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The Origin of Life and the Universe


            kind. So life is only generated from life. Each living cell is replicated by
            another cell, formed by the replication of another cell. Therefore the first
            life on earth must have originated from another life. This is the manifestation
            of the name of God, ‘Hayy’ (meaning, the Owner of Life). Life can only
            start and continue and end by His will.
                Now, neo-Darwinism, which is the "mainstream" argument today,
            claims that there are two imaginary mechanisms of evolution: "Natural
            selection" and "mutations". They say this is the claim of Darwinism, that
            there are two complementary factors. First they say, mutations help new
            traits to be developed, and suitable ones are selected by natural selection
            therefore they say living things evolve. But this is very unscientific.
                First, you see this is a slide about the natural selection and mutations
            always cause asymmetry and pathology. I will go into detail. Natural
            selection holds that the living things which are more suited to the natural
            conditions of their habitats will succeed and produce an offspring, and
            those, which are unfit, will vanish. Take this example over here. If a herd
            of deer is threatened by predators like jaguars, leopards or lions for
            example, of course those which run faster will survive. That is true.
            However no matter how long this process goes on there will be only faster
            running deer. It will not transform it into another species such as horses,
            because natural selection cannot change DNA by any means. It cannot
            add new genetic information; it cannot generate brand-new proteins or
            brand new organs. It only eliminates the weak or sick individuals from the
            population. Natural selection is not capable of planning and foresight. So,
            it is impossible for a blind and unconscious mechanism such as natural
            selection to have created all these complex design and information in
            living things. What is nature? Nature is air, soil and rocks. Nature itself is
            created; it cannot have any consciousness. The consciousness belongs to
            the omnipotent intelligence of God.
                So natural selection is not a conscious mechanism of course. That is
            the reason why Charles Darwin admitted in his book, he is the first one
            who talked about natural selection. But in his book he said, "Natural
            selection can do nothing until favorable variations chance to occur”. And
                as the cause of these favorable variations, the Neo-Darwinists had to
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