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Let's think of an aspirin pill for a moment; you will immediately recall
the mark in the middle of it. This mark is designed in order to help those
who intake half a dose. Every product that we see around us is of a certain
design even though not as simple as the aspirin pill. Everything from
vehicles we use to go to work, to TV remotes.
"Design", briefly, means a harmonious assembling of various
parts into an orderly form towards a common goal. Going by this definition,
one would have no difficulty in guessing that a car is a design. This
is because there is a certain goal, which is to transport people and cargo.
In realization of this goal various parts such as the engine, tires and
body are planned and assembled in the plant.
However, what about a living creature? Can a bird and mechanics of its
flying be a design as well? Before giving an answer, let us repeat the
evaluation we did for the example of a car. The goal at hand, in this
case, is to fly. For this purpose, hollowed bones, strong muscles that
move these bones are utilized together with feathers capable of suspending
in the air. Wings are formed aerodynamically, and metabolism is in tune
with the bird's need for high levels of energy. It is obvious that the
bird is product of a certain design.
If one explores other creatures besides a bird, similar facts are attained.
There are examples of a certain meticulous design in every creature. If
one continues further on this quest, one would discover that our selves
are also a part of this certain design. Your hands that hold these pages
are functional as no robot hands could ever be. Your eyes that read these
lines are making vision possible with such focus that the best camera
on earth simply cannot.
Hence one arrives at this important conclusion; all creatures in Nature,
including us, are of a Design. This, in turn, shows the existence
of a Creator Who designs all creatures at will, sustains the entire nature
and holds absolute power and wisdom.
However, this truth is rejected by the theory of evolution that was formed
in the middle of 19th century. The theory set forth in Charles Darwin's
book "On The Origin of Species" asserts that all creatures
evolved within a chain of coincidences and essentially mutated from one
another.
According to the fundamental assertion of this theory all living things
go through minute and coincidental changes. If these coincidental changes
help the creature then it gains advantage over the others, which in turn
is carried onto following generations.
This scenario has been passed around as if it is a very scientific and
convincing one for 140 years. When scrutinized under a bigger microscope
and when compared against the examples of the Design in creatures Darwin's
theory paints a very different picture i.e. Darwinism's explanation of
creation is nothing more than a self-conflicting vicious circle.
Let us first focus on the "coincidental changes". Darwin could
not provide a comprehensive definition to this concept due to lack of
genealogical knowledge in his time. The evolutionists who followed him
put forth the concept of "mutation" on this subject. Mutation
is arbitrary disconnections, dislocation or shifts of genes in living
things. Most important point is that there is not one single mutation
in history that is shown to improve the condition of genetic information
of a creature. Nearly all the known cases of mutations disable or harm
these creatures and the rest are neutral in effect. Therefore, to think
that a creature can improve through mutation is same as shooting at a
crowd of people and hope that the injuries will result in healthier and
improved individuals. This would clearly be nonsense.
As importantly, on contrary to all the scientific data, even if one assumes
that a certain mutation could actually improve a being's condition, Darwinism
still cannot be delivered from inevitable collapse. The reason for this
is a concept called "irreducible complexity".
The implication of this concept is that majority of systems and organs
in living things function as a result of various independent parts working
together, elimination or disabling of even one of which would be enough
to disable the entire system or organ.
For example, an ear perceives sounds only through a chain reaction of
a series of smaller organs. Take out or deform one of these, e.g. one
of the bones of the middle ear, and there would be no hearing whatsoever.
In order for an ear to perceive a variety of components such as auditory
meatus, malleous, incus and stapes bones, tympanic membrane, cochlea and
fluid, sensory cells, vibration sensor extensions of these cells, net
of nerves that connect to brain and hearing center in the brain have to
work together without exception.
The system could not have developed in segments because none of the
segments could possibly function alone at all.
Hence the concept of irreducible complexity demolishes the theory of
evolution from its foundations. What is really interesting is the fact
that Darwin also worried about these very prospects. He wrote in On The
Origin of Species:
"If the impossibility of formation of a complex organ
through a series of small changes was ever to be proven my theory would
have certainly collapsed. However I could not find such an organ..."
(Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition,
Harvard University Press, 1964, page 189.)
Darwin could not or might not have wanted to find such an organ at the
premature levels of 19th century science. However the science of 20th
century did study the nature down to minute details and proved that majority
of living structures embody irreducible complexity. Therefore, Darwin's
theory has most "certainly collapsed" just as he feared.
As we examine the living beings we will not only see an immense error
Darwinism makes but also witness the greatness of wisdom that these systems
were created with. These mechanisms will be found anywhere from the
wings of a bird to inside a bat's skull. Hence we will see the indisputable
evidences of God's creation without error. Likewise, the power and faculty
of God to create without error is expressed in a surah of Qur'an as follows:
"He is God - the Creator, the Maker, the Giver
of Form. To Him belong the Most Beautiful Names. Everything in the heavens
and earth glorifies Him. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise." (Qur'an,
Al-Hashr, 59:24)
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