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MUTATIONS ARE THE FOE OF SYMMETRY

The mathematical proportionality in the leaves of a sunflower, the shell of a snail, a pinecone or the
length of our fingers is one of the extraordinary beauties and blessings created by Allah. This is the aston-
ishing harmony known to scientists as the “golden ratio.” The characteristic of this sequence, discovered by
Leonardo Fibonacci, the most eminent mathematician of the Middle Ages, is that each number in it is the
sum of the two preceding ones.
The Fibonacci sequence goes; 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, ...
Divided by the one before, the numbers in the sequence produce very similar results. Indeed, after the

13th number the figure is always identical. This is the figure known as the “golden ratio,” 1.618.
As a miracle of Allah’s, this wondrous ratio can be seen in a great many entities in nature. The golden
ratio can be found in the DNA helix in our cells, in the shape of galaxies in space, in snow crystals, micro-
organisms, in horns and teeth and in snail shells. But the most striking example of all is the human body, in
which;
The length of the face – the width of the face,
The space between the lips and where the eyebrows meet – the length of the nose,

The length of the face – the space between the tip of the jaw and where the eyebrows meet,
The length of the mouth – the width of the nose,
The width of the nose – the distance between the nostrils,
The distance between the pupils – the distance between the eyebrows,
The distance between the fingertip and the elbow – the distance between the wrist and the elbow,
The distance from shoulder level to the top of the head – the length of
the head,
The distance between the navel and the top of the head – the distance
from shoulder level to the top of the head,

The distance between the navel and the knee – the distance between the
knee and the tip of the foot,
Are all examples of perfect golden ratios.
Our Lord reveals in the Qur’an that “Allah has appointed a measure
for all things.” (Qur’an, 65:3). The "Golden Ratio" is thus one of the most
sublime proofs of Allah's creation. (For greater detail, see http://www.harun-
yahya.com/presentation/goldenratio/index.html)

The perfect symmetry and the golden ratio observable in living things
by themselves overturn all the Darwinists’ claims of evolution. This is be-
cause mutations, to which Darwinists ascribe a sup-
posed "evolutionary force," are the enemies of symme-
try. According to Darwinists’ claims, when haphazard
mutations come about there should be no golden ratio in
living things. There should be total imbalance and dis-
order because mutations are disordered phenomena.
Mutations cannot produce an arm

that did not exist before, a hand
proportionate to it, or fingers
again in line with a mathe-
matical ratio. Moreover,
they cannot then produce
another arm of the same

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