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with perfect organs such as eyes, ears, wings, hands and consciousness-
related qualities such as thinking, learning, and reasoning.
Unquestionably, this claim is even more unreasonable than the above
example of the addition of the chapter called "The History of Ancient
China" to a book on world history as a result of the accumulation of letter
errors. (Moreover there is no mechanism in nature that causes regular
mutations as in the example of the type-setter making regular mistakes.
The mutations in nature take place much more rarely than the letter errors
that would occur during the type-setting of a book.)
Every "explanation" put forward by the theory of evolution on the
origin of life is unreasonable and unscientific. One outspoken authority on
this issue is the famous French zoologist Pierre Grassé, the former
president of the French Academy of Sciences. Grassé is also an
evolutionist, but he states clearly that Darwinist theory is unable to
explain life and makes his point about the logic of "coincidence," which is
the backbone of Darwinism:
The opportune appearance of mutations permitting animals and
plants to meet their needs seems hard to believe. Yet the Darwinian
theory is even more demanding: A single plant, a single animal
would require thousands and thousands of lucky, appropriate
events. Thus, miracles would become the rule: events with an
infinitesimal probability could not fail to occur… There is no law
against day-dreaming, but science must not indulge in it. 6
Indeed, the theory of evolution, which claims that lifeless matter
came together by itself and formed living beings with such glorious
systems as DNA, is a scenario totally contrary to science and reason. All
this leads us to an evident conclusion. Since life has a plan (DNA) and all
living beings are fashioned according to this plan, it is evident that there
is a superior Creator who devised this plan. This simply means that all
living beings are created by God, the All-Powerful, All-Wise. God states
this fact in the Qur'an in this way:
He is God – the Creator, the Maker, the Giver of Form. To Him
belong the Most Beautiful Names. Everything in the heavens and
earth glorifies Him. He is the Almighty, the All-Wise. (Qur'an, 59:24)
Today, what people have achieved by means of technology can at
best be described as "an approach to the understanding of a tiny fragment
of God's knowledge, as manifested in human DNA."