Page 145 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

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The perceptual world whose details we have been examining is
an artificial one, formed by way of electrical signals. But do our
brains interpret these signals and convert them into a friend we
recognize, a beautiful flower, a boundless landscape, children play-
ing in the street or a loveable kitten?
Technically, it’s true that the signals are analyzed in the brain.
Materialists go on to claim that we consist simply of our brains’ neu-
rons and that the world we inhabit is the result of intercommunica-
tion between those nerve cells. They maintain that an entity who
thinks, laughs, rejoices, recognizes other people and can analyze is,
in the words of the evolutionist physicist and discoverer of DNA
Francis Crick, “a pack of neurons.” 83
For a materialist, it is unimportant how human beings think
and how they draw significance from their perceptions. It is unim-
portant because materialists have no explanation for these things. In
their view, everything must be investigated in a material sense. The
fact is, however, that this is a great falsehood uttered in order to turn
people away from faith in Allah.
To clarify this in more detail, it will help to familiarize
ourselves with the general outlines of the human brain, one
of the most complex structures in the world.
A newborn baby has around 100 billion neurons or
nerve cells, the highest number a person can have.
The number of neurons in the human brain never in-
creases, and merely declines as time passes.
Neurons are the nervous system’s basic
structural and functional units. Every neuron
establishes from one thousand to ten
thousand connections with
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