Page 327 - Darwinism Refuted

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

brain. The information one has about the red of an apple, the hardness of
wood—moreover, one's mother, father, family, and everything that one
owns, one's house, job, and even the pages of this book—is comprised of
electrical signals only. In other words, we can never know the true color of
the apple in the outside world, nor the true structure of wood there, nor
the real appearance of our parents and the ones we love. They all exist in
the outside world as Allah’s creations, but we can only have direct
experience of the copies in our brains for so long as we live.
To clarify, let's consider the five senses which provide us with all our
information about the external world.

How Do We See, Hear, and Taste?
The act of seeing occurs in a progressive fashion. Light (photons)
traveling from the object passes through the lens in front of the eye, where
the image is refracted and falls, upside down, onto the retina at the back
of the eye. Here, visual stimuli are turned into electrical signals, in turn
transmitted by neurons to a tiny spot in the rear of the brain known as the
vision center. After a series of processes, these electrical signals in this
brain center are perceived as an image. The act of seeing actually takes
place at the posterior of the brain, in this tiny spot which is pitch dark,
completely insulated from light.
Even though this process is largely understood, when we claim, "We
see," in fact we are perceiving the effects of impulses reaching our eye,
transformed into electrical signals, and induced in our brain. And so, when
we say, "We see," actually we are observing electrical signals in our mind.
All the images we view in our lives are formed in our center of vision,
which takes up only a few cubic centimeters in the brain's volume. The
book you are now reading, as well as the boundless landscape you see
when you gaze at the horizon, both occur in this tiny space. And keep in
mind that, as noted before, the brain is insulated from light. Inside the
skull is absolutely dark; and the brain itself has no contact with light that
exists outside.
An example can illustrate this interesting paradox. Suppose we place
a burning candle in front of you. You can sit across from it and watch this
candle at length. During this time, however, your brain never has any
direct contact with the candle's original light. Even while you perceive the

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