Page 167 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

tum physics will have been ignored. It is obvious that what
makes human beings human goes far beyond any anatomical
concept claimed by materialists. To seek a material explanation is
to ignore the facts, and is a waste of time. The soul observes the im-
ages in the brain. It is the soul that smells and tastes, that feels
when one touches someone, that listens to the words of another
person. The fact which we have set out with endless proofs and
that has been scientifically proved in the present day is that the
brain does not perceive. As the well-known French philosopher
Henri Bergson has stated: "the world is made up of images, these
images only exist in our consciousness; and the brain is one of
these images." 112
That being so, it is only the soul that observes, rejoices, thinks,
feels affection, finds food delicious and feels softness. The proper-
ty that makes human beings human is something independent of
the body. It is the human soul that enjoys looking at a landscape,
that feels compassion towards a tiny sparrow, that realizes that a
meal tastes delicious, that enjoys listening to beautiful music, that
can make difficult decisions, that can think and discover the truth,
that can investigate its own identity and arrive at conclusions.
The physicist Erwin Schrödinger describes how the material
body cannot be the explanation of the perceptual world:

. . . recall the bright, joyful eyes with which your child beams upon
you when you bring him a new toy, and then let the physicist tell you
that in reality nothing emerges from these eyes; in reality their only
objectively detectable function is, continually to be hit by and to re-
ceive light quanta. In reality! A strange reality! Something seems to
be missing in it. 113

Is it logical to assume that the ability to make judgments and
decisions, and emotions such as joy, excitement and disappoint-
ment are the result of the activities of the neurons in the brain?
Can unconscious atoms combine to know about rejoic-

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