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they are even further astray! They are the

unaware. (Qur'an, 7: 179)
In another verse (15: 14-15), God says
that these people have been so bewitched

that they would not believe even if they wit-
nessed miracles:
Even if We opened up to them a door
into heaven, and they spent the day
ascending through it, they would on-
ly say, "Our eyesight is befuddled! Or
rather we have been put under a
spell!"

That this spell has such a wide effect on
the world, that it has been able to keep so
many people so removed from the truth

without being broken for 150 years is too
amazing for words to express. Yes, it's under-
standable that one or two people could be-
lieve in impossible propositions, in nonsensi-

cal claims. But it seems wholly preposterous
for people all over the world to believe that
lifeless, unconscious atoms suddenly decid-
ed to come together, abruptly display extra-

ordinary organization, discipline and con-
scious intelligence and, operating flawlessly,
produce the universe, planet Earth with all its
life-sustaining qualities, and living things en-

dowed with their innumerable and complex
systems.
THE FEATHER OF A
GOLDEN PHEASANT