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Technology In The Eye and The Ear |
Another subject that remains unanswered by evolutionary theory is
the excellent quality of perception in the eye and the ear.
Before passing on to the subject of the eye, let us briefly answer
the question of “how we see.” Light rays coming from an object fall
oppositely on the retina of the eye. Here, these light rays are
transmitted into electric signals by cells and they reach a tiny
spot at the back of the brain called the centre of vision. These
electric signals are perceived in this centre of the brain as an
image after a series of processes. With this technical background,
let us do some thinking.
The brain is insulated from light. That means that the inside of the
brain is solid dark, and light does not reach the location where the
brain is situated. The place called the centre of vision is a solid
dark place where no light ever reaches; it may even be the darkest
place you have ever known. However, you observe a luminous, bright
world in this pitch darkness.
The image formed in the eye is so sharp and distinct that even the
technology of the twentieth century has not been able to attain it.
For instance, look at the book you read, your hands with which you
hold it, then lift your head and look around you. Have you ever seen
such a sharp and distinct image as this one at any other place? Even
the most developed television screen produced by the greatest
television producer in the world cannot provide such a sharp image
for you. This is a three-dimensional, coloured, and extremely sharp
image. For more than 100 years, thousands of engineers have been
trying to achieve this sharpness. Factories, huge premises were
established, much research has been done, plans and designs have
been made for this purpose. Again, look at a TV screen and the book
you hold in your hands. You will see that there is a big difference
in sharpness and distinction. Moreover, the TV screen shows you a
two-dimensional image, whereas with your eyes, you watch a
three-dimensional perspective having depth.
For many years, ten of thousands of engineers have tried to make a
three-dimensional TV, and reach the vision quality of the eye. Yes,
they have made a three-dimensional television system but it is not
possible to watch it without putting on glasses; moreover, it is
only an artificial three-dimension. The background is more blurred,
the foreground appears like a paper setting. Never has it been
possible to produce a sharp and distinct vision like that of the
eye. In both the camera and the television, there is a loss of image
quality.
Evolutionists claim that the mechanism producing this sharp and
distinct image has been formed by chance. Now, if somebody told you
that the television in your room was formed as a result of chance,
that all its atoms just happened to come together and make up this
device that produces an image, what would you think? How can atoms
do what thousands of people cannot?
If a device producing a more primitive image than the eye could not
have been formed by chance, then it is very evident that the eye and
the image seen by the eye could not have been formed by chance. The
same situation applies to the ear. The outer ear picks up the
available sounds by the auricle and directs them to the middle ear;
the middle ear transmits the sound vibrations by intensifying them;
the inner ear sends these vibrations to the brain by translating
them into electric signals. Just as with the eye, the act of hearing
finalises in the centre of hearing in the brain.
The situation in the eye is also true for the ear. That is, the
brain is insulated from sound just like it is from light: it does
not let any sound in. Therefore, no matter how noisy is the outside,
the inside of the brain is completely silent. Nevertheless, the
sharpest sounds are perceived in the brain. In your brain, which is
insulated from sound, you listen to the symphonies of an orchestra,
and hear all the noises in a crowded place. However, if the sound
level in your brain was measured by a precise device at that moment,
it would be seen that a complete silence is prevailing there.
As is the case with imagery, decades of effort have been spent in
trying to generate and reproduce sound that is faithful to the
original. The results of these efforts are sound recorders,
high-fidelity systems, and systems for sensing sound. Despite all
this technology and the thousands of engineers and experts who have
been working on this endeavour, no sound has yet been obtained that
has the same sharpness and clarity as the sound perceived by the
ear. Think of the highest-quality HI-FI systems produced by the
biggest company in the music industry. Even in these devices, when
sound is recorded some of it is lost; or when you turn on a HI-FI
you always hear a hissing sound before the music starts. However,
the sounds that are the products of the technology of the human body
are extremely sharp and clear. A human ear never perceives a sound
accompanied by a hissing sound or with atmospherics as does HI-FI;
it perceives sound exactly as it is, sharp and clear. This is the
way it has been since the creation of man.
