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Adnan Oktar
                                         (Harun Yahya)




                  scenarios and claims full of stupidity and illogicality. How-
                 ever, "spell" is the only possible word to use when people from
             all over the world believe that unconscious and lifeless atoms sud-
             denly decided to come together and form a universe that functions
             with a flawless system of organization, discipline, reason, and con-
             sciousness; a planet named Earth with all its features so perfectly

             suited to life; and living things full of countless complex systems.

                 In fact, in the Qur'an God relates the incident of the Prophet
             Moses (pbuh) and Pharaoh to show that some people who support
             atheistic philosophies actually influence others by use of spells.
             When Pharaoh was told about the true religion, he told the Prophet
             Moses (pbuh) to meet with his own magicians. When the Prophet
             Moses (pbuh) 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. (Qur'an, 7:116)
                 As we have seen, Pharaoh's magicians were able to deceive
             everyone, apart from the Prophet Moses (pbuh) and those who

             believed in him. However, his evidence broke the spell, or "swal-
             lowed up what they had forged," as revealed in the verse:

                 We revealed to Moses: "Throw down your staff." And it immedi-
                 ately swallowed up what they had forged. So the Truth took
                 place and what they did was shown to be false. (Qur'an, 7:117-
                 118)
                 The Prophet Moses' throwing his staff of inanimate wood and
             then that staff coming to life and instantly overthrowing the decep-

             tions of the Pharaoh and his followers is like breaking the spell of
             evolution. When people realized that a spell had been cast upon
             them and that what they saw was just an illusion, Pharaoh's magi-




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