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the day with the night, each pursuing the other urgently; and
the Sun and Moon and stars are subservient to His command.
Both Creation and command belong to Him. Blessed be Allah,
the Lord of all worlds. (Surat al-A'raf: 54)
Unsurprisingly, the discovery of this truth by science upset quite a few
scientists and it continues to do so. These are scientists who equate science
with materialism; they are people who are convinced that science and re-
ligion can never get along and that being "scientific" is synonymous with
being an atheist. They have been trained to believe that the universe and
all the life in it can be explained as the product of chance events that are
completely devoid of any intention. When such people encounter the ob-
vious fact of Creation, their great dismay and confusion are natural.
In order to understand the consternation of materialists, we need to take
a brief look at the question of the origin of life.

The Origin of Life
The origin of life, which is to say, the question of how the first living
things came into being on Earth, is one of
the biggest dilemmas confronting materi-
There are 2,000 types of
alists in the last century and a half. Why
proteins in a simple bac-
should that be so? It's because even a sin-
terium. The probability
gle living cell, the smallest unit of life, is
of their all coming into
incomparably more complex than even existence by accident is
the greatest technological achievements 1 in 10 40.000 . In a human
of the human race. The laws of probabil- being there are 200,000
ity make it clear that not even a single types of proteins. The
protein could ever have come into exis- word "impossible" is too
tence by mere chance; and if this is true tame to describe the
of proteins–the most basic building- likelihood of such an
blocks of cells–the accidental formation event occurring by
of a complete cell is not even thinkable. chance.
This is of course proof of Creation.