms,

meaning all that exists, is a great proof of this

wondrous creation:

It is He Who created the heavens and

Earth with truth. The day He says ‘Be!’ it

is. His speech is Truth. The Kingdom will

be His on the Day the Trumpet is blown,

the Knower of the Unseen and the

Visible. He is the All-Wise, the All-

Aware. (Surat al-An‘am, 73)

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1. Bryson, A Short History, 135.

The Incredible Seed

The way that plants, with all their different beauties, emerge

out of the soil is a great miracle. It is astonishing how a plant turns

toward the Sun and reaches upward, how its branches thicken, and

how it possesses a system capable of carrying water and minerals

upward against the force of gravity. There is something quite ex-

traordinary in how fresh green leaves sprout from a plant’s dry

branches, how flowers with stunning colors and matchless per-

fumes appear from among them, and how fruit specially created

for humanity in terms of its taste, smell, and benefit then appears.

There is sublime artistry in the way that a seed, just 1-2 cm (0.4-0.78

in) in diameter, causes all of these miracles that occur in each plant.

Allah hides every piece of information about a plant inside the

tiny seed from which it grows: each branch and leaf and their

shape and color, the thickness of their outer casing, the width and

quantity of the ducts that carry food and water, the plant’s height,

whether it will bear fruit or not, and that fruit’s taste, scent, shape,

and color. Evolutionists, who invent implausible scenarios to ex-

plain such miracles away, cannot appreciate His sublime artistry

and might and thus fail to understand that He wills such complex-

ities to exist. They seek to ignore that they are unable to create even

a single fruit, leaf, seed, or living cell. Only Almighty Allah, Who


The grape seeds shown below give rise to the delicious grapes

hanging down from the vines. Allah makes a tiny seed

placed in the ground the direct cause of these fruits

and creates delicious and sweet-smelling blessings.

This is His art of detail.

creates the world, exhibits His artistry within it, and

constantly carries out this creation can do this. His

knowledge and artistry are everywhere. Faced by the

matchless works of the Sublime and Mighty Allah, evo-

lutionists are constantly condemned to defeat:

Have you thought about what you cultivate? Is

it you who make it germinate, or are We the

Germinator? If We willed, We could have

made it broken stubble. You would then be

left devoid of crops, distraught. (Surat al-

Waqi‘ah, 63-65)

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The Striking Detail in Living Things

Capable of Perceiving Electricity

Living things emit electricity as well as heat. It may be diffi-

cult for you to feel this electricity, because air is an insulator. A con-

ductive environment and special equipment are necessary for this

electricity to be felt. Water, a natural conductor, and certain life

forms that live in water and use the electrical currents in their bod-

ies are examples of this. A living thing that can detect electricity in

water and acts according to that sensation has a very effective

sense.

For example, sharks can detect all vibrations in water, changes

in water temperature and salinity level, and minute changes in the

electrical field set up by moving organisms. In addition, their large

number of gel-filled cavities (Lorenzini ampules) are perfect electric-

ity detectors. Along with rough rays, they use these detect-

ors to hunt their prey and can perceive currents as small

as one 20 billionth of a volt, a truly glorious ability.

Imagine the batteries in an average

house. Sharks would be able to

detect the current emit-

ted by just two 1.5


volt batteries beneath the sea from a distance of 3,000 km (1,864

miles) away.1

The fact that this animal has been equipped with such an ex-

ceptionally special system, one that is ideally suited to its environ-

ment and crucial to its survival, is only possible by the will of an

Almighty Power Who creates it, knows its needs and habitat, and

is Mighty enough to create all these. That infinite Power belongs to

Allah , the Almighty and Omniscient:

(Hud said:) “I have put my trust in Allah, my Lord and your

Lord. There is no creature He does not hold by the forelock.

My Lord is on a Straight Path.” (Surah Hud, 56)

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1. John Downer, Supernature: The Unseen Powers of Animals

(London: BBC Worldwide Ltd., 1999), 17.

The Pituitary Gland: Regulator of the Human Body

The brain contains a pea-sized organ that weighs around

0.5 grams (0.017 ounce) and, amazingly enough, supervises and

regulates the entire body. Known as the pituitary gland, this

most complex, flawless, and vital administrator distributes jobs

to countless hormones and monitors each one, all of which

have their own appointed tasks, without interruption.

We move our heads and arms, see, hear, smile, speak, and

touch all at the same time. We remember what people have said

to us and analyze things. All of the sensations that reach us and

our movements take place by means of hormones. The pitui-

tary gland enables hundreds of processes to take place simulta-

neously, flawlessly, and without delay. There is no question of

any hormone running late; being unable to transmit the messa-

ges that reach them; or, apart from exceptional cases of sickness,

of hearing what a person who is talking to us only after sever-

al minutes have passed; or of not feeling the sensation of being

burned before the burn appears on our hands. This is because

the tiny pituitary gland, which consists of protein, water, and

fat, flawlessly carries out all of its tasks because Allah, the Lord

of the worlds, wills it to do so.

Anything that any entity does occurs only because of His

will, for nothing is independent of His power and control.

When Allah so wills, He manifests His Own might and great-

ness as He wills through a particular entity that He has created.

Everything we see or do not see, but that we know about, is a

separate manifestation of His infinite Greatness:

That is Allah, your Lord. There is no deity but Him, the

Creator of everything. So worship Him. He is responsible


for everything. Eyesight cannot perceive Him, but He per-

ceives eyesight. He is the All-Penetrating, the All-Aware.

“Clear insights have come to you from your Lord. Whoever

sees clearly does so to his own benefit. Whoever is blind, it

is to his own detriment. I am not here as your keeper.” (Surat

al-An‘am, 102-04)

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The pea-sized pituitary gland, which weighs 0.5 grams (0.017 ounces), distrib-

utes to the body’s countless hormones their tasks and regulates each one

without the slightest interruption. It is a blessing that Allah has created and

charged this small organ with regulating the human body.

The Perfect Detail That Protects

Ice-Dwelling Polar Bears

The human body contains many extraordinary systems. How

they work, function uninterruptedly, take precautions in the face of

difficulties, and never make a mistake is beyond belief. However,

all living things on Earth, from giant whales to ants, from single-

celled algae to tigers, have equally amazing features. It is literally

miraculous that anyone witnessing this extraordinary state of af-

fairs should still deny His works:

Even if We sent down angels to them, and the dead spoke to

them, and We gathered together everything in front of them

right before their eyes, they would still not believe unless

Allah willed. The truth is that most of them are ignorant.

(Surat al-An‘am, 111)

Take the example of polar bears, who live in a cold ice-shroud-

ed environment. By grasping the surface of the ice via a vacuum ef-

fect, thanks to the cavities between its toes, a polar bear

can travel long distances on ice. This web-like struc-


ture between its toes also enables it to walk at a speed of 10 km per

hour (6.2 mph) and travel 100 km (62 miles) without resting. The

apparently white hairs in its special 5 cm (2 in) thick fur are actual-

ly transparent and, because of their fiber optic properties, prevent

heat loss and transmit the Sun’s warmth to the black hairs beneath.

Immediately under the fur is a 10 cm (4 in) thick layer of fat that

provides further protection against the cold. When it swims, its

hairs form a protective shield by adhering to one another and serv-

ing as a waterproof diving suit. Thanks to all of these features, a

polar bear can maintain its 37-degree body temperature under wa-

ter or on the ice.

Such highly detailed and flawless structures, all of which are

of the greatest importance for continued life on Earth, reveal that

they could not have come about by chance. Moreover, scientists

cannot produce them. Allah flawlessly creates all things. In the case

of the polar bear, He places this animal on the ice enables it to sur-

vive its harsh environment. This is a constant reminder of the

greatness of Almighty Allah, Who creates the states and behavior

of all things by His will:

And He has made everything in the heavens and on Earth

subservient to you. It is all from Him. There are certainly

Signs in that for people who reflect. (Surat al-Jathiyyah, 13)

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The Superior Details in a Pair of Eyes

When you look at these lines, an electric current traveling at

500 km per hour (310.7 mph) begins moving from your eyes to

your brain by any of its 600,000 nerves. When the current is trans-

mitted, you begin reading the lines before you.

The eye is linked to the brain by 600,000 nerves, which simul-

taneously receive and arrange 1.5 million messages at the same time

and send them to the brain at 500 km an hour (310,7 mph). When

you look at a single point, you actually see hundreds of different de-

tails that the eye distinguishes from all of the massages reaching it

and then analyzes and forwards to the brain. While this book

you are holding is quite close to you, the scene

you see in the background is, at

the same time,

comparatively far

away. And yet


you see both of them with the same clarity, for not a single point in

your line of sight is overlooked or unclear. No matter how detailed

the view you are looking at is, even the image of a small ant that

happens to be in your line of sight reaches your brain.

