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False god of chance, the ing in a forest. Because the sudden
emergence of a fully-formed complex
One evolutionist claim demolished
structure shows that it was brought into
th
by 20 -century science is that of chan-
existence by a conscious will. A system
ce. Research conducted since the 1960s
as complex as the cell is of course the
has revealed that all the physical balan-
product of a sublime knowledge and
ces in the universe have been delicately
will—in other words, it was created by
regulated for human life. All the physi-
our Almighty Lord, God.
cal, chemical and biological laws in the
Evolutionists believe that coinciden-
universe, basic forces such as electro-
ces can give rise to flawless structures,
magnetism, and the structures of the
though here they part ways with reason
atom and the elements have all been re-
and logic. The famous French zoologist
gulated in such a way as to make human
Pierre Grassé, formerly president of the
life possible. Western scientists today
French Academy of Sciences, is also a
call this extraordinary creation the Ant-
materialist, but maintains that Darwinist
hropic Principle. In other words, every
theory cannot account for life. He says
detail in the universe possesses a special
this about the logic of coincidence that
creation that enables human life. (See
represents the foundation of Darwinism:
Anthropic Principle, the.)
The opportune appearance of mutations
The sudden emergence of a complex
permitting animals and plants to meet
structure is very definitely not anything
their needs seems hard to believe. Yet the
that can be explained in terms of chance.
Darwinian theory is even more deman-
For example, if you see a brand-new ma- ding: a single plant, a single animal wo-
ke of car among the trees in a forest, you uld require thousands and thousands of
will not imagine that various elements lucky, appropriate events. Thus, miracles
combined to produce it over the course would become the rule: events with an
of millions of years. All the raw materi- infinitesimal probability could not fail to
als in a car, such as iron, plastic and rub- occur. . . . There is no law against day
ber, either come directly from the Earth dreaming, but science must not indulge
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or are products of it. Yet this does not in it.
imply that these substances were ran- Grassé goes on to summarize what
domly synthesized and then combined to the concept of coincidence means for
produce a car. evolutionists:
Any rational, logical person will na- . . . chance becomes a sort of providence,
turally realize that the car was designed which, under the cover of atheism, is not
by intelligent humans and constructed in named but which is secretly worship-
a factory, and will wonder what it is do- ped. 161

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)