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the people's eyes and caused them to feel great fear of them. They
produced an extremely powerful magic. (Qur'an, 7:116)

As we have seen, Pharaoh's magicians were able to deceive
everyone, apart from the Prophet Moses (pbuh) and those who be-
lieved in him. However, his evidence broke the spell, or "swallowed
up what they had forged," as revealed in the verse:

We revealed to Moses: "Throw down your staff." And it immedi-
ately swallowed up what they had forged. So the Truth took place
and what they did was shown to be false. (Qur'an, 7:117-118)

The Prophet Moses' throwing his staff of inanimate wood and
then that staff coming to life and instantly overthrowing the de-
ceptions of the Pharaoh and his followers is like breaking the spell
of evolution. When people realized that a spell had been cast upon
them and that what they saw was just an illusion, Pharaoh's magi-
cians lost all credibility. In the present day too, unless those who,
under the influence of a similar spell believe in these ridiculous

claims of evolution under their scientific disguise and spend their
lives defending them, abandon their superstitious beliefs, they also
will be humiliated when the full truth emerges and the spell is bro-
ken. In fact, world-renowned British writer and philosopher Mal-
LOVE IN THE GOSPEL evolution for some sixty years, but who subsequently realized the
colm Muggeridge, who was an atheist advocating the theory of

truth, reveals the position in which the theory of evolution would

find itself in the near future in these terms:
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent
to which it's been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history
books in the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubi-
ous an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it
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