No camera or television could provide such a high degree of

clearness, and so all man-made technology is inferior to the human

eye. If people are deprived of this blessing, they will be unable to

see anything until this system is restored. And that can only hap-

pen by Allah ’s choosing.

This special blessing, created for human beings while they are

still embryos, is a gift from Allah, Who is always needed and from

Whom aid may be hoped for at all times:

Say: “It is He Who brought you into being

and gave you hearing, sight, and

hearts. What little thanks

you show!’ (Surat al-

Mulk, 23)

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The eye, which is connected to the brain

by 600,000 nerves, receives and arran-

ges 1.5 million signals simultaneously

and sends them to the brain at 500 km

per hour (310.7 mph). The eye is one of

the most important manifestations of

Allah’s sublime might and power.

The Superior Detail in Taste Perception Cells

We can remember the flavor of a food we enjoyed ten days

ago. If we eat it again, we can perceive the same taste once again

and experience the same enjoyment, because its taste is now famil-

iar. However, the tongue’s taste cells are not the same as the ones

that existed ten days ago. Every day our taste cells come into con-

tact with acidic foods that are hotter or colder than the body’s tem-

perature. Hot tea, an ice-cold fruit juice, thick coffee, or bitter

grapefruit juice all damage these cells to some extent. But by His

will, new cells mature in the taste buds to replace those that have

completed their life’s work.

Even if people are unaware of them, these processes occur so

quickly that the taste cells we use at dinner are not those we use at

breakfast. And yet we do not imagine ourselves to be eating that

food for the first time. We never confuse an apple’s flavor, because

every new cell contains exactly the same knowledge as the old cell.

In fact, all of our cells are constantly being renewed, and yet one’s

nose never changes shape and one’s hair never changes color. New

cells never install themselves in the wrong place, and thus every-

thing always retains the same shape.

If the old taste cells were not renewed, we would be unable to

taste anything. A delicious meal or a piece of wood would taste the

same. We would forget what sweetness was and be unaware if a

piece of food were poisonous or rotten, for only specially created

taste cells can initiate this superior process and blessing. In fact,

Almighty Allah, the Creator and Lord of all beings, has created

these cells with a perfect memory and a sublime renewal system.

This and thousands of other similar blessings are His gifts, for He

is generous to His servants, forgives unrequitedly, and is all-com-

passionate:


Praise be to Allah, to Whom everything in the heavens and

on Earth belongs. Praise be to Him in the Hereafter. He is the

All-Wise, the All-Aware. (Surah Saba’, 1)

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The tongue’s taste cells, which are replaced in a matter of

days, are each equipped with their predecessor cell’s

knowledge. Thus, the taste of something we ate ten

days ago is still familiar to us. Our Almighty Lord

creates every cell and the information within it

with His infinite might.

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Water: One of His Greatest Blessings

Water makes up three-fourths of Earth and around

70% of the human body. It enters each cell and travels

through every vein, carries food and gives oxygen and

energy to all of our 100 trillion cells. Thus, it is an incom-

parable blessing for life.

If water were more fluid than it actually is, living things’

structures would be confronted by its destructive effect and

soon collapse. In such a state, water could not support these del-

icate molecular structures, and so each cell’s delicate structure

would collapse. If water were thicker than it actually is, the con-

trolled actions of small organelles and such macromolecules as

proteins and enzymes would cease and cell division would be-

come impossible. All of a cell’s vital functions would freeze, and

so the cells would begin to die one by one, making the organ-

ism’s death just a matter of time.

From the tiniest molecule to the whales in the oceans, ev-

erything on Earth needs water, and therefore water has been cre-

ated with a specific level of viscosity specially designed to ben-

efit all of them: Earth, living things, a living entity’s body, and

even that particular body’s smallest molecule. Even with pre-

sent-day technology, scientists cannot produce another fluid

with the same properties and capable of reaching every cell.

Allah has made the glorious details that human beings lack

the power to produce essential for all people and has bestowed

them in abundance. Doing so reminds people who can think

and reflect on His might, and dwelling on just one of these life-

giving elements enables them to thank Him for His blessings

and appreciate His greatness:


Allah sends down water from the

sky and by it brings the dead

ground back to life. There is cer-

tainly a Sign in that for people who

hear. (Surat al-Nahl, 65)

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Water has been specially created to

keep the human body alive. It

reaches every point in the body,

carries nutrients to all of its 100 tril-

lion cells, and supplies

them with oxygen

and energy. Its vis-

cosity level has

been specially de-

termined so that it

can do all of these

things. Water is yet another exam-

ple of His sublime art of detail.

The Human Brain’s Great Energy

The brain consists of approximately 80% water, 10% fat, 8%

proteins, and small amounts of carbohydrates, salt, and other min-

erals. Each one of its nerves functions by receiving electrochemical

signals. Neural networks store memories by weakening or

strengthening their many connections, and the

result is memory. Encountering un-

familiar situations or looking


The brain uses enough

energy to power a dim

lamp. Every memory is

the result of the 1,000-

500,000 connections

made by 100 billion cells

at a speed of 400 km per

hour (248.5 mph).

at a portrait for the first time, for example, causes the cells to make

new arrangements among themselves. The relevant nerves imme-

diately strengthen their connections and attempt to define the situ-

ation. The data recorded enable the process to be carried out faster

when the same situation is repeated, for what was new before will

now appear familiar. The brain stores processes repeated through-

out one’s life as a general image. Every recorded moment comes

about by means of the 1,000 to 500,000 connections that the brain’s

100 billion nerves establish at a speed of 400 km per hour (248.5

mph).

With this superb capacity, the brain uses enough energy to run

a dim lamp. Although it constitutes only one-fiftieth of the body’s

weight, it consumes one-fifth of the body’s entire oxygen and glu-

cose supplies. So important is the brain that it receives the first

blood emerging from the heart; if only a small amount of blood is

left, it still seeks to keep the brain alive. The heart, blood vessels,

and all other organs are literally aware of this fact.

The slightest brain damage can leave a person handicapped or

even dead. In fact, this organ is so delicate that the failure of elec-

trical signals to reach a single cell can cause the loss of one of the

senses that enable us to perceive the outside world. No single point

in it can come into being by chance, and its perfect organization

and equipment cannot be altered in a random manner.

This perfection, a very great blessing, reflects the creative art-

istry of Allah, Who treats His servants well, the Beneficent Who

creates to perfection, The Maker and He Who Reveals His

Greatness in All:

It is He Who shows you His Signs and sends down provision

to you out of heaven. But none pay heed save those who re-

pent. (Surah Ghafir, 13)

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The Atom’s Astonishing Detail

Each atom consists of protons and neutrons bonded together

in the nucleus, around which electrons revolve rapidly. Since the

neutron carries no electrical charge and the proton has a positive

charge, the nucleus is positively charged. The electron, on the oth-

er hand, has a negative charge proportional to the proton’s positive

charge. If the proton and the electron’s electrical charges were un-

equal, the proton’s greater electricity would cause all atoms to be

positively charged and thus repel each other. As a result, every-

thing on Earth, including human beings, the seas and mountains,

and all the planets in the Solar System and all the heavenly bodies

in the universe would suddenly break apart into countless minute

particles and cease to exist.

Throughout their lives, human beings are unaware of the sub-

atomic particles that attract each other, the electrons spinning rap-

idly around the nucleus, and their delicate internal balances and

forces. Even its minutest components contains such

breathtaking details that clearly only

Allah, the Lord of absolute will


and a force far greater than all known worldly forces, could have

brought them into existence.

Despite living in such an exceedingly delicate and sensitive

system, human beings never feel any difficulty or concern, because

the system’s creation is flawless. And yet the majority of people are

unaware of these blessings. If one of them were removed, they

would see how helpless they actually are and would become aware

of the great compassion that had formerly surrounded them. The

important thing in this worldly life, which is no more than a test, is

for people to be grateful as they enjoy His blessings and mercy and

turn toward Him. One reason for our existence is to see who will

appreciate these bestowed blessings and who will be heedless

and ungrateful. Sincere believers need to know that only

Almighty Allah can bestow these blessings; thus, they

should be constantly grateful to Him for them.

Do the unbelievers not see that the heavens and Earth

were sewn together and then We unstitched them, and

that We made from water every living

thing? So will they not believe?

(Surat al-Anbiya’, 30)

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A Mosquito’s Impressive Heat Receptors

A mosquito can detect the presence of any living thing due to

its highly sensitive heat receptors that perceive the heat given off

by a living entity in different colors, according to the heat the enti-

ty emits. Since this perception does not depend upon light, a mos-

quito easily finds blood vessels even if the entity is in a dark room.

