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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

though, that man was obviously created with perfect systems
and mechanisms, through an extraordinary mind and intelli-
gence. There were no unconscious processes on Earth of the kind
suggested by materialists, and no unthinking structures and sys-
tems arose as a consequence. Everything displays a complexity and
sublimity that often exceeds the capacity of human minds to com-
prehend, and so perfect are these details that they exclude all pos-
sibility of chance. The Earth itself reveals proofs of creation.
Despite these facts, however, materialists insisted in their
claims that unconscious atoms were the basis of all things. So what,
according to materialists, were these atoms, the source
of all else that exists?
In one respect, we now know that the atom is
an almost complete void, and that is a proven fact.
We can explain this as follows: If you imagine the
atomic nucleus, comprised of neutrons and protons,
as a pinhead just 1 millimeter (0.039 of an inch) in diame-
ter, then an electron revolving around that nucleus does so at a dis-
tance of 100 meters (328 feet)! 4
In this considerable volume between the nucleus and the elec-
trons, the only thing that exists is empty space. This 100-meter void
is literally “empty.” That is why in one sense, experts are justified
in regarding the atom as an empty vacuum. In the words of the
British physicist Sir Arthur Eddington, matter is mostly “ghostly
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empty space.” To be more precise, it is 99.9999999% empty.
Fred Alan Wolf, a particle physicist at the University of
California describes this fact regarding the atom:

If you stop to think about it at all, you might realize that life on plan-
et as we live it is really a surprise, considering just how empty the
universe really is. In fact, the universe is more than 99 percent noth-
ing! And considering that the universe is still expanding at an
alarming rate, it’s getting to be more nothing than it ever was!

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