So far, no visual or recording apparatus produced by man has been as
sensitive and successful in perceiving sensory data as are the eye
and the ear.
However, as far as seeing and hearing are concerned, a far greater
fact lies beyond all this.
To Whom Does the Consciousness that
Sees and Hears Within
the Brain Belong?
Who is it that watches an alluring world in its brain,
listens to symphonies and the twittering of birds, and smells the
rose?
The stimulations coming from the eyes, ears, and nose of a human
being travel to the brain as electro-chemical nervous impulses. In
biology, physiology, and biochemistry books, you can find many
details about how this image forms in the brain. However, you will
never come across the most important fact about this subject: Who is
it that perceives these electro-chemical nervous impulses as images,
sounds, odours and sensory events in the brain? There is a
consciousness in the brain that perceives all this without feeling
any need for eye, ear, and nose. To whom does this consciousness
belong? There is no doubt that this consciousness does not belong to
the nerves, the fat layer and neurons comprising the brain. This is
why Darwinist-materialists, who believe that everything is comprised
of matter, cannot give any answer to these questions.
For this consciousness is the spirit created by God. The spirit
needs neither the eye to watch the images, nor the ear to hear the
sounds. Furthermore, nor does it need the brain to think.
Everyone who reads this explicit and scientific fact should ponder
on Almighty God, should fear Him and seek refuge in Him, He Who
squeezes the entire universe in a pitch-dark place of a few cubic
centimetres in a three-dimensional, coloured, shadowy, and luminous
form.
A Materialist Faith
The information we have presented so far shows us that
the theory of evolution is a claim evidently at variance with
scientific findings. The theory's claim on the origin of life is
inconsistent with science, the evolutionary mechanisms it proposes
have no evolutionary power, and fossils demonstrate that the
intermediate forms required by the theory never existed. So, it
certainly follows that the theory of evolution should be pushed
aside as an unscientific idea. This is how many ideas such as the
earth-centered universe model have been taken out of the agenda of
science throughout history.
However, the theory of evolution is pressingly kept on
the agenda of science. Some people even try to represent criticisms
directed against the theory as an “attack on science." Why?
The reason is that the theory of evolution is an
indispensable dogmatic belief for some circles. These circles are
blindly devoted to materialist philosophy and adopt Darwinism
because it is the only materialist explanation that can be put
forward for the workings of nature.
Interestingly enough, they also confess this fact from
time to time. A well known geneticist and an outspoken evolutionist,
Richard C. Lewontin from
Harvard
University, confesses that he is “first and foremost a materialist
and then a scientist":
It is not
that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us
accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the
contrary, that we are forced by our a priori adherence to material
causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts
that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive,
no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that
materialism is absolute, so we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the
door. 52
These are explicit statements that Darwinism is a dogma
kept alive just for the sake of adherence to the materialist
philosophy. This dogma maintains that there is no being save matter.
Therefore, it argues that inanimate, unconscious matter created
life. It insists that millions of different living species; for
instance, birds, fish, giraffes, tigers, insects, trees, flowers,
whales and human beings originated as a result of the interactions
between matter such as the pouring rain, the lightning flash, etc.,
out of inanimate matter. This is a precept contrary both to reason
and science. Yet Darwinists continue to defend it just so as “not to
allow a Divine Foot in the door."
Anyone who does not look at the origin of living beings
with a materialist prejudice will see this evident truth: All living
beings are works of a Creator, Who is All-Powerful, All-Wise and
All-Knowing. This Creator is God, Who created the whole universe
from non-existence, designed it in the most perfect form, and
fashioned all living beings.
The
Theory of Evolution is the
Most Potent Spell in the World
It needs to be made clear that anyone free of prejudice
and the influence of any particular ideology, who uses only his
reason and logic, will clearly understand that belief in the theory
of evolution, which brings to mind the superstitions of societies
with no knowledge of science or civilization, is quite impossible.