In fact, its heat detectors are so sensitive that they can determine

temperature differences of just 0.05 degrees Celsius.1

Human beings have no such ability; Allah has bestowed it on

this tiny creature—it is no larger than 1 cm (0.4 in)—so that it can

find food and protect itself. Only Allah can create such a small and

flawless heat-dependent mechanism in so tiny a creature and then

bring it to life. Clearly, no one can claim that such a remarkable

creature could have come into existence spontaneously as the re-

sult of chance.

Any thoughtful person knows that a random phenome-

non will only damage and destroy a perfect complex sys-

tem; it cannot bring any system into being. Only Almighty

Allah, Lord of the worlds, Who creates the mosquito’s sub-

lime heat perception system, shapes and forms all things, and

controls everything at all moments can do this:

What is in the heavens and in the ground belongs to Allah.

We have instructed those given the Book before you, and you

yourselves, to fear [and respect] Allah. But if you do not be-


lieve, what is in the heavens and in the ground [stills] be-

longs to Allah. Allah is Rich Beyond Need, Praiseworthy.

(Surat al-Nisa’, 131)

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1. www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/

en507/papers_1997/roachell.html.

The Nutcracker’s Superior Memory

The nutcracker has the most powerful avian memory so far

identified. Native to the large Rocky Mountains in North America

and the Grand Canyon, it lives on pine nuts that are edible for on-

ly a few weeks in September. Therefore, it stores them for later con-

sumption. The distance between the pine trees and the storage site

may sometimes be as much as 20 km (12.4 miles). It buries the nuts

by placing them in the hard soil in a single movement; sometimes

it leaves a stone on top as a marker. Over the course of three hectic

weeks, the nutcracker collects nuts constantly. As it flies, it remem-

bers the land’s contours, the trees it has visited, and the rock faces,

all of which it adds to its mental map.

The nutcracker has to remember where it has buried 100,000

nuts along a portion of the Grand Canyon that measures hundreds

of kilometers throughout this short but productive period. This is

how it survives for the rest of the year. During winter, it has to re-

member the markers like a photograph, because the snow changes

the landscape and renders the markers invisible. Nevertheless, it

manages to locate 90% of the buried 100,000 pine nuts.1

It is impossible for a bird to know that the food it needs will

not be available after a certain period of time and that it has to col-

lect and hide enough to survive. How did it learn how much food

to collect at which time, where to store it, and how to find all of the

100,000 pine nuts again under the snow? Yet it does all of these

things flawlessly, for like all other living entities, it acts according

to Allah’s inspiration. Only the supervision and assistance of its

Creator and the One Who inspires it to do certain things enables it


to find its stored food, which has become invisible, without dif-

ficulty.

This amazing creation of Allah, Who observes all created

entities and showers unlimited, boundless, and unknowable

mercy upon them at all times, is plain for all to see. The details

exhibited in such a tiny bird once again reveals His Might and

greatness in the finest manner possible.

How many creatures do not carry their provision with

them? Allah provides for them, and He will for you. He

is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. (Surat al-‘Ankabut,

60)

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1. http://en.wikipedia.org/

wiki/Clark’s_Nutcracker.

The Skin: An Amazing Detail and Blessing

The skin is a flawless casing that gives us a regular appear-

ance; conceals the extraordinary activity going on inside our bod-

ies; and makes touch, one of our most important senses, possible.

Countless receptor nerves, circulatory channels, ventilation sys-

tems, heat and moisture detectors, and other manifestations of His

artistry operate within it. The skin itself is both strong and elastic,

two characteristics that are practically mutually exclusive.

Skin covers an area of 2m2 (21.5 ft2) and weights 3 kgs (6.6

lbs). Its cells live for about one week, after which they die and are

replaced. During a person’s life, 20 kgs (44 lbs) of skin cells are

manufactured. Every square centimeter of skin con-

tains sense cells that permit touch perceptions

and assume various tasks, depending on their

location. For example, when your hand

comes into contact with boiling water, the

receptors cause you to feel a sensation of

heat and then one of pain. Some 30,000 re-

ceptors perceive heat; 3.5 million feel pain.

This perfect casing and special organ,


which is unaffected by external factors and has enormous elastici-

ty, can transmit messages from every square millimeter to the

nerves and thence to the brain. In fact, it consists of a network of

nerves and blood vessels that is constantly being renewed. Allah

bestowed this miracle upon each person and endowed even its

smallest part with sensation. So perfect is this miracle that modern

technology cannot produce a similar structure.

This flawless casing protects us, enables us to touch other

things, and gives us a pleasing appearance. A perfect blessing and

flawless detail, Allah, in His boundless knowledge, created it and

then bestowed it upon us:

It is Allah Who made Earth a stable home for you and the sky

a dome, and formed you, giving you the best of forms, and

provided you with good and wholesome things. That is

Allah, your Lord. Blessed be Allah, the Lord of all the

worlds. (Surah Ghafir, 64)

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Protein: The Cell’s Most Basic Detail

Proteins, the building blocks of all cells, emerge as the result

of sequences of amino acids. Many basic conditions need to be met

for a protein to form, among them the following: The amino acids

have to be attached by a peptide bond, be left-handed, and be com-

bined in a special sequence. These three conditions cannot form as

the result of chance. Scientists who realized this fact performed cal-

culations and determined that the odds were 1 in 10190 against

such a series of events happening by chance. Even if a period of

time as long as the age of our planet were allowed for this to take

place, it would still be impossible for this protein to form by

chance. Bearing in mind that, mathematically speaking, a probabil-

ity of 1 in 1050 is regarded as zero, the fact of the matter emerges

very clearly, because the number 10190 represents the number

1050x1050x1050x1040=10190.

Proteins, the basis of your body and of all life, represent both

the cells’ building material and highly complex machinery.


Although a single protein cannot come into being by chance or

spontaneously, this perfect structure still represents the basis of the

cell. Thus, many proteins combine together and are constantly be-

ing reproduced—an important proof that fundamentally invali-

dates the theory of evolution.

By introducing this perfect raw material, Allah shows the sub-

lime nature of His creation. By reflecting for just a few seconds on

the existence of the countless proteins that comprise our body, we

can see that He creates miracles at every moment. Thus, we should

always be grateful to Him:

(It is) so that He may know that they have indeed transmit-

ted the Messages of their Lord. He (Allah) encompasses what

is in their hands and has counted the exact number of every-

thing. (Surat al-Jinn, 28)

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The Kidneys’ Flawless Purification

System

It is no easy task to invent a machine just 10 cm

(4 in) in size and then establish a system to purify

the blood, water, and other fluids inside it. A whole

factory would be needed to accomplish these tasks.

Even if one managed to do this in such a small

space, the performance and results would still be

inadequate. One might manage to purify water or

other fluids, but doing so for blood, which is essen-

tial for human beings, has not yet been achieved in

such a small device.

However, all human beings are actually per-

fect examples of this special purification system,

thanks to the kidneys, each one of which is about 10

cm (4 in) in size and weighs 100 grams (3.5 ounce).

This small space harbors around 1 million micro-

purifiers that constantly clean the blood, which car-

ries everything that makes continued life possible,

and regulate the density of the water that reaches

all of your cells and tissues. The kidneys, which

know how much fluid is in your tissues as well as

its level of concentration, carry out the necessary

adjustments by His will so that we can go on living

without difficulty.

Everybody more or less knows what happens

when the kidneys fail to function: the person is

hooked up to a dialysis machine several times a

week until a new kidney can be transplanted.

When the machine can no longer fulfill its purpose,


the person dies. This example puts

into stark relief the importance

and miraculous aspect of this ex-

traordinary purification plant.

How can any logical person sug-

gest, even though no scientist has

ever been able to replicate this per-

fect organ, that it emerged by

chance?

This extraordinarily detailed

and flawless system represents the

artistry of Allah, Who created hu-

manity with a flawless perfection.

This organ alone is enough for a

person to see His greatness and

turn to faith:

He has given you everything

for which you have asked

Him. If you tried to number

Allah’s blessings, you could

never count them. Humanity

is indeed wrongdoing, un-

grateful. (Surah Ibrahim, 34)

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Giant dialysis machines can carry

out the processes that are constant-

ly being performed in the kidneys,

just 10 cm (3.937 in) in size, only

with great difficulty.

The Superior Detail That Permits

Life under the Ice

People seldom wonder why water is transparent, how sand

can become transparent glass and play an important role in our

lives, or how a giant ship can sail without sinking. So familiar to us

are all these things that perhaps no one has ever wondered what

would happen if sand did not turn into glass at a sufficiently high

temperature. A little consideration of such

things will show that they have all been

equipped with similar and some-

times vital details.


One such detail is water. At sub-zero temperatures, water

turns into ice. This is just one of many natural phenomenon in our

lives, and yet this transformation violates the known laws of phys-

ics. The special details in water, created by Allah for a specific pur-

pose, are one of the reasons why life on Earth exists.

