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HARUN YAHYA

of modern man to a much more developed sports car engine.
In fact, this comparison undermines the evolutionists' own the-
sis. Everyone knows that no car engine could turn into another,
more highly developed one as the result of chance. Not even in tril-
lions of years, let alone 2.5 million. In fact, under the laws of
physics, it will age and wear, rot, and eventually fall apart. In order
for such an engine to emerge, a designer possessing the knowledge
and ability to develop it is essential.
Furthermore, there is an important fact that even evolutionist
scientists are forced to admit: The main difference between the ape
and human brains is not just a question of capacity and size.
Materialists attempt to reduce all human characteristics, and thus
the functioning of the brain, to matter. Yet it is today agreed that the
features of the human soul cannot be reduced to matter. Man's abil-
ity to speak, think, decide, plan, his desires and wishes, his artistic
and aesthetic abilities, his ability to possess ideologies, to produce
ideas and to dream, and the virtues of love, loyalty, and friendship
are not the product of the functioning of the brain. The human soul
is something beyond matter, and that on its own is a challenge to
materialism.
In his book, The Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of
Consciousness and the Human Brain, the evolutionist neurosurgeon
Dr. Wilder Penfield is forced many times to admit that the human
soul cannot be accounted for in terms of the functioning of the
brain. Some of these confessions read:
After years of striving to explain the mind on the basis of brain-ac-
tion alone, I have come to the conclusion that it is simpler (and far
easier to be logical) if one adopts the hypothesis that our being does
consist of two fundamental elements [brain and mind (or soul)]. 4
I conclude that there is no good evidence . . . that the brain alone
can carry out the work that the mind does. 5
Therefore, comparing the ape brain to that of man avails the
evolutionists not at all, since it is clear that no mechanism in nature

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