As has been explained above, those who believe in the
theory of evolution think that a few atoms and molecules thrown into
a huge vat could produce thinking, reasoning professors, university
students, scientists such as Einstein and Galileo, artists such as
Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Pavarotti, as well as antelopes,
lemon trees and carnations. Moreover, the scientists and professors
who believe in this nonsense are educated people. That is why it is
quite justifiable to speak of the theory of evolution as “the most
potent spell in history." Never before has any other belief or idea
so taken away peoples’powers of reason, refused to allow them to
think intelligently and logically and hidden the truth from them as
if they had been blindfolded. This is an even worse and unbelievable
blindness than the Egyptians worshipping the Sun God Ra, totem
worship in some parts of
Africa, the people of
Saba worshipping the
Sun, the tribe of the Prophet Ibrahim worshipping idols they had
made with their own hands or the people of the Prophet Musa
worshipping the Golden Calf.
In fact, this situation is a lack of reason pointed to by
God in the Qur'an. He reveals in many verses 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 disbelieve, it makes no difference to them whether
you warn them or do not warn them, they will not believe. God has
sealed up their hearts and hearing and over their eyes is a
blindfold. They will have a terrible punishment. (Surat
al-Baqara: 6-7)
… They have hearts they do not understand with. They have eyes they
do not see with. They have ears they do not hear with. Such people
are like cattle. No, they are even further astray! They are the
unaware. (Surat al-A'raf: 179)
Even if We opened up to them a door into heaven, and they spent the
day ascending through it, they would only say, “Our eyesight is
befuddled! Or rather we have been put under a spell!" (Surat
al-Hijr: 14-15)
Words cannot express just how astonishing it is that
this spell should hold such a wide community in thrall, keep people
from the truth, and not be broken for 150 years. It is
understandable that one or a few people might believe in impossible
scenarios and claims full of stupidity and illogicality. However,
“magic” is the only possible explanation for people from all over
the world believing that unconscious and lifeless atoms suddenly
decided to come together and form a universe that functions with a
flawless system of organization, discipline, reason and
consciousness, the planet Earth with all its features so perfectly
suited to life, and living things full of countless complex systems.
In fact, God reveals in the Qur'an in the incident of the
Prophet Musa and Pharaoh that some people who support atheistic
philosophies actually influence others by magic. When Pharaoh was
told about the true religion, he told the Prophet Musa to meet with
his own magicians. When the Prophet Musa did so, he told them to
demonstrate their abilities first. The verses continue:
He said, “You throw." And when they threw, they cast a
spell on the people's eyes and caused them to feel great fear of
them. They produced an extremely powerful magic. (Surat
al-A'raf: 116)
As we have seen, Pharaoh's magicians were able to deceive
everyone, apart from the Prophet Musa and those who believed in him.
However, the evidence put forward by the Prophet Musa broke that
spell, or “swallowed up what they had forged” as the verse puts it.
We revealed to Musa, “Throw down your staff." And it
immediately swallowed up what they had forged. So the Truth took
place and what they did was shown to be false. (Surat
al-A'raf: 117-119)
As we can see from that verse, when it was realized that
what these people who had first cast a spell over others had done
was just an illusion, they lost all credibility. In the present day
too, unless those who under the influence of a similar spell believe
in these ridiculous claims under their scientific disguise and spend
their lives defending them abandon them, they too will be humiliated
when the full truth emerges and the spell is broken. In fact,
Malcolm Muggeridge, an atheist philosopher and supporter of
evolution admitted he was worried by just that prospect:
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution,
especially the extent to which it's been applied, will be one of the
great jokes in the history books in the future. Posterity will
marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be
accepted with the incredible credulity that it has.53
That future is not far off: On the contrary, people will
soon see that “chance” is not a god, and will look back on the
theory of evolution as the worst deceit and the most terrible spell
in the world. That spell is already rapidly beginning to be lifted
from the shoulders of people all over the world. Many people who see
the true face of the theory of evolution are wondering with
amazement how it was that they were ever taken in by it.
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