All known substances contract as their temperatures fall. As

liquids contract and lose volume, their densities increase and their

cold parts become heavier. This is why matter’s sol-

id state is always heavier than its

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liquid state. We can cite the liquid and solid states of steel as an ex-

ample of this. Contrary to all other known liquids, however, water

contracts until it reaches a specific temperature (+4°C), after which

it begins to expand until it freezes. Thus, water’s solid state is light-

er than its liquid state. As a result, according to normal physical

laws, ice should sink instead of floating. This is why the lower

parts of frozen seas and lakes are covered in water at 4 degrees,

which makes it possible for life to survive. If ice did not float, then

most of the water on Earth would freeze entirely, no life would be

left in any body of water, and the planet’s ecological equilibrium

would be irreparably damaged. In other words, life as we know it

would come to an end.

This important detail, an amazing blessing for human beings,

makes those who are aware of it more sensitive to the blessings cre-

ated by Allah, the Creator of each physical law. However, He can


create without physical causes, if He wills to do so, and is not

bound by any law or rule. His sublime, detailed artistry prevails

throughout all of creation:

Is He Who creates like him who does not create? So will you

not pay heed? If you tried to number Allah’s blessings, you

could never count them. Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most

Merciful. (Surat al-Nahl, 17-18)

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The Body’s Special Cleaning Unit

Cells are constantly nourished, multiply, and die in a miracu-

lous manner, because each one has been created in such a way that

it can copy, feed, and destroy itself. Dead cells need to be gathered

and removed from the body. A series of proteins eliminate

themselves when cells need to be eliminated. While the

cell is useful to the body and fully functioning,

these proteins are dormant. When it ages,

however, or becomes sick, non-function-

ing, or malignant, these killer proteins

are sent to kill it. The cell takes the

right precautions at the right time,

with the result that healthy cells

remain alive while sick and elder-

ly ones are constantly eliminat-

ed. The body always remains

healthy, and dead cells are

quickly replaced.

A very large number of el-

ements have to combine in or-

der for human beings to remain

alive. Yet the individual remains

unaware of these elements and the

perfect system of regulation. Just

when particular cells need to be man-

ufactured and eliminated is decided

with perfect timing and order, beyond hu-

man will and knowledge, because Allah, Who

created them, supervises and controls them.


Each blessing bestowed upon humanity has a special purpose.

When people realize that everything has been created with a direct

cause and within a flawless system, and then bestowed upon them

as a blessing, they will better comprehend His infinite Might and

see the surrounding truth and beauty more clearly. The all-impor-

tant truth is that Almighty Allah has created everything they

possess and maintains these by His will. Allah’s mercy

on humanity is very great:

Were it not for Allah’s favor to you and His

mercy ... and that Allah is All-Gentle,

Most Merciful. (Surat al-Nur, 20)

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Dead cells are eliminated by a series of pro-

teins that go into action only when a cell dies

or is sick. This magnificent control system, which

people cannot control, is under the control of Allah,

the Creator and Lord of all things.

The Brain’s Impeccable Communication Network

Each glance, thought, or detection of a smell begins in our

brain. The relevant nerves interpret the transmitted message via an

electrical current. When we look at a glass, we recognize it as a

glass only because the brain’s nerves interpret it as such. When we

think about something, these nerves establish coordination with

and pass electrical currents through each other. We imagine that

the image of the glass forms in our brain; however, this image

reaches the brain solely as an electrical signal. Moreover, the brain

does not contain the slightest trace of this image. In other words,

we perceive the outside world only through the processes taking

place among these nerve cells. This being the case, the facts that 10

billion nerve cells have been carefully placed within the brain, are

means by which everything related to us is controlled, and that

they allow us to perceive a vivid world are great miracles. Such

miracles are simple things for Almighty Allah, Who created hu-

manity as well as the causes in question from nothing.


This system is a great secret that we are still striving to unrav-

el. At a time when no scientist can claim to fully understand the

brain and when the whole system points to a sublime creation,

how can anyone seriously assert that blind chance is a creative

force? With His mercy, Allah continually reminds us of His might

and sublime creative artistry by means of the entities He creates.

Believers who see and understand all of this will attain salvation in

this world and in the Hereafter.

Everyone in the heavens and Earth requests His aid. Every

day He is engaged in some affair. So which of your Lord’s

blessings do you both then deny? (Surat al-Rahman, 29-30)

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The Superior Detail in the White Shark’s Eyes

White sharks, which catch their prey by following it with their

eyes, easily move around hot coral reefs. However, cold water

causes them great trouble, for it usually retards chemical process-

es. But its eyes somehow manage to follow its fast-moving prey in

cold ocean waters.

As we have seen many times before, Allah created an incom-

parable and amazing solution to this supposed problem: unlike the

white shark itself, its eyes are not cold-blooded. As a result, the

heat of its bodily muscles is transmitted directly to the eyes, there-

by allowing it to catch fast-moving fish and even seals with great

ease.

There are many thought-provoking details related to how a

cold-blooded animal that cannot store heat in its body can transmit

heat to its eyes. Such an incredible system shows once again that

the works and power of Almighty Allah, Who created the animal’s

habitat and its special equipment, prevail everywhere. This exam-

ple of sublime creation is a great blessing for humanity, because all

of the proofs in and around people enable them to see and compre-

hend His sublime existence. The presence in a white shark of

such a complex and detailed system, of which the an-

imal itself is unaware, reminds us of His exis-

tence.

Every proof of creation is a rea-

son for people to draw closer to

Allah and praise Him. The more

they reflect upon these clear beau-

ties and blessings, the more they will

comprehend His Greatness. Any rational and

conscious person can see the blessings that surround them;


thus, they should constantly reflect on the fact that these are all re-

minders from Allah:

It is He Who is Allah in heaven and on Earth. He is the All-

Wise, the All-Knowing. Blessed be Him to Whom belongs

the sovereignty of the heavens and Earth and everything in

between them. The knowledge of the Hour is with Him. You

will be returned to Him. (Surat al-Zukhruf, 84-85)

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This complex creation is as it is solely because Allah wills it to

be so. Everyone needs to know and see from these examples that

Allah is powerful enough to create everything, and that no person

has any real power over even a single cell. Every created entity and


The Flawless System in a Single Cell

Our bodies contain an estimated 30,000 different proteins.

Amazingly, the functions of only 2% of them have been fully un-

raveled; the remaining 98% carry out very important but still un-

known tasks. Just a single cell possesses more than 1 billion differ-

ent kinds of proteins. At a rate of 1 per second, it would take 32

years to count, non-stop and without making any mistakes, all of

the proteins contained in just one cell. If we add in such physical

needs as sleeping and eating, we would certainly die before we

could count all the cell’s proteins.

every flawless detail they possess, and even humanity itself, are

great miracles.

People need to activate and then use their conscience to see

and evaluate Allah’s blessings and understand the message they

impart. However, sincere individuals can see and appreciate the

sublimity in creation by looking at the countless details surround-

ing them:

It is He Who has created hearing, sight, and hearts for you.

What little thanks you show! It is He Who dispersed you

about Earth, and you will be gathered to Him. It is He Who

gives life and causes to die, and His is the alternation of the

night and day. So will you not use your intellect? (Surat al-

Mu’minun, 78-80)

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The Perfect Detail in Message-Transmitting Cells

The brain’s flawless system is, by itself, sufficient for us to real-

ize His sublimity. As we stated above, it contains more than 100 bil-

lion nerve cells.1 In order for us to perceive, see, and feel our sur-

roundings, communication has to be established among these 100

billion nerve cells. This is done by somehow making a total of 100

trillion connections.

The means by which this astonishing level of communication is

established are exceedingly effective. A special fluid located be-

tween the nerve cells contains certain highly specialized chemical

enzymes that make electron transport possible. When the electrical

signal reaches a nerve ending, electrons are loaded onto these en-

zymes and then transmitted to other nerves by floating through the

fluid between the nerves. The electrical current thus continues to

flow by passing on to the next cell. This process takes place in mi-

croseconds and with no interruption in the electrical current.

If one of these enzymes fails to perform its function, the transmit-

ted message cannot reach the brain. In other words, although you

were looking at your hand, its image would fail to reach your brain.


The brain’s 100 billion cells com-

municate via 100 trillion connec-

tions. By His will, these connec-

tions take place by means of vari-

ous electron-bearing enzymes.

Moreover, if the enzymes stopped functioning for any reason,

the brain’s 100 billion nerve cells would also cease functioning. If

these enzymes decided to distribute the massage randomly rather

than taking it where it needs to go, the resulting chaos would over-

turn the entire sensory system and paralyze contact with the outside

world.

According to the evolutionists’ logic, which regards everything

as purely coincidental, such constant chaos should be unavoidable

because conscious entities do not direct this special system. If, as

they maintain, everything happens randomly, then countless con-

secutive chaotic events should occur during any random communi-

cation taking place in the cells. However, apart from the most excep-

tional circumstances, no such mental chaos ever arises and the

whole system functions without error. These completely undermine

the evolutionists’ logic. Enzymes are always on duty and do not

make mistakes. Such a matchless task carried out by unconscious

entities made up of proteins can only be inspired by Allah.

