Page 155 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

A person’s life, perception, love, joy, sorrow, thoughts—in
short, all that makes human beings human—is very definitely not
the product of the behavior of atoms. What endows human beings
with humanity, makes them capable of perceiving the external
world, is something independent of the human brain. We need an
explanation beyond any material concept to account for someone
being able to be aware of something, to analyze it, think and choose,
and for all other human characteristics. These words by Thomas
Huxley are significant evidence that even a committed materialist
can see the true facts, despite his being an evolutionist and even
known as “Darwin’s bulldog”: 99

How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness
comes about as a result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unac-
countable as the appearance of Djin when Aladdin rubbed his
lamp. 100
It is impossible for a structure consisting of fat, water and pro-
tein to give rise to human identity that can perceive, think, and re-
joice, an entity capable of feeling pride and excitement.
Materialists’ claims have completely collapsed in the face of the
fact that perceptions are independent of the brain.
Sir Rudolf Peierls, one of the 20th century’s leading physicists,
has said this:
The premise that you can describe in terms of physics the whole
function of a human being . . . including its knowledge, and its con-
sciousness, is untenable. There is still something missing. 101
Peter Russell says that the material world belonging to us is
something solely produced by consciousness:

When we realize that everything we know, including the whole mate-
rial world that we experience “out there” is part of the phenomenon,
the image constructed in consciousness, we find the truth is a com-
plete reversal of our everyday view. Matter, as we know it, is a cre-
ation of consciousness. . . . Thus the ultimate nature of reali-

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