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FAITH: THE WAY TO HAPPINESS

these with whatever technologically developed device they like. Let
them put the foremost scientists beside these barrels. Let these ex-
perts wait in turn beside these barrels for billions, and even trillions
of years. Let them be free to use all kinds of conditions they believe
to be necessary for a human's formation. No matter what they do,
they cannot produce from these barrels a human, say a pro f e s s o r
that examines his cell structure under the electron microscope. They
cannot produce giraffes, lions, bees, canaries, horses, dolphins,
roses, orchids, lilies, carnations, bananas, oranges, apples, dates,
tomatoes, melons, watermelons, figs, olives, grapes, peaches,
peafowls, pheasants, multicoloured butterflies, or millions of other
living beings such as these. Indeed, they could not obtain even a sin-
gle cell of any one of them.
B r i e f l y, unconscious atoms cannot form the cell by coming to-
g e t h e r. They cannot take a new decision and divide this cell into
two, then take other decisions and create the professors who first in-
vent the electron microscope and then examine their own cell struc-
ture under that microscope. Matter is an unconscious, lifeless heap,
and it comes to life with Allah's superior creation.
The theory of evolution, which claims the opposite, is a total
fallacy completely contrary to reason. Thinking even a little bit on
the claims of tevolutionists discloses this reality, just as in the above
example.

Technology in the Eye and the Ear
Another subject that remains unanswered by evolutionary the-
ory is the excellent quality of perception in the eye and the ear.
Before passing on to the subject of the eye, let us briefly answer
the question of how we see. Light rays coming from an object fall
oppositely on the eye's retina. Here, these light rays are transmitted

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