Every nerve in the brain and every enzyme, protein, and elec-

tron is the work of Allah. The example described here is just one of

the countless details created by the One Who controls all entities at

every moment and enfolds them with His mercy at all times:

It is Allah Who created the heavens with no support–you can

see them–and cast firmly embedded mountains on Earth so

that it would not move under you, and scattered about in it

creatures of every kind. And We send down water from the

sky and make every generous species grow in it. This is

Allah’s creation. Show me, then, what those besides Him have

created! The wrongdoers are clearly misguided. (Surah

Luqman, 10-11)

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Snowflakes: An Incomparable Miracle

The molecules and atoms that make up a substance assume

their most regular forms when in a solid state. The shapes to which

they give rise by bonding with each other are three-dimensional

geometrical forms, the angles of which have specific rations in the

successive prisms they produce. There is never any error, devia-

tion, or alteration in this. If the atoms in a substance as small as 1

in 1 millionth of 3 cm (1.2 in) possess the perfect and flawless geo-

metrical regularity in question, then that substance must be a crys-

tal.

A snowflake is a crystal that begins forming around a minute

dust particle that is just a few microns in size. This microscopic

shape is hexagonal, and the crystal that forms grows by extending

tiny arms from its corners. The crystal grows as the air chills and

the environment changes, and capillary structures soon appear on

the emerging structure. A snowflake’s atoms are attached to each

other by loose bonds that cause crystals to bind to each other in dif-

ferent shapes. This difference is so great that it is difficult even to

imagine the odds of two identical snowflakes falling to Earth.

Let’s consider the number of snow-

flakes that fall during just one year.

We can barely estimate the number

of snowflakes that fall during a

single snow storm in just one

area. Literally trillions of snow-

flakes falls every year, and all

of them have different shapes.

How is such an amazing mira-

cle possible? Clearly, Allah cre-

ates every detail to display an ex-


traordinary property. Who but Allah, the

Creator of the universe, has the power to

create such an immense diversity and then

display His perfectly delicate artistry in mi-

croscopic details? Allah exhibits His might and

the beauties He creates by displaying His artistic

detail in all snowflakes, which fall as a blessing and source of

beauty:

In the alternation of night and day, and in what Allah has

created in the heavens and Earth, there are Signs for people

who guard against evil. (Surah Yunus, 6)

There are countless proofs of Allah on display. In

order to see these, people must turn to Him sincere-

ly so that He may strengthen their sight, under-

standing, and appreciation. Otherwise, they will

become blind and remain unaware of the beauty of

the blessings bestowed. If this is the case, they will

suffer disappointment in the Hereafter. Such a fate

can be avoided only by turning to Allah, the true Lord

of all exquisite blessings, with full sincerity of heart.

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ll living entities possess countless

perfect details and miracles of creation.

There are details in the structure of a micro-

organism and an atom, the building block of all things.

The sky has been created with extraordinary balances

and organization. The universe, the human body, plants,

the Sun, flowers, mountains, and the seas contain

countless details and properties, all of which are full of

His artistry. This is Allah’s art of detail.

However, we must never forget that Allah has no

need of design or direct causes when He creates.

There is no need for a living thing to

have a complex visual system in or-

der to see, for all of our person-

al information

to be recorded in our DNA, for DNA to exist,

for hydrogen and oxygen to collide to produce

water, for plants to make photosynthesis, for an ant to have

a neural network made up of 500,000 cells, for seeds to en-

able plants to emerge from beneath the ground and for those

seeds to store information, or for living things in the depths of

the ocean to produce light. Allah creates all of these without being

dependent on direct causes, because He, the Creator of the heavens

and Earth, is unfettered by such causes.

Whenever Allah wills something to exist, He merely tells it to

Be. Whenever He wills something to come into being with all of its

perfections, it is enough for Him to command it to do so:

Does He Who created the heavens and Earth not have the

power to create the same again? Yes indeed! He is the

Creator, the All-Knowing. His command when He wills a

thing is just to say to it “Be!” and it is. (Surah Ya Sin, 81-82)

One of the wise aspects of Allah’s creation of details is that

they cause us to think, to see and understand that He has created

everything out of nothing and displays the proofs of His own exis-

tence. They are made for us to grasp the complexities in the build-

ing blocks that comprise us and to realize that we cannot under-

stand the skills and abilities of even a bacterium, which are

sometimes superior to our own … for us to see how much we

are in need of Allah; to understand that we live on Earth by

His will and permission, and that by His leave we will have

an infinite life in the Hereafter; and to remind us

that we will inevitably return to Him and be

asked about what we saw and experienced in this world

and about the proofs given to us. Allah created all of these

various details for a variety of purposes. Of course, He

could eliminate all of them and recreate them in even more

perfect states in the Hereafter. Allah is great, Almighty, and

Sublime. All things bow to Him. Everyone living today or who has

ever lived, including you, the reader of these lines, will one day be

raised to His Sight. Before that day comes, everyone must appre-

ciate the proofs of His existence. Allah’s art of detail is displayed

in a way designed to remind us of this fact:

Yes, everything in the heavens and Earth belongs to Allah.

Yes, Allah’s promise is true, but most of them do not know it.

He gives life and causes to die, and you will be returned to

Him. (Surah Yunus, 55-56)

Glory be to You. We have no knowledge except what You

have taught us. You are the All-Knowing, the All-Wise.

(Surat al-Baqarah, 32)

arwinism, in other words the theory

of evolution, was put forward with the

aim of denying the fact of creation, but is in truth

nothing but failed, unscientific nonsense. This theory,

which claims that life emerged by chance from inanimate

matter, was invalidated by the scientific evidence of miracu-

lous order in the universe and in living things. In this way,

science confirmed the fact that Allah created the uni-

verse and the living things in it. The propaganda carried

out today in order to keep the theory of evolution alive

is based solely on the distortion of the scientific

facts, biased interpretation, and lies

and falsehoods disguised as sci-

ence.

Yet this propaganda cannot conceal the truth. The fact that the

theory of evolution is the greatest deception in the history of science

has been expressed more and more in the scientific world over the

last 20-30 years. Research carried out after the 1980s in particular has

revealed that the claims of Darwinism are totally unfounded, some-

thing that has been stated by a large number of scientists. In the

United States in particular, many scientists from such different fields

as biology, biochemistry and paleontology recognize the invalidity of

Darwinism and employ the fact of creation to account for the origin

of life.

We have examined the collapse of the theory of evolution and

the proofs of creation in great scientific detail in many of our works,

and are still continuing to do so. Given the enormous importance of

this subject, it will be of great benefit to summarize it here.

The Scientific Collapse of Darwinism

Although this doctrine goes back as far as ancient Greece, the

theory of evolution was advanced extensively in the nineteenth cen-

tury. The most important development that made it the top topic of

the world of science was Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, pub-

lished in 1859. In this book, he denied that Allah created different liv-

ing species on Earth separately, for he claimed that all living beings

had a common ancestor and had diversified over time through small

changes. Darwin's theory was not based on any concrete scientific

finding; as he also accepted, it was just an "assumption." Moreover,

as Darwin confessed in the long chapter of his book titled

"Difficulties on Theory," the theory failed in the face of many critical

questions.

Darwin invested all of his hopes in new scientific discoveries,

which he expected to solve these difficulties. However, contrary to


his expectations, scientific findings ex-

panded the dimensions of these dif-

ficulties. The defeat of

Darwinism in the face of sci-

ence can be reviewed under

three basic topics:

1) The theory cannot

explain how life originated

on Earth.

2) No scientific finding

shows that the "evolutiona-

ry mechanisms" proposed

by the theory have any evo-

lutionary power at all.

3) The fossil record proves

the exact opposite of what the

theory suggests.

In this section, we will examine

these three basic points in general outlines:

The First Insurmountable Step: The Origin of Life

The theory of evolution posits that all living species evolved

from a single living cell that emerged on the primitive Earth 3.8 bil-

lion years ago. How a single cell could generate millions of complex

living species and, if such an evolution really occurred, why traces of

it cannot be observed in the fossil record are some of the questions

that the theory cannot answer. However, first and foremost, we need

to ask: How did this "first cell" originate?

Since the theory of evolution denies creation and any kind of su-

pernatural intervention, it maintains that the "first cell" originated

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Charles Darwin

coincidentally within the laws of nature, without any design, plan or

arrangement. According to the theory, inanimate matter must have

produced a living cell as a result of coincidences. Such a claim, how-

ever, is inconsistent with the most unassailable rules of biology.

Life Comes From Life

In his book, Darwin never referred to the origin of life. The

primitive understanding of science in his time rested on the assump-

tion that living beings had a very simple structure. Since medieval

times, spontaneous generation, which asserts that non-living materi-

als came together to form living organisms, had been widely accept-

ed. It was commonly believed that insects came into being from food

leftovers, and mice from wheat. Interesting experiments were con-

ducted to prove this theory. Some wheat was placed on a dirty piece

of cloth, and it was believed that mice would originate from it after

a while.

Similarly, maggots developing in rotting meat was assumed to

be evidence of spontaneous generation. However, it was later under-

stood that worms did not appear on meat

spontaneously, but were carried there by

flies in the form of larvae, invisible to the

naked eye.

Even when Darwin wrote The Origin of

Species, the belief that bacteria could come

into existence from non-living matter was

widely accepted in the world of science.

However, five years after the publica-

tion of Darwin's book, Louis Pasteur an-

nounced his results after long studies and

experiments, that disproved spontaneous


Louis Pasteur

generation, a cornerstone of Darwin's theory. In his triumphal lecture

at the Sorbonne in 1864, Pasteur said: "Never will the doctrine of

spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this

simple experiment."1

For a long time, advocates of the theory of evolution resisted

these findings. However, as the development of science unraveled

the complex structure of the cell of a living being, the idea that life

could come into being coincidentally faced an even greater impasse.

Inconclusive Efforts of the Twentieth Century

The first evolutionist who took up the subject of the origin of life

in the twentieth century was the renowned Russian biologist

Alexander Oparin. With various theses he advanced in the 1930s, he

tried to prove that a living cell could originate by coincidence. These

studies, however, were doomed to failure, and Oparin had to make the

following confession:

Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of the cell is per-

haps the most obscure point in the whole study of the evolution of

organisms.2

Evolutionist followers of Oparin tried to

carry out experiments to solve this problem.

The best known experiment was carried out

by the American chemist Stanley Miller in

1953. Combining the gases he alleged to have

existed in the primordial Earth's atmosphere

in an experiment set-up, and adding energy

to the mixture, Miller synthesized several or-

ganic molecules (amino acids) present in the

structure of proteins.

Barely a few years had passed before it

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was revealed that this experiment, which was then presented as an

important step in the name of evolution, was invalid, for the atmos-

phere used in the experiment was very different from the real Earth

conditions.3

After a long silence, Miller confessed that the atmosphere medi-

um he used was unrealistic.4

All the evolutionists' efforts throughout the twentieth century to

explain the origin of life ended in failure. The geochemist Jeffrey

Bada, from the San Diego Scripps Institute accepts this fact in an ar-

ticle published in Earth magazine in 1998:

Today as we leave the twentieth century, we still face the biggest

unsolved problem that we had when we entered the twentieth cen-

tury: How did life originate on Earth?5

The Complex Structure of Life

The primary reason why the theory of evolution ended up in

such a great impasse regarding the origin of life is that even those liv-

ing organisms deemed to be the simplest have incredibly complex

structures. The cell of a living thing is more complex than all of our

man-made technological products. Today, even in the most devel-

oped laboratories of the world, a living cell cannot be produced by

bringing organic chemicals together.

The conditions required for the formation of a cell are too great

in quantity to be explained away by coincidences. The probability of

proteins, the building blocks of a cell, being synthesized coinciden-

tally, is 1 in 10950 for an average protein made up of 500 amino acids.

In mathematics, a probability smaller than 1 over 1050 is considered

to be impossible in practical terms.

The DNA molecule, which is located in the nucleus of a cell and

which stores genetic information, is an incredible databank. If the in-


formation coded in DNA were written down, it would make a giant

library consisting of an estimated 900 volumes of encyclopedias con-

sisting of 500 pages each.

A very interesting dilemma emerges at this point: DNA can rep-

licate itself only with the help of some specialized proteins (en-

zymes). However, the synthesis of these enzymes can be realized on-

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One of the evolutionists’ gravest deceptions is the way theyimagine that life could have emerged spontaneously on whatthey refer to as the primitive earth, represented in the pictureabove. They tried to prove these claims with such studies asthe Miller experiment. Yet they again suffered defeat in theface of the scientific facts: The results obtained in the 1970sproved that the atmosphere on what they describe as theprimitive earth was totally unsuited to life.

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ly by the information coded in DNA. As they both de-

pend on each other, they have to exist at the same

time for replication. This brings the scenario that life

originated by itself to a deadlock. Prof. Leslie Orgel,

an evolutionist of repute from the University of San

Diego, California, confesses this fact in the

September 1994 issue of the Scientific American mag-

azine:

It is extremely improbable that proteins and nucle-

ic acids, both of which are structurally complex,

arose spontaneously in the same place at the same

time. Yet it also seems impossible to have one

without the other. And so, at first glance, one

might have to conclude that life could never,

in fact, have originated by chemical means.6

No doubt, if it is impossible for life to have

originated from natural causes, then it has to be

accepted that life was "created" in a supernatural

way. This fact explicitly invalidates the theory of

evolution, whose main purpose is to deny creation.


One of the facts nullifying the theory of evolution isthe incredibly complex structure of life. The DNA mol-ecule located in the nucleus of cells of living beingsis an example of this. The DNA is a sort of data-bank formed of the arrangement of four differentmolecules in different sequences. This data-bank contains the codes of all the physicaltraits of that living being. When the humanDNA is put into writing, it is calculatedthat this would result in an encyclope-dia made up of 900 volumes.Unquestionably, such extraordina-ry information definitively refutesthe concept of coincidence.

Imaginary Mechanism of Evolution

The second important point that negates Darwin's theory is that

both concepts put forward by the theory as "evolutionary mecha-

nisms" were understood to have, in reality, no evolutionary power.

Darwin based his evolution allegation entirely on the mecha-

nism of "natural selection." The importance he placed on this mech-

anism was evident in the name of his book: The Origin of Species, By

Means of Natural Selection…

Natural selection holds that those living things that are strong-

er and more suited to the natural conditions of their habitats will sur-

vive in the struggle for life. For example, in a deer herd under the

threat of attack by wild animals, those that can run faster will sur-

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According to natural selection, the strong and those able to adapt to theirsurroundings survive, while the rest disappear. Evolutionists propose thatnatural selection causes living things to evolve and results in new species.However, natural selection has no such effect and there is not a single evi-dence supporting the claim that it does.

vive. Therefore, the deer herd will be comprised of faster and strong-

er individuals. However, unquestionably, this mechanism will not

cause deer to evolve and transform themselves into another living

species, for instance, horses.

Therefore, the mechanism of natural selection has no evolution-

ary power. Darwin was also aware of this fact and had to state this in

his book The Origin of Species:

Natural selection can do nothing until favourable individual differ-

ences or variations occur.7

Lamarck’s Impact

So, how could these "favorable variations" occur?

Darwin tried to answer this question from the stand-

point of the primitive understanding of science at that

time. According to the French biologist Chevalier de

Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived before Darwin, liv-

ing creatures passed on the traits they acquired

during their lifetime to the next generation. He as-

serted that these traits, which accumulated from


Lamarck believed that giraffes evolvedfrom such animals as antelopes. In hisview, the necks of these grass-eatinganimals gradually grew longer, and theyeventually turned into giraffes. The lawsof inheritance discovered by Mendel in1865 proved that it was impossible forproperties acquired during life to behanded on to subsequent generations.Lamarck’s giraffe fairy tale was thusconsigned to the wastebin of history.

one generation to another, caused new species to be formed. For in-

stance, he claimed that giraffes evolved from antelopes; as they

struggled to eat the leaves of high trees, their necks were extended

from generation to generation.

Darwin also gave similar examples. In his book The Origin of

Species, for instance, he said that some bears going into water to find

food transformed themselves into whales over time.8

However, the laws of inheritance discovered by Gregor Mendel

(1822-84) and verified by the science of genetics, which flourished in

the twentieth century, utterly demolished the legend that acquired

traits were passed on to subsequent generations. Thus, natural selec-

tion fell out of favor as an evolutionary mechanism.

Neo-Darwinism and Mutations

In order to find a solution, Darwinists advanced the "Modern

Synthetic Theory," or as it is more commonly known, Neo-

Darwinism, at the end of the 1930s. Neo-Darwinism added muta-

tions, which are distortions formed in the genes of living beings due

to such external factors as radiation or replication errors, as the

"cause of favorable variations" in addition to natural mutation.

Today, the model that stands for evolution in the world is Neo-

Darwinism. The theory maintains that millions of living beings

formed as a result of a process whereby numerous complex organs

of these organisms (e.g., ears, eyes, lungs, and wings) underwent

"mutations," that is, genetic disorders. Yet, there is an outright scien-

tific fact that totally undermines this theory: Mutations do not cause

living beings to develop; on the contrary, they are always harmful.

The reason for this is very simple: DNA has a very complex

structure, and random effects can only harm it. The American genet-

icist B. G. Ranganathan explains this as follows:

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First, genuine mutations are very rare in nature. Secondly, most

mutations are harmful since they are random, rather than orderly

changes in the structure of genes; any random change in a highly

ordered system will be for the worse, not for the better. For exam-

ple, if an earthquake were to shake a highly ordered structure such

as a building, there would be a random change in the framework

of the building which, in all probability, would not be an improve-

ment.9

Not surprisingly, no muta-

tion example, which is useful,

that is, which is observed to de-

velop the genetic code, has

been observed so far. All mu-

tations have proved to be

harmful. It was understood


Genes, in which are coded allforms of information about thestructures and features of livingthings, are damaged as a resultof mutations—destructive ef-fects that you can clearly see inthese pictures. It is thereforeimpossible for mutations tomake any contribution to theorigin of a new species.

that mutation, which is presented as an "evolutionary mechanism,"

is actually a genetic occurrence that harms living things, and leaves

them disabled. (The most common effect of mutation on human be-

ings is cancer.) Of course, a destructive mechanism cannot be an "ev-

olutionary mechanism." Natural selection, on the other hand, "can do

nothing by itself," as Darwin also accepted. This fact shows us that

there is no "evolutionary mechanism" in nature. Since no evolution-

ary mechanism exists, no such any imaginary process called "evolu-

tion" could have taken place.

The Fossil Record: No Sign of Intermediate Forms

The clearest evidence that the scenario suggested by the theory

of evolution did not take place is the fossil record.

According to this theory, every living species has sprung from a

predecessor. A previously existing species turned into something else

over time and all species have come into being in this way. In other

words, this transformation proceeds gradually over millions of

years.

Had this been the case, numerous intermediary species should

have existed and lived within this long transformation period.

For instance, some half-fish/half-reptiles should have lived in

the past which had acquired some reptilian traits in addition to the

fish traits they already had. Or there should have existed some rep-

tile-birds, which acquired some bird traits in addition to the reptili-

an traits they already had. Since these would be in a transitional

phase, they should be disabled, defective, crippled living beings.

Evolutionists refer to these imaginary creatures, which they believe

to have lived in the past, as "transitional forms."

If such animals ever really existed, there should be millions and

even billions of them in number and variety. More importantly, the

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This fossilized ginkgo tree leaffrom the Triassic period (251 to205 million years ago) is identicalto present-day ginkgo leaves.This and many other similar fos-sil specimens totally underminethe claim that living thingsevolved from one another.

This fossil shark from theCarboniferous period (354 to292 million years ago) indi-cates that the shark existedin its present-day form mil-lions of years ago.

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The dragonfly, asubject of modernresearch by scien-tists into flight tech-niques, reveals itsperfect appearanceand characteristicsin this 140-million-year-old specimen.

A winged maple seed fossil from theOligocene epoch (33.7 to 23.8 millionyears ago)

A present-daypolyanthus

A Mioceneepoch fossil

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A maple leaf of theMiocene epoch(23.8 to 5.32 millionyears ago) and apresent-day speci-men

remains of these strange creatures should be present in the fossil

record. In The Origin of Species, Darwin explained:

If my theory be true, numberless intermediate varieties, linking

most closely all of the species of the same group together must as-

suredly have existed... Consequently, evidence of their former exis-

tence could be found only amongst fossil remains.10

Darwin’s Hopes Shattered

However, although evolutionists have been making strenuous

efforts to find fossils since the middle of the nineteenth century all

over the world, no transitional forms have yet been uncovered. All of

the fossils, contrary to the evolutionists' expectations, show that life

appeared on Earth all of a sudden and fully-formed.

One famous British paleontologist, Derek V. Ager, admits this

fact, even though he is an evolutionist:

The point emerges that if we examine the fossil record in detail,

whether at the level of orders or of species, we find – over and over

again – not gradual evolution, but the sudden explosion of one

group at the expense of another.11

This means that in the fossil record, all living species suddenly

emerge as fully formed, without any intermediate forms in between.

This is just the opposite of Darwin's assumptions. Also, this is very

strong evidence that all living things are created. The only explana-

tion of a living species emerging suddenly and complete in every de-

tail without any evolutionary ancestor is that it was created. This fact

is admitted also by the widely known evolutionist biologist Douglas

Futuyma:

Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possible expla-

nations for the origin of living things. Organisms either appeared

on the earth fully developed or they did not. If they did not, they


must have developed from pre-existing species by some process of

modification. If they did appear in a fully developed state, they

must indeed have been created by some omnipotent intelligence.12

Fossils show that living beings emerged fully developed and in

a perfect state on the Earth. That means that "the origin of species,"

contrary to Darwin's supposition, is not evolution, but creation.

The Tale of Human Evolution

The subject most often brought up by advocates of the theory of

evolution is the subject of the origin of man. The Darwinist claim

holds that modern man evolved from ape-like creatures. During this

alleged evolutionary process, which is supposed to have started 4-5

million years ago, some "transitional forms" between modern man

and his ancestors are supposed to have existed. According to this

completely imaginary scenario, four basic "categories" are listed:

1. Australopithecus

2. Homo habilis

3. Homo erectus

4. Homo sapiens

Evolutionists call man's so-called first ape-like ancestors

Australopithecus, which means "South African ape." These living be-

ings are actually nothing but an old ape species that has become ex-

tinct. Extensive research done on various Australopithecus speci-

mens by two world famous anatomists from England and the USA,

namely, Lord Solly Zuckerman and Prof. Charles Oxnard, shows that

these apes belonged to an ordinary ape species that became extinct

and bore no resemblance to humans.13

Evolutionists classify the next stage of human evolution as "ho-

mo," that is "man." According to their claim, the living beings in the

Homo series are more developed than Australopithecus. Evolutionists

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devise a fanciful evolution scheme by arranging different fossils of

these creatures in a particular order. This scheme is imaginary be-

cause it has never been proved that there is an evolutionary relation

between these different classes. Ernst Mayr, one of the twentieth cen-

tury's most important evolutionists, contends in his book One Long

Argument that "particularly historical [puzzles] such as the origin of

life or of Homo sapiens, are extremely difficult and may even resist

a final, satisfying explanation."14

By outlining the link chain as Australopithecus > Homo habilis >

Homo erectus > Homo sapiens, evolutionists imply that each of these

species is one another's ancestor. However, recent findings of paleo-

anthropologists have revealed that Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and

Homo erectus lived at different parts of the world at the same time.15

Moreover, a certain segment of humans classified as Homo erec-

tus have lived up until very modern times. Homo sapiens neandarthal-

ensis and Homo sapiens sapiens (modern man) co-existed in the same

region.16

This situation apparently indicates the invalidity of the claim

that they are ancestors of one another. Stephen Jay Gould explained

this deadlock of the theory of evolution, although he was himself one

of the leading advocates of evolution in the twentieth century:

What has become of our ladder if there are three coexisting linea-

ges of hominids (A. africanus, the robust australopithecines, and H.

habilis), none clearly derived from another? Moreover, none of the

three display any evolutionary trends during their tenure on

earth.17

Put briefly, the scenario of human evolution, which is "upheld"

with the help of various drawings of some "half ape, half human"

creatures appearing in the media and course books, that is, frankly,

by means of propaganda, is nothing but a tale with no scientific

foundation.


Lord Solly Zuckerman, one of the most famous and respected

scientists in the U.K., who carried out research on this subject for

years and studied Australopithecus fossils for 15 years, finally con-

cluded, despite being an evolutionist himself, that there is, in fact, no

such family tree branching out from ape-like creatures to man.

Zuckerman also made an interesting "spectrum of science" ran-

ging from those he considered scientific to those he considered un-

scientific. According to Zuckerman's spectrum, the most "scientific"

– that is, depending on concrete data – fields of science are chemis-

try and physics. After them come the biological sciences and then the

social sciences. At the far end of the spectrum, which is the part con-

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Evolutionist newspapers and magazines often print pictures of primitive man.The only available source for these pictures is the imagination of the artist.Evolutionary theory has been so dented by scientific data that today we seeless and less of it in the serious press.

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sidered to be most "unscientific," are "extra-sensory perception" –

concepts such as telepathy and sixth sense – and finally "human ev-

olution." Zuckerman explains his reasoning:

We then move right off the register of objective truth into those

fields of presumed biological science, like extrasensory perception

or the interpretation of man's fossil history, where to the faithful

[evolutionist] anything is possible – and where the ardent believer

[in evolution] is sometimes able to believe several contradictory

things at the same time.18

The tale of human evolution boils down to nothing but the prej-

udiced interpretations of some fossils unearthed by certain people,

who blindly adhere to their theory.

Darwinian Formula!

Besides all the technical evidence we have dealt with so far, let

us now for once, examine what kind of a superstition the evolution-

ists have with an example so simple as to be understood even by

children:

The theory of evolution asserts that life is formed by chance.

According to this claim, lifeless and unconscious atoms came togeth-

er to form the cell and then they somehow formed other living

things, including man. Let us think about that. When we bring to-

gether the elements that are the building-blocks of life such as car-

bon, phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium, only a heap is formed. No

matter what treatments it undergoes, this atomic heap cannot form

even a single living being. If you like, let us formulate an "experi-

ment" on this subject and let us examine on the behalf of evolution-

ists what they really claim without pronouncing loudly under the

name "Darwinian formula":

Let evolutionists put plenty of materials present in the compo-


sition of living things such as phosphorus, nitrogen, carbon, oxygen,

iron, and magnesium into big barrels. Moreover, let them add in

these barrels any material that does not exist under normal condi-

tions, but they think as necessary. Let them add in this mixture as

many amino acids and as many proteins – a single one of which has

a formation probability of 10-950 – as they like. Let them expose these

mixtures to as much heat and moisture as they like. Let them stir

these with whatever technologically developed device they like. Let

them put the foremost scientists beside these barrels. Let these ex-

perts wait in turn beside these barrels for billions, and even trillions

of years. Let them be free to use all kinds of conditions they believe

to be necessary for a human's formation. No matter what they do,

they cannot produce from these barrels a human, say a professor that

examines his cell structure under the electron microscope. They can-

not produce giraffes, lions, bees, canaries, horses, dolphins, roses, or-

chids, lilies, carnations, bananas, oranges, apples, dates, tomatoes,

melons, watermelons, figs, olives, grapes, peaches, peafowls, pheas-

ants, multicoloured butterflies, or millions of other living beings

such as these. Indeed, they could not obtain even a single cell of any

one of them.

Briefly, unconscious atoms cannot form the cell by coming to-

gether. They cannot take a new decision and divide this cell into two,

then take other decisions and create the professors who first invent

the electron microscope and then examine their own cell structure

under that microscope. Matter is an unconscious, lifeless heap, and it

comes to life with Allah's superior creation.

The theory of evolution, which claims the opposite, is a total fal-

lacy completely contrary to reason. Thinking even a little bit on the

claims of evolutionists discloses this reality, just as in the above exam-

ple.

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Technology in the Eye and the Ear

Another subject that remains unanswered by evolutionary the-

ory 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 op-

positely on the eye's retina. Here, these light rays are transmitted in-

to electric signals by cells and reach a tiny spot at the back of the

brain, the "center of vision." These electric signals are perceived in

this center 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 its inside is

completely dark, and that no light reaches the place where it is locat-

ed. Thus, the "center of vision" is never touched by light and may

even be the darkest place you have ever known. However, you ob-

serve 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 twentieth century has not been able to attain it.

For instance, look at the book you are reading, your hands with

which you are holding it, and 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 pro-

duced by the greatest television producer in the world cannot pro-

vide such a sharp image for you. This is a three-dimensional, col-

ored, and extremely sharp image. For more than 100 years, thou-

sands 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

with depth.

For many years, tens of thousands of engineers have tried to

make a three-dimensional TV and achieve 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 special 3-D 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.

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The brain is closed to sound, as well aslight. Yet we hear the clearest sounds andsee the most perfect images in our brains.No technology has achieved the like of theflawless perceptory systems provided by theeye and ear. The eye and ear are manifesta-tions of Allah's great compassion and cre-ative artistry.

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 of 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, and the inner ear sends these vibrations to the brain by trans-

lating them into electric signals. Just as with the eye, the act of hear-

ing 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 as 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 completely silent brain, you listen to

symphonies, and hear all of the noises in a crowded place. However,

were the sound level in your brain measured by a precise device at

that moment, complete silence would be found to be 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 origi-

nal. The results of these efforts are sound recorders, high-fidelity sys-

tems, and systems for sensing sound. Despite all of 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 largest 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 pro-

ducts of the human body's technology are extremely sharp and clear.

A human ear never perceives a sound accompanied by a hissing

sound or with atmospherics as does a hi-fi; rather, 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 man-made visual or recording apparatus 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 truth lies beyond all this.

To Whom Does the Consciousness that Sees and

Hears within the Brain Belong?

Who watches an alluring world in the brain, listens to sympho-

nies and the twittering of birds, and smells the rose?

The stimulations coming from a person's eyes, ears, and nose

travel to the brain as electro-chemical nerve 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: Who perceives these electro-

chemical nerve impulses as images, sounds, odors, and sensory

events in the brain? There is a consciousness in the brain that per-

ceives all this without feeling any need for an eye, an ear, and a nose.

To whom does this consciousness belong? Of course it does not be-

long to the nerves, the fat layer, and neurons comprising the brain.

This is why Darwinist-materialists, who believe that everything is

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comprised of matter, cannot answer these questions.

For this consciousness is the spirit created by Allah, which

needs neither the eye to watch the images nor the ear to hear the

sounds. Furthermore, it does not need the brain to think.

Everyone who reads this explicit and scientific fact should pon-

der on Almighty Allah, and fear and seek refuge in Him, for He

squeezes the entire universe in a pitch-dark place of a few cubic cen-

timeters in a three-dimensional, colored, shadowy, and luminous

form.

A Materialist Faith

The information we have presented so far shows us that the the-

ory of evolution is incompatible with scientific findings. The theory's

claim regarding the origin of life is inconsistent with science, the ev-

olutionary mechanisms it proposes have no evolutionary power, and

fossils demonstrate that the required intermediate forms have 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 agen-


It is the soul created by Allah that perceives the taste, appearance and smellof the food we eat. The soul has no need of eyes to see images or ears tohear sounds. Neither does it need a brain with which to think. Almighty Allahfits the entire universe, in a three-dimensional, brightly colored form, into apitch-black space no larger than a few cubic centimeters in size within thehuman brain.

da of science throughout history.

However, the theory of evolution is kept on the agenda of sci-

ence. Some people even try to represent criticisms directed against it

as an "attack on science." Why?

The reason is that this theory is an indispensable dogmatic belief

for some circles. These circles are blindly devoted to materialist philos-

ophy and adopt Darwinism because it is the only materialist explana-

tion that can be put forward to explain 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 com-

pel us accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but,

on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to ma-

terial causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of

concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how coun-

ter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated.

Moreover, that materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a

Divine [intervention]...19

These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma kept

alive just for the sake of adherence to materialism. This dogma main-

tains that there is no being save matter. Therefore, it argues that in-

animate, unconscious matter created life. It insists that millions of

different living species (e.g., birds, fish, giraffes, tigers, insects, trees,

flowers, whales, and human beings) originated as a result of the in-

teractions between matter such as pouring rain, lightning flashes,

and so on, 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 intervention."

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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 Allah, Who created the whole universe from non-ex-

istence, designed it in the most perfect form, and fashioned all living

beings.

The Theory of Evolution:

The Most Potent Spell in the World

Anyone free of prejudice and the influence of any particular ide-

ology, who uses only his or her reason and logic, will clearly under-

stand that belief in the theory of evolution, which brings to mind the

superstitions of societies with no knowledge of science or civiliza-

tion, is quite impossible.

As explained above, those who believe in the theory of evolu-

tion think that a few atoms and molecules thrown into a huge vat

could produce thinking, reasoning professors and university stu-

dents; 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 peo-

ples' 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 wor-

shipping the Sun, the tribe of Abraham (pbuh) worshipping idols

they had made with their own hands, or the people of 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 pun-

ishment. (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 un-

der 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 uncon-

scious and lifeless atoms suddenly decided to come together and

form a universe that functions with a flawless system of organiza-

tion, 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, the Qur'an relates the incident of Moses (pbuh) and

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Pharaoh to show that some people who support atheistic philoso-

phies actually influence others by magic. When Pharaoh was told

about the true religion, he told Prophet Moses (pbuh) to meet with

his own magicians. When Moses (pbuh) did so, he told them to dem-

onstrate 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 ev-

eryone, apart from Moses (pbuh) and those who believed in him.

However, his evidence broke the spell, or "swallowed up what they

had forged," as the verse puts it:

We revealed to Moses: "Throw down your staff." And it im-

mediately swallowed up what they had forged. So the Truth


In the same way that the beliefs of people who worshipped crocodiles nowseem odd and unbelievable, so the beliefs of Darwinists are just as incredi-ble. Darwinists regard chance and lifeless, unconscious atoms as a creativeforce, and are as devoted to that belief as if to a religion.

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 ridicu-

lous claims under their scientific disguise and spend their lives de-

fending 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 in-

credible credulity that it has.20

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 evo-

lution as the worst deceit and the most terrible spell in the world.

That spell is already rapidly beginning to be lifted from the shoul-

ders of people all over the world. Many people who see its true face

are wondering with amazement how they could ever have been tak-

en in by it.

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